Skandha 5 — The Creative Impetus

पञ्चमस्कन्धः

The lives of Rishabha and Bharata; cosmology.

SB 5.1.1Open verse →
राजोवाच । प्रियव्रतो भागवत आत्मारामः कथं मुने । गृहेऽरमत यन्मूलः कर्मबन्धः पराभवः
rājovāca | priyavrato bhāgavata ātmārāmaḥ kathaṃ mune | gṛhe'ramata yanmūlaḥ karmabandhaḥ parābhavaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
King Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī: O great sage, why did King Priyavrata, who was a great, self-realized devotee of the Lord, remain in household life, which is the root cause of the bondage of karma [fruitive activities] and which defeats the mission of human life?
SB 5.1.2Open verse →
न नूनं मुक्तसङ्गानां तादृशानां द्विजर्षभ । गृहेष्वभिनिवेशोऽयं पुंसां भवितुमर्हति
na nūnaṃ muktasaṅgānāṃ tādṛśānāṃ dvijarṣabha | gṛheṣvabhiniveśo'yaṃ puṃsāṃ bhavitumarhati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Devotees are certainly liberated persons. Therefore, O greatest of the brāhmaṇas, they cannot possibly be absorbed in family affairs.
SB 5.1.3Open verse →
महतां खलु विप्रर्षे उत्तमश्लोकपादयोः । छायानिर्वृतचित्तानां न कुटुम्बे स्पृहा मतिः
mahatāṃ khalu viprarṣe uttamaślokapādayoḥ | chāyānirvṛtacittānāṃ na kuṭumbe spṛhā matiḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Elevated mahātmās who have taken shelter of the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are fully satiated by the shade of those lotus feet. Their consciousness cannot possibly become attached to family members.
SB 5.1.4Open verse →
संशयोऽयं महान् ब्रह्मन् दारागारसुतादिषु । सक्तस्य यत्सिद्धिरभूत्कृष्णे च मतिरच्युता
saṃśayo'yaṃ mahān brahman dārāgārasutādiṣu | saktasya yatsiddhirabhūtkṛṣṇe ca matiracyutā
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The King continued: O great brāhmaṇa, this is my great doubt. How was it possible for a person like King Priyavrata, who was so attached to wife, children and home, to achieve the topmost infallible perfection in Kṛṣṇa consciousness?
SB 5.1.5Open verse →
श्रीशुक उवाच । बाढमुक्तं भगवत उत्तमश्लोकस्य श्रीमच्चरणारविन्द- मकरन्दरस आवेशितचेतसो भागवत परमहंस- दयितकथां किञ्चिदन्तरायविहतां स्वां शिवतमां पदवीं न प्रायेण हिन्वन्ति
śrīśuka uvāca | bāḍhamuktaṃ bhagavata uttamaślokasya śrīmaccaraṇāravinda- makarandarasa āveśitacetaso bhāgavata paramahaṃsa- dayitakathāṃ kiñcidantarāyavihatāṃ svāṃ śivatamāṃ padavīṃ na prāyeṇa hinvanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: What you have said is correct. The glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is praised in eloquent, transcendental verses by such exalted personalities as Brahmā, are very pleasing to great devotees and liberated persons. One who is attached to the nectarean honey of the Lord’s lotus feet, and whose mind is always absorbed in His glories, may sometimes be checked by some impediment, but he still never gives up the exalted position he has acquired.
SB 5.1.6Open verse →
यर्हि वाव ह राजन् स राजपुत्रः प्रियव्रतः परमभागवतो नारदस्य चरणोपसेवयाञ्जसावगत- परमार्थसतत्त्वो ब्रह्मसत्रेण दीक्षिष्यमाणोऽवनितल- परिपालनायाम्नातप्रवरगुणगणैकान्तभाजनतया स्वपित्रोपामन्त्रितो भगवति वासुदेव एवाव्यवधान- समाधियोगेन समावेशितसकलकारकक्रियाकलापो नैवाभ्यनन्दद्यद्यपि तदप्रत्याम्नातव्यं तदधिकरण आत्मनोऽन्यस्मादसतोऽपि पराभवमन्वीक्षमाणः
yarhi vāva ha rājan sa rājaputraḥ priyavrataḥ paramabhāgavato nāradasya caraṇopasevayāñjasāvagata- paramārthasatattvo brahmasatreṇa dīkṣiṣyamāṇo'vanitala- paripālanāyāmnātapravaraguṇagaṇaikāntabhājanatayā svapitropāmantrito bhagavati vāsudeva evāvyavadhāna- samādhiyogena samāveśitasakalakārakakriyākalāpo naivābhyanandadyadyapi tadapratyāmnātavyaṃ tadadhikaraṇa ātmano'nyasmādasato'pi parābhavamanvīkṣamāṇaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, Prince Priyavrata was a great devotee because he sought the lotus feet of Nārada, his spiritual master, and thus achieved the highest perfection in transcendental knowledge. With advanced knowledge, he always engaged in discussing spiritual subjects and did not divert his attention to anything else. The Prince’s father then asked him to take charge of ruling the world. He tried to convince Priyavrata that this was his duty as indicated in the revealed scriptures. Prince Priyavrata, however, was continuously practicing bhakti-yoga by constantly remembering the Supreme Personality of Godhead, thus engaging all his senses in the service of the Lord. Therefore, although the order of his father could not be rejected, the Prince did not welcome it. Thus he very conscientiously raised the question of whether he might be diverted from devotional service by accepting the responsibility of ruling over the world.
SB 5.1.7Open verse →
अथ ह भगवानादिदेव एतस्य गुणविसर्गस्य परिबृंहणानुध्यानव्यवसितसकलजगदभिप्राय आत्मयोनिरखिलनिगमनिजगणपरिवेष्टितः स्वभवनादवततार
atha ha bhagavānādideva etasya guṇavisargasya paribṛṃhaṇānudhyānavyavasitasakalajagadabhiprāya ātmayonirakhilanigamanijagaṇapariveṣṭitaḥ svabhavanādavatatāra
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: The first created being and most powerful demigod in this universe is Lord Brahmā, who is always responsible for developing universal affairs. Born directly from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he dedicates his activities to the welfare of the entire universe, for he knows the purpose of the universal creation. This supremely powerful Lord Brahmā, accompanied by his associates and the personified Vedas, left his own abode in the highest planetary system and descended to the place of Prince Priyavrata’s meditation.
SB 5.1.8Open verse →
स तत्र तत्र गगनतल उडुपतिरिव विमानावलिभि- रनुपथममरपरिवृढैरभिपूज्यमानः पथि पथि च वरूथशः सिद्धगन्धर्वसाध्यचारणमुनिगणैरुपगीयमानो गन्धमादनद्रोणीमवभासयन्नुपससर्प
sa tatra tatra gaganatala uḍupatiriva vimānāvalibhi- ranupathamamaraparivṛḍhairabhipūjyamānaḥ pathi pathi ca varūthaśaḥ siddhagandharvasādhyacāraṇamunigaṇairupagīyamāno gandhamādanadroṇīmavabhāsayannupasasarpa
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
As Lord Brahmā descended on his carrier, the great swan, all the residents of the planets named Siddhaloka, Gandharvaloka, Sādhyaloka and Cāraṇaloka, as well as great sages and demigods flying in their different airplanes, assembled within the canopy of the sky to receive Lord Brahmā and worship him. As he received respect and adoration from the residents of the various planets, Lord Brahmā appeared just like the full moon surrounded by illuminating stars. Lord Brahmā’s great swan then arrived at the border of Gandhamādana Hill and approached Prince Priyavrata, who was sitting there.
SB 5.1.9Open verse →
तत्र ह वा एनं देवर्षिर्हंसयानेन पितरं भगवन्तं हिरण्यगर्भमुपलभमानः सहसैवोत्थायार्हणेन सह पितापुत्राभ्यामवहिताञ्जलिरुपतस्थे
tatra ha vā enaṃ devarṣirhaṃsayānena pitaraṃ bhagavantaṃ hiraṇyagarbhamupalabhamānaḥ sahasaivotthāyārhaṇena saha pitāputrābhyāmavahitāñjalirupatasthe
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Lord Brahmā, the father of Nārada Muni, is the supreme person within this universe. As soon as Nārada saw the great swan, he could understand that Lord Brahmā had arrived. Therefore he immediately stood up, along with Svāyambhuva Manu and his son Priyavrata, whom Nārada was instructing. Then they folded their hands and began to worship Lord Brahmā with great respect.
SB 5.1.10Open verse →
भगवानपि भारत तदुपनीतार्हणः सूक्तवाकेनातितरा- मुदितगुणगणावतारसुजयः प्रियव्रतमादिपुरुषस्तं सदयहासावलोक इति होवाच
bhagavānapi bhārata tadupanītārhaṇaḥ sūktavākenātitarā- muditaguṇagaṇāvatārasujayaḥ priyavratamādipuruṣastaṃ sadayahāsāvaloka iti hovāca
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King Parīkṣit, because Lord Brahmā had finally descended from Satyaloka to Bhūloka, Nārada Muni, Prince Priyavrata and Svāyambhuva Manu came forward to offer him objects of worship and to praise him in highly qualified language, according to Vedic etiquette. At that time, Lord Brahmā, the original person of this universe, felt compassion for Priyavrata and, looking upon him with a smiling face, spoke to him as follows.
SB 5.1.11Open verse →
श्रीभगवानुवाच । निबोध तातेदमृतं ब्रवीमि मासूयितुं देवमर्हस्यप्रमेयम् । वयं भवस्ते तत एष महर्षि- र्वहाम सर्वे विवशा यस्य दिष्टम्
śrībhagavānuvāca | nibodha tātedamṛtaṃ bravīmi māsūyituṃ devamarhasyaprameyam | vayaṃ bhavaste tata eṣa maharṣi- rvahāma sarve vivaśā yasya diṣṭam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Lord Brahmā, the supreme person within this universe, said: My dear Priyavrata, kindly hear attentively what I shall say to you. Do not be jealous of the Supreme Lord, who is beyond our experimental measurements. All of us, including Lord Śiva, your father and the great sage Mahārṣi Nārada, must carry out the order of the Supreme. We cannot deviate from His order.
SB 5.1.12Open verse →
न तस्य कश्चित्तपसा विद्यया वा न योगवीर्येण मनीषया वा । नैवार्थधर्मैः परतः स्वतो वा कृतं विहन्तुं तनुभृद्विभूयात्
na tasya kaścittapasā vidyayā vā na yogavīryeṇa manīṣayā vā | naivārthadharmaiḥ parataḥ svato vā kṛtaṃ vihantuṃ tanubhṛdvibhūyāt
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
One cannot avoid the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, not by the strength of severe austerities, an exalted Vedic education, or the power of mystic yoga, physical prowess or intellectual activities. Nor can one use his power of religion, his material opulence or any other means, either by himself or with the help of others, to defy the orders of the Supreme Lord. That is not possible for any living being, from Brahmā down to the ant.
SB 5.1.13Open verse →
भवाय नाशाय च कर्म कर्तुं शोकाय मोहाय सदा भयाय । सुखाय दुःखाय च देहयोग- मव्यक्तदिष्टं जनताङ्ग धत्ते
bhavāya nāśāya ca karma kartuṃ śokāya mohāya sadā bhayāya | sukhāya duḥkhāya ca dehayoga- mavyaktadiṣṭaṃ janatāṅga dhatte
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear Priyavrata, by the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, all living entities accept different types of bodies for birth and death, activity, lamentation, illusion, fear of future dangers, and happiness and distress.
SB 5.1.14Open verse →
यद्वाचि तन्त्यां गुणकर्मदामभिः सुदुस्तरैर्वत्स वयं सुयोजिताः । सर्वे वहामो बलिमीश्वराय प्रोता नसीव द्विपदे चतुष्पदः
yadvāci tantyāṃ guṇakarmadāmabhiḥ sudustarairvatsa vayaṃ suyojitāḥ | sarve vahāmo balimīśvarāya protā nasīva dvipade catuṣpadaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear boy, all of us are bound by the Vedic injunctions to the divisions of varṇāśrama according to our qualities and work. These divisions are difficult to avoid because they are scientifically arranged. We must therefore carry out our duties of varṇāśrama-dharma, like bulls obliged to move according to the direction of a driver pulling on ropes knotted to their noses.
SB 5.1.15Open verse →
ईशाभिसृष्टं ह्यवरुन्ध्महेऽङ्ग दुःखं सुखं वा गुणकर्मसङ्गात् । आस्थाय तत्तद्यदयुङ्क्त नाथ- श्चक्षुष्मतान्धा इव नीयमानाः
īśābhisṛṣṭaṃ hyavarundhmahe'ṅga duḥkhaṃ sukhaṃ vā guṇakarmasaṅgāt | āsthāya tattadyadayuṅkta nātha- ścakṣuṣmatāndhā iva nīyamānāḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear Priyavrata, according to our association with different modes of material nature, the Supreme Personality of Godhead gives us our specific bodies and the happiness and distress we achieve. One must therefore remain situated as he is and be conducted by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, exactly as a blind man is led by a person who has eyes with which to see.
SB 5.1.16Open verse →
मुक्तोऽपि तावद्बिभृयात्स्वदेह- मारब्धमश्नन्नभिमानशून्यः । यथानुभूतं प्रतियातनिद्रः किं त्वन्यदेहाय गुणान्न वृङ्क्ते
mukto'pi tāvadbibhṛyātsvadeha- mārabdhamaśnannabhimānaśūnyaḥ | yathānubhūtaṃ pratiyātanidraḥ kiṃ tvanyadehāya guṇānna vṛṅkte
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Even if one is liberated, he nevertheless accepts the body he has received according to his past karma. Without misconceptions, however, he regards his enjoyment and suffering due to that karma the way an awakened person regards a dream he had while sleeping. He thus remains steadfast and never works to achieve another material body under the influence of the three modes of material nature.
SB 5.1.17Open verse →
भयं प्रमत्तस्य वनेष्वपि स्या- द्यतः स आस्ते सह षट्सपत्नः । जितेन्द्रियस्यात्मरतेर्बुधस्य गृहाश्रमः किं नु करोत्यवद्यम्
bhayaṃ pramattasya vaneṣvapi syā- dyataḥ sa āste saha ṣaṭsapatnaḥ | jitendriyasyātmaraterbudhasya gṛhāśramaḥ kiṃ nu karotyavadyam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Even if he goes from forest to forest, one who is not self-controlled must always fear material bondage because he is living with six co-wives — the mind and knowledge-acquiring senses. Even householder life, however, cannot harm a self-satisfied, learned man who has conquered his senses.
SB 5.1.18Open verse →
यः षट्सपत्नान् विजिगीषमाणो गृहेषु निर्विश्य यतेत पूर्वम् । अत्येति दुर्गाश्रित ऊर्जितारीन् क्षीणेषु कामं विचरेद्विपश्चित्
yaḥ ṣaṭsapatnān vijigīṣamāṇo gṛheṣu nirviśya yateta pūrvam | atyeti durgāśrita ūrjitārīn kṣīṇeṣu kāmaṃ vicaredvipaścit
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
One who is situated in household life and who systematically conquers his mind and five sense organs is like a king in his fortress who conquers his powerful enemies. After one has been trained in household life and his lusty desires have decreased, he can move anywhere without danger.
SB 5.1.19Open verse →
त्वं त्वब्जनाभाङ्घ्रिसरोजकोश- दुर्गाश्रितो निर्जितषट्सपत्नः । भुङ्क्ष्वेह भोगान् पुरुषातिदिष्टान् विमुक्तसङ्गः प्रकृतिं भजस्व
tvaṃ tvabjanābhāṅghrisarojakośa- durgāśrito nirjitaṣaṭsapatnaḥ | bhuṅkṣveha bhogān puruṣātidiṣṭān vimuktasaṅgaḥ prakṛtiṃ bhajasva
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Lord Brahmā continued: My dear Priyavrata, seek shelter inside the opening in the lotus of the feet of the Lord, whose navel is also like a lotus. Thus conquer the six sense organs [the mind and knowledge-acquiring senses]. Accept material enjoyment because the Lord, extraordinarily, has ordered you to do this. You will thus always be liberated from material association and be able to carry out the Lord’s orders in your constitutional position.
SB 5.1.20Open verse →
श्रीशुक उवाच । इति समभिहितो महाभागवतो भगवतस्त्रिभुवनगुरो- रनुशासनमात्मनो लघुतयावनतशिरोधरो बाढमिति सबहुमानमुवाह
śrīśuka uvāca | iti samabhihito mahābhāgavato bhagavatastribhuvanaguro- ranuśāsanamātmano laghutayāvanataśirodharo bāḍhamiti sabahumānamuvāha
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: After thus being fully instructed by Lord Brahmā, who is the spiritual master of the three worlds, Priyavrata, his own position being inferior, offered obeisances, accepted the order and carried it out with great respect.
SB 5.1.21Open verse →
भगवानपि मनुना यथावदुपकल्पितापचितिः प्रियव्रतनारदयोरविषममभिसमीक्षमाणयोरात्म- समवस्थानमवाङ्मनसं क्षयमव्यवहृतं प्रवर्तयन्नगमत्
bhagavānapi manunā yathāvadupakalpitāpacitiḥ priyavratanāradayoraviṣamamabhisamīkṣamāṇayorātma- samavasthānamavāṅmanasaṃ kṣayamavyavahṛtaṃ pravartayannagamat
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Lord Brahmā was then worshiped by Manu, who respectfully satisfied him as well as he could. Priyavrata and Nārada also looked upon Brahmā with no tinges of resentment. Having engaged Priyavrata in accepting his father’s request, Lord Brahmā returned to his abode, Satyaloka, which is indescribable by the endeavor of mundane mind or words.
SB 5.1.22Open verse →
मनुरपि परेणैवं प्रतिसन्धितमनोरथः सुरर्षिवरानुमतेना- त्मजमखिलधरामण्डलस्थितिगुप्तय आस्थाप्य स्वयमति- विषमविषयविषजलाशयाशाया उपरराम
manurapi pareṇaivaṃ pratisandhitamanorathaḥ surarṣivarānumatenā- tmajamakhiladharāmaṇḍalasthitiguptaya āsthāpya svayamati- viṣamaviṣayaviṣajalāśayāśāyā upararāma
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Svāyambhuva Manu, with the assistance of Lord Brahmā, thus fulfilled his desires. With the permission of the great sage Nārada, he delivered to his son the governmental responsibility for maintaining and protecting all the planets of the universe. He thus achieved relief from the most dangerous, poisonous ocean of material desires.
SB 5.1.23Open verse →
इति ह वाव स जगतीपतिरीश्वरेच्छयाधिनिवेशित- कर्माधिकारोऽखिलजगद्बन्धध्वंसनपरानुभावस्य भगवत आदिपुरुषस्याङ्घ्रियुगलानवरतध्यानानुभावेन परिरन्धितकषायाशयोऽवदातोऽपि मानवर्धनो महतां महीतलमनुशशास
iti ha vāva sa jagatīpatirīśvarecchayādhiniveśita- karmādhikāro'khilajagadbandhadhvaṃsanaparānubhāvasya bhagavata ādipuruṣasyāṅghriyugalānavaratadhyānānubhāvena parirandhitakaṣāyāśayo'vadāto'pi mānavardhano mahatāṃ mahītalamanuśaśāsa
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Following the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Mahārāja Priyavrata fully engaged in worldly affairs, yet he always thought of the lotus feet of the Lord, which are the cause of liberation from all material attachment. Although Priyavrata Mahārāja was completely freed from all material contamination, he ruled the material world just to honor the orders of his superiors.
SB 5.1.24Open verse →
अथ च दुहितरं प्रजापतेर्विश्वकर्मण उपयेमे बर्हिष्मतीं नाम तस्यामु ह वाव आत्मजानात्मसमानशीलगुणकर्म- रूपवीर्योदारान् दश भावयाम्बभूव कन्यां च यवीयसी- मूर्जस्वतीं नाम
atha ca duhitaraṃ prajāpaterviśvakarmaṇa upayeme barhiṣmatīṃ nāma tasyāmu ha vāva ātmajānātmasamānaśīlaguṇakarma- rūpavīryodārān daśa bhāvayāmbabhūva kanyāṃ ca yavīyasī- mūrjasvatīṃ nāma
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Thereafter, Mahārāja Priyavrata married Barhiṣmatī, the daughter of the prajāpati named Viśvakarmā. In her he begot ten sons equal to him in beauty, character, magnanimity and other qualities. He also begot a daughter, the youngest of all, named Ūrjasvatī.
SB 5.1.25Open verse →
आग्नीध्रेध्मजिह्वयज्ञबाहुमहावीरहिरण्यरेतोघृतपृष्ठ- सवनमेधातिथिवीतिहोत्रकवय इति सर्व एवाग्निनामानः
āgnīdhredhmajihvayajñabāhumahāvīrahiraṇyaretoghṛtapṛṣṭha- savanamedhātithivītihotrakavaya iti sarva evāgnināmānaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The ten sons of Mahārāja Priyavrata were named Āgnīdhra, Idhmajihva, Yajñabāhu, Mahāvīra, Hiraṇyaretā, Ghṛtapṛṣṭha, Savana, Medhātithi, Vītihotra and Kavi. These are also names of Agni, the fire-god.
SB 5.1.26Open verse →
एतेषां कविर्महावीरः सवन इति त्रय आसन्नूर्ध्वरेतसस्त आत्मविद्यायामर्भभावादारभ्य कृतपरिचयाः पारमहंस्य- मेवाश्रममभजन्
eteṣāṃ kavirmahāvīraḥ savana iti traya āsannūrdhvaretasasta ātmavidyāyāmarbhabhāvādārabhya kṛtaparicayāḥ pāramahaṃsya- mevāśramamabhajan
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Three among these ten — namely Kavi, Mahāvīra and Savana — lived in complete celibacy. Thus trained in brahmacārī life from the beginning of childhood, they were very conversant with the highest perfection, known as the paramahaṁsa-āśrama.
SB 5.1.27Open verse →
तस्मिन्नु ह वा उपशमशीलाः परमर्षयः सकलजीव- निकायावासस्य भगवतो वासुदेवस्य भीतानां शरणभूतस्य श्रीमच्चरणारविन्दाविरतस्मरणाविगलितपरमभक्तियोगा- नुभावेन परिभावितान्तर्हृदयाधिगते भगवति सर्वेषां भूताना- मात्मभूते प्रत्यगात्मन्येवात्मनस्तादात्म्यमविशेषेण समीयुः
tasminnu ha vā upaśamaśīlāḥ paramarṣayaḥ sakalajīva- nikāyāvāsasya bhagavato vāsudevasya bhītānāṃ śaraṇabhūtasya śrīmaccaraṇāravindāviratasmaraṇāvigalitaparamabhaktiyogā- nubhāvena paribhāvitāntarhṛdayādhigate bhagavati sarveṣāṃ bhūtānā- mātmabhūte pratyagātmanyevātmanastādātmyamaviśeṣeṇa samīyuḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Thus situated in the renounced order from the beginning of their lives, all three of them completely controlled the activities of their senses and thus became great saints. They concentrated their minds always upon the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the resting place of the totality of living entities and who is therefore celebrated as Vāsudeva. Lord Vāsudeva is the only shelter of those who are actually afraid of material existence. By constantly thinking of His lotus feet, these three sons of Mahārāja Priyavrata became advanced in pure devotional service. By the prowess of their devotional service, they could directly perceive the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated in everyone’s heart as the Supersoul, and realize that there was qualitatively no difference between themselves and Him.
SB 5.1.28Open verse →
अन्यस्यामपि जायायां त्रयः पुत्रा आसन्नुत्तमस्तामसो रैवत इति मन्वन्तराधिपतयः
anyasyāmapi jāyāyāṃ trayaḥ putrā āsannuttamastāmaso raivata iti manvantarādhipatayaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In his other wife, Mahārāja Priyavrata begot three sons, named Uttama, Tāmasa and Raivata. All of them later took charge of manvantara millenniums.
SB 5.1.29Open verse →
एवमुपशमायनेषु स्वतनयेष्वथ जगतीपतिर्जगती- मर्बुदान्येकादशपरिवत्सराणामव्याहताखिलपुरुषकार- सारसम्भृतदोर्दण्डयुगलापीडितमौर्वीगुणस्तनित- विरमितधर्मप्रतिपक्षो बर्हिष्मत्याश्चानुदिनमेधमानप्रमोद- प्रसरणयौषिण्यव्रीडाप्रमुषितहासावलोकरुचिरक्ष्वेल्यादिभिः पराभूयमानविवेक इवानवबुध्यमान इव महामना बुभुजे
evamupaśamāyaneṣu svatanayeṣvatha jagatīpatirjagatī- marbudānyekādaśaparivatsarāṇāmavyāhatākhilapuruṣakāra- sārasambhṛtadordaṇḍayugalāpīḍitamaurvīguṇastanita- viramitadharmapratipakṣo barhiṣmatyāścānudinamedhamānapramoda- prasaraṇayauṣiṇyavrīḍāpramuṣitahāsāvalokarucirakṣvelyādibhiḥ parābhūyamānaviveka ivānavabudhyamāna iva mahāmanā bubhuje
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
After Kavi, Mahāvīra and Savana were completely trained in the paramahaṁsa stage of life, Mahārāja Priyavrata ruled the universe for eleven arbudas of years. Whenever he was determined to fix his arrow upon his bowstring with his two powerful arms, all opponents of the regulative principles of religious life would flee from his presence in fear of the unparalleled prowess he displayed in ruling the universe. He greatly loved his wife Barhiṣmatī, and with the increase of days, their exchange of nuptial love also increased. By her feminine behavior as she dressed herself, walked, got up, smiled, laughed, and glanced about, Queen Barhiṣmatī increased his energy. Thus although he was a great soul, he appeared lost in the feminine conduct of his wife. He behaved with her just like an ordinary man, but actually he was a great soul.
SB 5.1.30Open verse →
यावदवभासयति सुरगिरिमनुपरिक्रामन् भगवानादित्यो वसुधातलमर्धेनैव प्रतपत्यर्धेनावच्छादयति तदा हि भगवदुपासनोपचितातिपुरुषप्रभावस्तदनभिनन्दन् समजवेन रथेन ज्योतिर्मयेन रजनीमपि दिनं करिष्यामीति सप्तकृत्वस्तरणिमनुपर्यक्रामद्द्वितीय इव पतङ्गः
yāvadavabhāsayati suragirimanuparikrāman bhagavānādityo vasudhātalamardhenaiva pratapatyardhenāvacchādayati tadā hi bhagavadupāsanopacitātipuruṣaprabhāvastadanabhinandan samajavena rathena jyotirmayena rajanīmapi dinaṃ kariṣyāmīti saptakṛtvastaraṇimanuparyakrāmaddvitīya iva pataṅgaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
While so excellently ruling the universe, King Priyavrata once became dissatisfied with the circumambulation of the most powerful sun-god. Encircling Sumeru Hill on his chariot, the sun-god illuminates all the surrounding planetary systems. However, when the sun is on the northern side of the hill, the south receives less light, and when the sun is in the south, the north receives less. King Priyavrata disliked this situation and therefore decided to make daylight in the part of the universe where there was night. He followed the orbit of the sun-god on a brilliant chariot and thus fulfilled his desire. He could perform such wonderful activities because of the power he had achieved by worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
SB 5.1.31Open verse →
ये वा उ ह तद्रथचरणनेमिकृतपरिखातास्ते सप्तसिन्धव आसन् यत एव कृताः सप्त भुवो द्वीपाः
ye vā u ha tadrathacaraṇanemikṛtaparikhātāste saptasindhava āsan yata eva kṛtāḥ sapta bhuvo dvīpāḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When Priyavrata drove his chariot behind the sun, the rims of his chariot wheels created impressions that later became seven oceans, dividing the planetary system known as Bhū-maṇḍala into seven islands.
SB 5.1.32Open verse →
जम्बूप्लक्षशाल्मलिकुशक्रौञ्चशाकपुष्करसंज्ञास्तेषां परिमाणं पूर्वस्मात्पूर्वस्मादुत्तर उत्तरो यथासङ्ख्यं द्विगुणमानेन बहिः समन्तत उपकॢप्ताः
jambūplakṣaśālmalikuśakrauñcaśākapuṣkarasaṃjñāsteṣāṃ parimāṇaṃ pūrvasmātpūrvasmāduttara uttaro yathāsaṅkhyaṃ dviguṇamānena bahiḥ samantata upakḷptāḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The names of the islands are Jambū, Plakṣa, Śālmali, Kuśa, Krauñca, Śāka and Puṣkara. Each island is twice as large as the one preceding it, and each is surrounded by a liquid substance, beyond which is the next island.
SB 5.1.33Open verse →
क्षारोदेक्षुरसोदसुरोदघृतोदक्षीरोददधिमण्डोदशुद्धोदाः सप्तजलधयः सप्तद्वीपपरिखा इवाभ्यन्तरद्वीपसमाना एकैकश्येन यथानुपूर्वं सप्तस्वपि बहिर्द्वीपेषु पृथक्परित उपकल्पितास्तेषु जम्ब्वादिषु बर्हिष्मतीपतिरनुव्रता- नात्मजानाग्नीध्रेध्मजिह्वयज्ञबाहुहिरण्यरेतोघृतपृष्ठ- मेधातिथिवीतिहोत्रसंज्ञान् यथासङ्ख्येनैकैकस्मि- न्नेकमेवाधिपतिं विदधे
kṣārodekṣurasodasurodaghṛtodakṣīrodadadhimaṇḍodaśuddhodāḥ saptajaladhayaḥ saptadvīpaparikhā ivābhyantaradvīpasamānā ekaikaśyena yathānupūrvaṃ saptasvapi bahirdvīpeṣu pṛthakparita upakalpitāsteṣu jambvādiṣu barhiṣmatīpatiranuvratā- nātmajānāgnīdhredhmajihvayajñabāhuhiraṇyaretoghṛtapṛṣṭha- medhātithivītihotrasaṃjñān yathāsaṅkhyenaikaikasmi- nnekamevādhipatiṃ vidadhe
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The seven oceans respectively contain salt water, sugarcane juice, liquor, clarified butter, milk, emulsified yogurt, and sweet drinking water. All the islands are completely surrounded by these oceans, and each ocean is equal in breadth to the island it surrounds. Mahārāja Priyavrata, the husband of Queen Barhiṣmatī, gave sovereignty over these islands to his respective sons, namely Āgnīdhra, Idhmajihva, Yajñabāhu, Hiraṇyaretā, Ghṛtapṛṣṭha, Medhātithi and Vītihotra. Thus they all became kings by the order of their father.
SB 5.1.34Open verse →
दुहितरं चोर्जस्वतीं नामोशनसे प्रायच्छद्यस्यामासी- द्देवयानी नाम काव्यसुता
duhitaraṃ corjasvatīṃ nāmośanase prāyacchadyasyāmāsī- ddevayānī nāma kāvyasutā
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
King Priyavrata then gave his daughter, Ūrjasvatī, in marriage to Śukrācārya, who begot in her a daughter named Devayānī.
SB 5.1.35Open verse →
स एवमपरिमितबलपराक्रम एकदा तु देवर्षिचरणा- नुशयनानुपतितगुणविसर्गसंसर्गेणानिर्वृतमिवात्मानं मन्यमान आत्मनिर्वेद इदमाह
sa evamaparimitabalaparākrama ekadā tu devarṣicaraṇā- nuśayanānupatitaguṇavisargasaṃsargeṇānirvṛtamivātmānaṃ manyamāna ātmanirveda idamāha
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King, a devotee who has taken shelter of the dust from the lotus feet of the Lord can transcend the influence of the six material waves — namely hunger, thirst, lamentation, illusion, old age and death — and he can conquer the mind and five senses. However, this is not very wonderful for a pure devotee of the Lord because even a person beyond the jurisdiction of the four castes — in other words, an untouchable — is immediately relieved of bondage to material existence if he utters the holy name of the Lord even once.
SB 5.1.36Open verse →
अहो असाध्वनुष्ठितं यदभिनिवेशितोऽहमिन्द्रियैरविद्या- रचितविषमविषयान्धकूपे तदलमलममुष्या वनिताया विनोदमृगं मां धिग्धिगिति गर्हयाञ्चकार
aho asādhvanuṣṭhitaṃ yadabhiniveśito'hamindriyairavidyā- racitaviṣamaviṣayāndhakūpe tadalamalamamuṣyā vanitāyā vinodamṛgaṃ māṃ dhigdhigiti garhayāñcakāra
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
While enjoying his material opulences with full strength and influence, Mahārāja Priyavrata once began to consider that although he had fully surrendered to the great saint Nārada and was actually on the path of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he had somehow become again entangled in material activities. Thus his mind now became restless, and he began to speak in a spirit of renunciation.
SB 5.1.37Open verse →
परदेवताप्रसादाधिगतात्मप्रत्यवमर्शेनानुप्रवृत्तेभ्यः पुत्रेभ्य इमां यथादायं विभज्य भुक्तभोगां च महिषीं मृतकमिव सह महाविभूतिमपहाय स्वयं निहितनिर्वेदो हृदि गृहीत- हरिविहारानुभावो भगवतो नारदस्य पदवीं पुनरेवानुससार
paradevatāprasādādhigatātmapratyavamarśenānupravṛttebhyaḥ putrebhya imāṃ yathādāyaṃ vibhajya bhuktabhogāṃ ca mahiṣīṃ mṛtakamiva saha mahāvibhūtimapahāya svayaṃ nihitanirvedo hṛdi gṛhīta- harivihārānubhāvo bhagavato nāradasya padavīṃ punarevānusasāra
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The King thus began criticizing himself: Alas, how condemned I have become because of my sense gratification! I have now fallen into material enjoyment, which is exactly like a covered well. I have had enough! I am not going to enjoy any more. Just see how I have become like a dancing monkey in the hands of my wife. Because of this, I am condemned.
SB 5.1.38Open verse →
तस्य ह वा एते श्लोकाः प्रियव्रतकृतं कर्म को नु कुर्याद्विनेश्वरम् । यो नेमिनिम्नैरकरोच्छायां घ्नन् सप्तवारिधीन्
tasya ha vā ete ślokāḥ priyavratakṛtaṃ karma ko nu kuryādvineśvaram | yo neminimnairakarocchāyāṃ ghnan saptavāridhīn
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
By the grace of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Mahārāja Priyavrata reawakened to his senses. He divided all his earthly possessions among his obedient sons. He gave up everything, including his wife, with whom he had enjoyed so much sense gratification, and his great and opulent kingdom, and he completely renounced all attachment. His heart, having been cleansed, became a place of pastimes for the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Thus he was able to return to the path of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, spiritual life, and resume the position he had attained by the grace of the great saint Nārada.
SB 5.1.39Open verse →
भूसंस्थानं कृतं येन सरिद्गिरिवनादिभिः । सीमा च भूतनिर्वृत्यै द्वीपे द्वीपे विभागशः
bhūsaṃsthānaṃ kṛtaṃ yena saridgirivanādibhiḥ | sīmā ca bhūtanirvṛtyai dvīpe dvīpe vibhāgaśaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
There are many famous verses regarding Mahārāja Priyavrata’s activities:
SB 5.1.40Open verse →
भौमं दिव्यं मानुषं च महित्वं कर्मयोगजम् । यश्चक्रे निरयौपम्यं पुरुषानुजनप्रियः
bhaumaṃ divyaṃ mānuṣaṃ ca mahitvaṃ karmayogajam | yaścakre nirayaupamyaṃ puruṣānujanapriyaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
“To stop the quarreling among different peoples, Mahārāja Priyavrata marked boundaries at rivers and at the edges of mountains and forests so that no one would trespass upon another’s property.”
SB 5.1.41Open verse →
SB 5.1.41
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
“As a great follower and devotee of the sage Nārada, Mahārāja Priyavrata considered hellish the opulences he had achieved by dint of fruitive activities and mystic power, whether in the lower or heavenly planetary systems or in human society.”
SB 5.2.1Open verse →
श्रीशुक उवाच । एवं पितरि सम्प्रवृत्ते तदनुशासने वर्तमान आग्नीध्रो जम्बूद्वीपौकसः प्रजा औरसवद्धर्मावेक्षमाणः पर्यगोपायत्
śrīśuka uvāca | evaṃ pitari sampravṛtte tadanuśāsane vartamāna āgnīdhro jambūdvīpaukasaḥ prajā aurasavaddharmāvekṣamāṇaḥ paryagopāyat
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: After his father, Mahārāja Priyavrata, departed to follow the path of spiritual life by undergoing austerities, King Āgnīdhra completely obeyed his order. Strictly observing the principles of religion, he gave full protection to the inhabitants of Jambūdvīpa as if they were his own begotten sons.
SB 5.2.2Open verse →
स च कदाचित्पितृलोककामः सुरवरवनिताक्रीडाचलद्रोण्यां भगवन्तं विश्वसृजां पतिमाभृतपरिचर्योपकरण आत्मैकाग्र्येण तपस्व्याराधयाम्बभूव
sa ca kadācitpitṛlokakāmaḥ suravaravanitākrīḍācaladroṇyāṃ bhagavantaṃ viśvasṛjāṃ patimābhṛtaparicaryopakaraṇa ātmaikāgryeṇa tapasvyārādhayāmbabhūva
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Desiring to get a perfect son and become an inhabitant of Pitṛloka, Mahārāja Āgnīdhra once worshiped Lord Brahmā, the master of those in charge of material creation. He went to a valley of Mandara Hill, where the damsels of the heavenly planets come down to stroll. There he collected garden flowers and other necessary paraphernalia and then engaged in severe austerities and worship.
SB 5.2.3Open verse →
तदुपलभ्य भगवानादिपुरुषः सदसि गायन्तीं पूर्वचित्तिं नामाप्सरसमभियापयामास
tadupalabhya bhagavānādipuruṣaḥ sadasi gāyantīṃ pūrvacittiṃ nāmāpsarasamabhiyāpayāmāsa
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Understanding King Āgnīdhra’s desire, the first and most powerful created being of this universe, Lord Brahmā, selected the best of the dancing girls in his assembly, whose name was Pūrvacitti, and sent her to the King.
SB 5.2.4Open verse →
सा च तदाश्रमोपवनमतिरमणीयं विविधनिबिडविटपि- विटपनिकरसंश्लिष्टपुरटलतारूढस्थलविहङ्गममिथुनैः प्रोच्यमानश्रुतिभिः प्रतिबोध्यमानसलिलकुक्कुटकारण्डव- कलहंसादिभिर्विचित्रमुपकूजितामलजलाशयकमलाकर- मुपबभ्राम
sā ca tadāśramopavanamatiramaṇīyaṃ vividhanibiḍaviṭapi- viṭapanikarasaṃśliṣṭapuraṭalatārūḍhasthalavihaṅgamamithunaiḥ procyamānaśrutibhiḥ pratibodhyamānasalilakukkuṭakāraṇḍava- kalahaṃsādibhirvicitramupakūjitāmalajalāśayakamalākara- mupababhrāma
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Apsarā sent by Lord Brahmā began strolling in a beautiful park near the place where the King was meditating and worshiping. The park was beautiful because of its dense green foliage and golden creepers. There were pairs of varied birds such as peacocks, and in a lake there were ducks and swans, all vibrating very sweet sounds. Thus the park was magnificently beautiful because of the foliage, the clear water, the lotus flowers and the sweet singing of various kinds of birds.
SB 5.2.5Open verse →
तस्याः सुललितगमनपदविन्यासगतिविलासायाश्चानुपदं खणखणायमानरुचिरचरणाभरणस्वनमुपाकर्ण्य नरदेवकुमारः समाधियोगेनामीलितनयननलिनमुकुल- युगलमीषद्विकचय्य व्यचष्ट
tasyāḥ sulalitagamanapadavinyāsagativilāsāyāścānupadaṃ khaṇakhaṇāyamānaruciracaraṇābharaṇasvanamupākarṇya naradevakumāraḥ samādhiyogenāmīlitanayananalinamukula- yugalamīṣadvikacayya vyacaṣṭa
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
As Pūrvacitti passed by on the road in a very beautiful style and mood of her own, the pleasing ornaments on her ankles tinkled with her every step. Although Prince Āgnīdhra was controlling his senses, practicing yoga with half-open eyes, he could see her with his lotuslike eyes, and when he heard the sweet tinkling of her bangles, he opened his eyes slightly more and could see that she was just nearby.
SB 5.2.6Open verse →
तामेवाविदूरे मधुकरीमिव सुमनस उपजिघ्रन्तीं दिविजमनुजमनोनयनाह्लाददुघैर्गतिविहारव्रीडा- विनयावलोकसुस्वराक्षरावयवैर्मनसि नृणां कुसुमायुधस्य विदधतीं विवरं निजमुखविगलितामृतासवसहास- भाषणामोदमदान्धमधुकरनिकरोपरोधेन द्रुतपदविन्यासेन वल्गुस्पन्दनस्तनकलशकबरभाररशनां देवीं तदवलोकनेन विवृतावसरस्य भगवतो मकरध्वजस्य वशमुपनीतो जडवदिति होवाच
tāmevāvidūre madhukarīmiva sumanasa upajighrantīṃ divijamanujamanonayanāhlādadughairgativihāravrīḍā- vinayāvalokasusvarākṣarāvayavairmanasi nṛṇāṃ kusumāyudhasya vidadhatīṃ vivaraṃ nijamukhavigalitāmṛtāsavasahāsa- bhāṣaṇāmodamadāndhamadhukaranikaroparodhena drutapadavinyāsena valguspandanastanakalaśakabarabhāraraśanāṃ devīṃ tadavalokanena vivṛtāvasarasya bhagavato makaradhvajasya vaśamupanīto jaḍavaditi hovāca
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Like a honeybee, the Apsarā smelled the beautiful and attractive flowers. She could attract the minds and vision of both humans and demigods by her playful movements, her shyness and humility, her glances, the very pleasing sounds that poured from her mouth as she spoke, and the motion of her limbs. By all these qualities, she opened for Cupid, who bears an arrow of flowers, a path of aural reception into the minds of men. When she spoke, nectar seemed to flow from her mouth. As she breathed, the bees, mad for the taste of her breath, tried to hover about her beautiful lotuslike eyes. Disturbed by the bees, she tried to move hastily, but as she raised her feet to walk quickly, her hair, the belt on her hips, and her breasts, which were like water jugs, also moved in a way that made her extremely beautiful and attractive. Indeed, she seemed to be making a path for the entrance of Cupid, who is most powerful. Therefore the prince, completely subdued by seeing her, spoke to her as follows.
SB 5.2.7Open verse →
का त्वं चिकीर्षसि च किं मुनिवर्य शैले मायासि कापि भगवत्परदेवतायाः । विज्ये बिभर्षि धनुषी सुहृदात्मनोऽर्थे किं वा मृगान् मृगयसे विपिने प्रमत्तान्
kā tvaṃ cikīrṣasi ca kiṃ munivarya śaile māyāsi kāpi bhagavatparadevatāyāḥ | vijye bibharṣi dhanuṣī suhṛdātmano'rthe kiṃ vā mṛgān mṛgayase vipine pramattān
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Prince mistakenly addressed the Apsarā: O best of saintly persons, who are you? Why are you on this hill, and what do you want to do? Are you one of the illusory potencies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead? You seem to be carrying two bows without strings. What is the reason you carry these bows? Is it for some purpose of your own or for the sake of a friend? Perhaps you carry them to kill the mad animals in this forest.
SB 5.2.8Open verse →
बाणाविमौ भगवतः शतपत्रपत्रौ शान्तावपुङ्खरुचिरावतितिग्मदन्तौ । कस्मै युयुङ्क्षसि वने विचरन् न विद्मः क्षेमाय नो जडधियां तव विक्रमोऽस्तु
bāṇāvimau bhagavataḥ śatapatrapatrau śāntāvapuṅkharucirāvatitigmadantau | kasmai yuyuṅkṣasi vane vicaran na vidmaḥ kṣemāya no jaḍadhiyāṃ tava vikramo'stu
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Then Āgnīdhra observed the glancing eyes of Pūrvacitti and said: My dear friend, you have two very powerful arrows, namely your glancing eyes. Those arrows have feathers like the petals of a lotus flower. Although they have no shafts, they are very beautiful, and they have very sharp, piercing points. They appear very peaceful, and thus it seems that they will not be shot at anyone. You must be loitering in this forest to shoot those arrows at someone, but I cannot understand whom. My intelligence is dull, and I cannot combat you. Indeed, no one can equal you in prowess, and therefore I pray that your prowess will be for my good fortune.
SB 5.2.9Open verse →
शिष्या इमे भगवतः परितः पठन्ति गायन्ति साम सरहस्यमजस्रमीशम् । युष्मच्छिखाविलुलिताः सुमनोऽभिवृष्टीः सर्वे भजन्त्यृषिगणा इव वेदशाखाः
śiṣyā ime bhagavataḥ paritaḥ paṭhanti gāyanti sāma sarahasyamajasramīśam | yuṣmacchikhāvilulitāḥ sumano'bhivṛṣṭīḥ sarve bhajantyṛṣigaṇā iva vedaśākhāḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Seeing the bumblebees following Pūrvacitti, Mahārāja Āgnīdhra said: My dear Lord, the bumblebees surrounding your body are like disciples surrounding your worshipable self. They are incessantly chanting the mantras of the Sāma Veda and the Upaniṣads, thus offering prayers to you. Just as great sages resort to the branches of Vedic literatures, the bumblebees are enjoying the showers of flowers falling from your hair.
SB 5.2.10Open verse →
वाचं परं चरणपञ्जरतित्तिरीणां ब्रह्मन्नरूपमुखरां शृणवाम तुभ्यम् । लब्धा कदम्बरुचिरङ्कविटङ्कबिम्बे यस्यामलातपरिधिः क्व च वल्कलं ते
vācaṃ paraṃ caraṇapañjaratittirīṇāṃ brahmannarūpamukharāṃ śṛṇavāma tubhyam | labdhā kadambaruciraṅkaviṭaṅkabimbe yasyāmalātaparidhiḥ kva ca valkalaṃ te
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O brāhmaṇa, I can simply hear the tinkling of your ankle bells. Within those bells, tittiri birds seem to be chirping among themselves. Although I do not see their forms, I can hear how they are chirping. When I look at your beautiful circular hips, I see they are the lovely color of kadamba flowers, and your waist is encircled by a belt of burning cinders. Indeed, you seem to have forgotten to dress yourself.
SB 5.2.11Open verse →
किं सम्भृतं रुचिरयोर्द्विज शृङ्गयोस्ते मध्ये कृशो वहसि यत्र दृशिः श्रिता मे । पङ्कोऽरुणः सुरभिरात्मविषाण ईदृग् येनाश्रमं सुभग मे सुरभीकरोषि
kiṃ sambhṛtaṃ rucirayordvija śṛṅgayoste madhye kṛśo vahasi yatra dṛśiḥ śritā me | paṅko'ruṇaḥ surabhirātmaviṣāṇa īdṛg yenāśramaṃ subhaga me surabhīkaroṣi
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Āgnīdhra then praised Pūrvacitti’s raised breasts. He said: My dear brāhmaṇa your waist is very thin, yet with great difficulty you are carefully carrying two horns, to which my eyes have become attracted. What is filling those two beautiful horns? You seem to have spread fragrant red powder upon them, powder that is like the rising morning sun. O most fortunate one, I beg to inquire where you have gotten this fragrant powder that is perfuming my āśrama, my place of residence.
SB 5.2.12Open verse →
लोकं प्रदर्शय सुहृत्तम तावकं मे यत्रत्य इत्थमुरसावयवावपूर्वौ । अस्मद्विधस्य मन उन्नयनौ बिभर्ति बह्वद्भुतं सरसराससुधादिवक्त्रे
lokaṃ pradarśaya suhṛttama tāvakaṃ me yatratya itthamurasāvayavāvapūrvau | asmadvidhasya mana unnayanau bibharti bahvadbhutaṃ sarasarāsasudhādivaktre
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O best friend, will you kindly show me the place where you reside? I cannot imagine how the residents of that place have gotten such wonderful bodily features as your raised breasts, which agitate the mind and eyes of a person like me who sees them. Judging by the sweet speech and kind smiles of those residents, I think that their mouths must contain nectar.
SB 5.2.13Open verse →
का वाऽऽत्मवृत्तिरदनाद्धविरङ्ग वाति विष्णोः कलास्यनिमिषोन्मकरौ च कर्णौ । उद्विग्नमीनयुगलं द्विजपङ्क्तिशोचि- रासन्नभृङ्गनिकरं सर उन्मुखं ते
kā vā''tmavṛttiradanāddhaviraṅga vāti viṣṇoḥ kalāsyanimiṣonmakarau ca karṇau | udvignamīnayugalaṃ dvijapaṅktiśoci- rāsannabhṛṅganikaraṃ sara unmukhaṃ te
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear friend, what do you eat to maintain your body? Because you are chewing betel, a pleasing scent is emanating from your mouth. This proves that you always eat the remnants of food offered to Viṣṇu. Indeed, you must also be an expansion of Lord Viṣṇu’s body. Your face is as beautiful as a pleasing lake. Your jeweled earrings resemble two brilliant sharks with unblinking eyes like those of Viṣṇu, and your own eyes resemble two restless fish. Simultaneously, therefore, two sharks and two restless fish are swimming in the lake of your face. Besides them, the white rows of your teeth seem like rows of very beautiful swans in the water, and your scattered hair resembles swarms of bumblebees following the beauty of your face.
SB 5.2.14Open verse →
योऽसौ त्वया करसरोजहतः पतङ्गो दिक्षु भ्रमन् भ्रमत एजयतेऽक्षिणी मे मुक्तं न ते स्मरसि वक्रजटावरूथं कष्टोऽनिलो हरति लम्पट एष नीवीम्
yo'sau tvayā karasarojahataḥ pataṅgo dikṣu bhraman bhramata ejayate'kṣiṇī me muktaṃ na te smarasi vakrajaṭāvarūthaṃ kaṣṭo'nilo harati lampaṭa eṣa nīvīm
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My mind is already restless, and by playing with a ball, moving it all about with your lotuslike palm, you are also agitating my eyes. Your curling black hair is now scattered, but you are not attentive to arranging it. Are you not going to arrange it? Like a man attached to women, the most cunning wind is trying to take off your lower garment. Are you not mindful of it?
SB 5.2.15Open verse →
रूपं तपोधन तपश्चरतां तपोघ्नं ह्येतत्तु केन तपसा भवतोपलब्धम् । चर्तुं तपोऽर्हसि मया सह मित्र मह्यं किं वा प्रसीदति स वै भवभावनो मे
rūpaṃ tapodhana tapaścaratāṃ tapoghnaṃ hyetattu kena tapasā bhavatopalabdham | cartuṃ tapo'rhasi mayā saha mitra mahyaṃ kiṃ vā prasīdati sa vai bhavabhāvano me
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O best among those performing austerities, where did you get this wonderful beauty that dismantles the austerities performed by others? Where have you learned this art? What austerity have you undergone to achieve this beauty, my dear friend? I desire that you join me to perform austerity and penance, for it may be that the creator of the universe, Lord Brahmā, being pleased with me, has sent you to become my wife.
SB 5.2.16Open verse →
न त्वां त्यजामि दयितं द्विजदेवदत्तं यस्मिन् मनो दृगपि नो न वियाति लग्नम् । मां चारुशृङ्ग्यर्हसि नेतुमनुव्रतं ते चित्तं यतः प्रतिसरन्तु शिवाः सचिव्यः
na tvāṃ tyajāmi dayitaṃ dvijadevadattaṃ yasmin mano dṛgapi no na viyāti lagnam | māṃ cāruśṛṅgyarhasi netumanuvrataṃ te cittaṃ yataḥ pratisarantu śivāḥ sacivyaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Lord Brahmā, who is worshiped by the brāhmaṇas, has very mercifully given you to me, and that is why I have met you. I do not want to give up your company, for my mind and eyes are fixed upon you and cannot be drawn away. O woman with beautiful raised breasts, I am your follower. You may take me wherever you like, and your friends may also follow me.
SB 5.2.17Open verse →
श्रीशुक उवाच । इति ललनानुनयातिविशारदो ग्राम्यवैदग्ध्यया परिभाषया तां विबुधवधूं विबुधमतिरधिसभा- जयामास
śrīśuka uvāca | iti lalanānunayātiviśārado grāmyavaidagdhyayā paribhāṣayā tāṃ vibudhavadhūṃ vibudhamatiradhisabhā- jayāmāsa
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Mahārāja Āgnīdhra, whose intelligence was like that of a demigod, knew the art of flattering women to win them to his side. He therefore pleased that celestial girl with his lusty words and gained her favor.
SB 5.2.18Open verse →
सा च ततस्तस्य वीरयूथपतेर्बुद्धिशीलरूपवयः- श्रियौदार्येण पराक्षिप्तमनास्तेन सहायुतायुत- परिवत्सरोपलक्षणं कालं जम्बूद्वीपपतिना भौमस्वर्गभोगान् बुभुजे
sā ca tatastasya vīrayūthapaterbuddhiśīlarūpavayaḥ- śriyaudāryeṇa parākṣiptamanāstena sahāyutāyuta- parivatsaropalakṣaṇaṃ kālaṃ jambūdvīpapatinā bhaumasvargabhogān bubhuje
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Attracted by the intelligence, learning, youth, beauty, behavior, opulence and magnanimity of Āgnīdhra, the King of Jambūdvīpa and master of all heroes, Pūrvacitti lived with him for many thousands of years and luxuriously enjoyed both worldly and heavenly happiness.
SB 5.2.19Open verse →
तस्यामु ह वा आत्मजान् स राजवर आग्नीध्रो नाभिकिम्पुरुषहरिवर्षेलावृतरम्यकहिरण्मयकुरुभद्राश्व- केतुमालसंज्ञान् नव पुत्रानजनयत्
tasyāmu ha vā ātmajān sa rājavara āgnīdhro nābhikimpuruṣaharivarṣelāvṛtaramyakahiraṇmayakurubhadrāśva- ketumālasaṃjñān nava putrānajanayat
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In the womb of Pūrvacitti, Mahārāja Āgnīdhra, the best of kings, begot nine sons, named Nābhi, Kiṁpuruṣa, Harivarṣa, Ilāvṛta, Ramyaka, Hiraṇmaya, Kuru, Bhadrāśva and Ketumāla.
SB 5.2.20Open verse →
सा सूत्वाथ सुतान् नवानुवत्सरं गृह एवापहाय पूर्वचित्तिर्भूय एवाजं देवमुपतस्थे
sā sūtvātha sutān navānuvatsaraṃ gṛha evāpahāya pūrvacittirbhūya evājaṃ devamupatasthe
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Pūrvacitti gave birth to these nine sons, one each year, but after they grew up she left them at home and again approached Lord Brahmā to worship him.
SB 5.2.21Open verse →
आग्नीध्रसुतास्ते मातुरनुग्रहादौत्पत्तिकेनैव संहननबलोपेताः पित्रा विभक्ता आत्मतुल्यनामानि यथाभागं जम्बूद्वीपवर्षाणि बुभुजुः
āgnīdhrasutāste māturanugrahādautpattikenaiva saṃhananabalopetāḥ pitrā vibhaktā ātmatulyanāmāni yathābhāgaṃ jambūdvīpavarṣāṇi bubhujuḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Because of drinking the breast milk of their mother, the nine sons of Āgnīdhra naturally had strong, well-built bodies. Their father gave them each a kingdom in a different part of Jambūdvīpa. The kingdoms were named according to the names of the sons. Thus the sons of Āgnīdhra ruled the kingdoms they received from their father.
SB 5.2.22Open verse →
आग्नीध्रो राजातृप्तः कामानामप्सरसमेवानुदिन- मधिमन्यमानस्तस्याः सलोकतां श्रुतिभिरवारुन्ध यत्र पितरो मादयन्ते
āgnīdhro rājātṛptaḥ kāmānāmapsarasamevānudina- madhimanyamānastasyāḥ salokatāṃ śrutibhiravārundha yatra pitaro mādayante
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
After Pūrvacitti’s departure, King Āgnīdhra, his lusty desires not at all satisfied, always thought of her. Therefore, in accordance with the Vedic injunctions, the King, after his death, was promoted to the same planet as his celestial wife. That planet, which is called Pitṛloka, is where the pitās, the forefathers, live in great delight.
SB 5.2.23Open verse →
सम्परेते पितरि नव भ्रातरो मेरुदुहितॄर्मेरुदेवीं प्रतिरूपा- मुग्रदंष्ट्रीं लतां रम्यां श्यामां नारीं भद्रां देववीतिमिति संज्ञा नवोदवहन्
samparete pitari nava bhrātaro meruduhitṝrmerudevīṃ pratirūpā- mugradaṃṣṭrīṃ latāṃ ramyāṃ śyāmāṃ nārīṃ bhadrāṃ devavītimiti saṃjñā navodavahan
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
After the departure of their father, the nine brothers married the nine daughters of Meru named Merudevī, Pratirūpā, Ugradaṁṣṭrī, Latā, Ramyā, Śyāmā, Nārī, Bhadrā and Devavīti.
SB 5.3.1Open verse →
श्रीशुक उवाच । नाभिरपत्यकामोऽप्रजया मेरुदेव्या भगवन्तं यज्ञपुरुषमवहितात्मायजत
śrīśuka uvāca | nābhirapatyakāmo'prajayā merudevyā bhagavantaṃ yajñapuruṣamavahitātmāyajata
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued to speak: Mahārāja Nābhi, the son of Āgnīdhra, wished to have sons, and therefore he attentively began to offer prayers and worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu, the master and enjoyer of all sacrifices. Mahārāja Nābhi’s wife, Merudevī, who had not given birth to any children at that time, also worshiped Lord Viṣṇu along with her husband.
SB 5.3.2Open verse →
तस्य ह वाव श्रद्धया विशुद्धभावेन यजतः प्रवर्ग्येषु प्रचरत्सु द्रव्यदेशकालमन्त्रर्त्विग्दक्षिणाविधानयोगो- पपत्त्या दुरधिगमोऽपि भगवान् भागवतवात्सल्यतया सुप्रतीक आत्मानमपराजितं निजजनाभिप्रेतार्थ- विधित्सया गृहीतहृदयो हृदयङ्गमं मनोनयनानन्दना- वयवाभिराममाविश्चकार
tasya ha vāva śraddhayā viśuddhabhāvena yajataḥ pravargyeṣu pracaratsu dravyadeśakālamantrartvigdakṣiṇāvidhānayogo- papattyā duradhigamo'pi bhagavān bhāgavatavātsalyatayā supratīka ātmānamaparājitaṃ nijajanābhipretārtha- vidhitsayā gṛhītahṛdayo hṛdayaṅgamaṃ manonayanānandanā- vayavābhirāmamāviścakāra
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In the performance of a sacrifice, there are seven transcendental means to obtain the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead: (1) by sacrificing valuable things or eatables, (2) by acting in terms of place, (3) by acting in terms of time, (4) by offering hymns, (5) by going through the priest, (6) by offering gifts to the priests and (7) by observing the regulative principles. However, one cannot always obtain the Supreme Lord through this paraphernalia. Nonetheless, the Lord is affectionate to His devotee; therefore when Mahārāja Nābhi, who was a devotee, worshiped and offered prayers to the Lord with great faith and devotion and with a pure uncontaminated mind, superficially performing some yajña in the line of pravargya, the kind Supreme Personality of Godhead, due to His affection for His devotees, appeared before King Nābhi in His unconquerable and captivating form with four hands. In this way, to fulfill the desire of His devotee, the Supreme Personality of Godhead manifested Himself in His beautiful body before His devotee. This body pleases the mind and eyes of the devotees.
SB 5.3.3Open verse →
अथ ह तमाविष्कृतभुजयुगलद्वयं हिरण्मयं पुरुषविशेषं कपिशकौशेयाम्बरधरमुरसि विलसच्छ्रीवत्सललामं दरवरवनरुहवनमालाच्छूर्यमृतमणिगदादिभिरुपलक्षितं स्फुटकिरणप्रवरमुकुटकुण्डलकटककटिसूत्रहारकेयूर- नूपुराद्यङ्गभूषणविभूषितमृत्विक्सदस्यगृहपतयोऽधना इवोत्तमधनमुपलभ्य सबहुमानमर्हणेनावनतशीर्षाण उपतस्थुः
atha ha tamāviṣkṛtabhujayugaladvayaṃ hiraṇmayaṃ puruṣaviśeṣaṃ kapiśakauśeyāmbaradharamurasi vilasacchrīvatsalalāmaṃ daravaravanaruhavanamālācchūryamṛtamaṇigadādibhirupalakṣitaṃ sphuṭakiraṇapravaramukuṭakuṇḍalakaṭakakaṭisūtrahārakeyūra- nūpurādyaṅgabhūṣaṇavibhūṣitamṛtviksadasyagṛhapatayo'dhanā ivottamadhanamupalabhya sabahumānamarhaṇenāvanataśīrṣāṇa upatasthuḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Lord Viṣṇu appeared before King Nābhi with four arms. He was very bright, and He appeared to be the best of all personalities. Around the lower portion of His body, He wore a yellow silken garment. On His chest was the mark of Śrīvatsa, which always displays beauty. He carried a conchshell, lotus flower, disc and club, and He wore a garland of forest flowers and the Kaustubha gem. He was beautifully decorated with a helmet, earrings, bangles, belt, pearl necklace, armlets, ankle bells and other bodily ornaments bedecked with radiant jewels. Seeing the Lord present before them, King Nābhi and his priests and associates felt just like poor people who have suddenly attained great riches. They received the Lord and respectfully bent their heads and offered Him things in worship.
SB 5.3.6Open verse →
परिजनानुरागविरचितशबलसंशब्दसलिलसित- किसलयतुलसिकादूर्वाङ्कुरैरपि सम्भृतया सपर्यया किल परम परितुष्यसि
parijanānurāgaviracitaśabalasaṃśabdasalilasita- kisalayatulasikādūrvāṅkurairapi sambhṛtayā saparyayā kila parama parituṣyasi
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O Supreme Lord, You are full in every respect. You are certainly very satisfied when Your devotees offer You prayers with faltering voices and in ecstasy bring You tulasī leaves, water, twigs bearing new leaves, and newly grown grass. This surely makes You satisfied.
SB 5.3.7Open verse →
अथानयापि न भवत इज्ययोरुभारभरया समुचित- मर्थमिहोपलभामहे
athānayāpi na bhavata ijyayorubhārabharayā samucita- marthamihopalabhāmahe
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
We have engaged in Your worship with many things and have offered sacrifices unto You, but we think that there is no need for so many arrangements to please Your Lordship.
SB 5.3.8Open verse →
आत्मन एवानुसवनमञ्जसाव्यतिरेकेण बोभूयमा- नाशेषपुरुषार्थस्वरूपस्य किन्तु नाथाशिष आशासानानामेतदभिसंराधनमात्रं भवितुमर्हति
ātmana evānusavanamañjasāvyatirekeṇa bobhūyamā- nāśeṣapuruṣārthasvarūpasya kintu nāthāśiṣa āśāsānānāmetadabhisaṃrādhanamātraṃ bhavitumarhati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
All of life’s goals and opulences are directly, self-sufficiently, unceasingly and unlimitedly increasing in You at every moment. Indeed, You are unlimited enjoyment and blissful existence itself. As far as we are concerned, O Lord, we are always after material enjoyment. You do not need all these sacrificial arrangements, but they are meant for us so that we may be benedicted by Your Lordship. All these sacrifices are performed for our fruitive results, and they are not actually needed by You.
SB 5.3.9Open verse →
तद्यथा बालिशानां स्वयमात्मनः श्रेयः पर-मविदुषां परम परमपुरुष प्रकर्षकरुणया स्वमहिमानं चापवर्गाख्यमुपकल्पयिष्यन् स्वयं नापचित एवेतरवदिहोपलक्षितः
tadyathā bāliśānāṃ svayamātmanaḥ śreyaḥ para-maviduṣāṃ parama paramapuruṣa prakarṣakaruṇayā svamahimānaṃ cāpavargākhyamupakalpayiṣyan svayaṃ nāpacita evetaravadihopalakṣitaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O Lord of lords, we are completely ignorant of the execution of dharma, artha, kāma and mokṣa, the process of liberation, because we do not actually know the goal of life. You have appeared personally before us like a person soliciting worship, but actually You are present here just so we can see You. You have come out of Your abundant and causeless mercy in order to serve our purpose, our interest, and give us the benefit of Your personal glory called apavarga, liberation. You have come, although You are not properly worshiped by us due to our ignorance.
SB 5.3.10Open verse →
अथायमेव वरो ह्यर्हत्तम यर्हि बर्हिषि राजर्षेर्वरदर्षभो भवान् निजपुरुषेक्षणविषय आसीत्
athāyameva varo hyarhattama yarhi barhiṣi rājarṣervaradarṣabho bhavān nijapuruṣekṣaṇaviṣaya āsīt
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O most worshipable of all, You are the best of all benefactors, and Your appearance at saintly King Nābhi’s sacrificial arena is meant for our benediction. Because You have been seen by us, You have bestowed upon us the most valuable benediction.
SB 5.3.11Open verse →
असङ्गनिशितज्ञानानलविधूताशेषमलानां भवत्स्वभावानामात्मारामाणां मुनीनामनवरत- परिगुणितगुणगणपरममङ्गलायनगुणगण कथनोऽसि
asaṅganiśitajñānānalavidhūtāśeṣamalānāṃ bhavatsvabhāvānāmātmārāmāṇāṃ munīnāmanavarata- pariguṇitaguṇagaṇaparamamaṅgalāyanaguṇagaṇa kathano'si
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Dear Lord, all the great sages who are thoughtful and saintly persons incessantly recount Your spiritual qualities. These sages have already burned up all the unlimited dirty things and, by the fire of knowledge, strengthened their detachment from the material world. Thus they have attained Your qualities and are self-satisfied. Yet even for those who feel spiritual bliss in chanting Your attributes, Your personal presence is very rare.
SB 5.3.12Open verse →
अथ कथञ्चित्स्खलनक्षुत्पतनजृम्भणदुरवस्थानादिषु विवशानां नः स्मरणाय ज्वरमरणदशायामपि सकल- कश्मलनिरसनानि तव गुणकृतनामधेयानि वचनगोचराणि भवन्तु
atha kathañcitskhalanakṣutpatanajṛmbhaṇaduravasthānādiṣu vivaśānāṃ naḥ smaraṇāya jvaramaraṇadaśāyāmapi sakala- kaśmalanirasanāni tava guṇakṛtanāmadheyāni vacanagocarāṇi bhavantu
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Dear Lord, we may not be able to remember Your name, form and qualities due to stumbling, hunger, falling down, yawning or being in a miserable diseased condition at the time of death when there is a high fever. We therefore pray unto You, O Lord, for You are very affectionate to Your devotees. Please help us remember You and utter Your holy names, attributes and activities, which can dispel all the reactions of our sinful lives.
SB 5.3.13Open verse →
किञ्चायं राजर्षिरपत्यकामः प्रजां भवादृशीमाशासान ईश्वरमाशिषां स्वर्गापवर्गयोरपि भवन्तमुपधावति प्रजायामर्थप्रत्ययो धनदमिवाधनः फलीकरणम्
kiñcāyaṃ rājarṣirapatyakāmaḥ prajāṃ bhavādṛśīmāśāsāna īśvaramāśiṣāṃ svargāpavargayorapi bhavantamupadhāvati prajāyāmarthapratyayo dhanadamivādhanaḥ phalīkaraṇam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Dear Lord, here is the great King Nābhi, whose ultimate goal in life is to have a son like You. Your Lordship, his position is like that of a person approaching a very rich man and begging for a little grain. Mahārāja Nābhi is so desirous of having a son that he is worshiping You for a son, although You can offer him any exalted position, including elevation to the heavenly planets or liberation back to Godhead.
SB 5.3.14Open verse →
को वा इह तेऽपराजितोऽपराजितया मायया- नवसितपदव्यानावृतमतिर्विषयविषरयानावृत- प्रकृतिरनुपासितमहच्चरणः
ko vā iha te'parājito'parājitayā māyayā- navasitapadavyānāvṛtamatirviṣayaviṣarayānāvṛta- prakṛtiranupāsitamahaccaraṇaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Dear Lord, unless one worships the lotus feet of great devotees, one will be conquered by the illusory energy, and his intelligence will be bewildered. Indeed, who has not been carried away by the waves of material enjoyment, which are like poison? Your illusory energy is unconquerable. No one can see the path of this material energy or tell how it is working.
SB 5.3.15Open verse →
यदु ह वाव तव पुनरदभ्रकर्तरिह समाहूत- स्तत्रार्थधियां मन्दानां नस्तद्यद्देवहेलनं देवदेवार्हसि साम्येन सर्वान् प्रतिवोढुमविदुषाम्
yadu ha vāva tava punaradabhrakartariha samāhūta- statrārthadhiyāṃ mandānāṃ nastadyaddevahelanaṃ devadevārhasi sāmyena sarvān prativoḍhumaviduṣām
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O Lord, You perform many wonderful activities. Our only aim was to acquire a son by performing this great sacrifice; therefore our intelligence is not very sharp. We are not experienced in ascertaining life’s goal. By inviting You to this negligible sacrifice for some material motive, we have certainly committed a great offense at Your lotus feet. Therefore, O Lord of lords, please excuse our offense because of Your causeless mercy and equal mind.
SB 5.3.16Open verse →
श्रीशुक उवाच । इति निगदेनाभिष्टूयमानो भगवाननिमिषर्षभो वर्षधराभिवादिताभिवन्दितचरणः सदयमिदमाह
śrīśuka uvāca | iti nigadenābhiṣṭūyamāno bhagavānanimiṣarṣabho varṣadharābhivāditābhivanditacaraṇaḥ sadayamidamāha
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The priests, who were even worshiped by King Nābhi, the Emperor of Bhārata-varṣa, offered prayers in prose [generally they were in poetry] and bowed down at the Lord’s lotus feet. The Lord of lords, the ruler of the demigods, was very pleased with them, and He began to speak as follows.
SB 5.3.17Open verse →
श्रीभगवानुवाच । अहो बताहमृषयो भवद्भिरवितथगीर्भिर्वरमसुलभ- मभियाचितो यदमुष्यात्मजो मया सदृशो भूयादिति ममाहमेवाभिरूपः कैवल्यादथापि ब्रह्मवादो न मृषा भवितुमर्हति ममैव हि मुखं यद्द्विजदेवकुलम्
śrībhagavānuvāca | aho batāhamṛṣayo bhavadbhiravitathagīrbhirvaramasulabha- mabhiyācito yadamuṣyātmajo mayā sadṛśo bhūyāditi mamāhamevābhirūpaḥ kaivalyādathāpi brahmavādo na mṛṣā bhavitumarhati mamaiva hi mukhaṃ yaddvijadevakulam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Supreme Personality of Godhead replied: O great sages, I am certainly very pleased with your prayers. You are all truthful. You have prayed for the benediction of a son like Me for King Nābhi, but this is very difficult to obtain. Since I am the Supreme Person without a second and since no one is equal to Me, another personality like Me is not possible to find. In any case, because you are all qualified brāhmaṇas, your vibrations should not prove untrue. I consider the brāhmaṇas who are well qualified with brahminical qualities to be as good as My own mouth.
SB 5.3.18Open verse →
तत आग्नीध्रीयेंऽशकलयावतरिष्याम्यात्मतुल्य- मनुपलभमानः
tata āgnīdhrīyeṃ'śakalayāvatariṣyāmyātmatulya- manupalabhamānaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Since I cannot find anyone equal to Me, I shall personally expand Myself into a plenary portion and thus advent Myself in the womb of Merudevī, the wife of Mahārāja Nābhi, the son of Āgnīdhra.
SB 5.3.19Open verse →
श्रीशुक उवाच । इति निशामयन्त्या मेरुदेव्याः पतिमभिधाया- न्तर्दधे भगवान्
śrīśuka uvāca | iti niśāmayantyā merudevyāḥ patimabhidhāyā- ntardadhe bhagavān
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: After saying this, the Lord disappeared. The wife of King Nābhi, Queen Merudevī, was sitting by the side of her husband, and consequently she could hear everything the Supreme Lord had spoken.
SB 5.3.20Open verse →
बर्हिषि तस्मिन्नेव विष्णुदत्त भगवान् परमर्षिभिः प्रसादितो नाभेः प्रियचिकीर्षया तदवरोधायने मेरुदेव्यां धर्मान् दर्शयितुकामो वातरशनानां श्रमणानामृषीणामूर्ध्वमन्थिनां शुक्लया तनुवावततार
barhiṣi tasminneva viṣṇudatta bhagavān paramarṣibhiḥ prasādito nābheḥ priyacikīrṣayā tadavarodhāyane merudevyāṃ dharmān darśayitukāmo vātaraśanānāṃ śramaṇānāmṛṣīṇāmūrdhvamanthināṃ śuklayā tanuvāvatatāra
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O Viṣṇudatta, Parīkṣit Mahārāja, the Supreme Personality of Godhead was pleased by the great sages at that sacrifice. Consequently the Lord decided to personally exhibit the method of executing religious principles [as observed by brahmacārīs, sannyāsīs, vānaprasthas and gṛhasthas engaged in rituals] and also satisfy Mahārāja Nābhi’s desire. Consequently He appeared as the son of Merudevī in His original spiritual form, which is above the modes of material nature.
SB 5.4.1Open verse →
श्रीशुक उवाच । अथ ह तमुत्पत्त्यैवाभिव्यज्यमानभगवल्लक्षणं साम्योपशमवैराग्यैश्वर्यमहाविभूतिभिरनुदिन- मेधमानानुभावं प्रकृतयः प्रजा ब्राह्मणा देवताश्चावनितलसमवनायातितरां जगृधुः
śrīśuka uvāca | atha ha tamutpattyaivābhivyajyamānabhagavallakṣaṇaṃ sāmyopaśamavairāgyaiśvaryamahāvibhūtibhiranudina- medhamānānubhāvaṃ prakṛtayaḥ prajā brāhmaṇā devatāścāvanitalasamavanāyātitarāṃ jagṛdhuḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: As soon as the Lord was born as the son of Mahārāja Nābhi, He manifested symptoms of the Supreme Lord, such as marks on the bottoms of His feet [the flag, thunderbolt, etc.]. This son was equal to everyone and very peaceful. He could control His senses and His mind, and, possessing all opulence, He did not hanker for material enjoyment. Endowed with all these attributes, the son of Mahārāja Nābhi became more powerful day after day. Due to this, the citizens, learned brāhmaṇas, demigods and ministers wanted Ṛṣabhadeva to be appointed ruler of the earth.
SB 5.4.2Open verse →
तस्य ह वा इत्थं वर्ष्मणा वरीयसा बृहच्छ्लोकेन चौजसा बलेन श्रिया यशसा वीर्यशौर्याभ्यां च पिता ऋषभ इतीदं नाम चकार
tasya ha vā itthaṃ varṣmaṇā varīyasā bṛhacchlokena caujasā balena śriyā yaśasā vīryaśauryābhyāṃ ca pitā ṛṣabha itīdaṃ nāma cakāra
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When the son of Mahārāja Nābhi became visible, He evinced all good qualities described by the great poets — namely, a well-built body with all the symptoms of the Godhead, prowess, strength, beauty, name, fame, influence and enthusiasm. When the father, Mahārāja Nābhi, saw all these qualities, he thought his son to be the best of human beings or the supreme being. Therefore he gave Him the name Ṛṣabha.
SB 5.4.3Open verse →
तस्य हीन्द्रः स्पर्धमानो भगवान् वर्षे न ववर्ष तदवधार्य भगवान् ऋषभदेवो योगेश्वरः प्रहस्यात्मयोगमायया स्ववर्षमजनाभं नामाभ्यवर्षत्
tasya hīndraḥ spardhamāno bhagavān varṣe na vavarṣa tadavadhārya bhagavān ṛṣabhadevo yogeśvaraḥ prahasyātmayogamāyayā svavarṣamajanābhaṃ nāmābhyavarṣat
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Indra, the King of heaven, who is very materially opulent, became envious of King Ṛṣabhadeva. Consequently he stopped pouring water on the planet known as Bhārata-varṣa. At that time the Supreme Lord, Ṛṣabhadeva, the master of all mystic power, understood King Indra’s purpose and smiled a little. Then, by His own prowess, through yoga-māyā [His internal potency], He profusely poured water upon His own place, which was known as Ajanābha.
SB 5.4.4Open verse →
नाभिस्तु यथाभिलषितं सुप्रजस्त्वमवरुध्याति- प्रमोदभरविह्वलो गद्गदाक्षरया गिरा स्वैरं गृहीतनरलोकसधर्मं भगवन्तं पुराणपुरुषं मायाविलसितमतिर्वत्स तातेति सानुराग- मुपलालयन् परां निर्वृतिमुपगतः
nābhistu yathābhilaṣitaṃ suprajastvamavarudhyāti- pramodabharavihvalo gadgadākṣarayā girā svairaṃ gṛhītanaralokasadharmaṃ bhagavantaṃ purāṇapuruṣaṃ māyāvilasitamatirvatsa tāteti sānurāga- mupalālayan parāṃ nirvṛtimupagataḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Due to getting a perfect son according to his desire, King Nābhi was always overwhelmed with transcendental bliss and was very affectionate to his son. It was with ecstasy and a faltering voice that he addressed Him, “My dear son, my darling.” This mentality was brought about by yoga-māyā, whereby he accepted the Supreme Lord, the supreme father, as his own son. Out of His supreme good will, the Lord became his son and dealt with everyone as if He were an ordinary human being. Thus King Nābhi began to raise his transcendental son with great affection, and he was overwhelmed with transcendental bliss, joy and devotion.
SB 5.4.5Open verse →
विदितानुरागमापौरप्रकृतिजनपदो राजा नाभिरात्मजं समयसेतुरक्षायामभिषिच्य ब्राह्मणेषूपनिधाय सह मेरुदेव्या विशालायां प्रसन्ननिपुणेन तपसा समाधियोगेन नरनारायणाख्यं भगवन्तं वासुदेवमुपासीनः कालेन तन्महिमानमवाप
viditānurāgamāpauraprakṛtijanapado rājā nābhirātmajaṃ samayaseturakṣāyāmabhiṣicya brāhmaṇeṣūpanidhāya saha merudevyā viśālāyāṃ prasannanipuṇena tapasā samādhiyogena naranārāyaṇākhyaṃ bhagavantaṃ vāsudevamupāsīnaḥ kālena tanmahimānamavāpa
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
King Nābhi understood that his son, Ṛṣabhadeva, was very popular among the citizens and among government officers and ministers. Understanding the popularity of his son, Mahārāja Nābhi enthroned Him as the emperor of the world to give protection to the general populace in terms of the Vedic religious system. To do this, he entrusted Him into the hands of learned brāhmaṇas, who would guide Him in administrating the government. Then Mahārāja Nābhi and his wife, Merudevī, went to Badarikāśrama in the Himālaya Mountains, where the King engaged Himself very expertly in austerities and penances with great jubilation. In full samādhi he worshiped the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nara-Nārāyaṇa, who is Kṛṣṇa in His plenary expansion. By doing so, in course of time Mahārāja Nābhi was elevated to the spiritual world known as Vaikuṇṭha.
SB 5.4.6Open verse →
यस्य ह पाण्डवेय श्लोकावुदाहरन्ति - को नु तत्कर्म राजर्षेर्नाभेरन्वाचरेत्पुमान् । अपत्यतामगाद्यस्य हरिः शुद्धेन कर्मणा
yasya ha pāṇḍaveya ślokāvudāharanti - ko nu tatkarma rājarṣernābheranvācaretpumān | apatyatāmagādyasya hariḥ śuddhena karmaṇā
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, to glorify Mahārāja Nābhi the old sages composed two verses. One of them is this: “Who can attain the perfection of Mahārāja Nābhi? Who can attain his activities? Because of his devotional service, the Supreme Personality of Godhead agreed to become his son.”
SB 5.4.7Open verse →
ब्रह्मण्योऽन्यः कुतो नाभेर्विप्रा मङ्गलपूजिताः । यस्य बर्हिषि यज्ञेशं दर्शयामासुरोजसा
brahmaṇyo'nyaḥ kuto nābherviprā maṅgalapūjitāḥ | yasya barhiṣi yajñeśaṃ darśayāmāsurojasā
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
[The second prayer is this.] “Who is a better worshiper of brāhmaṇas than Mahārāja Nābhi? Because he worshiped the qualified brāhmaṇas to their full satisfaction, the brāhmaṇas, by their brahminical prowess, showed Mahārāja Nābhi the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, in person.”
SB 5.4.8Open verse →
अथ ह भगवान् ऋषभदेवः स्ववर्षं कर्मक्षेत्र- मनुमन्यमानः प्रदर्शितगुरुकुलवासो लब्धवरै- र्गुरुभिरनुज्ञातो गृहमेधिनां धर्माननुशिक्षमाणो जयन्त्यामिन्द्रदत्तायामुभयलक्षणं कर्म समाम्नायाम्नातमभियुञ्जन्नात्मजानामात्मसमानानां शतं जनयामास
atha ha bhagavān ṛṣabhadevaḥ svavarṣaṃ karmakṣetra- manumanyamānaḥ pradarśitagurukulavāso labdhavarai- rgurubhiranujñāto gṛhamedhināṃ dharmānanuśikṣamāṇo jayantyāmindradattāyāmubhayalakṣaṇaṃ karma samāmnāyāmnātamabhiyuñjannātmajānāmātmasamānānāṃ śataṃ janayāmāsa
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
After Nābhi Mahārāja departed for Badarikāśrama, the Supreme Lord, Ṛṣabhadeva, understood that His kingdom was His field of activities. He therefore showed Himself as an example and taught the duties of a householder by first accepting brahmacarya under the direction of spiritual masters. He also went to live at the spiritual masters’ place, gurukula. After His education was finished, He gave gifts (guru-dakṣiṇā) to His spiritual masters and then accepted the life of a householder. He took a wife named Jayantī and begot one hundred sons who were as powerful and qualified as He Himself. His wife Jayantī had been offered to Him by Indra, the King of heaven. Ṛṣabhadeva and Jayantī performed householder life in an exemplary way, carrying out ritualistic activities ordained by the śruti and smṛti śāstra.
SB 5.4.9Open verse →
येषां खलु महायोगी भरतो ज्येष्ठः श्रेष्ठगुण आसीद्येनेदं वर्षं भारतमिति व्यपदिशन्ति
yeṣāṃ khalu mahāyogī bharato jyeṣṭhaḥ śreṣṭhaguṇa āsīdyenedaṃ varṣaṃ bhāratamiti vyapadiśanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Of Ṛṣabhadeva’s one hundred sons, the eldest, named Bharata, was a great, exalted devotee qualified with the best attributes. In his honor, this planet has become known as Bhārata-varṣa.
SB 5.4.10Open verse →
तमनु कुशावर्त इलावर्तो ब्रह्मावर्तो मलयः केतुर्भद्रसेन इन्द्रस्पृग्विदर्भः कीकट इति नव नवतिप्रधानाः
tamanu kuśāvarta ilāvarto brahmāvarto malayaḥ keturbhadrasena indraspṛgvidarbhaḥ kīkaṭa iti nava navatipradhānāḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Following Bharata, there were ninety-nine other sons. Among these were nine elderly sons, named Kuśāvarta, Ilāvarta, Brahmāvarta, Malaya, Ketu, Bhadrasena, Indraspṛk, Vidarbha and Kīkaṭa.
SB 5.4.13Open verse →
यवीयांस एकाशीतिर्जायन्तेयाः पितुरादेशकरा महाशालीना महाश्रोत्रिया यज्ञशीलाः कर्मविशुद्धा ब्राह्मणा बभूवुः
yavīyāṃsa ekāśītirjāyanteyāḥ piturādeśakarā mahāśālīnā mahāśrotriyā yajñaśīlāḥ karmaviśuddhā brāhmaṇā babhūvuḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In addition to these nineteen sons mentioned above, there were eighty-one younger ones, all born of Ṛṣabhadeva and Jayantī. According to the order of their father, they became well-cultured, well-behaved, very pure in their activities and expert in Vedic knowledge and the performance of Vedic rituals. Thus they all became perfectly qualified brāhmaṇas.
SB 5.4.14Open verse →
भगवान् ऋषभसंज्ञ आत्मतन्त्रः स्वयं नित्यनिवृत्तानर्थ- परम्परः केवलानन्दानुभव ईश्वर एव विपरीतवत्कर्मा- ण्यारभमाणः कालेनानुगतं धर्ममाचरणेनोपशिक्षय- न्नतद्विदां सम उपशान्तो मैत्रः कारुणिको धर्मार्थयशः- प्रजानन्दामृतावरोधेन गृहेषु लोकं नियमयत्
bhagavān ṛṣabhasaṃjña ātmatantraḥ svayaṃ nityanivṛttānartha- paramparaḥ kevalānandānubhava īśvara eva viparītavatkarmā- ṇyārabhamāṇaḥ kālenānugataṃ dharmamācaraṇenopaśikṣaya- nnatadvidāṃ sama upaśānto maitraḥ kāruṇiko dharmārthayaśaḥ- prajānandāmṛtāvarodhena gṛheṣu lokaṃ niyamayat
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Being an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Ṛṣabhadeva was fully independent because His form was spiritual, eternal and full of transcendental bliss. He eternally had nothing to do with the four principles of material misery [birth, death, old age and disease]. Nor was He materially attached. He was always equipoised, and He saw everyone on the same level. He was unhappy to see others unhappy, and He was the well-wisher of all living entities. Although He was a perfect personality, the Supreme Lord and controller of all, He nonetheless acted as if He were an ordinary conditioned soul. Therefore He strictly followed the principles of varṇāśrama-dharma and acted accordingly. In due course of time, the principles of varṇāśrama-dharma had become neglected; therefore through His personal characteristics and behavior, He taught the ignorant public how to perform duties within the varṇāśrama-dharma. In this way He regulated the general populace in householder life, enabling them to develop religion and economic well-being and to attain reputations, sons and daughters, material pleasure and finally eternal life. By His instructions, He showed how people could remain householders and at the same time become perfect by following the principles of varṇāśrama-dharma.
SB 5.4.15Open verse →
यद्यच्छीर्षण्याचरितं तत्तदनुवर्तते लोकः
yadyacchīrṣaṇyācaritaṃ tattadanuvartate lokaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Whatever action is performed by a great man, common men follow.
SB 5.4.16Open verse →
यद्यपि स्वविदितं सकलधर्मं ब्राह्मं गुह्यं ब्राह्मणै- र्दर्शितमार्गेण सामादिभिरुपायैर्जनतामनुशशास
yadyapi svaviditaṃ sakaladharmaṃ brāhmaṃ guhyaṃ brāhmaṇai- rdarśitamārgeṇa sāmādibhirupāyairjanatāmanuśaśāsa
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Although Lord Ṛṣabhadeva knew everything about confidential Vedic knowledge, which includes information about all types of occupational duties, He still maintained Himself as a kṣatriya and followed the instructions of the brāhmaṇas as they related to mind control, sense control, tolerance and so forth. Thus He ruled the people according to the system of varṇāśrama-dharma, which enjoins that the brāhmaṇas instruct the kṣatriyas and the kṣatriyas administer to the state through the vaiśyas and śūdras.
SB 5.4.17Open verse →
द्रव्यदेशकालवयःश्रद्धर्त्विग्विविधोद्देशोपचितैः सर्वैरपि क्रतुभिर्यथोपदेशं शतकृत्व इयाज
dravyadeśakālavayaḥśraddhartvigvividhoddeśopacitaiḥ sarvairapi kratubhiryathopadeśaṃ śatakṛtva iyāja
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Lord Ṛṣabhadeva performed all kinds of sacrifices one hundred times according to the instructions of the Vedic literatures. Thus He satisfied Lord Viṣṇu in every respect. All the rituals were enriched by first-class ingredients. They were executed in holy places according to the proper time by priests who were all young and faithful. In this way Lord Viṣṇu was worshiped, and the prasāda was offered to all the demigods. Thus the functions and festivals were all successful.
SB 5.4.18Open verse →
भगवतर्षभेण परिरक्ष्यमाण एतस्मिन् वर्षे न कश्चन पुरुषो वाञ्छत्यविद्यमानमिवात्मनोऽन्यस्मात् कथञ्चन किमपि कर्हिचिदवेक्षते भर्तर्यनुसवनं विजृम्भितस्नेहातिशयमन्तरेण
bhagavatarṣabheṇa parirakṣyamāṇa etasmin varṣe na kaścana puruṣo vāñchatyavidyamānamivātmano'nyasmāt kathañcana kimapi karhicidavekṣate bhartaryanusavanaṃ vijṛmbhitasnehātiśayamantareṇa
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
No one likes to possess anything that is like a will-o’-the-wisp or a flower in the sky, for everyone knows very well that such things do not exist. When Lord Ṛṣabhadeva ruled this planet of Bhāratavarṣa, even common men did not want to ask for anything, at any time or by any means. No one ever asks for a will-o’-the-wisp. In other words, everyone was completely satisfied, and therefore there was no chance of anyone’s asking for anything. The people were absorbed in great affection for the King. Since this affection was always expanding, they were not inclined to ask for anything.
SB 5.4.19Open verse →
स कदाचिदटमानो भगवान् ऋषभो ब्रह्मावर्तगतो ब्रह्मर्षिप्रवरसभायां प्रजानां निशामयन्तीना- मात्मजानवहितात्मनः प्रश्रयप्रणयभरसुयन्त्रिता- नप्युपशिक्षयन्निति होवाच
sa kadācidaṭamāno bhagavān ṛṣabho brahmāvartagato brahmarṣipravarasabhāyāṃ prajānāṃ niśāmayantīnā- mātmajānavahitātmanaḥ praśrayapraṇayabharasuyantritā- napyupaśikṣayanniti hovāca
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Once while touring the world, Lord Ṛṣabhadeva, the Supreme Lord, reached a place known as Brahmāvarta. There was a great conference of learned brāhmaṇas at that place, and all the King’s sons attentively heard the instructions of the brāhmaṇas there. At that assembly, within the hearing of the citizens, Ṛṣabhadeva instructed His sons, although they were already very well-behaved, devoted and qualified. He instructed them so that in the future they could rule the world very perfectly. Thus he spoke as follows.
SB 5.5.1Open verse →
ऋषभ उवाच । नायं देहो देहभाजां नृलोके कष्टान् कामानर्हते विड्भुजां ये । तपो दिव्यं पुत्रका येन सत्त्वं शुद्ध्येद्यस्माद्ब्रह्मसौख्यं त्वनन्तम्
ṛṣabha uvāca | nāyaṃ deho dehabhājāṃ nṛloke kaṣṭān kāmānarhate viḍbhujāṃ ye | tapo divyaṃ putrakā yena sattvaṃ śuddhyedyasmādbrahmasaukhyaṃ tvanantam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Lord Ṛṣabhadeva told His sons: My dear boys, of all the living entities who have accepted material bodies in this world, one who has been awarded this human form should not work hard day and night simply for sense gratification, which is available even for dogs and hogs that eat stool. One should engage in penance and austerity to attain the divine position of devotional service. By such activity, one’s heart is purified, and when one attains this position, he attains eternal, blissful life, which is transcendental to material happiness and which continues forever.
SB 5.5.2Open verse →
महत्सेवां द्वारमाहुर्विमुक्ते- स्तमोद्वारं योषितां सङ्गिसङ्गम् । महान्तस्ते समचित्ताः प्रशान्ता विमन्यवः सुहृदः साधवो ये
mahatsevāṃ dvāramāhurvimukte- stamodvāraṃ yoṣitāṃ saṅgisaṅgam | mahāntaste samacittāḥ praśāntā vimanyavaḥ suhṛdaḥ sādhavo ye
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
One can attain the path of liberation from material bondage only by rendering service to highly advanced spiritual personalities. These personalities are impersonalists and devotees. Whether one wants to merge into the Lord’s existence or wants to associate with the Personality of Godhead, one should render service to the mahātmās. For those who are not interested in such activities, who associate with people fond of women and sex, the path to hell is wide open. The mahātmās are equipoised. They do not see any difference between one living entity and another. They are very peaceful and are fully engaged in devotional service. They are devoid of anger, and they work for the benefit of everyone. They do not behave in any abominable way. Such people are known as mahātmās.
SB 5.5.3Open verse →
ये वा मयीशे कृतसौहृदार्था जनेषु देहम्भरवार्तिकेषु । गृहेषु जायाऽऽत्मजरातिमत्सु न प्रीतियुक्ता यावदर्थाश्च लोके
ye vā mayīśe kṛtasauhṛdārthā janeṣu dehambharavārtikeṣu | gṛheṣu jāyā''tmajarātimatsu na prītiyuktā yāvadarthāśca loke
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Those who are interested in reviving Kṛṣṇa consciousness and increasing their love of Godhead do not like to do anything that is not related to Kṛṣṇa. They are not interested in mingling with people who are busy maintaining their bodies, eating, sleeping, mating and defending. They are not attached to their homes, although they may be householders. Nor are they attached to wives, children, friends or wealth. At the same time, they are not indifferent to the execution of their duties. Such people are interested in collecting only enough money to keep the body and soul together.
SB 5.5.4Open verse →
नूनं प्रमत्तः कुरुते विकर्म यदिन्द्रियप्रीतय आपृणोति । न साधु मन्ये यत आत्मनोऽय- मसन्नपि क्लेशद आस देहः
nūnaṃ pramattaḥ kurute vikarma yadindriyaprītaya āpṛṇoti | na sādhu manye yata ātmano'ya- masannapi kleśada āsa dehaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When a person considers sense gratification the aim of life, he certainly becomes mad after materialistic living and engages in all kinds of sinful activity. He does not know that due to his past misdeeds he has already received a body which, although temporary, is the cause of his misery. Actually the living entity should not have taken on a material body, but he has been awarded the material body for sense gratification. Therefore I think it not befitting an intelligent man to involve himself again in the activities of sense gratification by which he perpetually gets material bodies one after another.
SB 5.5.5Open verse →
पराभवस्तावदबोधजातो यावन्न जिज्ञासत आत्मतत्त्वम् । यावत्क्रियास्तावदिदं मनो वै कर्मात्मकं येन शरीरबन्धः
parābhavastāvadabodhajāto yāvanna jijñāsata ātmatattvam | yāvatkriyāstāvadidaṃ mano vai karmātmakaṃ yena śarīrabandhaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
As long as one does not inquire about the spiritual values of life, one is defeated and subjected to miseries arising from ignorance. Be it sinful or pious, karma has its resultant actions. If a person is engaged in any kind of karma, his mind is called karmātmaka, colored with fruitive activity. As long as the mind is impure, consciousness is unclear, and as long as one is absorbed in fruitive activity, he has to accept a material body.
SB 5.5.6Open verse →
एवं मनः कर्मवशं प्रयुङ्क्ते अविद्ययाऽऽत्मन्युपधीयमाने । प्रीतिर्न यावन्मयि वासुदेवे न मुच्यते देहयोगेन तावत्
evaṃ manaḥ karmavaśaṃ prayuṅkte avidyayā''tmanyupadhīyamāne | prītirna yāvanmayi vāsudeve na mucyate dehayogena tāvat
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When the living entity is covered by the mode of ignorance, he does not understand the individual living being and the supreme living being, and his mind is subjugated by fruitive activity. Therefore, until one has love for Lord Vāsudeva, who is none other than Myself, he is certainly not delivered from having to accept a material body again and again.
SB 5.5.7Open verse →
यदा न पश्यत्ययथा गुणेहां स्वार्थे प्रमत्तः सहसा विपश्चित् । गतस्मृतिर्विन्दति तत्र तापा- नासाद्य मैथुन्यमगारमज्ञः
yadā na paśyatyayathā guṇehāṃ svārthe pramattaḥ sahasā vipaścit | gatasmṛtirvindati tatra tāpā- nāsādya maithunyamagāramajñaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Even though one may be very learned and wise, he is mad if he does not understand that the endeavor for sense gratification is a useless waste of time. Being forgetful of his own interest, he tries to be happy in the material world, centering his interests around his home, which is based on sexual intercourse and which brings him all kinds of material miseries. In this way one is no better than a foolish animal.
SB 5.5.8Open verse →
पुंसः स्त्रिया मिथुनीभावमेतं तयोर्मिथो हृदयग्रन्थिमाहुः । अतो गृहक्षेत्रसुताप्तवित्तै- र्जनस्यमोहोऽयमहं ममेति
puṃsaḥ striyā mithunībhāvametaṃ tayormitho hṛdayagranthimāhuḥ | ato gṛhakṣetrasutāptavittai- rjanasyamoho'yamahaṃ mameti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The attraction between male and female is the basic principle of material existence. On the basis of this misconception, which ties together the hearts of the male and female, one becomes attracted to his body, home, property, children, relatives and wealth. In this way one increases life’s illusions and thinks in terms of “I and mine.”
SB 5.5.9Open verse →
यदा मनो हृदयग्रन्थिरस्य कर्मानुबद्धो दृढ आश्लथेत । तदा जनः सम्परिवर्ततेऽस्मा- न्मुक्तः परं यात्यतिहाय हेतुम्
yadā mano hṛdayagranthirasya karmānubaddho dṛḍha āślatheta | tadā janaḥ samparivartate'smā- nmuktaḥ paraṃ yātyatihāya hetum
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When the strong knot in the heart of a person implicated in material life due to the results of past action is slackened, one turns away from his attachment to home, wife and children. In this way, one gives up the basic principle of illusion [I and mine] and becomes liberated. Thus one goes to the transcendental world.
SB 5.5.14Open verse →
कर्माशयं हृदयग्रन्थिबन्ध- मविद्ययासादितमप्रमत्तः । अनेन योगेन यथोपदेशं सम्यग्व्यपोह्योपरमेत योगात्
karmāśayaṃ hṛdayagranthibandha- mavidyayāsāditamapramattaḥ | anena yogena yathopadeśaṃ samyagvyapohyoparameta yogāt
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
As I have advised you, My dear sons, you should act accordingly. Be very careful. By these means you will be freed from the ignorance of the desire for fruitive activity, and the knot of bondage in the heart will be completely severed. For further advancement, you should also give up the means. That is, you should not become attached to the process of liberation itself.
SB 5.5.15Open verse →
पुत्रांश्च शिष्यांश्च नृपो गुरुर्वा मल्लोककामो मदनुग्रहार्थः । इत्थं विमन्युरनुशिष्यादतज्ज्ञान् न योजयेत्कर्मसु कर्ममूढान् । कं योजयन् मनुजोऽर्थं लभेत निपातयन् नष्टदृशं हि गर्ते
putrāṃśca śiṣyāṃśca nṛpo gururvā mallokakāmo madanugrahārthaḥ | itthaṃ vimanyuranuśiṣyādatajjñān na yojayetkarmasu karmamūḍhān | kaṃ yojayan manujo'rthaṃ labheta nipātayan naṣṭadṛśaṃ hi garte
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
If one is serious about going back home, back to Godhead, he must consider the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead the summum bonum and chief aim of life. If he is a father instructing his sons, a spiritual master instructing his disciples, or a king instructing his citizens, he must instruct them as I have advised. Without being angry, he should continue giving instructions, even if his disciple, son or citizen is sometimes unable to follow his order. Ignorant people who engage in pious and impious activities should be engaged in devotional service by all means. They should always avoid fruitive activity. If one puts into the bondage of karmic activity his disciple, son or citizen who is bereft of transcendental vision, how will one profit? It is like leading a blind man to a dark well and causing him to fall in.
SB 5.5.16Open verse →
लोकः स्वयं श्रेयसि नष्टदृष्टि- र्योऽर्थान् समीहेत निकामकामः । अन्योन्यवैरः सुखलेशहेतो- रनन्तदुःखं च न वेद मूढः
lokaḥ svayaṃ śreyasi naṣṭadṛṣṭi- ryo'rthān samīheta nikāmakāmaḥ | anyonyavairaḥ sukhaleśaheto- ranantaduḥkhaṃ ca na veda mūḍhaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Due to ignorance, the materialistic person does not know anything about his real self-interest, the auspicious path in life. He is simply bound to material enjoyment by lusty desires, and all his plans are made for this purpose. For temporary sense gratification, such a person creates a society of envy, and due to this mentality, he plunges into the ocean of suffering. Such a foolish person does not even know about this.
SB 5.5.17Open verse →
कस्तं स्वयं तदभिज्ञो विपश्चि- दविद्यायामन्तरे वर्तमानम् । दृष्ट्वा पुनस्तं सघृणः कुबुद्धिं प्रयोजयेदुत्पथगं यथान्धम्
kastaṃ svayaṃ tadabhijño vipaści- davidyāyāmantare vartamānam | dṛṣṭvā punastaṃ saghṛṇaḥ kubuddhiṃ prayojayedutpathagaṃ yathāndham
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
If someone is ignorant and addicted to the path of saṁsāra, how can one who is actually learned, merciful and advanced in spiritual knowledge engage him in fruitive activity and thus further entangle him in material existence? If a blind man is walking down the wrong path, how can a gentleman allow him to continue on his way to danger? How can he approve this method? No wise or kind man can allow this.
SB 5.5.18Open verse →
गुरुर्न स स्यात्स्वजनो न स स्यात् पिता न स स्याज्जननी न सा स्यात् । दैवं न तत्स्यान्न पतिश्च स स्या- न्न मोचयेद्यः समुपेतमृत्युम्
gururna sa syātsvajano na sa syāt pitā na sa syājjananī na sā syāt | daivaṃ na tatsyānna patiśca sa syā- nna mocayedyaḥ samupetamṛtyum
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
One who cannot deliver his dependents from the path of repeated birth and death should never become a spiritual master, a father, a husband, a mother or a worshipable demigod.
SB 5.5.19Open verse →
इदं शरीरं मम दुर्विभाव्यं सत्त्वं हि मे हृदयं यत्र धर्मः । पृष्ठे कृतो मे यदधर्म आरा- दतो हि मामृषभं प्राहुरार्याः
idaṃ śarīraṃ mama durvibhāvyaṃ sattvaṃ hi me hṛdayaṃ yatra dharmaḥ | pṛṣṭhe kṛto me yadadharma ārā- dato hi māmṛṣabhaṃ prāhurāryāḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My transcendental body [sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha] looks exactly like a human form, but it is not a material human body. It is inconceivable. I am not forced by nature to accept a particular type of body; I take on a body by My own sweet will. My heart is also spiritual, and I always think of the welfare of My devotees. Therefore within My heart can be found the process of devotional service, which is meant for the devotees. Far from My heart have I abandoned irreligion [adharma] and nondevotional activities. They do not appeal to Me. Due to all these transcendental qualities, people generally pray to Me as Ṛṣabhadeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the best of all living entities.
SB 5.5.20Open verse →
तस्माद्भवन्तो हृदयेन जाताः सर्वे महीयांसममुं सनाभम् । अक्लिष्टबुद्ध्या भरतं भजध्वं शुश्रूषणं तद्भरणं प्रजानाम्
tasmādbhavanto hṛdayena jātāḥ sarve mahīyāṃsamamuṃ sanābham | akliṣṭabuddhyā bharataṃ bhajadhvaṃ śuśrūṣaṇaṃ tadbharaṇaṃ prajānām
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear boys, you are all born of My heart, which is the seat of all spiritual qualities. Therefore you should not be like materialistic and envious men. You should accept your eldest brother, Bharata, who is exalted in devotional service. If you engage yourselves in Bharata’s service, your service to him will include My service, and you will rule the citizens automatically.
SB 5.5.23Open verse →
न ब्राह्मणैस्तुलये भूतमन्य- त्पश्यामि विप्राः किमतः परं तु । यस्मिन् नृभिः प्रहुतं श्रद्धयाह- मश्नामि कामं न तथाग्निहोत्रे
na brāhmaṇaistulaye bhūtamanya- tpaśyāmi viprāḥ kimataḥ paraṃ tu | yasmin nṛbhiḥ prahutaṃ śraddhayāha- maśnāmi kāmaṃ na tathāgnihotre
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O respectful brāhmaṇas, as far as I am concerned, no one is equal or superior to the brāhmaṇas in this world. I do not find anyone comparable to them. When people know My motive, after performing rituals according to the Vedic principles they offer food to Me with faith and love through the mouth of a brāhmaṇa. When food is thus offered unto Me, I eat it with full satisfaction. Indeed, I derive more pleasure from food offered in that way than from the food offered in the sacrificial fire.
SB 5.5.24Open verse →
धृता तनूरुशती मे पुराणी येनेह सत्त्वं परमं पवित्रम् । शमो दमः सत्यमनुग्रहश्च तपस्तितिक्षानुभवश्च यत्र
dhṛtā tanūruśatī me purāṇī yeneha sattvaṃ paramaṃ pavitram | śamo damaḥ satyamanugrahaśca tapastitikṣānubhavaśca yatra
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Vedas are My eternal transcendental sound incarnation. Therefore the Vedas are śabda-brahma. In this world, the brāhmaṇas thoroughly study all the Vedas, and because they assimilate the Vedic conclusions, they are also to be considered the Vedas personified. The brāhmaṇas are situated in the supreme transcendental mode of nature — sattva-guṇa. Because of this, they are fixed in mind control [śama], sense control [dama], and truthfulness [satya]. They describe the Vedas in their original sense, and out of mercy [anugraha] they preach the purpose of the Vedas to all conditioned souls. They practice penance [tapasya] and tolerance [titikṣā], and they realize the position of the living entity and the Supreme Lord [anubhava]. These are the eight qualifications of the brāhmaṇas. Therefore among all living entities, no one is superior to the brāhmaṇas.
SB 5.5.25Open verse →
मत्तोऽप्यनन्तात्परतः परस्मा- त्स्वर्गापवर्गाधिपतेर्न किञ्चित् । येषां किमु स्यादितरेण तेषा- मकिञ्चनानां मयि भक्तिभाजाम्
matto'pyanantātparataḥ parasmā- tsvargāpavargādhipaterna kiñcit | yeṣāṃ kimu syāditareṇa teṣā- makiñcanānāṃ mayi bhaktibhājām
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
I am fully opulent, almighty and superior to Lord Brahmā and Indra, the King of the heavenly planets. I am also the bestower of all happiness obtained in the heavenly kingdom and by liberation. Nonetheless, the brāhmaṇas do not seek material comforts from Me. They are very pure and do not want to possess anything. They simply engage in My devotional service. What is the need of their asking for material benefits from anyone else?
SB 5.5.26Open verse →
सर्वाणि मद्धिष्ण्यतया भवद्भि- श्चराणि भूतानि सुताध्रुवाणि । सम्भावितव्यानि पदे पदे वो विविक्तदृग्भिस्तदु हार्हणं मे
sarvāṇi maddhiṣṇyatayā bhavadbhi- ścarāṇi bhūtāni sutādhruvāṇi | sambhāvitavyāni pade pade vo viviktadṛgbhistadu hārhaṇaṃ me
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear sons, you should not envy any living entity — be he moving or nonmoving. Knowing that I am situated in them, you should offer respect to all of them at every moment. In this way, you offer respect to Me.
SB 5.5.27Open verse →
मनो वचो दृक्करणेहितस्य साक्षात्कृतं मे परिबर्हणं हि । विना पुमान् येन महाविमोहात् कृतान्तपाशान्न विमोक्तुमीशेत्
mano vaco dṛkkaraṇehitasya sākṣātkṛtaṃ me paribarhaṇaṃ hi | vinā pumān yena mahāvimohāt kṛtāntapāśānna vimoktumīśet
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The true activity of the sense organs — mind, sight, words and all the knowledge-gathering and working senses — is to engage fully in My service. Unless his senses are thus engaged, a living entity cannot think of getting out of the great entanglement of material existence, which is exactly like Yamarāja’s stringent rope.
SB 5.5.28Open verse →
श्रीशुक उवाच । एवमनुशास्यात्मजान् स्वयमनुशिष्टानपि लोकानुशासनार्थं महानुभावःपरमसुहृ- द्भगवान् ऋषभापदेश उपशमशीलाना- मुपरतकर्मणां महामुनीनां भक्तिज्ञान- वैराग्यलक्षणं पारमहंस्यधर्ममुपशिक्षमाणः स्वतनयशतज्येष्ठं परमभागवतं भगवज्जनपरायणं भरतं धरणिपालनाया- भिषिच्य स्वयं भवन एवोर्वरितशरीरमात्र- परिग्रह उन्मत्त इव गगनपरिधानः प्रकीर्णकेश आत्मन्यारोपिताहवनीयो ब्रह्मावर्तात्प्रवव्राज
śrīśuka uvāca | evamanuśāsyātmajān svayamanuśiṣṭānapi lokānuśāsanārthaṃ mahānubhāvaḥparamasuhṛ- dbhagavān ṛṣabhāpadeśa upaśamaśīlānā- muparatakarmaṇāṃ mahāmunīnāṃ bhaktijñāna- vairāgyalakṣaṇaṃ pāramahaṃsyadharmamupaśikṣamāṇaḥ svatanayaśatajyeṣṭhaṃ paramabhāgavataṃ bhagavajjanaparāyaṇaṃ bharataṃ dharaṇipālanāyā- bhiṣicya svayaṃ bhavana evorvaritaśarīramātra- parigraha unmatta iva gaganaparidhānaḥ prakīrṇakeśa ātmanyāropitāhavanīyo brahmāvartātpravavrāja
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus the great well-wisher of everyone, the Supreme Lord Ṛṣabhadeva, instructed His own sons. Although they were perfectly educated and cultured, He instructed them just to set an example of how a father should instruct his sons before retiring from family life. Sannyāsīs, who are no longer bound by fruitive activity and who have taken to devotional service after all their material desires have been vanquished, also learn by these instructions. Lord Ṛṣabhadeva instructed His one hundred sons, of whom the eldest, Bharata, was a very advanced devotee and a follower of Vaiṣṇavas. In order to rule the whole world, the Lord enthroned His eldest son on the royal seat. Thereafter, although still at home, Lord Ṛṣabhadeva lived like a madman, naked and with disheveled hair. Then the Lord took the sacrificial fire within Himself, and He left Brahmāvarta to tour the whole world.
SB 5.5.29Open verse →
जडान्धमूकबधिरपिशाचोन्मादकवदवधूतवेषो- ऽभिभाष्यमाणोऽपि जनानां गृहीतमौनव्रतस्तूष्णीं बभूव
jaḍāndhamūkabadhirapiśāconmādakavadavadhūtaveṣo- 'bhibhāṣyamāṇo'pi janānāṃ gṛhītamaunavratastūṣṇīṃ babhūva
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
After accepting the feature of avadhūta, a great saintly person without material cares, Lord Ṛṣabhadeva passed through human society like a blind, deaf and dumb man, an idle stone, a ghost or a madman. Although people called Him such names, He remained silent and did not speak to anyone.
SB 5.5.30Open verse →
तत्र तत्र पुरग्रामाकरखेटवाटखर्वटशिबिरव्रजघोष- सार्थगिरिवनाश्रमादिष्वनुपथमवनिचरापसदैः परिभूयमानो मक्षिकाभिरिव वनगजस्तर्जनताडना- वमेहनष्ठीवनग्रावशकृद्रजःप्रक्षेपपूतिवातदुरुक्तै- स्तदविगणयन्नेवासत्संस्थान एतस्मिन् देहोपलक्षणे सदपदेश उभयानुभवस्वरूपेण स्वमहिमावस्थानेना- समारोपिताहम्ममाभिमानत्वादविखण्डितमनाः पृथिवीमेकचरः परिबभ्राम
tatra tatra puragrāmākarakheṭavāṭakharvaṭaśibiravrajaghoṣa- sārthagirivanāśramādiṣvanupathamavanicarāpasadaiḥ paribhūyamāno makṣikābhiriva vanagajastarjanatāḍanā- vamehanaṣṭhīvanagrāvaśakṛdrajaḥprakṣepapūtivātaduruktai- stadavigaṇayannevāsatsaṃsthāna etasmin dehopalakṣaṇe sadapadeśa ubhayānubhavasvarūpeṇa svamahimāvasthānenā- samāropitāhammamābhimānatvādavikhaṇḍitamanāḥ pṛthivīmekacaraḥ paribabhrāma
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Ṛṣabhadeva began to tour through cities, villages, mines, countrysides, valleys, gardens, military camps, cow pens, the homes of cowherd men, transient hotels, hills, forests and hermitages. Wherever He traveled, all bad elements surrounded Him, just as flies surround the body of an elephant coming from a forest. He was always being threatened, beaten, urinated upon and spat upon. Sometimes people threw stones, stool and dust at Him, and sometimes people passed foul air before Him. Thus people called Him many bad names and gave Him a great deal of trouble, but He did not care about this, for He understood that the body is simply meant for such an end. He was situated on the spiritual platform, and, being in His spiritual glory, He did not care for all these material insults. In other words, He completely understood that matter and spirit are separate, and He had no bodily conception. Thus, without being angry at anyone, He walked through the whole world alone.
SB 5.5.31Open verse →
अतिसुकुमारकरचरणोरःस्थलविपुलबाह्वंसगलवदना- द्यवयवविन्यासः प्रकृतिसुन्दरस्वभावहाससुमुखो नवनलिनदलायमानशिशिरतारारुणायतनयनरुचिरः सदृशसुभगकपोलकर्णकण्ठनासो विगूढस्मितवदन- महोत्सवेन पुरवनितानां मनसि कुसुमशरासनमुपदधानः परागवलम्बमानकुटिलजटिलकपिशकेशभूरिभारो- ऽवधूतमलिननिजशरीरेण ग्रहगृहीत इवादृश्यत
atisukumārakaracaraṇoraḥsthalavipulabāhvaṃsagalavadanā- dyavayavavinyāsaḥ prakṛtisundarasvabhāvahāsasumukho navanalinadalāyamānaśiśiratārāruṇāyatanayanaruciraḥ sadṛśasubhagakapolakarṇakaṇṭhanāso vigūḍhasmitavadana- mahotsavena puravanitānāṃ manasi kusumaśarāsanamupadadhānaḥ parāgavalambamānakuṭilajaṭilakapiśakeśabhūribhāro- 'vadhūtamalinanijaśarīreṇa grahagṛhīta ivādṛśyata
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Lord Ṛṣabhadeva’s hands, feet and chest were very long. His shoulders, face and limbs were all very delicate and symmetrically proportioned. His mouth was beautifully decorated with His natural smile, and He appeared all the more lovely with His reddish eyes spread wide like the petals of a newly grown lotus flower covered with dew in the early morning. The irises of His eyes were so pleasing that they removed all the troubles of everyone who saw Him. His forehead, ears, neck, nose and all His other features were very beautiful. His gentle smile always made His face beautiful, so much so that He even attracted the hearts of married women. It was as though they had been pierced by arrows of Cupid. About His head was an abundance of curly, matted brown hair. His hair was disheveled because His body was dirty and not taken care of. He appeared as if He were haunted by a ghost.
SB 5.5.32Open verse →
यर्हि वाव स भगवान् लोकमिमं योगस्याद्धा प्रतीपमिवाचक्षाणस्तत्प्रतिक्रियाकर्म बीभत्सितमिति व्रतमाजगरमास्थितः शयान एवाश्नाति पिबति खादत्यवमेहति हदति स्म चेष्टमान उच्चरित आदिग्धोद्देशः
yarhi vāva sa bhagavān lokamimaṃ yogasyāddhā pratīpamivācakṣāṇastatpratikriyākarma bībhatsitamiti vratamājagaramāsthitaḥ śayāna evāśnāti pibati khādatyavamehati hadati sma ceṣṭamāna uccarita ādigdhoddeśaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When Lord Ṛṣabhadeva saw that the general populace was very antagonistic to His execution of mystic yoga, He accepted the behavior of a python in order to counteract their opposition. Thus He stayed in one place and lay down. While lying down, He ate and drank, and He passed stool and urine and rolled in it. Indeed, He smeared His whole body with His own stool and urine so that opposing elements might not come and disturb Him.
SB 5.5.33Open verse →
तस्य ह यः पुरीषसुरभिसौगन्ध्यवायुस्तं देशं दशयोजनं समन्तात्सुरभिं चकार
tasya ha yaḥ purīṣasurabhisaugandhyavāyustaṃ deśaṃ daśayojanaṃ samantātsurabhiṃ cakāra
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Because Lord Ṛṣabhadeva remained in that condition, the public did not disturb Him, but no bad aroma emanated from His stool and urine. Quite the contrary, His stool and urine were so aromatic that they filled eighty miles of the countryside with a pleasant fragrance.
SB 5.5.34Open verse →
एवं गोमृगकाकचर्यया व्रजंस्तिष्ठन्नासीनः शयानः काकमृगगोचरितः पिबति खादत्यवमेहति स्म
evaṃ gomṛgakākacaryayā vrajaṃstiṣṭhannāsīnaḥ śayānaḥ kākamṛgagocaritaḥ pibati khādatyavamehati sma
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In this way Lord Ṛṣabhadeva followed the behavior of cows, deer and crows. Sometimes He moved or walked, and sometimes He sat down in one place. Sometimes He lay down, behaving exactly like cows, deer and crows. In that way, He ate, drank, passed stool and urine and cheated the people in this way.
SB 5.5.35Open verse →
इति नानायोगचर्याचरणो भगवान् कैवल्यपतिरृषभो- ऽविरतपरममहानन्दानुभव आत्मनि सर्वेषां भूताना- मात्मभूते भगवति वासुदेव आत्मनोऽव्यवधाना- नन्तरोदरभावेन सिद्धसमस्तार्थपरिपूर्णो योगैश्वर्याणि वैहायसमनोजवान्तर्धानपरकायप्रवेशदूरग्रहणादीनि यदृच्छयोपगतानि नाञ्जसा नृपहृदयेनाभ्यनन्दत्
iti nānāyogacaryācaraṇo bhagavān kaivalyapatirṛṣabho- 'virataparamamahānandānubhava ātmani sarveṣāṃ bhūtānā- mātmabhūte bhagavati vāsudeva ātmano'vyavadhānā- nantarodarabhāvena siddhasamastārthaparipūrṇo yogaiśvaryāṇi vaihāyasamanojavāntardhānaparakāyapraveśadūragrahaṇādīni yadṛcchayopagatāni nāñjasā nṛpahṛdayenābhyanandat
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O King Parīkṣit, just to show all the yogīs the mystic process, Lord Ṛṣabhadeva, the plenary expansion of Lord Kṛṣṇa, performed wonderful activities. Actually He was the master of liberation and was fully absorbed in transcendental bliss, which increased a thousandfold. Lord Kṛṣṇa, Vāsudeva, the son of Vasudeva, is the original source of Lord Ṛṣabhadeva. There is no difference in Their constitution, and consequently Lord Ṛṣabhadeva awakened the loving symptoms of crying, laughing and shivering. He was always absorbed in transcendental love. Due to this, all mystic powers automatically approached Him, such as the ability to travel in outer space at the speed of mind, to appear and disappear, to enter the bodies of others, and to see things far, far away. Although He could do all this, He did not exercise these powers.
SB 5.6.1Open verse →
राजोवाच । न नूनं भगव आत्मारामाणां योगसमीरितज्ञानावभर्जित- कर्मबीजानां ऐश्वर्याणि पुनः क्लेशदानि भवितुमर्हन्ति यदृच्छयोपगतानि
rājovāca | na nūnaṃ bhagava ātmārāmāṇāṃ yogasamīritajñānāvabharjita- karmabījānāṃ aiśvaryāṇi punaḥ kleśadāni bhavitumarhanti yadṛcchayopagatāni
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
King Parīkṣit asked Śukadeva Gosvāmī: My dear Lord, for those who are completely pure in heart, knowledge is attained by the practice of bhakti-yoga, and attachment for fruitive activity is completely burned to ashes. For such people, the powers of mystic yoga automatically arise. They do not cause distress. Why, then, did Ṛṣabhadeva neglect them?
SB 5.6.2Open verse →
ऋषिरुवाच । सत्यमुक्तं किन्त्विह वा एके न मनसोऽद्धा विश्रम्भ- मनवस्थानस्य शठकिरात इव सङ्गच्छन्ते
ṛṣiruvāca | satyamuktaṃ kintviha vā eke na manaso'ddhā viśrambha- manavasthānasya śaṭhakirāta iva saṅgacchante
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī replied: My dear King, you have spoken correctly. However, after capturing animals, a cunning hunter does not put faith in them, for they might run away. Similarly, those who are advanced in spiritual life do not put faith in the mind. Indeed, they always remain vigilant and watch the mind’s action.
SB 5.6.3Open verse →
तथा चोक्तं - न कुर्यात्कर्हिचित्सख्यं मनसि ह्यनवस्थिते । यद्विश्रम्भाच्चिराच्चीर्णं चस्कन्द तप ऐश्वरम्
tathā coktaṃ - na kuryātkarhicitsakhyaṃ manasi hyanavasthite | yadviśrambhāccirāccīrṇaṃ caskanda tapa aiśvaram
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
All the learned scholars have given their opinion. The mind is by nature very restless, and one should not make friends with it. If we place full confidence in the mind, it may cheat us at any moment. Even Lord Śiva became agitated upon seeing the Mohinī form of Lord Kṛṣṇa, and Saubhari Muni also fell down from the mature stage of yogic perfection.
SB 5.6.4Open verse →
नित्यं ददाति कामस्य च्छिद्रं तमनु येऽरयः । योगिनः कृतमैत्रस्य पत्युर्जायेव पुंश्चली
nityaṃ dadāti kāmasya cchidraṃ tamanu ye'rayaḥ | yoginaḥ kṛtamaitrasya patyurjāyeva puṃścalī
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
An unchaste woman is very easily carried away by paramours, and it sometimes happens that her husband is violently killed by her paramours. If the yogī gives his mind a chance and does not restrain it, his mind will give facility to enemies like lust, anger and greed, and they will doubtlessly kill the yogī.
SB 5.6.5Open verse →
कामो मन्युर्मदो लोभः शोकमोहभयादयः । कर्मबन्धश्च यन्मूलः स्वीकुर्यात्को नु तद्बुधः
kāmo manyurmado lobhaḥ śokamohabhayādayaḥ | karmabandhaśca yanmūlaḥ svīkuryātko nu tadbudhaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The mind is the root cause of lust, anger, pride, greed, lamentation, illusion and fear. Combined, these constitute bondage to fruitive activity. What learned man would put faith in the mind?
SB 5.6.6Open verse →
अथैवमखिललोकपालललामोऽपि विलक्षणैर्जडवदवधूतवेषभाषाचरितै- रविलक्षितभगवत्प्रभावो योगिनां साम्परायविधिमनुशिक्षयन् स्वकलेवरं जिहासुरात्मन्यात्मानमसंव्यवहित- मनर्थान्तरभावेनान्वीक्षमाण उपरतानुवृत्तिरुपरराम
athaivamakhilalokapālalalāmo'pi vilakṣaṇairjaḍavadavadhūtaveṣabhāṣācaritai- ravilakṣitabhagavatprabhāvo yogināṃ sāmparāyavidhimanuśikṣayan svakalevaraṃ jihāsurātmanyātmānamasaṃvyavahita- manarthāntarabhāvenānvīkṣamāṇa uparatānuvṛttirupararāma
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Lord Ṛṣabhadeva was the head of all kings and emperors within this universe, but assuming the dress and language of an avadhūta, He acted as if dull and materially bound. Consequently no one could observe His divine opulence. He adopted this behavior just to teach yogīs how to give up the body. Nonetheless, He maintained His original position as a plenary expansion of Lord Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa. Remaining always in that state, He gave up His pastimes as Lord Ṛṣabhadeva within the material world. If, following in the footsteps of Lord Ṛṣabhadeva, one can give up his subtle body, there is no chance that one will accept a material body again.
SB 5.6.7Open verse →
तस्य ह वा एवं मुक्तलिङ्गस्य भगवत ऋषभस्य योगमायावासनया देह इमां जगतीमभिमानाभासेन सङ्क्रममाणः कोङ्कवेङ्ककुटकान् दक्षिणकर्णाटकान् देशान् यदृच्छयोपगतः कुटकाचलोपवन आस्यकृताश्मकवल उन्माद इव मुक्तमूर्धजोऽसंवीत एव विचचार
tasya ha vā evaṃ muktaliṅgasya bhagavata ṛṣabhasya yogamāyāvāsanayā deha imāṃ jagatīmabhimānābhāsena saṅkramamāṇaḥ koṅkaveṅkakuṭakān dakṣiṇakarṇāṭakān deśān yadṛcchayopagataḥ kuṭakācalopavana āsyakṛtāśmakavala unmāda iva muktamūrdhajo'saṃvīta eva vicacāra
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Actually Lord Ṛṣabhadeva had no material body, but due to yoga-māyā He considered His body material, and therefore, because He played like an ordinary human being, He gave up the mentality of identifying with it. Following this principle, He began to wander all over the world. While traveling, He came to the province of Karṇāṭa in South India and passed through Koṅka, Veṅka and Kuṭaka. He had no plan to travel this way, but He arrived near Kuṭakācala and entered a forest there. He placed stones within His mouth and began to wander through the forest, naked and with His hair disheveled like a madman.
SB 5.6.8Open verse →
अथ समीरवेगविधूतवेणुविकर्षणजातोग्र- दावानलस्तद्वनमालेलिहानः सह तेन ददाह
atha samīravegavidhūtaveṇuvikarṣaṇajātogra- dāvānalastadvanamālelihānaḥ saha tena dadāha
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
While He was wandering about, a wild forest fire began. This fire was caused by the friction of bamboos, which were being blown by the wind. In that fire, the entire forest near Kuṭakācala and the body of Lord Ṛṣabhadeva were burnt to ashes.
SB 5.6.9Open verse →
यस्य किलानुचरितमुपाकर्ण्य कोङ्कवेङ्ककुटकानां राजार्हन्नामोपशिक्ष्य कलावधर्म उत्कृष्यमाणे भवितव्येन विमोहितः स्वधर्मपथमकुतोभयमपहाय कुपथपाखण्डमसमञ्जसं निजमनीषया मन्दः सम्प्रवर्तयिष्यते
yasya kilānucaritamupākarṇya koṅkaveṅkakuṭakānāṃ rājārhannāmopaśikṣya kalāvadharma utkṛṣyamāṇe bhavitavyena vimohitaḥ svadharmapathamakutobhayamapahāya kupathapākhaṇḍamasamañjasaṃ nijamanīṣayā mandaḥ sampravartayiṣyate
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued speaking to Mahārāja Parīkṣit: My dear King, the King of Koṅka, Veṅka and Kuṭaka whose name was Arhat, heard of the activities of Ṛṣabhadeva and, imitating Ṛṣabhadeva’s principles, introduced a new system of religion. Taking advantage of Kali-yuga, the age of sinful activity, King Arhat, being bewildered, gave up the Vedic principles, which are free from risk, and concocted a new system of religion opposed to the Vedas. That was the beginning of the Jain dharma. Many other so-called religions followed this atheistic system.
SB 5.6.10Open verse →
येन ह वाव कलौ मनुजापसदा देवमायामोहिताः स्वविधिनियोगशौचचारित्रविहीना देवहेलना- न्यपव्रतानि निजनिजेच्छया गृह्णाना अस्नाना- नाचमनाशौचकेशोल्लुञ्चनादीनि कलिनाधर्मबहुलेनो- पहतधियो ब्रह्मब्राह्मणयज्ञपुरुषलोकविदूषकाः प्रायेण भविष्यन्ति
yena ha vāva kalau manujāpasadā devamāyāmohitāḥ svavidhiniyogaśaucacāritravihīnā devahelanā- nyapavratāni nijanijecchayā gṛhṇānā asnānā- nācamanāśaucakeśolluñcanādīni kalinādharmabahuleno- pahatadhiyo brahmabrāhmaṇayajñapuruṣalokavidūṣakāḥ prāyeṇa bhaviṣyanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
People who are lowest among men and bewildered by the illusory energy of the Supreme Lord will give up the original varṇāśrama-dharma and its rules and regulations. They will abandon bathing three times daily and worshiping the Lord. Abandoning cleanliness and neglecting the Supreme Lord, they will accept nonsensical principles. Not regularly bathing or washing their mouths regularly, they will always remain unclean, and they will pluck out their hair. Following a concocted religion, they will flourish. During this Age of Kali, people are more inclined to irreligious systems. Consequently these people will naturally deride Vedic authority, the followers of Vedic authority, the brāhmaṇas, the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the devotees.
SB 5.6.11Open verse →
ते च ह्यर्वाक्तनया निजलोकयात्रयान्धपरम्परया- ऽऽश्वस्तास्तमस्यन्धे स्वयमेव प्रपतिष्यन्ति
te ca hyarvāktanayā nijalokayātrayāndhaparamparayā- ''śvastāstamasyandhe svayameva prapatiṣyanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Low-class people, due to their gross ignorance, introduce a system of religion that deviates from the Vedic principles. Following their own mental concoctions, they automatically fall down into the darkest regions of existence.
SB 5.6.12Open verse →
अयमवतारो रजसोपप्लुतकैवल्योपशिक्षणार्थः
ayamavatāro rajasopaplutakaivalyopaśikṣaṇārthaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In this Age of Kali, people are overwhelmed by the modes of passion and ignorance. Lord Ṛṣabhadeva incarnated Himself to deliver them from the clutches of māyā.
SB 5.6.13Open verse →
तस्यानुगुणान् श्लोकान् गायन्ति - अहो भुवः सप्तसमुद्रवत्या द्वीपेषु वर्षेष्वधिपुण्यमेतत् । गायन्ति यत्रत्यजना मुरारेः कर्माणि भद्राण्यवतारवन्ति
tasyānuguṇān ślokān gāyanti - aho bhuvaḥ saptasamudravatyā dvīpeṣu varṣeṣvadhipuṇyametat | gāyanti yatratyajanā murāreḥ karmāṇi bhadrāṇyavatāravanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Learned scholars chant about the transcendental qualities of Lord Ṛṣabhadeva in this way: “Oh, this earthly planet contains seven seas and many islands and lands, of which Bhārata-varṣa is considered the most pious. People of Bhārata-varṣa are accustomed to glorifying the activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His incarnations as Lord Ṛṣabhadeva and others. All these activities are very auspicious for the welfare of humanity.
SB 5.6.14Open verse →
अहो नु वंशो यशसावदातः प्रैयव्रतो यत्र पुमान् पुराणः । कृतावतारः पुरुषः स आद्य- श्चचार धर्मं यदकर्महेतुम्
aho nu vaṃśo yaśasāvadātaḥ praiyavrato yatra pumān purāṇaḥ | kṛtāvatāraḥ puruṣaḥ sa ādya- ścacāra dharmaṃ yadakarmahetum
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
“Oh, what shall I say of the dynasty of Priyavrata, which is pure and very much celebrated. In that dynasty, the Supreme Person, the original Personality of Godhead, descended as an incarnation and executed religious principles that could free one from the results of fruitive activity.
SB 5.6.15Open verse →
को न्वस्य काष्ठामपरोऽनुगच्छे- न्मनोरथेनाप्यभवस्य योगी । यो योगमायाः स्पृहयत्युदस्ता ह्यसत्तया येन कृतप्रयत्नाः
ko nvasya kāṣṭhāmaparo'nugacche- nmanorathenāpyabhavasya yogī | yo yogamāyāḥ spṛhayatyudastā hyasattayā yena kṛtaprayatnāḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
“Who is that mystic yogī who can follow the examples of Lord Ṛṣabhadeva even with his mind? Lord Ṛṣabhadeva rejected all kinds of yogic perfection, which other yogīs hanker to attain. Who is that yogī who can compare to Lord Ṛṣabhadeva?”
SB 5.6.16Open verse →
इति ह स्म सकलवेदलोकदेवब्राह्मणगवां परमगुरोर्भगवत ऋषभाख्यस्य विशुद्धाचरितमीरितं पुंसां समस्तदुश्चरिताभिहरणं परममहामङ्गलायन- मिदमनुश्रद्धयोपचितयानुशृणोत्याश्रावयति वावहितो भगवति तस्मिन् वासुदेव एकान्ततो भक्तिरनयोरपि समनुवर्तते
iti ha sma sakalavedalokadevabrāhmaṇagavāṃ paramagurorbhagavata ṛṣabhākhyasya viśuddhācaritamīritaṃ puṃsāṃ samastaduścaritābhiharaṇaṃ paramamahāmaṅgalāyana- midamanuśraddhayopacitayānuśṛṇotyāśrāvayati vāvahito bhagavati tasmin vāsudeva ekāntato bhaktiranayorapi samanuvartate
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Lord Ṛṣabhadeva is the master of all Vedic knowledge, human beings, demigods, cows and brāhmaṇas. I have already explained His pure, transcendental activities, which will vanquish the sinful activities of all living entities. This narration of Lord Ṛṣabhadeva’s pastimes is the reservoir of all auspicious things. Whoever attentively hears or speaks of them, following in the footsteps of the ācāryas, will certainly attain unalloyed devotional service at the lotus feet of Lord Vāsudeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
SB 5.6.17Open verse →
यस्यामेव कवय आत्मानमविरतं विविधवृजिनसंसार- परितापोपतप्यमानमनुसवनं स्नापयन्तस्तयैव परया निर्वृत्या ह्यपवर्गमात्यन्तिकं परमपुरुषार्थमपि स्वयमासादितं नो एवाद्रियन्ते भगवदीयत्वेनैव परिसमाप्तसर्वार्थाः
yasyāmeva kavaya ātmānamavirataṃ vividhavṛjinasaṃsāra- paritāpopatapyamānamanusavanaṃ snāpayantastayaiva parayā nirvṛtyā hyapavargamātyantikaṃ paramapuruṣārthamapi svayamāsāditaṃ no evādriyante bhagavadīyatvenaiva parisamāptasarvārthāḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Devotees always bathe themselves in devotional service in order to be relieved from the various tribulations of material existence. By doing this, the devotees enjoy supreme bliss, and liberation personified comes to serve them. Nonetheless, they do not accept that service, even if it is offered by the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself. For the devotees, liberation [mukti] is very unimportant because, having attained the Lord’s transcendental loving service, they have attained everything desirable and have transcended all material desires.
SB 5.6.18Open verse →
राजन् पतिर्गुरुरलं भवतां यदूनां दैवं प्रियः कुलपतिः क्व च किङ्करो वः । अस्त्वेवमङ्ग भगवान् भजतां मुकुन्दो मुक्तिं ददाति कर्हिचित्स्म न भक्तियोगम्
rājan patirgururalaṃ bhavatāṃ yadūnāṃ daivaṃ priyaḥ kulapatiḥ kva ca kiṅkaro vaḥ | astvevamaṅga bhagavān bhajatāṃ mukundo muktiṃ dadāti karhicitsma na bhaktiyogam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, the Supreme Person, Mukunda, is actually the maintainer of all the members of the Pāṇḍava and Yadu dynasties. He is your spiritual master, worshipable Deity, friend, and the director of your activities. To say nothing of this, He sometimes serves your family as a messenger or servant. This means He worked just as ordinary servants do. Those engaged in getting the Lord’s favor attain liberation from the Lord very easily, but He does not very easily give the opportunity to render direct service unto Him.
SB 5.6.19Open verse →
नित्यानुभूतनिजलाभनिवृत्ततृष्णः श्रेयस्यतद्रचनया चिरसुप्तबुद्धेः । लोकस्य यः करुणयाभयमात्मलोक- माख्यान्नमो भगवते ऋषभाय तस्मै
nityānubhūtanijalābhanivṛttatṛṣṇaḥ śreyasyatadracanayā cirasuptabuddheḥ | lokasya yaḥ karuṇayābhayamātmaloka- mākhyānnamo bhagavate ṛṣabhāya tasmai
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Ṛṣabhadeva, was fully aware of His true identity; therefore He was self-sufficient, and He did not desire external gratification. There was no need for Him to aspire for success, since He was complete in Himself. Those who unnecessarily engage in bodily conceptions and create an atmosphere of materialism are always ignorant of their real self-interest. Out of His causeless mercy, Lord Ṛṣabhadeva taught the self’s real identity and the goal of life. We therefore offer our respectful obeisances unto the Lord, who appeared as Lord Ṛṣabhadeva.
SB 5.7.1Open verse →
श्रीशुक उवाच । भरतस्तु महाभागवतो यदा भगवतावनितल- परिपालनाय सञ्चिन्तितस्तदनुशासनपरः पञ्चजनीं विश्वरूपदुहितरमुपयेमे
śrīśuka uvāca | bharatastu mahābhāgavato yadā bhagavatāvanitala- paripālanāya sañcintitastadanuśāsanaparaḥ pañcajanīṃ viśvarūpaduhitaramupayeme
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued speaking to Mahārāja Parīkṣit: My dear King, Bharata Mahārāja was a topmost devotee. Following the orders of his father, who had already decided to install him on the throne, he began to rule the earth accordingly. When Bharata Mahārāja ruled the entire globe, he followed the orders of his father and married Pañcajanī, the daughter of Viśvarūpa.
SB 5.7.2Open verse →
तस्यामु ह वा आत्मजान् कार्त्स्न्येनानुरूपा- नात्मनः पञ्च जनयामास भूतादिरिव भूतसूक्ष्माणि सुमतिं राष्ट्रभृतं सुदर्शनमावरणं धूम्रकेतुमिति
tasyāmu ha vā ātmajān kārtsnyenānurūpā- nātmanaḥ pañca janayāmāsa bhūtādiriva bhūtasūkṣmāṇi sumatiṃ rāṣṭrabhṛtaṃ sudarśanamāvaraṇaṃ dhūmraketumiti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Just as the false ego creates the subtle sense objects, Mahārāja Bharata created five sons in the womb of Pañcajanī, his wife. These sons were named Sumati, Rāṣṭrabhṛta, Sudarśana, Āvaraṇa and Dhūmraketu.
SB 5.7.3Open verse →
अजनाभं नामैतद्वर्षं भारतमिति यत आरभ्य व्यपदिशन्ति
ajanābhaṃ nāmaitadvarṣaṃ bhāratamiti yata ārabhya vyapadiśanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Formerly this planet was known as Ajanābha-varṣa, but since Mahārāja Bharata’s reign it has become known as Bhārata-varṣa.
SB 5.7.4Open verse →
स बहुविन्महीपतिः पितृपितामहवदुरुवत्सलतया स्वे स्वे कर्मणि वर्तमानाः प्रजाः स्वधर्ममनुवर्तमानः पर्यपालयत्
sa bahuvinmahīpatiḥ pitṛpitāmahavaduruvatsalatayā sve sve karmaṇi vartamānāḥ prajāḥ svadharmamanuvartamānaḥ paryapālayat
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Mahārāja Bharata was a very learned and experienced king on this earth. He perfectly ruled the citizens, being himself engaged in his own respective duties. Mahārāja Bharata was as affectionate to the citizens as his father and grandfather had been. Keeping them engaged in their occupational duties, he ruled the earth.
SB 5.7.5Open verse →
ईजे च भगवन्तं यज्ञक्रतुरूपं क्रतुभिरुच्चावचैः श्रद्धयाऽऽहृताग्निहोत्रदर्शपूर्णमासचातुर्मास्य- पशुसोमानां प्रकृतिविकृतिभिरनुसवनं चातुर्होत्रविधिना
īje ca bhagavantaṃ yajñakraturūpaṃ kratubhiruccāvacaiḥ śraddhayā''hṛtāgnihotradarśapūrṇamāsacāturmāsya- paśusomānāṃ prakṛtivikṛtibhiranusavanaṃ cāturhotravidhinā
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
With great faith King Bharata performed various kinds of sacrifice. He performed the sacrifices known as agni-hotra, darśa, pūrṇamāsa, cāturmāsya, paśu-yajña [wherein a horse is sacrificed] and soma-yajña [wherein a kind of beverage is offered]. Sometimes these sacrifices were performed completely and sometimes partially. In any case, in all the sacrifices the regulations of cāturhotra were strictly followed. In this way Bharata Mahārāja worshiped the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
SB 5.7.6Open verse →
सम्प्रचरत्सु नानायागेषु विरचिताङ्गक्रियेष्वपूर्वं यत्तत्क्रियाफलं धर्माख्यं परे ब्रह्मणि यज्ञपुरुषे सर्वदेवतालिङ्गानां मन्त्राणामर्थनियामकतया साक्षात्कर्तरि परदेवतायां भगवति वासुदेव एव भावयमान आत्मनैपुण्यमृदितकषायो हविःष्वध्वर्युभिर्गृह्यमाणेषु स यजमानो यज्ञभाजो देवांस्तान् पुरुषावयवेष्वभ्यध्यायत्
sampracaratsu nānāyāgeṣu viracitāṅgakriyeṣvapūrvaṃ yattatkriyāphalaṃ dharmākhyaṃ pare brahmaṇi yajñapuruṣe sarvadevatāliṅgānāṃ mantrāṇāmarthaniyāmakatayā sākṣātkartari paradevatāyāṃ bhagavati vāsudeva eva bhāvayamāna ātmanaipuṇyamṛditakaṣāyo haviḥṣvadhvaryubhirgṛhyamāṇeṣu sa yajamāno yajñabhājo devāṃstān puruṣāvayaveṣvabhyadhyāyat
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
After performing the preliminaries of various sacrifices, Mahārāja Bharata offered the results in the name of religion to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva. In other words, he performed all the yajñas for the satisfaction of Lord Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa. Mahārāja Bharata thought that since the demigods were different parts of Vāsudeva’s body, He controls those who are explained in the Vedic mantras. By thinking in this way, Mahārāja Bharata was freed from all material contamination, such as attachment, lust and greed. When the priests were about to offer the sacrificial ingredients into the fire, Mahārāja Bharata expertly understood how the offering made to different demigods was simply an offering to the different limbs of the Lord. For instance, Indra is the arm of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Sūrya [the sun] is His eye. Thus Mahārāja Bharata considered that the oblations offered to different demigods were actually offered unto the different limbs of Lord Vāsudeva.
SB 5.7.7Open verse →
एवं कर्मविशुद्ध्या विशुद्धसत्त्वस्यान्तर्हृदयाकाश- शरीरे ब्रह्मणि भगवति वासुदेवे महापुरुषरूपो- पलक्षणे श्रीवत्सकौस्तुभवनमालादरगदादिभि- रुपलक्षिते निजपुरुषहृल्लिखितेनात्मनि पुरुषरूपेण विरोचमान उच्चैस्तरां भक्तिमनुदिनमेधमान- रजयाजायत
evaṃ karmaviśuddhyā viśuddhasattvasyāntarhṛdayākāśa- śarīre brahmaṇi bhagavati vāsudeve mahāpuruṣarūpo- palakṣaṇe śrīvatsakaustubhavanamālādaragadādibhi- rupalakṣite nijapuruṣahṛllikhitenātmani puruṣarūpeṇa virocamāna uccaistarāṃ bhaktimanudinamedhamāna- rajayājāyata
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In this way, being purified by ritualistic sacrifices, the heart of Mahārāja Bharata was completely uncontaminated. His devotional service unto Vāsudeva, Lord Kṛṣṇa, increased day after day. Lord Kṛṣṇa, the son of Vasudeva, is the original Personality of Godhead manifest as the Supersoul [Paramātmā] as well as the impersonal Brahman. Yogīs meditate upon the localized Paramātmā situated in the heart, jñānīs worship the impersonal Brahman as the Supreme Absolute Truth, and devotees worship Vāsudeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose transcendental body is described in the śāstras. His body is decorated with the Śrīvatsa, the Kaustubha jewel and a flower garland, and His hands hold a conchshell, disc, club and lotus flower. Devotees like Nārada always think of Him within their hearts.
SB 5.7.8Open verse →
एवं वर्षायुतसहस्रपर्यन्तावसितकर्मनिर्वाणावसरो- ऽधिभुज्यमानं स्वतनयेभ्यो रिक्थं पितृपैतामहं यथादायं विभज्य स्वयं सकलसम्पन्निकेतात्पुलहाश्रमं प्रवव्राज
evaṃ varṣāyutasahasraparyantāvasitakarmanirvāṇāvasaro- 'dhibhujyamānaṃ svatanayebhyo rikthaṃ pitṛpaitāmahaṃ yathādāyaṃ vibhajya svayaṃ sakalasampanniketātpulahāśramaṃ pravavrāja
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Destiny fixed the time for Mahārāja Bharata’s enjoyment of material opulence at one thousand times ten thousand years. When that period was finished, he retired from family life and divided the wealth he had received from his forefathers among his sons. He left his paternal home, the reservoir of all opulence, and started for Pulahāśrama, which is situated in Hardwar. The śālagrāma-śilās are obtainable there.
SB 5.7.9Open verse →
यत्र ह वाव भगवान् हरिरद्यापि तत्रत्यानां निजजनानां वात्सल्येन सन्निधाप्यत इच्छारूपेण
yatra ha vāva bhagavān hariradyāpi tatratyānāṃ nijajanānāṃ vātsalyena sannidhāpyata icchārūpeṇa
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
At Pulaha-āśrama, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, out of His transcendental affection for His devotee, becomes visible to His devotee, satisfying His devotee’s desires.
SB 5.7.10Open verse →
यत्राश्रमपदान्युभयतो नाभिभिर्दृषच्चक्रैश्चक्रनदी नाम सरित्प्रवरा सर्वतः पवित्रीकरोति
yatrāśramapadānyubhayato nābhibhirdṛṣaccakraiścakranadī nāma saritpravarā sarvataḥ pavitrīkaroti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In Pulaha-āśrama is the Gaṇḍakī River, which is the best of all rivers. The śālagrāma-śilā, the marble pebbles, purify all those places. On each and every marble pebble, up and down, circles like navels are visible.
SB 5.7.11Open verse →
तस्मिन् वाव किल स एकलः पुलहाश्रमोपवने विविधकुसुमकिसलयतुलसिकाम्बुभिः कन्दमूल- फलोपहारैश्च समीहमानो भगवत आराधनं विविक्त उपरतविषयाभिलाष उपभृतोपशमः परां निर्वृतिमवाप
tasmin vāva kila sa ekalaḥ pulahāśramopavane vividhakusumakisalayatulasikāmbubhiḥ kandamūla- phalopahāraiśca samīhamāno bhagavata ārādhanaṃ vivikta uparataviṣayābhilāṣa upabhṛtopaśamaḥ parāṃ nirvṛtimavāpa
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In the gardens of Pulaha-āśrama, Mahārāja Bharata lived alone and collected a variety of flowers, twigs and tulasī leaves. He also collected the water of the Gaṇḍakī River, as well as various roots, fruits and bulbs. With these he offered food to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva, and, worshiping Him, he remained satisfied. In this way his heart was completely uncontaminated, and he did not have the least desire for material enjoyment. All material desires vanished. In this steady position, he felt full satisfaction and was situated in devotional service.
SB 5.7.12Open verse →
तयेत्थमविरतपुरुषपरिचर्यया भगवति प्रवर्धमाना- नुरागभरद्रुतहृदयशैथिल्यः प्रहर्षवेगेनात्मन्युद्भिद्य- मानरोमपुलककुलकौत्कण्ठ्यप्रवृत्तप्रणयबाष्पनिरुद्धा- वलोकनयन एवं निजरमणारुणचरणारविन्दानुध्यान- परिचितभक्तियोगेन परिप्लुतपरमाह्लादगम्भीरहृदय- ह्रदावगाढधिषणस्तामपि क्रियमाणां भगवत्सपर्यां न सस्मार
tayetthamaviratapuruṣaparicaryayā bhagavati pravardhamānā- nurāgabharadrutahṛdayaśaithilyaḥ praharṣavegenātmanyudbhidya- mānaromapulakakulakautkaṇṭhyapravṛttapraṇayabāṣpaniruddhā- valokanayana evaṃ nijaramaṇāruṇacaraṇāravindānudhyāna- paricitabhaktiyogena pariplutaparamāhlādagambhīrahṛdaya- hradāvagāḍhadhiṣaṇastāmapi kriyamāṇāṃ bhagavatsaparyāṃ na sasmāra
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
That most exalted devotee, Mahārāja Bharata, in this way engaged constantly in the devotional service of the Lord. Naturally his love for Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa, increased more and more and melted his heart. Consequently he gradually lost all attachment for regulative duties. The hairs of his body stood on end, and all the ecstatic bodily symptoms were manifest. Tears flowed from his eyes, so much so that he could not see anything. Thus he constantly meditated on the reddish lotus feet of the Lord. At that time, his heart, which was like a lake, was filled with the water of ecstatic love. When his mind was immersed in that lake, he even forgot the regulative service to the Lord.
SB 5.7.13Open verse →
इत्थं धृतभगवद्व्रत ऐणेयाजिनवाससानुसवनाभिषेकार्द्र- कपिशकुटिलजटाकलापेन च विरोचमानः सूर्यर्चा भगवन्तं हिरण्मयं पुरुषमुज्जिहाने सूर्यमण्डलेऽभ्युपतिष्ठ- न्नेतदु होवाच
itthaṃ dhṛtabhagavadvrata aiṇeyājinavāsasānusavanābhiṣekārdra- kapiśakuṭilajaṭākalāpena ca virocamānaḥ sūryarcā bhagavantaṃ hiraṇmayaṃ puruṣamujjihāne sūryamaṇḍale'bhyupatiṣṭha- nnetadu hovāca
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Mahārāja Bharata appeared very beautiful. He had a wealth of curly hair on his head, which was wet from bathing three times daily. He dressed in a deerskin. He worshiped Lord Nārāyaṇa, whose body was composed of golden effulgence and who resided within the sun. Mahārāja Bharata worshiped Lord Nārāyaṇa by chanting the hymns given in the Ṛg Veda, and he recited the following verse as the sun rose.
SB 5.7.14Open verse →
परो रजः सवितुर्जातवेदो देवस्य भर्गो मनसेदं जजान । सुरेतसादः पुनराविश्य चष्टे हंसं गृध्राणं नृषद्रिङ्गिरामिमः
paro rajaḥ saviturjātavedo devasya bhargo manasedaṃ jajāna | suretasādaḥ punarāviśya caṣṭe haṃsaṃ gṛdhrāṇaṃ nṛṣadriṅgirāmimaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
“The Supreme Personality of Godhead is situated in pure goodness. He illuminates the entire universe and bestows all benedictions upon His devotees. The Lord has created this universe from His own spiritual potency. According to His desire, the Lord entered this universe as the Supersoul, and by virtue of His different potencies He is maintaining all living entities desiring material enjoyment. Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the Lord, who is the giver of intelligence.”
SB 5.8.1Open verse →
श्रीशुक उवाच । एकदा तु महानद्यां कृताभिषेकनैयमिकावश्यको ब्रह्माक्षरमभिगृणानो मुहूर्तत्रयमुदकान्त उपविवेश
śrīśuka uvāca | ekadā tu mahānadyāṃ kṛtābhiṣekanaiyamikāvaśyako brahmākṣaramabhigṛṇāno muhūrtatrayamudakānta upaviveśa
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, one day, after finishing his morning duties — evacuating, urinating and bathing — Mahārāja Bharata sat down on the bank of the river Gaṇḍakī for a few minutes and began chanting his mantra, beginning with oṁkāra.
SB 5.8.2Open verse →
तत्र तदा राजन् हरिणी पिपासया जलाशयाभ्याशमेकैवोपजगाम
tatra tadā rājan hariṇī pipāsayā jalāśayābhyāśamekaivopajagāma
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O King, while Bharata Mahārāja was sitting on the bank of that river, a doe, being very thirsty, came there to drink.
SB 5.8.3Open verse →
तया पेपीयमान उदके तावदेवाविदूरेण नदतो मृगपतेरुन्नादो लोकभयङ्कर उदपतत्
tayā pepīyamāna udake tāvadevāvidūreṇa nadato mṛgapaterunnādo lokabhayaṅkara udapatat
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
While the doe was drinking with great satisfaction, a lion, which was very close, roared very loudly. This was frightful to every living entity, and it was heard by the doe.
SB 5.8.4Open verse →
तमुपश्रुत्य सा मृगवधूः प्रकृतिविक्लवा चकित- निरीक्षणा सुतरामपि हरिभयाभिनिवेशव्यग्रहृदया पारिप्लवदृष्टिरगततृषा भयात्सहसैवोच्चक्राम
tamupaśrutya sā mṛgavadhūḥ prakṛtiviklavā cakita- nirīkṣaṇā sutarāmapi haribhayābhiniveśavyagrahṛdayā pāriplavadṛṣṭiragatatṛṣā bhayātsahasaivoccakrāma
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
By nature the doe was always afraid of being killed by others, and it was always looking about suspiciously. When it heard the lion’s tumultuous roar, it became very agitated. Looking here and there with disturbed eyes, the doe, although it had not fully satisfied itself by drinking water, suddenly leaped across the river.
SB 5.8.5Open verse →
तस्या उत्पतन्त्या अन्तर्वत्न्या उरुभयावगलितो योनिनिर्गतो गर्भः स्रोतसि निपपात
tasyā utpatantyā antarvatnyā urubhayāvagalito yoninirgato garbhaḥ srotasi nipapāta
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The doe was pregnant, and when it jumped out of fear, the baby deer fell from its womb into the flowing waters of the river.
SB 5.8.6Open verse →
तत्प्रसवोत्सर्पणभयखेदातुरा स्वगणेन वियुज्यमाना कस्याञ्चिद्दर्यां कृष्णसारसती निपपाताथ च ममार
tatprasavotsarpaṇabhayakhedāturā svagaṇena viyujyamānā kasyāñciddaryāṃ kṛṣṇasārasatī nipapātātha ca mamāra
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Being separated from its flock and distressed by its miscarriage, the black doe, having crossed the river, was very much distressed. Indeed, it fell down in a cave and died immediately.
SB 5.8.7Open verse →
तं त्वेणकुणकं कृपणं स्रोतसानूह्यमानमभि- वीक्ष्यापविद्धं बन्धुरिवानुकम्पया राजर्षि- र्भरत आदाय मृतमातरमित्याश्रमपदमनयत्
taṃ tveṇakuṇakaṃ kṛpaṇaṃ srotasānūhyamānamabhi- vīkṣyāpaviddhaṃ bandhurivānukampayā rājarṣi- rbharata ādāya mṛtamātaramityāśramapadamanayat
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The great King Bharata, while sitting on the bank of the river, saw the small deer, bereft of its mother, floating down the river. Seeing this, he felt great compassion. Like a sincere friend, he lifted the infant deer from the waves, and, knowing it to be motherless, brought it to his āśrama.
SB 5.8.8Open verse →
तस्य ह वा एणकुणक उच्चैरेतस्मिन् कृतनिजाभि- मानस्याहरहस्तत्पोषणपालनलालनप्रीणना- नुध्यानेनात्मनियमाः सह यमाः पुरुषपरिचर्यादय एकैकशः कतिपयेनाहर्गणेन वियुज्यमानाः किल सर्व एवोदवसन्
tasya ha vā eṇakuṇaka uccairetasmin kṛtanijābhi- mānasyāharahastatpoṣaṇapālanalālanaprīṇanā- nudhyānenātmaniyamāḥ saha yamāḥ puruṣaparicaryādaya ekaikaśaḥ katipayenāhargaṇena viyujyamānāḥ kila sarva evodavasan
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Gradually Mahārāja Bharata became very affectionate toward the deer. He began to raise it and maintain it by giving it grass. He was always careful to protect it from the attacks of tigers and other animals. When it itched, he petted it, and in this way he always tried to keep it in a comfortable condition. He sometimes kissed it out of love. Being attached to raising the deer, Mahārāja Bharata forgot the rules and regulations for the advancement of spiritual life, and he gradually forgot to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead. After a few days, he forgot everything about his spiritual advancement.
SB 5.8.9Open verse →
अहो बतायं हरिणकुणकः कृपण ईश्वररथचरण- परिभ्रमणरयेण स्वगणसुहृद्बन्धुभ्यः परिवर्जितः शरणं च मोपसादितो मामेव मातापितरौ भ्रातृज्ञातीन् यौथिकांश्चैवोपेयाय नान्यं कञ्चन वेद मय्यतिविस्रब्धश्चात एव मया मत्परायणस्य पोषणपालनप्रीणनलालनमनसूयुनानुष्ठेयं शरण्योपेक्षा दोषविदुषा
aho batāyaṃ hariṇakuṇakaḥ kṛpaṇa īśvararathacaraṇa- paribhramaṇarayeṇa svagaṇasuhṛdbandhubhyaḥ parivarjitaḥ śaraṇaṃ ca mopasādito māmeva mātāpitarau bhrātṛjñātīn yauthikāṃścaivopeyāya nānyaṃ kañcana veda mayyativisrabdhaścāta eva mayā matparāyaṇasya poṣaṇapālanaprīṇanalālanamanasūyunānuṣṭheyaṃ śaraṇyopekṣā doṣaviduṣā
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The great King Mahārāja Bharata began to think: Alas, this helpless young deer, by the force of time, an agent of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, has now lost its relatives and friends and has taken shelter of me. It does not know anyone but me, as I have become its father, mother, brother and relatives. This deer is thinking in this way, and it has full faith in me. It does not know anyone but me; therefore I should not be envious and think that for the deer my own welfare will be destroyed. I should certainly raise, protect, gratify and fondle it. When it has taken shelter with me, how can I neglect it? Even though the deer is disturbing my spiritual life, I realize that a helpless person who has taken shelter cannot be neglected. That would be a great fault.
SB 5.8.10Open verse →
नूनं ह्यार्याः साधव उपशमशीलाः कृपणसुहृद एवंविधार्थे स्वार्थानपि गुरुतरानुपेक्षन्ते
nūnaṃ hyāryāḥ sādhava upaśamaśīlāḥ kṛpaṇasuhṛda evaṃvidhārthe svārthānapi gurutarānupekṣante
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Even though one is in the renounced order, one who is advanced certainly feels compassion for suffering living entities. One should certainly neglect his own personal interests, although they may be very important, to protect one who has surrendered.
SB 5.8.11Open verse →
इति कृतानुषङ्ग आसनशयनाटनस्नानाशनादिषु सह मृगजहुना स्नेहानुबद्धहृदय आसीत्
iti kṛtānuṣaṅga āsanaśayanāṭanasnānāśanādiṣu saha mṛgajahunā snehānubaddhahṛdaya āsīt
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Due to attachment for the deer, Mahārāja Bharata lay down with it, walked about with it, bathed with it and even ate with it. Thus his heart became bound to the deer in affection.
SB 5.8.12Open verse →
कुशकुसुमसमित्पलाशफलमूलोदकान्याहरिष्यमाणो वृकसालावृकादिभ्यो भयमाशंसमानो यदा सह हरिणकुणकेन वनं समाविशति
kuśakusumasamitpalāśaphalamūlodakānyāhariṣyamāṇo vṛkasālāvṛkādibhyo bhayamāśaṃsamāno yadā saha hariṇakuṇakena vanaṃ samāviśati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When Mahārāja Bharata wanted to enter the forest to collect kuśa grass, flowers, wood, leaves, fruits, roots and water, he would fear that dogs, jackals, tigers and other ferocious animals might kill the deer. He would therefore always take the deer with him when entering the forest.
SB 5.8.13Open verse →
पथिषु च मुग्धभावेन तत्र तत्र विषक्तमतिप्रणयभर- हृदयः कार्पण्यात्स्कन्धेनोद्वहति एवमुत्सङ्ग उरसि चाधायोपलालयन् मुदं परमामवाप
pathiṣu ca mugdhabhāvena tatra tatra viṣaktamatipraṇayabhara- hṛdayaḥ kārpaṇyātskandhenodvahati evamutsaṅga urasi cādhāyopalālayan mudaṃ paramāmavāpa
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When entering the forest, the animal would appear very attractive to Mahārāja Bharata due to its childish behavior. Mahārāja Bharata would even take the deer on his shoulders and carry it due to affection. His heart was so filled with great love for the deer that he would sometimes keep it on his lap or, when sleeping, on his chest. In this way he felt great pleasure in fondling the animal.
SB 5.8.14Open verse →
क्रियायां निर्वर्त्यमानायामन्तरालेऽप्युत्थायोत्थाय यदैनमभिचक्षीत तर्हि वाव स वर्षपतिः प्रकृतिस्थेन मनसा तस्मा आशिष आशास्ते स्वस्ति स्ताद्वत्स ते सर्वत इति
kriyāyāṃ nirvartyamānāyāmantarāle'pyutthāyotthāya yadainamabhicakṣīta tarhi vāva sa varṣapatiḥ prakṛtisthena manasā tasmā āśiṣa āśāste svasti stādvatsa te sarvata iti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When Mahārāja Bharata was actually worshiping the Lord or was engaged in some ritualistic ceremony, although his activities were unfinished, he would still, at intervals, get up and see where the deer was. In this way he would look for it, and when he could see that the deer was comfortably situated, his mind and heart would be very satisfied, and he would bestow his blessings upon the deer, saying, “My dear calf, may you be happy in all respects.”
SB 5.8.15Open verse →
अन्यदा भृशमुद्विग्नमना नष्टद्रविण इव कृपणः सकरुणमतितर्षेण हरिणकुणकविरहविह्वलहृदय- सन्तापस्तमेवानुशोचन् किल कश्मलं महदभि- रम्भित इति होवाच
anyadā bhṛśamudvignamanā naṣṭadraviṇa iva kṛpaṇaḥ sakaruṇamatitarṣeṇa hariṇakuṇakavirahavihvalahṛdaya- santāpastamevānuśocan kila kaśmalaṃ mahadabhi- rambhita iti hovāca
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
If Bharata Mahārāja sometimes could not see the deer, his mind would be very agitated. He would become like a miser, who, having obtained some riches, had lost them and had then become very unhappy. When the deer was gone, he would be filled with anxiety and would lament due to separation. Thus he would become illusioned and speak as follows.
SB 5.8.16Open verse →
अपि बत स वै कृपण एणबालको मृतहरिणीसुतो- ऽहो ममानार्यस्य शठकिरातमतेरकृतसुकृतस्य कृतविस्रम्भ आत्मप्रत्ययेन तदविगणयन् सुजन इवागमिष्यति
api bata sa vai kṛpaṇa eṇabālako mṛtahariṇīsuto- 'ho mamānāryasya śaṭhakirātamaterakṛtasukṛtasya kṛtavisrambha ātmapratyayena tadavigaṇayan sujana ivāgamiṣyati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Bharata Mahārāja would think: Alas, the deer is now helpless. I am now very unfortunate, and my mind is like a cunning hunter, for it is always filled with cheating propensities and cruelty. The deer has put its faith in me, just as a good man who has a natural interest in good behavior forgets the misbehavior of a cunning friend and puts his faith in him. Although I have proved faithless, will this deer return and place its faith in me?
SB 5.8.17Open verse →
अपि क्षेमेणास्मिन्नाश्रमोपवने शष्पाणि चरन्तं देवगुप्तं द्रक्ष्यामि
api kṣemeṇāsminnāśramopavane śaṣpāṇi carantaṃ devaguptaṃ drakṣyāmi
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Alas, is it possible that I shall again see this animal protected by the Lord and fearless of tigers and other animals? Shall I again see him wandering in the garden eating soft grass?
SB 5.8.18Open verse →
अपि च न वृकः सालावृकोऽन्यतमो वा नैकचर एकचरो वा भक्षयति
api ca na vṛkaḥ sālāvṛko'nyatamo vā naikacara ekacaro vā bhakṣayati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
I do not know, but the deer might have been eaten by a wolf or a dog or by the boars that flock together or the tiger who travels alone.
SB 5.8.19Open verse →
निम्लोचति ह भगवान् सकलजगत्क्षेमोदयस्त्रय्या- त्माद्यापि मम न मृगवधून्यास आगच्छति
nimlocati ha bhagavān sakalajagatkṣemodayastrayyā- tmādyāpi mama na mṛgavadhūnyāsa āgacchati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Alas, when the sun rises, all auspicious things begin. Unfortunately, they have not begun for me. The sun-god is the Vedas personified, but I am bereft of all Vedic principles. That sun-god is now setting, yet the poor animal who trusted in me since its mother died has not returned.
SB 5.8.20Open verse →
अपि स्विदकृतसुकृतमागत्य मां सुखयिष्यति हरिणराजकुमारो विविधरुचिरदर्शनीयनिजमृग- दारकविनोदैरसन्तोषं स्वानामपनुदन्
api svidakṛtasukṛtamāgatya māṃ sukhayiṣyati hariṇarājakumāro vividharuciradarśanīyanijamṛga- dārakavinodairasantoṣaṃ svānāmapanudan
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
That deer is exactly like a prince. When will it return? When will it again display its personal activities, which are so pleasing? When will it again pacify a wounded heart like mine? I certainly must have no pious assets, otherwise the deer would have returned by now.
SB 5.8.21Open verse →
क्ष्वेलिकायां मां मृषा समाधिनाऽऽमीलितदृशं प्रेमसंरम्भेण चकित चकित आगत्य पृषदपरुष- विषाणाग्रेण लुठति
kṣvelikāyāṃ māṃ mṛṣā samādhinā''mīlitadṛśaṃ premasaṃrambheṇa cakita cakita āgatya pṛṣadaparuṣa- viṣāṇāgreṇa luṭhati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Alas, the small deer, while playing with me and seeing me feigning meditation with closed eyes, would circumambulate me due to anger arising from love, and it would fearfully touch me with the points of its soft horns, which felt like drops of water.
SB 5.8.22Open verse →
आसादितहविषि बर्हिषि दूषिते मयोपालब्धो भीतभीतः सपद्युपरतरास ऋषिकुमारवदवहित- करणकलाप आस्ते
āsāditahaviṣi barhiṣi dūṣite mayopālabdho bhītabhītaḥ sapadyuparatarāsa ṛṣikumāravadavahita- karaṇakalāpa āste
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When I placed all the sacrificial ingredients on the kuśa grass, the deer, when playing, would touch the grass with its teeth and thus pollute it. When I chastised the deer by pushing it away, it would immediately become fearful and sit down motionless, exactly like the son of a saintly person. Thus it would stop its play.
SB 5.8.23Open verse →
किं वा अरे आचरितं तपस्तपस्विन्यानया यदियमवनिः सविनयकृष्णसारतनयतनुतर- सुभगशिवतमाखरखुरपदपङ्क्तिभिर्द्रविण- विधुरातुरस्य कृपणस्य मम द्रविणपदवीं सूचयन्त्यात्मानं च सर्वतः कृतकौतुकं द्विजानां स्वर्गापवर्गकामानां देवयजनं करोति
kiṃ vā are ācaritaṃ tapastapasvinyānayā yadiyamavaniḥ savinayakṛṣṇasāratanayatanutara- subhagaśivatamākharakhurapadapaṅktibhirdraviṇa- vidhurāturasya kṛpaṇasya mama draviṇapadavīṃ sūcayantyātmānaṃ ca sarvataḥ kṛtakautukaṃ dvijānāṃ svargāpavargakāmānāṃ devayajanaṃ karoti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
After speaking like a madman in this way, Mahārāja Bharata got up and went outside. Seeing the footprints of the deer on the ground, he praised the footprints out of love, saying: O unfortunate Bharata, your austerities and penances are very insignificant compared to the penance and austerity undergone by this earth planet. Due to the earth’s severe penances, the footprints of this deer, which are small, beautiful, most auspicious and soft, are imprinted on the surface of this fortunate planet. This series of footprints show a person like me, who am bereaved due to loss of the deer, how the animal has passed through the forest and how I can regain my lost wealth. By these footprints, this land has become a proper place for brāhmaṇas who desire heavenly planets or liberation to execute sacrifices to the demigods.
SB 5.8.24Open verse →
अपि स्विदसौ भगवानुडुपतिरेनं मृगपतिभया- न्मृतमातरं मृगबालकं स्वाश्रमपरिभ्रष्टमनुकम्पया कृपणजनवत्सलः परिपाति
api svidasau bhagavānuḍupatirenaṃ mṛgapatibhayā- nmṛtamātaraṃ mṛgabālakaṃ svāśramaparibhraṣṭamanukampayā kṛpaṇajanavatsalaḥ paripāti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Mahārāja Bharata continued to speak like a madman. Seeing above his head the dark marks on the rising moon, which resembled a deer, he said: Can it be that the moon, who is so kind to an unhappy man, might also be kind upon my deer, knowing that it has strayed from home and has become motherless? This moon has given the deer shelter near itself just to protect it from the fearful attacks of a lion.
SB 5.8.25Open verse →
किं वाऽऽत्मजविश्लेषज्वरदवदहनशिखाभि- रुपतप्यमानहृदयस्थलनलिनीकं मामुपसृत- मृगीतनयं शिशिरशान्तानुरागगुणितनिज- वदनसलिलामृतमयगभस्तिभिः स्वधयतीति च
kiṃ vā''tmajaviśleṣajvaradavadahanaśikhābhi- rupatapyamānahṛdayasthalanalinīkaṃ māmupasṛta- mṛgītanayaṃ śiśiraśāntānurāgaguṇitanija- vadanasalilāmṛtamayagabhastibhiḥ svadhayatīti ca
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
After perceiving the moonshine, Mahārāja Bharata continued speaking like a crazy person. He said: The deer’s son was so submissive and dear to me that due to its separation I am feeling separation from my own son. Due to the burning fever of this separation, I am suffering as if inflamed by a forest fire. My heart, which is like the lily of the land, is now burning. Seeing me so distressed, the moon is certainly splashing its shining nectar upon me — just as a friend throws water on another friend who has a high fever. In this way, the moon is bringing me happiness.
SB 5.8.26Open verse →
एवमघटमानमनोरथाकुलहृदयो मृगदारकाभासेन स्वारब्धकर्मणा योगारम्भणतो विभ्रंशितः स योगतापसो भगवदाराधनलक्षणाच्च कथमितरथा जात्यन्तर एणकुणक आसङ्गः साक्षान्निःश्रेयस- प्रतिपक्षतया प्राक्परित्यक्तदुस्त्यजहृदयाभिजातस्य तस्यैवमन्तरायविहतयोगारम्भणस्य राजर्षेर्भरतस्य तावन्मृगार्भकपोषणपालनप्रीणनलालनानुषङ्गेणा- विगणयत आत्मानमहिरिवाखुबिलं दुरतिक्रमः कालः करालरभस आपद्यत
evamaghaṭamānamanorathākulahṛdayo mṛgadārakābhāsena svārabdhakarmaṇā yogārambhaṇato vibhraṃśitaḥ sa yogatāpaso bhagavadārādhanalakṣaṇācca kathamitarathā jātyantara eṇakuṇaka āsaṅgaḥ sākṣānniḥśreyasa- pratipakṣatayā prākparityaktadustyajahṛdayābhijātasya tasyaivamantarāyavihatayogārambhaṇasya rājarṣerbharatasya tāvanmṛgārbhakapoṣaṇapālanaprīṇanalālanānuṣaṅgeṇā- vigaṇayata ātmānamahirivākhubilaṃ duratikramaḥ kālaḥ karālarabhasa āpadyata
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, in this way Bharata Mahārāja was overwhelmed by an uncontrollable desire which was manifest in the form of the deer. Due to the fruitive results of his past deeds, he fell down from mystic yoga, austerity and worship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. If it were not due to his past fruitive activity, how could he have been attracted to the deer after giving up the association of his own son and family, considering them stumbling blocks on the path of spiritual life? How could he show such uncontrollable affection for a deer? This was definitely due to his past karma. The King was so engrossed in petting and maintaining the deer that he fell down from his spiritual activities. In due course of time, insurmountable death, which is compared to a venomous snake that enters the hole created by a mouse, situated itself before him.
SB 5.8.27Open verse →
तदानीमपि पार्श्ववर्तिनमात्मजमिवानुशोचन्त- मभिवीक्षमाणो मृग एवाभिनिवेशितमना विसृज्य लोकमिमं सह मृगेण कलेवरं मृतमनु न मृतजन्मा- नुस्मृतिरितरवन्मृगशरीरमवाप
tadānīmapi pārśvavartinamātmajamivānuśocanta- mabhivīkṣamāṇo mṛga evābhiniveśitamanā visṛjya lokamimaṃ saha mṛgeṇa kalevaraṃ mṛtamanu na mṛtajanmā- nusmṛtiritaravanmṛgaśarīramavāpa
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
At the time of death, the King saw that the deer was sitting by his side, exactly like his own son, and was lamenting his death. Actually the mind of the King was absorbed in the body of the deer, and consequently — like those bereft of Kṛṣṇa consciousness — he left the world, the deer, and his material body and acquired the body of a deer. However, there was one advantage. Although he lost his human body and received the body of a deer, he did not forget the incidents of his past life.
SB 5.8.28Open verse →
तत्रापि ह वा आत्मनो मृगत्वकारणं भगव- दाराधनसमीहानुभावेनानुस्मृत्य भृशमनु- तप्यमान आह
tatrāpi ha vā ātmano mṛgatvakāraṇaṃ bhagava- dārādhanasamīhānubhāvenānusmṛtya bhṛśamanu- tapyamāna āha
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Although in the body of a deer, Bharata Mahārāja, due to his rigid devotional service in his past life, could understand the cause of his birth in that body. Considering his past and present life, he constantly repented his activities, speaking in the following way.
SB 5.8.29Open verse →
अहो कष्टं भ्रष्टोऽहमात्मवतामनुपथाद्यद्विमुक्त- समस्तसङ्गस्य विविक्तपुण्यारण्यशरणस्यात्मवत आत्मनि सर्वेषामात्मनां भगवति वासुदेवे तदनुश्रवणमननसङ्कीर्तनाराधनानुस्मरणा- भियोगेनाशून्यसकलयामेन कालेन समावेशितं समाहितं कार्त्स्न्येन मनस्तत्तु पुनर्ममाबुधस्या- रान्मृगसुतमनु परिसुस्राव
aho kaṣṭaṃ bhraṣṭo'hamātmavatāmanupathādyadvimukta- samastasaṅgasya viviktapuṇyāraṇyaśaraṇasyātmavata ātmani sarveṣāmātmanāṃ bhagavati vāsudeve tadanuśravaṇamananasaṅkīrtanārādhanānusmaraṇā- bhiyogenāśūnyasakalayāmena kālena samāveśitaṃ samāhitaṃ kārtsnyena manastattu punarmamābudhasyā- rānmṛgasutamanu parisusrāva
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In the body of a deer, Bharata Mahārāja began to lament: What misfortune! I have fallen from the path of the self-realized. I gave up my real sons, wife and home to advance in spiritual life, and I took shelter in a solitary holy place in the forest. I became self-controlled and self-realized, and I engaged constantly in devotional service — hearing, thinking, chanting, worshiping and remembering the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva. I was successful in my attempt, so much so that my mind was always absorbed in devotional service. However, due to my personal foolishness, my mind again became attached — this time to a deer. Now I have obtained the body of a deer and have fallen far from my devotional practices.
SB 5.8.30Open verse →
इत्येवं निगूढनिर्वेदो विसृज्य मृगीं मातरं पुनर्भगवत्क्षेत्रमुपशमशीलमुनिगणदयितं शालग्रामं पुलस्त्यपुलहाश्रमं कालञ्जरा- त्प्रत्याजगाम
ityevaṃ nigūḍhanirvedo visṛjya mṛgīṃ mātaraṃ punarbhagavatkṣetramupaśamaśīlamunigaṇadayitaṃ śālagrāmaṃ pulastyapulahāśramaṃ kālañjarā- tpratyājagāma
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Although Bharata Mahārāja received the body of a deer, by constant repentance he became completely detached from all material things. He did not disclose these things to anyone, but he left his mother deer in a place known as Kālañjara Mountain, where he was born. He again went to the forest of Śālagrāma and to the āśrama of Pulastya and Pulaha.
SB 5.8.31Open verse →
तस्मिन्नपि कालं प्रतीक्षमाणः सङ्गाच्च भृशमुद्विग्न आत्मसहचरः शुष्कपर्णतृणवीरुधा वर्तमानो मृगत्वनिमित्तावसानमेव गणयन् मृगशरीरं तीर्थोदकक्लिन्नमुत्ससर्ज
tasminnapi kālaṃ pratīkṣamāṇaḥ saṅgācca bhṛśamudvigna ātmasahacaraḥ śuṣkaparṇatṛṇavīrudhā vartamāno mṛgatvanimittāvasānameva gaṇayan mṛgaśarīraṃ tīrthodakaklinnamutsasarja
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Remaining in that āśrama, the great King Bharata Mahārāja was now very careful not to fall victim to bad association. Without disclosing his past to anyone, he remained in that āśrama and ate dry leaves only. He was not exactly alone, for he had the association of the Supersoul. In this way he waited for death in the body of a deer. Bathing in that holy place, he finally gave up that body.
SB 5.9.3Open verse →
तत्रापि स्वजनसङ्गाच्च भृशमुद्विजमानो भगवतः कर्मबन्धविध्वंसनश्रवणस्मरणगुणविवरण- चरणारविन्दयुगलं मनसा विदधदात्मनः प्रतिघातमाशङ्कमानो भगवदनुग्रहेणानुस्मृत- स्वपूर्वजन्मावलिरात्मानमुन्मत्तजडान्धबधिर- स्वरूपेण दर्शयामास लोकस्य
tatrāpi svajanasaṅgācca bhṛśamudvijamāno bhagavataḥ karmabandhavidhvaṃsanaśravaṇasmaraṇaguṇavivaraṇa- caraṇāravindayugalaṃ manasā vidadhadātmanaḥ pratighātamāśaṅkamāno bhagavadanugraheṇānusmṛta- svapūrvajanmāvalirātmānamunmattajaḍāndhabadhira- svarūpeṇa darśayāmāsa lokasya
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Due to his being especially gifted with the Lord’s mercy, Bharata Mahārāja could remember the incidents of his past life. Although he received the body of a brāhmaṇa, he was still very much afraid of his relatives and friends who were not devotees. He was always very cautious of such association because he feared that he would again fall down. Consequently he manifested himself before the public eye as a madman — dull, blind and deaf — so that others would not try to talk to him. In this way he saved himself from bad association. Within he was always thinking of the lotus feet of the Lord and chanting the Lord’s glories, which save one from the bondage of fruitive action. In this way he saved himself from the onslaught of nondevotee associates.
SB 5.9.4Open verse →
तस्यापि ह वा आत्मजस्य विप्रः पुत्रस्नेहानुबद्धमना आ समावर्तनात्संस्कारान् यथोपदेशं विदधान उपनीतस्य च पुनः शौचाचमनादीन् कर्मनियमा- ननभिप्रेतानपि समशिक्षयदनुशिष्टेन हि भाव्यं पितुः पुत्रेणेति
tasyāpi ha vā ātmajasya vipraḥ putrasnehānubaddhamanā ā samāvartanātsaṃskārān yathopadeśaṃ vidadhāna upanītasya ca punaḥ śaucācamanādīn karmaniyamā- nanabhipretānapi samaśikṣayadanuśiṣṭena hi bhāvyaṃ pituḥ putreṇeti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The brāhmaṇa father’s mind was always filled with affection for his son, Jaḍa Bharata [Bharata Mahārāja]. Therefore he was always attached to Jaḍa Bharata. Because Jaḍa Bharata was unfit to enter the gṛhastha-āśrama, he simply executed the purificatory process up to the end of the brahmacarya-āśrama. Although Jaḍa Bharata was unwilling to accept his father’s instructions, the brāhmaṇa nonetheless instructed him in how to keep clean and how to wash, thinking that the son should be taught by the father.
SB 5.9.5Open verse →
स चापि तदु ह पितृसन्निधावेवासध्रीचीनमिव स्म करोति छन्दांस्यध्यापयिष्यन् सह व्याहृतिभिः सप्रणवशिरस्त्रिपदीं सावित्रीं ग्रैष्मवासन्तिकान् मासानधीयानमप्यसमवेतरूपं ग्राहयामास
sa cāpi tadu ha pitṛsannidhāvevāsadhrīcīnamiva sma karoti chandāṃsyadhyāpayiṣyan saha vyāhṛtibhiḥ sapraṇavaśirastripadīṃ sāvitrīṃ graiṣmavāsantikān māsānadhīyānamapyasamavetarūpaṃ grāhayāmāsa
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Jaḍa Bharata behaved before his father like a fool, despite his father’s adequately instructing him in Vedic knowledge. He behaved in that way so that his father would know that he was unfit for instruction and would abandon the attempt to instruct him further. He would behave in a completely opposite way. Although instructed to wash his hands after evacuating, he would wash them before. Nonetheless, his father wanted to give him Vedic instructions during the spring and summer. He tried to teach him the Gāyatrī mantra along with oṁkāra and vyāhṛti, but after four months his father still was not successful in instructing him.
SB 5.9.6Open verse →
एवं स्वतनुज आत्मन्यनुरागावेशितचित्तः शौचाध्ययनव्रतनियमगुर्वनलशुश्रूषणाद्यौप- कुर्वाणककर्माण्यनभियुक्तान्यपि समनुशिष्टेन भाव्यमित्यसदाग्रहः पुत्रमनुशास्य स्वयं तावदनधिगतमनोरथः कालेनाप्रमत्तेन स्वयं गृह एव प्रमत्त उपसंहृतः
evaṃ svatanuja ātmanyanurāgāveśitacittaḥ śaucādhyayanavrataniyamagurvanalaśuśrūṣaṇādyaupa- kurvāṇakakarmāṇyanabhiyuktānyapi samanuśiṣṭena bhāvyamityasadāgrahaḥ putramanuśāsya svayaṃ tāvadanadhigatamanorathaḥ kālenāpramattena svayaṃ gṛha eva pramatta upasaṃhṛtaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The brāhmaṇa father of Jaḍa Bharata considered his son his heart and soul, and therefore he was very much attached to him. He thought it wise to educate his son properly, and being absorbed in this unsuccessful endeavor, he tried to teach his son the rules and regulations of brahmacarya — including the execution of the Vedic vows, cleanliness, study of the Vedas, the regulative methods, service to the spiritual master and the method of offering a fire sacrifice. He tried his best to teach his son in this way, but all his endeavors failed. In his heart he hoped that his son would be a learned scholar, but all his attempts were unsuccessful. Like everyone, this brāhmaṇa was attached to his home, and he had forgotten that someday he would die. Death, however, was not forgetful. At the proper time, death appeared and took him away.
SB 5.9.7Open verse →
अथ यवीयसी द्विजसती स्वगर्भजातं मिथुनं सपत्न्या उपन्यस्य स्वयमनुसंस्थयापतिलोकमगात्
atha yavīyasī dvijasatī svagarbhajātaṃ mithunaṃ sapatnyā upanyasya svayamanusaṃsthayāpatilokamagāt
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Thereafter, the brāhmaṇa’s younger wife, after entrusting her twin children — the boy and girl — to the elder wife, departed for Patiloka, voluntarily dying with her husband.
SB 5.9.8Open verse →
पितर्युपरते भ्रातर एनमतत्प्रभावविदस्त्रय्यां विद्यायामेव पर्यवसितमतयो न परविद्यायां जडमतिरिति भ्रातु- रनुशासननिर्बन्धान्न्यवृत्सन्त
pitaryuparate bhrātara enamatatprabhāvavidastrayyāṃ vidyāyāmeva paryavasitamatayo na paravidyāyāṃ jaḍamatiriti bhrātu- ranuśāsananirbandhānnyavṛtsanta
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
After the father died, the nine stepbrothers of Jaḍa Bharata, who considered Jaḍa Bharata dull and brainless, abandoned the father’s attempt to give Jaḍa Bharata a complete education. The stepbrothers of Jaḍa Bharata were learned in the three Vedas — the Ṛg Veda, Sāma Veda and Yajur Veda — which very much encourage fruitive activity. The nine brothers were not at all spiritually enlightened in devotional service to the Lord. Consequently they could not understand the highly exalted position of Jaḍa Bharata.
SB 5.9.11Open verse →
यदा तु परत आहारं कर्मवेतनत ईहमानः स्वभ्रातृभिरपि केदारकर्मणि निरूपितस्तदपि करोति किन्तु न समं विषमं न्यूनमधिकमिति वेद कणपिण्याकफलीकरणकुल्माषस्थाली- पुरीषादीन्यप्यमृतवदभ्यवहरति
yadā tu parata āhāraṃ karmavetanata īhamānaḥ svabhrātṛbhirapi kedārakarmaṇi nirūpitastadapi karoti kintu na samaṃ viṣamaṃ nyūnamadhikamiti veda kaṇapiṇyākaphalīkaraṇakulmāṣasthālī- purīṣādīnyapyamṛtavadabhyavaharati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Jaḍa Bharata used to work only for food. His stepbrothers took advantage of this and engaged him in agricultural field work in exchange for some food, but actually he did not know how to work very well in the field. He did not know where to spread dirt or where to make the ground level or uneven. His brothers used to give him broken rice, oil cakes, the chaff of rice, worm-eaten grains and burned grains that had stuck to the pot, but he gladly accepted all this as if it were nectar. He did not hold any grudges and ate all this very gladly.
SB 5.9.12Open verse →
अथ कदाचित्कश्चिद्वृषलपतिर्भद्रकाल्यै पुरुषपशु- मालभतापत्यकामः
atha kadācitkaścidvṛṣalapatirbhadrakālyai puruṣapaśu- mālabhatāpatyakāmaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
At this time, being desirous of obtaining a son, a leader of dacoits who came from a śūdra family wanted to worship the goddess Bhadra Kālī by offering her in sacrifice a dull man, who is considered no better than an animal.
SB 5.9.13Open verse →
तस्य ह दैवमुक्तस्य पशोः पदवीं तदनुचराः परिधावन्तो निशि निशीथसमये तमसा- वृतायामनधिगतपशव आकस्मिकेन विधिना केदारान् वीरासनेन मृगवराहादिभ्यः संरक्षमाणमङ्गिरःप्रवरसुतमपश्यन्
tasya ha daivamuktasya paśoḥ padavīṃ tadanucarāḥ paridhāvanto niśi niśīthasamaye tamasā- vṛtāyāmanadhigatapaśava ākasmikena vidhinā kedārān vīrāsanena mṛgavarāhādibhyaḥ saṃrakṣamāṇamaṅgiraḥpravarasutamapaśyan
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The leader of the dacoits captured a man-animal for sacrifice, but he escaped, and the leader ordered his followers to find him. They ran in different directions but could not find him. Wandering here and there in the middle of the night, covered by dense darkness, they came to a paddy field where they saw the exalted son of the Āṅgirā family [Jaḍa Bharata], who was sitting in an elevated place guarding the field against the attacks of deer and wild pigs.
SB 5.9.14Open verse →
अथ त एनमनवद्यलक्षणमवमृश्य भर्तृकर्म- निष्पत्तिं मन्यमाना बद्ध्वा रशनया चण्डिका- गृहमुपनिन्युर्मुदा विकसितवदनाः
atha ta enamanavadyalakṣaṇamavamṛśya bhartṛkarma- niṣpattiṃ manyamānā baddhvā raśanayā caṇḍikā- gṛhamupaninyurmudā vikasitavadanāḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The followers and servants of the dacoit chief considered Jaḍa Bharata to possess qualities quite suitable for a man-animal, and they decided that he was a perfect choice for sacrifice. Their faces bright with happiness, they bound him with ropes and brought him to the temple of the goddess Kālī.
SB 5.9.15Open verse →
अथ पणयस्तं स्वविधिनाभिषिच्याहतेन वाससाऽऽच्छाद्य भूषणालेपस्रक्तिलकादिभि- रुपस्कृतं भुक्तवन्तं धूपदीपमाल्यलाज- किसलयाङ्कुरफलोपहारोपेतया वैशस- संस्थया महता गीतस्तुतिमृदङ्गपणवघोषेण च पुरुषपशुं भद्रकाल्याः पुरत उपवेशयामासुः
atha paṇayastaṃ svavidhinābhiṣicyāhatena vāsasā''cchādya bhūṣaṇālepasraktilakādibhi- rupaskṛtaṃ bhuktavantaṃ dhūpadīpamālyalāja- kisalayāṅkuraphalopahāropetayā vaiśasa- saṃsthayā mahatā gītastutimṛdaṅgapaṇavaghoṣeṇa ca puruṣapaśuṃ bhadrakālyāḥ purata upaveśayāmāsuḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
After this, all the thieves, according to their imaginative ritual for killing animalistic men, bathed Jaḍa Bharata, dressed him in new clothes, decorated him with ornaments befitting an animal, smeared his body with scented oils and decorated him with tilaka, sandalwood pulp and garlands. They fed him sumptuously and then brought him before the goddess Kālī, offering her incense, lamps, garlands, parched grain, newly grown twigs, sprouts, fruits and flowers. In this way they worshiped the deity before killing the man-animal, and they vibrated songs and prayers and played drums and bugles. Jaḍa Bharata was then made to sit down before the deity.
SB 5.9.16Open verse →
अथ वृषलराजपणिः पुरुषपशोरसृगासवेन देवीं भद्रकालीं यक्ष्यमाणस्तदभिमन्त्रितमसि- मतिकरालनिशितमुपाददे
atha vṛṣalarājapaṇiḥ puruṣapaśorasṛgāsavena devīṃ bhadrakālīṃ yakṣyamāṇastadabhimantritamasi- matikarālaniśitamupādade
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
At this time, one of the thieves, acting as the chief priest, was ready to offer the blood of Jaḍa Bharata, whom they imagined to be an animal-man, to the goddess Kālī to drink as a liquor. He therefore took up a very fearsome sword, which was very sharp and, consecrating it by the mantra of Bhadra Kālī, raised it to kill Jaḍa Bharata.
SB 5.9.17Open verse →
इति तेषां वृषलानां रजस्तमःप्रकृतीनां धनमदरज उत्सिक्तमनसां भगवत्कला- वीरकुलं कदर्थीकृत्योत्पथेन स्वैरं विहरतां हिंसाविहाराणां कर्मातिदारुणं यद्ब्रह्मभूतस्य साक्षाद्ब्रह्मर्षिसुतस्य निर्वैरस्य सर्वभूतसुहृदः सूनायामप्यननुमतमालम्भनं तदुपलभ्य ब्रह्मतेजसातिदुर्विषहेण दन्दह्यमानेन वपुषा सहसोच्चचाट सैव देवी भद्रकाली
iti teṣāṃ vṛṣalānāṃ rajastamaḥprakṛtīnāṃ dhanamadaraja utsiktamanasāṃ bhagavatkalā- vīrakulaṃ kadarthīkṛtyotpathena svairaṃ viharatāṃ hiṃsāvihārāṇāṃ karmātidāruṇaṃ yadbrahmabhūtasya sākṣādbrahmarṣisutasya nirvairasya sarvabhūtasuhṛdaḥ sūnāyāmapyananumatamālambhanaṃ tadupalabhya brahmatejasātidurviṣaheṇa dandahyamānena vapuṣā sahasoccacāṭa saiva devī bhadrakālī
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
All the rogues and thieves who had made arrangements for the worship of Goddess Kālī were low minded and bound to the modes of passion and ignorance. They were overpowered by the desire to become very rich; therefore they had the audacity to disobey the injunctions of the Vedas, so much so that they were prepared to kill Jaḍa Bharata, a self-realized soul born in a brāhmaṇa family. Due to their envy, these dacoits brought him before the goddess Kālī for sacrifice. Such people are always addicted to envious activities, and therefore they dared to try to kill Jaḍa Bharata. Jaḍa Bharata was the best friend of all living entities. He was no one’s enemy, and he was always absorbed in meditation on the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He was born of a good brāhmaṇa father, and killing him was forbidden, even though he might have been an enemy or aggressive person. In any case, there was no reason to kill Jaḍa Bharata, and the goddess Kālī could not bear this. She could immediately understand that these sinful dacoits were about to kill a great devotee of the Lord. Suddenly the deity’s body burst asunder, and the goddess Kālī personally emerged from it in a body burning with an intense and intolerable effulgence.
SB 5.9.18Open verse →
भृशममर्षरोषावेशरभसविलसितभ्रुकुटि- विटपकुटिलदंष्ट्रारुणेक्षणाटोपातिभयानक- वदना हन्तुकामेवेदं महाट्टहासमतिसंरम्भेण विमुञ्चन्ती तत उत्पत्य पापीयसां दुष्टानां तेनैवासिना विवृक्णशीर्ष्णां गलात्स्रवन्तमसृगासव- मत्युष्णं सह गणेन निपीयातिपानमदविह्वलोच्चैस्तरां स्वपार्षदैः सह जगौ ननर्त च विजहार च शिरः कन्दुकलीलया
bhṛśamamarṣaroṣāveśarabhasavilasitabhrukuṭi- viṭapakuṭiladaṃṣṭrāruṇekṣaṇāṭopātibhayānaka- vadanā hantukāmevedaṃ mahāṭṭahāsamatisaṃrambheṇa vimuñcantī tata utpatya pāpīyasāṃ duṣṭānāṃ tenaivāsinā vivṛkṇaśīrṣṇāṃ galātsravantamasṛgāsava- matyuṣṇaṃ saha gaṇena nipīyātipānamadavihvaloccaistarāṃ svapārṣadaiḥ saha jagau nanarta ca vijahāra ca śiraḥ kandukalīlayā
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Intolerant of the offenses committed, the infuriated Goddess Kālī flashed her eyes and displayed her fierce, curved teeth. Her reddish eyes glowed, and she displayed her fearsome features. She assumed a frightening body, as if she were prepared to destroy the entire creation. Leaping violently from the altar, she immediately decapitated all the rogues and thieves with the very sword with which they had intended to kill Jaḍa Bharata. She then began to drink the hot blood that flowed from the necks of the beheaded rogues and thieves, as if this blood were liquor. Indeed, she drank this intoxicant with her associates, who were witches and female demons. Becoming intoxicated with this blood, they all began to sing very loudly and dance as though prepared to annihilate the entire universe. At the same time, they began to play with the heads of the rogues and thieves, tossing them about as if they were balls.
SB 5.9.19Open verse →
एवमेव खलु महदभिचारातिक्रमः कार्त्स्न्येनात्मने फलति
evameva khalu mahadabhicārātikramaḥ kārtsnyenātmane phalati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When an envious person commits an offense before a great personality, he is always punished in the way mentioned above.
SB 5.9.20Open verse →
न वा एतद्विष्णुदत्त महदद्भुतं यदसम्भ्रमः स्वशिरश्च्छेदन आपतितेऽपि विमुक्तदेहाद्यात्मभाव- सुदृढहृदयग्रन्थीनां सर्वसत्त्वसुहृदात्मनां निर्वैराणां साक्षाद्भगवतानिमिषारिवरायुधेनाप्रमत्तेन तैस्तैर्भावैः परिरक्ष्यमाणानां तत्पादमूलमकुतश्चिद्भयमुपसृतानां भागवतपरमहंसानाम्
na vā etadviṣṇudatta mahadadbhutaṃ yadasambhramaḥ svaśiraścchedana āpatite'pi vimuktadehādyātmabhāva- sudṛḍhahṛdayagranthīnāṃ sarvasattvasuhṛdātmanāṃ nirvairāṇāṃ sākṣādbhagavatānimiṣārivarāyudhenāpramattena taistairbhāvaiḥ parirakṣyamāṇānāṃ tatpādamūlamakutaścidbhayamupasṛtānāṃ bhāgavataparamahaṃsānām
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī then said to Mahārāja Parīkṣit: O Viṣṇudatta, those who already know that the soul is separate from the body, who are liberated from the invincible knot in the heart, who are always engaged in welfare activities for all living entities and who never contemplate harming anyone are always protected by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who carries His disc [the Sudarśana cakra] and acts as supreme time to kill the demons and protect His devotees. The devotees always take shelter at the lotus feet of the Lord. Therefore at all times, even if threatened by decapitation, they remain unagitated. For them, this is not at all wonderful.
SB 5.10.1Open verse →
श्रीशुक उवाच । अथ सिन्धुसौवीरपते रहूगणस्य व्रजत इक्षुमत्यास्तटे तत्कुलपतिना शिबिकावाहपुरुषा- न्वेषणसमये दैवेनोपसादितः स द्विजवर उपलब्ध एष पीवा युवा संहननाङ्गो गोखरवद्धुरं वोढुमलमिति पूर्वविष्टिगृहीतैः सह गृहीतः प्रसभमतदर्ह उवाह शिबिकां स महानुभावः
śrīśuka uvāca | atha sindhusauvīrapate rahūgaṇasya vrajata ikṣumatyāstaṭe tatkulapatinā śibikāvāhapuruṣā- nveṣaṇasamaye daivenopasāditaḥ sa dvijavara upalabdha eṣa pīvā yuvā saṃhananāṅgo gokharavaddhuraṃ voḍhumalamiti pūrvaviṣṭigṛhītaiḥ saha gṛhītaḥ prasabhamatadarha uvāha śibikāṃ sa mahānubhāvaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, after this, King Rahūgaṇa, ruler of the states known as Sindhu and Sauvīra, was going to Kapilāśrama. When the King’s chief palanquin carriers reached the banks of the river Ikṣumatī, they needed another carrier. Therefore they began searching for someone, and by chance they came upon Jaḍa Bharata. They considered the fact that Jaḍa Bharata was very young and strong and had firm limbs. Like cows and asses, he was quite fit to carry loads. Thinking in this way, although the great soul Jaḍa Bharata was unfit for such work, they nonetheless unhesitatingly forced him to carry the palanquin.
SB 5.10.2Open verse →
यदा हि द्विजवरस्येषुमात्रावलोकानुगतेर्न समाहिता पुरुषगतिस्तदा विषमगतां स्वशिबिकां रहूगण उपधार्य पुरुषानधिवहत आह हे वोढारः साध्वतिक्रमत किमिति विषममुह्यते यानमिति
yadā hi dvijavarasyeṣumātrāvalokānugaterna samāhitā puruṣagatistadā viṣamagatāṃ svaśibikāṃ rahūgaṇa upadhārya puruṣānadhivahata āha he voḍhāraḥ sādhvatikramata kimiti viṣamamuhyate yānamiti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The palanquin, however, was very erratically carried by Jaḍa Bharata due to his sense of nonviolence. As he stepped forward, he checked before him every three feet to see whether he was about to step on ants. Consequently he could not keep pace with the other carriers. Due to this, the palanquin was shaking, and King Rahūgaṇa immediately asked the carriers, “Why are you carrying this palanquin unevenly? Better carry it properly.”
SB 5.10.3Open verse →
अथ त ईश्वरवचः सोपालम्भमुपाकर्ण्योपायतुरीया- च्छङ्कितमनसस्तं विज्ञापयां बभूवुः
atha ta īśvaravacaḥ sopālambhamupākarṇyopāyaturīyā- cchaṅkitamanasastaṃ vijñāpayāṃ babhūvuḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When the palanquin carriers heard the threatening words of Mahārāja Rahūgaṇa, they became very afraid of his punishment and began to speak to him as follows.
SB 5.10.4Open verse →
न वयं नरदेव प्रमत्ता भवन्नियमानुपथाः साध्वेव वहामः अयमधुनैव नियुक्तोऽपि न द्रुतं व्रजति नानेन सह वोढुमु ह वयं पारयाम इति
na vayaṃ naradeva pramattā bhavanniyamānupathāḥ sādhveva vahāmaḥ ayamadhunaiva niyukto'pi na drutaṃ vrajati nānena saha voḍhumu ha vayaṃ pārayāma iti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O lord, please note that we are not at all negligent in discharging our duties. We have been faithfully carrying this palanquin according to your desire, but this man who has been recently engaged to work with us cannot walk very swiftly. Therefore we are not able to carry the palanquin with him.
SB 5.10.5Open verse →
सांसर्गिको दोष एव नूनमेकस्यापि सर्वेषां सांसर्गिकाणां भवितुमर्हतीति निश्चित्य निशम्य कृपणवचो राजा रहूगण उपासित- वृद्धोऽपि निसर्गेण बलात्कृत ईषदुत्थित- मन्युरविस्पष्टब्रह्मतेजसं जातवेदसमिव रजसाऽऽवृतमतिराह
sāṃsargiko doṣa eva nūnamekasyāpi sarveṣāṃ sāṃsargikāṇāṃ bhavitumarhatīti niścitya niśamya kṛpaṇavaco rājā rahūgaṇa upāsita- vṛddho'pi nisargeṇa balātkṛta īṣadutthita- manyuravispaṣṭabrahmatejasaṃ jātavedasamiva rajasā''vṛtamatirāha
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
King Rahūgaṇa could understand the speeches given by the carriers, who were afraid of being punished. He could also understand that simply due to the fault of one person, the palanquin was not being carried properly. Knowing this perfectly well and hearing their appeal, he became a little angry, although he was very advanced in political science and was very experienced. His anger arose due to his inborn nature as a king. Actually King Rahūgaṇa’s mind was covered by the mode of passion, and he therefore spoke as follows to Jaḍa Bharata, whose Brahman effulgence was not clearly visible, being covered like a fire covered by ashes.
SB 5.10.6Open verse →
अहो कष्टं भ्रातर्व्यक्तमुरुपरिश्रान्तो दीर्घमध्वानमेक एव ऊहिवान् सुचिरं नातिपीवा न संहननाङ्गो जरसा चोपद्रुतो भवान् सखे नो एवापर एते सङ्घट्टिन इति बहु विप्रलब्धोऽप्यविद्यया रचितद्रव्यगुणकर्माशयस्व- चरमकलेवरेऽवस्तुनि संस्थानविशेषेऽहम्ममेत्य- नध्यारोपितमिथ्याप्रत्ययो ब्रह्मभूतस्तूष्णीं शिबिकां पूर्ववदुवाह
aho kaṣṭaṃ bhrātarvyaktamurupariśrānto dīrghamadhvānameka eva ūhivān suciraṃ nātipīvā na saṃhananāṅgo jarasā copadruto bhavān sakhe no evāpara ete saṅghaṭṭina iti bahu vipralabdho'pyavidyayā racitadravyaguṇakarmāśayasva- caramakalevare'vastuni saṃsthānaviśeṣe'hammametya- nadhyāropitamithyāpratyayo brahmabhūtastūṣṇīṃ śibikāṃ pūrvavaduvāha
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
King Rahūgaṇa told Jaḍa Bharata: How troublesome this is, my dear brother. You certainly appear very fatigued because you have carried this palanquin alone without assistance for a long time and for a long distance. Besides that, due to your old age you have become greatly troubled. My dear friend, I see that you are not very firm, nor very strong and stout. Aren’t your fellow carriers cooperating with you?
SB 5.10.7Open verse →
अथ पुनः स्वशिबिकायां विषमगतायां प्रकुपित उवाच । रहूगणः किमिदमरे त्वं जीवन्मृतो मां कदर्थीकृत्य भर्तृशासनमतिचरसि प्रमत्तस्य च ते करोमि चिकित्सां दण्डपाणिरिव जनताया यथा प्रकृतिं स्वां भजिष्यस इति
atha punaḥ svaśibikāyāṃ viṣamagatāyāṃ prakupita uvāca | rahūgaṇaḥ kimidamare tvaṃ jīvanmṛto māṃ kadarthīkṛtya bhartṛśāsanamaticarasi pramattasya ca te karomi cikitsāṃ daṇḍapāṇiriva janatāyā yathā prakṛtiṃ svāṃ bhajiṣyasa iti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Thereafter, when the King saw that his palanquin was still being shaken by the carriers, he became very angry and said: You rascal, what are you doing? Are you dead despite the life within your body? Do you not know that I am your master? You are disregarding me and are not carrying out my order. For this disobedience I shall now punish you just as Yamarāja, the superintendent of death, punishes sinful people. I shall give you proper treatment so that you will come to your senses and do the correct thing.
SB 5.10.8Open verse →
एवं बह्वबद्धमपि भाषमाणं नरदेवाभिमानं रजसा तमसानुविद्धेन मदेन तिरस्कृताशेषभगवत्प्रियनिकेतं पण्डितमानिनं स भगवान् ब्राह्मणो ब्रह्मभूतः सर्वभूत- सुहृदात्मा योगेश्वरचर्यायां नातिव्युत्पन्नमतिं स्मयमान इव विगतस्मय इदमाह
evaṃ bahvabaddhamapi bhāṣamāṇaṃ naradevābhimānaṃ rajasā tamasānuviddhena madena tiraskṛtāśeṣabhagavatpriyaniketaṃ paṇḍitamāninaṃ sa bhagavān brāhmaṇo brahmabhūtaḥ sarvabhūta- suhṛdātmā yogeśvaracaryāyāṃ nātivyutpannamatiṃ smayamāna iva vigatasmaya idamāha
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Thinking himself a king, King Rahūgaṇa was in the bodily conception and was influenced by material nature’s modes of passion and ignorance. Due to madness, he chastised Jaḍa Bharata with uncalled-for and contradictory words. Jaḍa Bharata was a topmost devotee and the dear abode of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Although considering himself very learned, the King did not know about the position of an advanced devotee situated in devotional service, nor did he know his characteristics. Jaḍa Bharata was the residence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; he always carried the form of the Lord within his heart. He was the dear friend of all living beings, and he did not entertain any bodily conception. He therefore smiled and spoke the following words.
SB 5.10.9Open verse →
ब्राह्मण उवाच । त्वयोदितं व्यक्तमविप्रलब्धं भर्तुः स मे स्याद्यदि वीर भारः । गन्तुर्यदि स्यादधिगम्यमध्वा पीवेति राशौ न विदां प्रवादः
brāhmaṇa uvāca | tvayoditaṃ vyaktamavipralabdhaṃ bhartuḥ sa me syādyadi vīra bhāraḥ | ganturyadi syādadhigamyamadhvā pīveti rāśau na vidāṃ pravādaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The great brāhmaṇa Jaḍa Bharata said: My dear King and hero, whatever you have spoken sarcastically is certainly true. Actually these are not simply words of chastisement, for the body is the carrier. The load carried by the body does not belong to me, for I am the spirit soul. There is no contradiction in your statements because I am different from the body. I am not the carrier of the palanquin; the body is the carrier. Certainly, as you have hinted, I have not labored carrying the palanquin, for I am detached from the body. You have said that I am not stout and strong, and these words are befitting a person who does not know the distinction between the body and the soul. The body may be fat or thin, but no learned man would say such things of the spirit soul. As far as the spirit soul is concerned, I am neither fat nor skinny; therefore you are correct when you say that I am not very stout. Also, if the object of this journey and the path leading there were mine, there would be many troubles for me, but because they relate not to me but to my body, there is no trouble at all.
SB 5.10.10Open verse →
स्थौल्यं कार्श्यं व्याधय आधयश्च क्षुत्तृड्भयं कलिरिच्छा जरा च । निद्रा रतिर्मन्युरहं मदः शुचो देहेन जातस्य हि मे न सन्ति
sthaulyaṃ kārśyaṃ vyādhaya ādhayaśca kṣuttṛḍbhayaṃ kaliricchā jarā ca | nidrā ratirmanyurahaṃ madaḥ śuco dehena jātasya hi me na santi
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Fatness, thinness, bodily and mental distress, thirst, hunger, fear, disagreement, desires for material happiness, old age, sleep, attachment for material possessions, anger, lamentation, illusion and identification of the body with the self are all transformations of the material covering of the spirit soul. A person absorbed in the material bodily conception is affected by these things, but I am free from all bodily conceptions. Consequently I am neither fat nor skinny nor anything else you have mentioned.
SB 5.10.11Open verse →
जीवन्मृतत्वं नियमेन राजन् आद्यन्तवद्यद्विकृतस्य दृष्टम् । स्वस्वाम्यभावो ध्रुव ईड्य यत्र तर्ह्युच्यतेऽसौ विधिकृत्ययोगः
jīvanmṛtatvaṃ niyamena rājan ādyantavadyadvikṛtasya dṛṣṭam | svasvāmyabhāvo dhruva īḍya yatra tarhyucyate'sau vidhikṛtyayogaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King, you have unnecessarily accused me of being dead though alive. In this regard, I can only say that this is the case everywhere because everything material has its beginning and end. As far as your thinking that you are the king and master and are thus trying to order me, this is also incorrect because these positions are temporary. Today you are a king and I am your servant, but tomorrow the position may be changed, and you may be my servant and I your master. These are temporary circumstances created by providence.
SB 5.10.12Open verse →
विशेषबुद्धेर्विवरं मनाक्च पश्याम यन्न व्यवहारतोऽन्यत् । क ईश्वरस्तत्र किमीशितव्यं तथापि राजन् करवाम किं ते
viśeṣabuddhervivaraṃ manākca paśyāma yanna vyavahārato'nyat | ka īśvarastatra kimīśitavyaṃ tathāpi rājan karavāma kiṃ te
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King, if you still think that you are the King and that I am your servant, you should order me, and I should follow your order. I can then say that this differentiation is temporary, and it expands only from usage or convention. I do not see any other cause. In that case, who is the master, and who is the servant? Everyone is being forced by the laws of material nature; therefore no one is master, and no one is servant. Nonetheless, if you think that you are the master and that I am the servant, I shall accept this. Please order me. What can I do for you?
SB 5.10.13Open verse →
उन्मत्तमत्तजडवत्स्वसंस्थां गतस्य मे वीर चिकित्सितेन । अर्थः कियान् भवता शिक्षितेन स्तब्धप्रमत्तस्य च पिष्टपेषः
unmattamattajaḍavatsvasaṃsthāṃ gatasya me vīra cikitsitena | arthaḥ kiyān bhavatā śikṣitena stabdhapramattasya ca piṣṭapeṣaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King, you have said, “You rascal, you dull, crazy fellow! I am going to chastise you, and then you will come to your senses.” In this regard, let me say that although I live like a dull, deaf and dumb man, I am actually a self-realized person. What will you gain by punishing me? If your calculation is true and I am a madman, then your punishment will be like beating a dead horse. There will be no effect. When a madman is punished, he is not cured of his madness.
SB 5.10.14Open verse →
श्रीशुक उवाच । एतावदनुवादपरिभाषया प्रत्युदीर्य मुनिवर उपशमशील उपरतानात्म्यनिमित्त उपभोगेन कर्मारब्धं व्यपनयन् राजयानमपि तथोवाह
śrīśuka uvāca | etāvadanuvādaparibhāṣayā pratyudīrya munivara upaśamaśīla uparatānātmyanimitta upabhogena karmārabdhaṃ vyapanayan rājayānamapi tathovāha
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, when King Rahūgaṇa chastised the exalted devotee Jaḍa Bharata with harsh words, that peaceful, saintly person tolerated it all and replied properly. Nescience is due to the bodily conception, and Jaḍa Bharata was not affected by this false conception. Out of his natural humility, he never considered himself a great devotee, and he agreed to suffer the results of his past karma. Like an ordinary man, he thought that by carrying the palanquin he was destroying the reactions of his past misdeeds. Thinking in this way, he began to carry the palanquin as before.
SB 5.10.15Open verse →
स चापि पाण्डवेय सिन्धुसौवीरपतिस्तत्त्व- जिज्ञासायां सम्यक् श्रद्धयाधिकृताधिकार- स्तद्धृदयग्रन्थिमोचनं द्विजवच आश्रुत्य बहु योगग्रन्थसम्मतं त्वरयावरुह्य शिरसा पादमूलमुपसृतः क्षमापयन् विगत- नृपदेवस्मय उवाच
sa cāpi pāṇḍaveya sindhusauvīrapatistattva- jijñāsāyāṃ samyak śraddhayādhikṛtādhikāra- staddhṛdayagranthimocanaṃ dvijavaca āśrutya bahu yogagranthasammataṃ tvarayāvaruhya śirasā pādamūlamupasṛtaḥ kṣamāpayan vigata- nṛpadevasmaya uvāca
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O best of the Pāṇḍu dynasty [Mahārāja Parīkṣit], the King of the Sindhu and Sauvīra states [Mahārāja Rahūgaṇa] had great faith in discussions of the Absolute Truth. Being thus qualified, he heard from Jaḍa Bharata that philosophical presentation which is approved by all scriptures on the mystic yoga process and which slackens the knot in the heart. His material conception of himself as a king was thus destroyed. He immediately descended from his palanquin and fell flat on the ground with his head at the lotus feet of Jaḍa Bharata in such a way that he might be excused for his insulting words against the great brāhmaṇa. He then prayed as follows.
SB 5.10.16Open verse →
कस्त्वं निगूढश्चरसि द्विजानां बिभर्षि सूत्रं कतमोऽवधूतः । कस्यासि कुत्रत्य इहापि कस्मात् क्षेमाय नश्चेदसि नोत शुक्लः
kastvaṃ nigūḍhaścarasi dvijānāṃ bibharṣi sūtraṃ katamo'vadhūtaḥ | kasyāsi kutratya ihāpi kasmāt kṣemāya naścedasi nota śuklaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
King Rahūgaṇa said: O brāhmaṇa, you appear to be moving in this world very much covered and unknown to others. Who are you? Are you a learned brāhmaṇa and saintly person? I see that you are wearing a sacred thread. Are you one of those exalted, liberated saints such as Dattātreya and other highly advanced, learned scholars? May I ask whose disciple you are? Where do you live? Why have you come to this place? Is your mission in coming here to do good for us? Please let me know who you are.
SB 5.10.17Open verse →
नाहं विशङ्के सुरराजवज्रा- न्न त्र्यक्षशूलान्न यमस्य दण्डात् । नाग्न्यर्कसोमानिलवित्तपास्त्रा- च्छङ्के भृशं ब्रह्मकुलावमानात्
nāhaṃ viśaṅke surarājavajrā- nna tryakṣaśūlānna yamasya daṇḍāt | nāgnyarkasomānilavittapāstrā- cchaṅke bhṛśaṃ brahmakulāvamānāt
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear sir, I am not at all afraid of the thunderbolt of King Indra, nor am I afraid of the serpentine, piercing trident of Lord Śiva. I do not care about the punishment of Yamarāja, the superintendent of death, nor am I afraid of fire, scorching sun, moon, wind, nor the weapons of Kuvera. Yet I am afraid of offending a brāhmaṇa. I am very much afraid of this.
SB 5.10.18Open verse →
तद्ब्रूह्यसङ्गो जडवन्निगूढ- विज्ञानवीर्यो विचरस्यपारः । वचांसि योगग्रथितानि साधो न नः क्षमन्ते मनसापि भेत्तुम्
tadbrūhyasaṅgo jaḍavannigūḍha- vijñānavīryo vicarasyapāraḥ | vacāṃsi yogagrathitāni sādho na naḥ kṣamante manasāpi bhettum
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear sir, it appears that the influence of your great spiritual knowledge is hidden. Factually you are bereft of all material association and fully absorbed in the thought of the Supreme. Consequently you are unlimitedly advanced in spiritual knowledge. Please tell me why you are wandering around like a dullard. O great saintly person, you have spoken words approved by the yogic process, but it is not possible for us to understand what you have said. Therefore kindly explain it.
SB 5.10.19Open verse →
अहं च योगेश्वरमात्मतत्त्व- विदां मुनीनां परमं गुरुं वै । प्रष्टुं प्रवृत्तः किमिहारणं तत् साक्षाद्धरिं ज्ञानकलावतीर्णम्
ahaṃ ca yogeśvaramātmatattva- vidāṃ munīnāṃ paramaṃ guruṃ vai | praṣṭuṃ pravṛttaḥ kimihāraṇaṃ tat sākṣāddhariṃ jñānakalāvatīrṇam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
I consider your good self the most exalted master of mystic power. You know the spiritual science perfectly well. You are the most exalted of all learned sages, and you have descended for the benefit of all human society. You have come to give spiritual knowledge, and you are a direct representative of Kapiladeva, the incarnation of God and the plenary portion of knowledge. I am therefore asking you, O spiritual master, what is the most secure shelter in this world?
SB 5.10.20Open verse →
स वै भवाँल्लोकनिरीक्षणार्थ- मव्यक्तलिङ्गो विचरत्यपि स्वित् । योगेश्वराणां गतिमन्धबुद्धिः कथं विचक्षीत गृहानुबन्धः
sa vai bhavā~llokanirīkṣaṇārtha- mavyaktaliṅgo vicaratyapi svit | yogeśvarāṇāṃ gatimandhabuddhiḥ kathaṃ vicakṣīta gṛhānubandhaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Is it not a fact that your good self is the direct representative of Kapiladeva, the incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead? To examine people and see who is actually a human being and who is not, you have presented yourself to be a deaf and dumb person. Are you not moving this way upon the surface of the world? I am very attached to family life and worldly activities, and I am blind to spiritual knowledge. Nonetheless, I am now present before you and am seeking enlightenment from you. How can I advance in spiritual life?
SB 5.10.21Open verse →
दृष्टः श्रमः कर्मत आत्मनो वै भर्तुर्गन्तुर्भवतश्चानुमन्ये । यथासतोदानयनाद्यभावात् समूल इष्टो व्यवहारमार्गः
dṛṣṭaḥ śramaḥ karmata ātmano vai bharturganturbhavataścānumanye | yathāsatodānayanādyabhāvāt samūla iṣṭo vyavahāramārgaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
You have said, “I am not fatigued from labor.” Although the soul is different from the body, there is fatigue because of bodily labor, and it appears to be the fatigue of the soul. When you are carrying the palanquin, there is certainly labor for the soul. This is my conjecture. You have also said that the external behavior exhibited between the master and the servant is not factual, but although in the phenomenal world it is not factual, the products of the phenomenal world can actually affect things. That is visible and experienced. As such, even though material activities are impermanent, they cannot be said to be untrue.
SB 5.10.22Open verse →
स्थाल्यग्नितापात्पयसोऽभिताप- स्तत्तापतस्तण्डुलगर्भरन्धिः । देहेन्द्रियास्वाशयसन्निकर्षा- त्तत्संसृतिः पुरुषस्यानुरोधात्
sthālyagnitāpātpayaso'bhitāpa- stattāpatastaṇḍulagarbharandhiḥ | dehendriyāsvāśayasannikarṣā- ttatsaṃsṛtiḥ puruṣasyānurodhāt
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
King Rahūgaṇa continued: My dear sir, you have said that designations like bodily fatness and thinness are not characteristics of the soul. That is incorrect because designations like pain and pleasure are certainly felt by the soul. You may put a pot of milk and rice within fire, and the milk and rice are automatically heated one after the other. Similarly, due to bodily pains and pleasures, the senses, mind and soul are affected. The soul cannot be completely detached from this conditioning.
SB 5.10.23Open verse →
शास्ताभिगोप्ता नृपतिः प्रजानां यः किङ्करो वै न पिनष्टि पिष्टम् । स्वधर्ममाराधनमच्युतस्य यदीहमानो विजहात्यघौघम्
śāstābhigoptā nṛpatiḥ prajānāṃ yaḥ kiṅkaro vai na pinaṣṭi piṣṭam | svadharmamārādhanamacyutasya yadīhamāno vijahātyaghaugham
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear sir, you have said that the relationship between the king and the subject or between the master and the servant are not eternal, but although such relationships are temporary, when a person takes the position of a king his duty is to rule the citizens and punish those who are disobedient to the laws. By punishing them, he teaches the citizens to obey the laws of the state. Again, you have said that punishing a person who is deaf and dumb is like chewing the chewed or grinding the pulp; that is to say, there is no benefit in it. However, if one is engaged in his own occupational duty as ordered by the Supreme Lord, his sinful activities are certainly diminished. Therefore if one is engaged in his occupational duty by force, he benefits because he can vanquish all his sinful activities in that way.
SB 5.10.24Open verse →
तन्मे भवान् नरदेवाभिमान- मदेन तुच्छीकृतसत्तमस्य । कृषीष्ट मैत्री दृशमार्तबन्धो यथा तरे सदवध्यानमंहः
tanme bhavān naradevābhimāna- madena tucchīkṛtasattamasya | kṛṣīṣṭa maitrī dṛśamārtabandho yathā tare sadavadhyānamaṃhaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Whatever you have spoken appears to me to be contradictory. O best friend of the distressed, I have committed a great offense by insulting you. I was puffed up with false prestige due to possessing the body of a king. For this I have certainly become an offender. Therefore I pray that you kindly glance at me with your causeless mercy. If you do so, I can be relieved from sinful activities brought about by insulting you.
SB 5.10.25Open verse →
न विक्रिया विश्वसुहृत्सखस्य साम्येन वीताभिमतेस्तवापि । महद्विमानात्स्वकृताद्धि मादृ- ङ्नङ्क्ष्यत्यदूरादपि शूलपाणिः
na vikriyā viśvasuhṛtsakhasya sāmyena vītābhimatestavāpi | mahadvimānātsvakṛtāddhi mādṛ- ṅnaṅkṣyatyadūrādapi śūlapāṇiḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O my dear lord, you are the friend of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the friend of all living entities. You are therefore equal to everyone, and you are free from the bodily conception. Although I have committed an offense by insulting you, I know that there is no loss or gain for you due to my insult. You are fixed in your determination, but I have committed an offense. Because of this, even though I may be as strong as Lord Śiva, I shall be vanquished without delay due to my offense at the lotus feet of a Vaiṣṇava.
SB 5.11.1Open verse →
ब्राह्मण उवाच । अकोविदः कोविदवादवादान् वदस्यथो नातिविदां वरिष्ठः । न सूरयो हि व्यवहारमेनं तत्त्वावमर्शेन सहामनन्ति
brāhmaṇa uvāca | akovidaḥ kovidavādavādān vadasyatho nātividāṃ variṣṭhaḥ | na sūrayo hi vyavahāramenaṃ tattvāvamarśena sahāmananti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The brāhmaṇa Jaḍa Bharata said: My dear King, although you are not at all experienced, you are trying to speak like a very experienced man. Consequently you cannot be considered an experienced person. An experienced person does not speak the way you are speaking about the relationship between a master and a servant or about material pains and pleasures. These are simply external activities. Any advanced, experienced man, considering the Absolute Truth, does not talk in this way.
SB 5.11.2Open verse →
तथैव राजन्नुरुगार्हमेध- वितानविद्योरुविजृम्भितेषु । न वेदवादेषु हि तत्त्ववादः प्रायेण शुद्धो नु चकास्ति साधुः
tathaiva rājannurugārhamedha- vitānavidyoruvijṛmbhiteṣu | na vedavādeṣu hi tattvavādaḥ prāyeṇa śuddho nu cakāsti sādhuḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King, talks of the relationship between the master and the servant, the king and the subject and so forth are simply talks about material activities. People interested in material activities which are expounded in the Vedas are intent on performing material sacrifices and placing faith in their material activities. For such people, spiritual advancement is definitely not manifest.
SB 5.11.3Open verse →
न तस्य तत्त्वग्रहणाय साक्षा- द्वरीयसीरपि वाचः समासन् । स्वप्ने निरुक्त्या गृहमेधिसौख्यं न यस्य हेयानुमितं स्वयं स्यात्
na tasya tattvagrahaṇāya sākṣā- dvarīyasīrapi vācaḥ samāsan | svapne niruktyā gṛhamedhisaukhyaṃ na yasya heyānumitaṃ svayaṃ syāt
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
A dream becomes automatically known to a person as false and immaterial, and similarly one eventually realizes that material happiness in this life or the next, on this planet or a higher planet, is insignificant. When one realizes this, the Vedas, although an excellent source, are insufficient to bring about direct knowledge of the truth.
SB 5.11.4Open verse →
यावन्मनो रजसा पूरुषस्य सत्त्वेन वा तमसा वानुरुद्धम् । चेतोभिराकूतिभिरातनोति निरङ्कुशं कुशलं चेतरं वा
yāvanmano rajasā pūruṣasya sattvena vā tamasā vānuruddham | cetobhirākūtibhirātanoti niraṅkuśaṃ kuśalaṃ cetaraṃ vā
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
As long as the mind of the living entity is contaminated by the three modes of material nature (goodness, passion and ignorance), his mind is exactly like an independent, uncontrolled elephant. It simply expands its jurisdiction of pious and impious activities by using the senses. The result is that the living entity remains in the material world to enjoy and suffer pleasures and pains due to material activity.
SB 5.11.5Open verse →
स वासनात्मा विषयोपरक्तो गुणप्रवाहो विकृतः षोडशात्मा । बिभ्रत्पृथङ्नामभि रूपभेद- मन्तर्बहिष्ट्वं च पुरैस्तनोति
sa vāsanātmā viṣayoparakto guṇapravāho vikṛtaḥ ṣoḍaśātmā | bibhratpṛthaṅnāmabhi rūpabheda- mantarbahiṣṭvaṃ ca puraistanoti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Because the mind is absorbed in desires for pious and impious activities, it is naturally subjected to the transformations of lust and anger. In this way, it becomes attracted to material sense enjoyment. In other words, the mind is conducted by the modes of goodness, passion and ignorance. There are eleven senses and five material elements, and out of these sixteen items, the mind is the chief. Therefore the mind brings about birth in different types of bodies among demigods, human beings, animals and birds. When the mind is situated in a higher or lower position, it accepts a higher or lower material body.
SB 5.11.6Open verse →
दुःखं सुखं व्यतिरिक्तं च तीव्रं कालोपपन्नं फलमाव्यनक्ति । आलिङ्ग्य मायारचितान्तरात्मा स्वदेहिनं संसृतिचक्रकूटः
duḥkhaṃ sukhaṃ vyatiriktaṃ ca tīvraṃ kālopapannaṃ phalamāvyanakti | āliṅgya māyāracitāntarātmā svadehinaṃ saṃsṛticakrakūṭaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The materialistic mind covering the living entity’s soul carries it to different species of life. This is called continued material existence. Due to the mind, the living entity suffers or enjoys material distress and happiness. Being thus illusioned, the mind further creates pious and impious activities and their karma, and thus the soul becomes conditioned.
SB 5.11.7Open verse →
तावानयं व्यवहारः सदाविः क्षेत्रज्ञसाक्ष्यो भवति स्थूलसूक्ष्मः । तस्मान्मनो लिङ्गमदो वदन्ति गुणागुणत्वस्य परावरस्य
tāvānayaṃ vyavahāraḥ sadāviḥ kṣetrajñasākṣyo bhavati sthūlasūkṣmaḥ | tasmānmano liṅgamado vadanti guṇāguṇatvasya parāvarasya
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The mind makes the living entity within this material world wander through different species of life, and thus the living entity experiences mundane affairs in different forms as a human being, demigod, fat person, skinny person and so forth. Learned scholars say that bodily appearance, bondage and liberation are caused by the mind.
SB 5.11.8Open verse →
गुणानुरक्तं व्यसनाय जन्तोः क्षेमाय नैर्गुण्यमथो मनः स्यात् । यथा प्रदीपो घृतवर्तिमश्नन् शिखाः सधूमा भजति ह्यन्यदा स्वम् । पदं तथा गुणकर्मानुबद्धं वृत्तीर्मनः श्रयतेऽन्यत्र तत्त्वम्
guṇānuraktaṃ vyasanāya jantoḥ kṣemāya nairguṇyamatho manaḥ syāt | yathā pradīpo ghṛtavartimaśnan śikhāḥ sadhūmā bhajati hyanyadā svam | padaṃ tathā guṇakarmānubaddhaṃ vṛttīrmanaḥ śrayate'nyatra tattvam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When the living entity’s mind becomes absorbed in the sense gratification of the material world, it brings about his conditioned life and suffering within the material situation. However, when the mind becomes unattached to material enjoyment, it becomes the cause of liberation. When the flame in a lamp burns the wick improperly, the lamp is blackened, but when the lamp is filled with ghee and is burning properly, there is bright illumination. Similarly, when the mind is absorbed in material sense gratification, it causes suffering, and when detached from material sense gratification it brings about the original brightness of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
SB 5.11.9Open verse →
एकादशासन्मनसो हि वृत्तय आकूतयः पञ्च धियोऽभिमानः । मात्राणि कर्माणि पुरं च तासां वदन्ति हैकादश वीर भूमीः
ekādaśāsanmanaso hi vṛttaya ākūtayaḥ pañca dhiyo'bhimānaḥ | mātrāṇi karmāṇi puraṃ ca tāsāṃ vadanti haikādaśa vīra bhūmīḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
There are five working senses and five knowledge-acquiring senses. There is also the false ego. In this way, there are eleven items for the mind’s functions. O hero, the objects of the senses [such as sound and touch], the organic activities [such as evacuation] and the different types of bodies, society, friendship and personality are considered by learned scholars the fields of activity for the functions of the mind.
SB 5.11.10Open verse →
गन्धाकृतिस्पर्शरसश्रवांसि विसर्गरत्यर्त्यभिजल्पशिल्पाः । एकादशं स्वीकरणं ममेति शय्यामहं द्वादशमेक आहुः
gandhākṛtisparśarasaśravāṃsi visargaratyartyabhijalpaśilpāḥ | ekādaśaṃ svīkaraṇaṃ mameti śayyāmahaṃ dvādaśameka āhuḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Sound, touch, form, taste and smell are the objects of the five knowledge-acquiring senses. Speech, touch, movement, evacuation and sexual intercourse are the objects of the working senses. Besides this, there is another conception by which one thinks, “This is my body, this is my society, this is my family, this is my nation,” and so forth. This eleventh function of the mind is called the false ego. According to some philosophers, this is the twelfth function, and its field of activity is the body.
SB 5.11.11Open verse →
द्रव्यस्वभावाशयकर्मकालै- रेकादशामी मनसो विकाराः । सहस्रशः शतशः कोटिशश्च क्षेत्रज्ञतो न मिथो न स्वतः स्युः
dravyasvabhāvāśayakarmakālai- rekādaśāmī manaso vikārāḥ | sahasraśaḥ śataśaḥ koṭiśaśca kṣetrajñato na mitho na svataḥ syuḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The physical elements, nature, the original cause, culture, destiny and the time element are all material causes. Agitated by these material causes, the eleven functions transform into hundreds of functions and then into thousands and then into millions. But all these transformations do not take place automatically by mutual combination. Rather, they are under the direction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
SB 5.11.12Open verse →
क्षेत्रज्ञ एता मनसो विभूती- र्जीवस्य मायारचितस्य नित्याः । आविर्हिताः क्वापि तिरोहिताश्च शुद्धो विचष्टे ह्यविशुद्धकर्तुः
kṣetrajña etā manaso vibhūtī- rjīvasya māyāracitasya nityāḥ | āvirhitāḥ kvāpi tirohitāśca śuddho vicaṣṭe hyaviśuddhakartuḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The individual soul bereft of Kṛṣṇa consciousness has many ideas and activities created in the mind by the external energy. They have been existing from time immemorial. Sometimes they are manifest in the wakening state and in the dream state, but during deep sleep [unconsciousness] or trance, they disappear. A person who is liberated in this life [jīvan-mukta] can see all these things vividly.
SB 5.11.15Open verse →
न यावदेतां तनुभृन्नरेन्द्र विधूय मायां वयुनोदयेन । विमुक्तसङ्गो जितषट्सपत्नो वेदात्मतत्त्वं भ्रमतीह तावत्
na yāvadetāṃ tanubhṛnnarendra vidhūya māyāṃ vayunodayena | vimuktasaṅgo jitaṣaṭsapatno vedātmatattvaṃ bhramatīha tāvat
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King Rahūgaṇa, as long as the conditioned soul accepts the material body and is not freed from the contamination of material enjoyment, and as long as he does not conquer his six enemies and come to the platform of self-realization by awakening his spiritual knowledge, he has to wander among different places and different species of life in this material world.
SB 5.11.16Open verse →
न यावदेतन्मन आत्मलिङ्गं संसारतापावपनं जनस्य । यच्छोकमोहामयरागलोभ- वैरानुबन्धं ममतां विधत्ते
na yāvadetanmana ātmaliṅgaṃ saṃsāratāpāvapanaṃ janasya | yacchokamohāmayarāgalobha- vairānubandhaṃ mamatāṃ vidhatte
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The soul’s designation, the mind, is the cause of all tribulations in the material world. As long as this fact is unknown to the conditioned living entity, he has to accept the miserable condition of the material body and wander within this universe in different positions. Because the mind is affected by disease, lamentation, illusion, attachment, greed and enmity, it creates bondage and a false sense of intimacy within this material world.
SB 5.11.17Open verse →
भ्रातृव्यमेनं तददभ्रवीर्य- मुपेक्षयाध्येधितमप्रमत्तः । गुरोर्हरेश्चरणोपासनास्त्रो जहि व्यलीकं स्वयमात्ममोषम्
bhrātṛvyamenaṃ tadadabhravīrya- mupekṣayādhyedhitamapramattaḥ | gurorhareścaraṇopāsanāstro jahi vyalīkaṃ svayamātmamoṣam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
This uncontrolled mind is the greatest enemy of the living entity. If one neglects it or gives it a chance, it will grow more and more powerful and will become victorious. Although it is not factual, it is very strong. It covers the constitutional position of the soul. O King, please try to conquer this mind by the weapon of service to the lotus feet of the spiritual master and of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Do this with great care.
SB 5.12.1Open verse →
रहूगण उवाच । नमो नमः कारणविग्रहाय स्वरूपतुच्छीकृतविग्रहाय । नमोऽवधूतद्विजबन्धुलिङ्ग- निगूढनित्यानुभवाय तुभ्यम्
rahūgaṇa uvāca | namo namaḥ kāraṇavigrahāya svarūpatucchīkṛtavigrahāya | namo'vadhūtadvijabandhuliṅga- nigūḍhanityānubhavāya tubhyam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
King Rahūgaṇa said: O most exalted personality, you are not different from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. By the influence of your true self, all kinds of contradiction in the śāstras have been removed. In the dress of a friend of a brāhmaṇa, you are hiding your transcendental blissful position. I offer my respectful obeisances unto you.
SB 5.12.2Open verse →
ज्वरामयार्तस्य यथागदं स- न्निदाघदग्धस्य यथा हिमाम्भः । कुदेहमानाहिविदष्टदृष्टे- र्ब्रह्मन्वचस्तेऽमृतमौषधं मे
jvarāmayārtasya yathāgadaṃ sa- nnidāghadagdhasya yathā himāmbhaḥ | kudehamānāhividaṣṭadṛṣṭe- rbrahmanvacaste'mṛtamauṣadhaṃ me
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O best of the brāhmaṇas, my body is filled with dirty things, and my vision has been bitten by the serpent of pride. Due to my material conceptions, I am diseased. Your nectarean instructions are the proper medicine for one suffering from such a fever, and they are cooling waters for one scorched by the heat.
SB 5.12.3Open verse →
तस्माद्भवन्तं मम संशयार्थं प्रक्ष्यामि पश्चादधुना सुबोधम् । अध्यात्मयोगग्रथितं तवोक्त- माख्याहि कौतूहलचेतसो मे
tasmādbhavantaṃ mama saṃśayārthaṃ prakṣyāmi paścādadhunā subodham | adhyātmayogagrathitaṃ tavokta- mākhyāhi kautūhalacetaso me
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Whatever doubts I have about a particular subject matter I shall ask you about later. For the time being, these mysterious yoga instructions you have given me for self-realization appear very difficult to understand. Please repeat them in a simple way so that I can understand them. My mind is very inquisitive, and I want to understand this clearly.
SB 5.12.4Open verse →
यदाह योगेश्वर दृश्यमानं क्रियाफलं सद्व्यवहारमूलम् । न ह्यञ्जसा तत्त्वविमर्शनाय भवानमुष्मिन् भ्रमते मनो मे
yadāha yogeśvara dṛśyamānaṃ kriyāphalaṃ sadvyavahāramūlam | na hyañjasā tattvavimarśanāya bhavānamuṣmin bhramate mano me
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O master of yogic power, you said that fatigue resulting from moving the body here and there is appreciated by direct perception but actually there is no fatigue. It simply exists as a matter of formality. By such inquiries and answers, no one can come to the conclusion of the Absolute Truth. Because of your presentation of this statement, my mind is a little disturbed.
SB 5.12.7Open verse →
शोच्यानिमांस्त्वमधिकष्टदीनान् विष्ट्या निगृह्णन् निरनुग्रहोऽसि । जनस्य गोप्तास्मि विकत्थमानो न शोभसे वृद्धसभासु धृष्टः
śocyānimāṃstvamadhikaṣṭadīnān viṣṭyā nigṛhṇan niranugraho'si | janasya goptāsmi vikatthamāno na śobhase vṛddhasabhāsu dhṛṣṭaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
It is a fact, however, that these innocent people carrying your palanquin without payment are certainly suffering due to this injustice. Their condition is very lamentable because you have forcibly engaged them in carrying your palanquin. This proves that you are cruel and unkind, yet due to false prestige you were thinking that you were protecting the citizens. This is ludicrous. You were such a fool that you could not have been adored as a great man in an assembly of persons advanced in knowledge.
SB 5.12.8Open verse →
यदा क्षितावेव चराचरस्य विदाम निष्ठां प्रभवं च नित्यम् । तन्नामतोऽन्यद्व्यवहारमूलं निरूप्यतां सत्क्रिययानुमेयम्
yadā kṣitāveva carācarasya vidāma niṣṭhāṃ prabhavaṃ ca nityam | tannāmato'nyadvyavahāramūlaṃ nirūpyatāṃ satkriyayānumeyam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
All of us on the surface of the globe are living entities in different forms. Some of us are moving and some not moving. All of us come into existence, remain for some time and are annihilated when the body is again mingled with the earth. We are all simply different transformations of the earth. Different bodies and capacities are simply transformations of the earth that exist in name only, for everything grows out of the earth and when everything is annihilated it again mingles with the earth. In other words, we are but dust, and we shall but be dust. Everyone can consider this point.
SB 5.12.9Open verse →
एवं निरुक्तं क्षितिशब्दवृत्त- मसन्निधानात्परमाणवो ये । अविद्यया मनसा कल्पितास्ते येषां समूहेन कृतो विशेषः
evaṃ niruktaṃ kṣitiśabdavṛtta- masannidhānātparamāṇavo ye | avidyayā manasā kalpitāste yeṣāṃ samūhena kṛto viśeṣaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
One may say that varieties arise from the planet earth itself. However, although the universe may temporarily appear to be the truth, it ultimately has no real existence. The earth was originally created by a combination of atomic particles, but these particles are impermanent. Actually the atom is not the cause of the universe, although some philosophers think so. It is not a fact that the varieties found in this material world simply result from atomic juxtaposition or combination.
SB 5.12.10Open verse →
एवं कृशं स्थूलमणुर्बृहद्य- दसच्च सज्जीवमजीवमन्यत् । द्रव्यस्वभावाशयकालकर्म- नाम्नाजयावेहि कृतं द्वितीयम्
evaṃ kṛśaṃ sthūlamaṇurbṛhadya- dasacca sajjīvamajīvamanyat | dravyasvabhāvāśayakālakarma- nāmnājayāvehi kṛtaṃ dvitīyam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Since this universe has no real ultimate existence, the things within it — shortness, differences, grossness, skinniness, smallness, bigness, result, cause, living symptoms, and materials — are all imagined. They are all pots made of the same substance, earth, but they are named differently. The differences are characterized by the substance, nature, predisposition, time and activity. You should know that all these are simply mechanical manifestations created by material nature.
SB 5.12.11Open verse →
ज्ञानं विशुद्धं परमार्थमेक- मनन्तरं त्वबहिर्ब्रह्म सत्यम् । प्रत्यक्प्रशान्तं भगवच्छब्दसंज्ञं यद्वासुदेवं कवयो वदन्ति
jñānaṃ viśuddhaṃ paramārthameka- manantaraṃ tvabahirbrahma satyam | pratyakpraśāntaṃ bhagavacchabdasaṃjñaṃ yadvāsudevaṃ kavayo vadanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
What, then, is the ultimate truth? The answer is that nondual knowledge is the ultimate truth. It is devoid of the contamination of material qualities. It gives us liberation. It is the one without a second, all-pervading and beyond imagination. The first realization of that knowledge is Brahman. Then Paramātmā, the Supersoul, is realized by the yogīs who try to see Him without grievance. This is the second stage of realization. Finally, full realization of the same supreme knowledge is realized in the Supreme Person. All learned scholars describe the Supreme Person as Vāsudeva, the cause of Brahman, Paramātmā and others.
SB 5.12.12Open verse →
रहूगणैतत्तपसा न याति न चेज्यया निर्वपणाद्गृहाद्वा । न छन्दसा नैव जलाग्निसूर्यै- र्विना महत्पादरजोऽभिषेकम्
rahūgaṇaitattapasā na yāti na cejyayā nirvapaṇādgṛhādvā | na chandasā naiva jalāgnisūryai- rvinā mahatpādarajo'bhiṣekam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King Rahūgaṇa, unless one has the opportunity to smear his entire body with the dust of the lotus feet of great devotees, one cannot realize the Absolute Truth. One cannot realize the Absolute Truth simply by observing celibacy [brahmacarya], strictly following the rules and regulations of householder life, leaving home as a vānaprastha, accepting sannyāsa, or undergoing severe penances in winter by keeping oneself submerged in water or surrounding oneself in summer by fire and the scorching heat of the sun. There are many other processes to understand the Absolute Truth, but the Absolute Truth is only revealed to one who has attained the mercy of a great devotee.
SB 5.12.13Open verse →
यत्रोत्तमश्लोकगुणानुवादः प्रस्तूयते ग्राम्यकथाविघातः । निषेव्यमाणोऽनुदिनं मुमुक्षो- र्मतिं सतीं यच्छति वासुदेवे
yatrottamaślokaguṇānuvādaḥ prastūyate grāmyakathāvighātaḥ | niṣevyamāṇo'nudinaṃ mumukṣo- rmatiṃ satīṃ yacchati vāsudeve
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Who are the pure devotees mentioned here? In an assembly of pure devotees, there is no question of discussing material subjects like politics and sociology. In an assembly of pure devotees, there is discussion only of the qualities, forms and pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is praised and worshiped with full attention. In the association of pure devotees, by constantly hearing such topics respectfully, even a person who wants to merge into the existence of the Absolute Truth abandons this idea and gradually becomes attached to the service of Vāsudeva.
SB 5.12.14Open verse →
अहं पुरा भरतो नाम राजा विमुक्तदृष्टश्रुतसङ्गबन्धः । आराधनं भगवत ईहमानो मृगोऽभवं मृगसङ्गाद्धतार्थः
ahaṃ purā bharato nāma rājā vimuktadṛṣṭaśrutasaṅgabandhaḥ | ārādhanaṃ bhagavata īhamāno mṛgo'bhavaṃ mṛgasaṅgāddhatārthaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In a previous birth I was known as Mahārāja Bharata. I attained perfection by becoming completely detached from material activities through direct experience, and through indirect experience I received understanding from the Vedas. I was fully engaged in the service of the Lord, but due to my misfortune, I became very affectionate to a small deer, so much so that I neglected my spiritual duties. Due to my deep affection for the deer, in my next life I had to accept the body of a deer.
SB 5.12.15Open verse →
सा मां स्मृतिर्मृगदेहेऽपि वीर कृष्णार्चनप्रभवा नो जहाति । अथो अहं जनसङ्गादसङ्गो विशङ्कमानोऽविवृतश्चरामि
sā māṃ smṛtirmṛgadehe'pi vīra kṛṣṇārcanaprabhavā no jahāti | atho ahaṃ janasaṅgādasaṅgo viśaṅkamāno'vivṛtaścarāmi
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear heroic King, due to my past sincere service to the Lord, I could remember everything of my past life even while in the body of a deer. Because I am aware of the falldown in my past life, I always keep myself separate from the association of ordinary men. Being afraid of their bad, materialistic association, I wander alone unnoticed by others.
SB 5.12.16Open verse →
तस्मान्नरोऽसङ्गसुसङ्गजात- ज्ञानासिनेहैव विवृक्णमोहः । हरिं तदीहाकथनश्रुताभ्यां लब्धस्मृतिर्यात्यतिपारमध्वनः
tasmānnaro'saṅgasusaṅgajāta- jñānāsinehaiva vivṛkṇamohaḥ | hariṃ tadīhākathanaśrutābhyāṃ labdhasmṛtiryātyatipāramadhvanaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Simply by associating with exalted devotees, anyone can attain perfection of knowledge and with the sword of knowledge can cut to pieces the illusory associations within this material world. Through the association of devotees, one can engage in the service of the Lord by hearing and chanting [śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam]. Thus one can revive his dormant Kṛṣṇa consciousness and, sticking to the cultivation of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, return home, back to Godhead, even in this life.
SB 5.13.1Open verse →
ब्राह्मण उवाच । दुरत्ययेऽध्वन्यजया निवेशितो रजस्तमःसत्त्वविभक्तकर्मदृक् । स एष सार्थोऽर्थपरः परिभ्रमन् भवाटवीं याति न शर्म विन्दति
brāhmaṇa uvāca | duratyaye'dhvanyajayā niveśito rajastamaḥsattvavibhaktakarmadṛk | sa eṣa sārtho'rthaparaḥ paribhraman bhavāṭavīṃ yāti na śarma vindati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Jaḍa Bharata, who had fully realized Brahman, continued: My dear King Rahūgaṇa, the living entity wanders on the path of the material world, which is very difficult for him to traverse, and he accepts repeated birth and death. Being captivated by the material world under the influence of the three modes of material nature (sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa), the living entity can see only the three fruits of activities under the spell of material nature. These fruits are auspicious, inauspicious and mixed. He thus becomes attached to religion, economic development, sense gratification and the monistic theory of liberation (merging with the Supreme). He works very hard day and night exactly like a merchant who enters a forest to acquire some articles to sell later for profit. However, he cannot really achieve happiness within this material world.
SB 5.13.2Open verse →
यस्यामिमे षण्नरदेव दस्यवः सार्थं विलुम्पन्ति कुनायकं बलात् । गोमायवो यत्र हरन्ति सार्थिकं प्रमत्तमाविश्य यथोरणं वृकाः
yasyāmime ṣaṇnaradeva dasyavaḥ sārthaṃ vilumpanti kunāyakaṃ balāt | gomāyavo yatra haranti sārthikaṃ pramattamāviśya yathoraṇaṃ vṛkāḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O King Rahūgaṇa, in this forest of material existence there are six very powerful plunderers. When the conditioned soul enters the forest to acquire some material gain, the six plunderers misguide him. Thus the conditioned merchant does not know how to spend his money, and it is taken away by these plunderers. Like tigers, jackals and other ferocious animals in a forest that are ready to take away a lamb from the custody of its protector, the wife and children enter the heart of the merchant and plunder him in so many ways.
SB 5.13.3Open verse →
प्रभूतवीरुत्तृणगुल्मगह्वरे कठोरदंशैर्मशकैरुपद्रुतः । क्वचित्तु गन्धर्वपुरं प्रपश्यति क्वचित्क्वचिच्चाशु रयोल्मुकग्रहम्
prabhūtavīruttṛṇagulmagahvare kaṭhoradaṃśairmaśakairupadrutaḥ | kvacittu gandharvapuraṃ prapaśyati kvacitkvaciccāśu rayolmukagraham
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In this forest there are dense bowers composed of thickets of bushes, grass and creepers. In these bowers the conditioned soul is always disturbed by cruelly biting mosquitoes [envious people]. Sometimes he sees an imaginary palace in the forest, and sometimes he is bewildered by seeing a fleeting fiend or ghost, which appears like a meteor in the sky.
SB 5.13.4Open verse →
निवासतोयद्रविणात्मबुद्धि- स्ततस्ततो धावति भो अटव्याम् । क्वचिच्च वात्योत्थितपांसुधूम्रा दिशो न जानाति रजस्वलाक्षः
nivāsatoyadraviṇātmabuddhi- statastato dhāvati bho aṭavyām | kvacicca vātyotthitapāṃsudhūmrā diśo na jānāti rajasvalākṣaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King, the merchant on the forest path of the material world, his intelligence victimized by home, wealth, relatives and so forth, runs from one place to another in search of success. Sometimes his eyes are covered by the dust of a whirlwind — that is to say, in his lust he is captivated by the beauty of his wife, especially during her menstrual period. Thus his eyes are blinded, and he cannot see where to go or what he is doing.
SB 5.13.5Open verse →
अदृश्यझिल्लीस्वनकर्णशूल उलूकवाग्भिर्व्यथितान्तरात्मा । अपुण्यवृक्षान् श्रयते क्षुधार्दितो मरीचितोयान्यभिधावति क्वचित्
adṛśyajhillīsvanakarṇaśūla ulūkavāgbhirvyathitāntarātmā | apuṇyavṛkṣān śrayate kṣudhārdito marīcitoyānyabhidhāvati kvacit
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Wandering in the forest of the material world, the conditioned soul sometimes hears an invisible cricket making harsh sounds, and his ears become very much aggrieved. Sometimes his heart is pained by the sounds of owls, which are just like the harsh words of his enemies. Sometimes he takes shelter of a tree that has no fruits or flowers. He approaches such a tree due to his strong appetite, and thus he suffers. He would like to acquire water, but he is simply illusioned by a mirage, and he runs after it.
SB 5.13.6Open verse →
क्वचिद्वितोयाः सरितोऽभियाति परस्परं चालषते निरन्धः । आसाद्य दावं क्वचिदग्नितप्तो निर्विद्यते क्व च यक्षैर्हृतासुः
kvacidvitoyāḥ sarito'bhiyāti parasparaṃ cālaṣate nirandhaḥ | āsādya dāvaṃ kvacidagnitapto nirvidyate kva ca yakṣairhṛtāsuḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Sometimes the conditioned soul jumps into a shallow river, or being short of food grains, he goes to beg food from people who are not at all charitable. Sometimes he suffers from the burning heat of household life, which is like a forest fire, and sometimes he becomes sad to have his wealth, which is as dear as life, plundered by kings in the name of heavy income taxes.
SB 5.13.7Open verse →
शूरैर्हृतस्वः क्व च निर्विण्णचेताः शोचन्विमुह्यन्नुपयाति कश्मलम् । क्वचिच्च गन्धर्वपुरं प्रविष्टः प्रमोदते निर्वृतवन्मुहूर्तम्
śūrairhṛtasvaḥ kva ca nirviṇṇacetāḥ śocanvimuhyannupayāti kaśmalam | kvacicca gandharvapuraṃ praviṣṭaḥ pramodate nirvṛtavanmuhūrtam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Sometimes, being defeated or plundered by a superior, powerful agent, a living entity loses all his possessions. He then becomes very morose, and lamenting their loss, he sometimes becomes unconscious. Sometimes he imagines a great palatial city in which he desires to live happily with his family members and riches. He thinks himself fully satisfied if this is possible, but such so-called happiness continues only for a moment.
SB 5.13.8Open verse →
चलन् क्वचित्कण्टकशर्कराङ्घ्रि- र्नगारुरुक्षुर्विमना इवास्ते । पदे पदेऽभ्यन्तरवह्निनार्दितः कौटुम्बिकः क्रुध्यति वै जनाय
calan kvacitkaṇṭakaśarkarāṅghri- rnagārurukṣurvimanā ivāste | pade pade'bhyantaravahninārditaḥ kauṭumbikaḥ krudhyati vai janāya
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Sometimes the merchant in the forest wants to climb the hills and mountains, but due to insufficient footwear, his feet are pricked by small stone fragments and by thorns on the mountain. Being pricked by them, he becomes very aggrieved. Sometimes a person who is very attached to his family becomes overwhelmed with hunger, and due to his miserable condition he becomes furious with his family members.
SB 5.13.9Open verse →
क्वचिन्निगीर्णोऽजगराहिना जनो नावैति किञ्चिद्विपिनेऽपविद्धः । दष्टः स्म शेते क्व च दन्दशूकै- रन्धोऽन्धकूपे पतितस्तमिस्रे
kvacinnigīrṇo'jagarāhinā jano nāvaiti kiñcidvipine'paviddhaḥ | daṣṭaḥ sma śete kva ca dandaśūkai- randho'ndhakūpe patitastamisre
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The conditioned soul in the material forest is sometimes swallowed by a python or crushed. At such a time he is left lying in the forest like a dead person, devoid of consciousness and knowledge. Sometimes other poisonous snakes bite him. Being blind to his consciousness, he falls down into a dark well of hellish life with no hope of being rescued.
SB 5.13.10Open verse →
कर्हि स्म चित्क्षुद्ररसान् विचिन्वं- स्तन्मक्षिकाभिर्व्यथितो विमानः । तत्रातिकृच्छ्रात्प्रतिलब्धमानो बलाद्विलुम्पन्त्यथ तं ततोऽन्ये
karhi sma citkṣudrarasān vicinvaṃ- stanmakṣikābhirvyathito vimānaḥ | tatrātikṛcchrātpratilabdhamāno balādvilumpantyatha taṃ tato'nye
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Sometimes, in order to have a little insignificant sex enjoyment, one searches after debauched women. In this attempt, one is insulted and chastised by the women’s kinsmen. This is like going to take honey from a beehive and being attacked by the bees. Sometimes, after spending lots of money, one may acquire another woman for some extra sense enjoyment. Unfortunately, the object of sense enjoyment, the woman, is taken away or kidnapped by another debauchee.
SB 5.13.11Open verse →
क्वचिच्च शीतातपवातवर्ष- प्रतिक्रियां कर्तुमनीश आस्ते । क्वचिन्मिथो विपणन् यच्च किञ्चि- द्विद्वेषमृच्छत्युत वित्तशाठ्यात्
kvacicca śītātapavātavarṣa- pratikriyāṃ kartumanīśa āste | kvacinmitho vipaṇan yacca kiñci- dvidveṣamṛcchatyuta vittaśāṭhyāt
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Sometimes the living entity is busy counteracting the natural disturbances of freezing cold, scorching heat, strong wind, excessive rainfall and so forth. When he is unable to do so, he becomes very unhappy. Sometimes he is cheated in business transactions one after another. In this way, by cheating, living entities create enmity among themselves.
SB 5.13.12Open verse →
क्वचित्क्वचित्क्षीणधनस्तु तस्मिन् शय्यासनस्थानविहारहीनः । याचन् परादप्रतिलब्धकामः पारक्यदृष्टिर्लभतेऽवमानम्
kvacitkvacitkṣīṇadhanastu tasmin śayyāsanasthānavihārahīnaḥ | yācan parādapratilabdhakāmaḥ pārakyadṛṣṭirlabhate'vamānam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
On the forest path of material existence, sometimes a person is without wealth and due to this does not have a proper home, bed or sitting place, nor proper family enjoyment. He therefore goes to beg money from others, but when his desires are not fulfilled by begging, he wants to borrow or steal the property of others. Thus he is insulted in society.
SB 5.13.13Open verse →
अन्योन्यवित्तव्यतिषङ्गवृद्ध- वैरानुबन्धो विवहन् मिथश्च । अध्वन्यमुष्मिन्नुरुकृच्छ्रवित्त- बाधोपसर्गैर्विहरन् विपन्नः
anyonyavittavyatiṣaṅgavṛddha- vairānubandho vivahan mithaśca | adhvanyamuṣminnurukṛcchravitta- bādhopasargairviharan vipannaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Due to monetary transactions, relationships become very strained and end in enmity. Sometimes the husband and wife walk on the path of material progress, and to maintain their relationship they work very hard. Sometimes due to scarcity of money or due to diseased conditions, they are embarrassed and almost die.
SB 5.13.14Open verse →
तांस्तान् विपन्नान् स हि तत्र तत्र विहाय जातं परिगृह्य सार्थः । आवर्ततेऽद्यापि न कश्चिदत्र वीराध्वनः पारमुपैति योगम्
tāṃstān vipannān sa hi tatra tatra vihāya jātaṃ parigṛhya sārthaḥ | āvartate'dyāpi na kaścidatra vīrādhvanaḥ pāramupaiti yogam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King, on the forest path of material life, first a person is bereft of his father and mother, and after their death he becomes attached to his newly born children. In this way he wanders on the path of material progress and is eventually embarrassed. Nonetheless, no one knows how to get out of this, even up to the moment of death.
SB 5.13.15Open verse →
मनस्विनो निर्जितदिग्गजेन्द्रा ममेति सर्वे भुवि बद्धवैराः । मृधे शयीरन् न तु तद्व्रजन्ति यन्न्यस्तदण्डो गतवैरोऽभियाति
manasvino nirjitadiggajendrā mameti sarve bhuvi baddhavairāḥ | mṛdhe śayīran na tu tadvrajanti yannyastadaṇḍo gatavairo'bhiyāti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
There were and are many political and social heroes who have conquered enemies of equal power, yet due to their ignorance in believing that the land is theirs, they fight one another and lay down their lives in battle. They are not able to take up the spiritual path accepted by those in the renounced order. Although they are big heroes and political leaders, they cannot take to the path of spiritual realization.
SB 5.13.16Open verse →
प्रसज्जति क्वापि लता भुजाश्रय- स्तदाश्रयाव्यक्तपदद्विजस्पृहः । क्वचित्कदाचिद्धरिचक्रतस्त्रसन् सख्यं विधत्ते बककङ्कगृध्रैः
prasajjati kvāpi latā bhujāśraya- stadāśrayāvyaktapadadvijaspṛhaḥ | kvacitkadāciddharicakratastrasan sakhyaṃ vidhatte bakakaṅkagṛdhraiḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Sometimes the living entity in the forest of material existence takes shelter of creepers and desires to hear the chirping of the birds in those creepers. Being afraid of roaring lions in the forest, he makes friends with cranes, herons and vultures.
SB 5.13.17Open verse →
तैर्वञ्चितो हंसकुलं समाविश- न्नरोचयन् शीलमुपैति वानरान् । तज्जातिरासेन सुनिर्वृतेन्द्रियः परस्परोद्वीक्षणविस्मृतावधिः
tairvañcito haṃsakulaṃ samāviśa- nnarocayan śīlamupaiti vānarān | tajjātirāsena sunirvṛtendriyaḥ parasparodvīkṣaṇavismṛtāvadhiḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Being cheated by them, the living entity in the forest of the material world tries to give up the association of these so-called yogīs, svāmīs and incarnations and come to the association of real devotees, but due to misfortune he cannot follow the instructions of the spiritual master or advanced devotees; therefore he gives up their company and again returns to the association of monkeys who are simply interested in sense gratification and women. He derives satisfaction by associating with sense gratifiers and enjoying sex and intoxication. In this way he spoils his life simply by indulging in sex and intoxication. Looking into the faces of other sense gratifiers, he becomes forgetful and thus approaches death.
SB 5.13.18Open verse →
द्रुमेषु रंस्यन् सुतदारवत्सलो व्यवायदीनो विवशः स्वबन्धने । क्वचित्प्रमादाद्गिरिकन्दरे पतन् वल्लीं गृहीत्वा गजभीत आस्थितः
drumeṣu raṃsyan sutadāravatsalo vyavāyadīno vivaśaḥ svabandhane | kvacitpramādādgirikandare patan vallīṃ gṛhītvā gajabhīta āsthitaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When the living entity becomes exactly like a monkey jumping from one branch to another, he remains in the tree of household life without any profit but sex. Thus he is kicked by his wife just like the he-ass. Unable to gain release, he remains helplessly in that position. Sometimes he falls victim to an incurable disease, which is like falling into a mountain cave. He becomes afraid of death, which is like the elephant in the back of that cave, and he remains stranded, grasping at the twigs and branches of a creeper.
SB 5.13.19Open verse →
अतः कथञ्चित्स विमुक्त आपदः पुनश्च सार्थं प्रविशत्यरिन्दम । अध्वन्यमुष्मिन्नजया निवेशितो भ्रमञ्जनोऽद्यापि न वेद कश्चन
ataḥ kathañcitsa vimukta āpadaḥ punaśca sārthaṃ praviśatyarindama | adhvanyamuṣminnajayā niveśito bhramañjano'dyāpi na veda kaścana
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O killer of enemies, Mahārāja Rahūgaṇa, if the conditioned soul somehow or other gets out of his dangerous position, he again returns to his home to enjoy sex life, for that is the way of attachment. Thus, under the spell of the Lord’s material energy, he continues to loiter in the forest of material existence. He does not discover his real interest even at the point of death.
SB 5.13.20Open verse →
रहूगण त्वमपि ह्यध्वनोऽस्य सन्न्यस्तदण्डः कृतभूतमैत्रः । असज्जितात्मा हरिसेवया शितं ज्ञानासिमादाय तरातिपारम्
rahūgaṇa tvamapi hyadhvano'sya sannyastadaṇḍaḥ kṛtabhūtamaitraḥ | asajjitātmā harisevayā śitaṃ jñānāsimādāya tarātipāram
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King Rahūgaṇa, you are also a victim of the external energy, being situated on the path of attraction to material pleasure. So that you may become an equal friend to all living entities, I now advise you to give up your kingly position and the rod by which you punish criminals. Give up attraction to the sense objects and take up the sword of knowledge sharpened by devotional service. Then you will be able to cut the hard knot of illusory energy and cross to the other side of the ocean of nescience.
SB 5.13.21Open verse →
राजोवाच । अहो नृजन्माखिलजन्मशोभनं किं जन्मभिस्त्वपरैरप्यमुष्मिन् । न यद्धृषीकेशयशःकृतात्मनां महात्मनां वः प्रचुरः समागमः
rājovāca | aho nṛjanmākhilajanmaśobhanaṃ kiṃ janmabhistvaparairapyamuṣmin | na yaddhṛṣīkeśayaśaḥkṛtātmanāṃ mahātmanāṃ vaḥ pracuraḥ samāgamaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
King Rahūgaṇa said: This birth as a human being is the best of all. Even birth among the demigods in the heavenly planets is not as glorious as birth as a human being on this earth. What is the use of the exalted position of a demigod? In the heavenly planets, due to profuse material comforts, there is no possibility of associating with devotees.
SB 5.13.22Open verse →
न ह्यद्भुतं त्वच्चरणाब्जरेणुभि- र्हतांहसो भक्तिरधोक्षजेऽमला । मौहूर्तिकाद्यस्य समागमाच्च मे दुस्तर्कमूलोऽपहतोऽविवेकः
na hyadbhutaṃ tvaccaraṇābjareṇubhi- rhatāṃhaso bhaktiradhokṣaje'malā | mauhūrtikādyasya samāgamācca me dustarkamūlo'pahato'vivekaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
It is not at all wonderful that simply by being covered by the dust of your lotus feet, one immediately attains the platform of pure devotional service to Adhokṣaja, which is not available even to great demigods like Brahmā. By associating with you just for a moment, I am now freed from all argument, false prestige and lack of discrimination, which are the roots of entanglement in the material world. Now I am free from all these problems.
SB 5.13.23Open verse →
नमो महद्भ्योऽस्तु नमः शिशुभ्यो नमो युवभ्यो नम आवटुभ्यः । ये ब्राह्मणा गामवधूतलिङ्गा- श्चरन्ति तेभ्यः शिवमस्तु राज्ञाम्
namo mahadbhyo'stu namaḥ śiśubhyo namo yuvabhyo nama āvaṭubhyaḥ | ye brāhmaṇā gāmavadhūtaliṅgā- ścaranti tebhyaḥ śivamastu rājñām
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
I offer my respectful obeisances unto the great personalities, whether they walk on the earth’s surface as children, young boys, avadhūtas or great brāhmaṇas. Even if they are hidden under different guises, I offer my respects to all of them. By their mercy, may there be good fortune in the royal dynasties that are always offending them.
SB 5.13.24Open verse →
श्रीशुक उवाच । इत्येवमुत्तरामातः स वै ब्रह्मर्षिसुतः सिन्धुपतय आत्मसतत्त्वं विगणयतः परानुभावः परमकारुणिकतयोपदिश्य रहूगणेन सकरुणमभिवन्दितचरण आपूर्णार्णव इव निभृतकरणोर्म्याशयो धरणिमिमां विचचार
śrīśuka uvāca | ityevamuttarāmātaḥ sa vai brahmarṣisutaḥ sindhupataya ātmasatattvaṃ vigaṇayataḥ parānubhāvaḥ paramakāruṇikatayopadiśya rahūgaṇena sakaruṇamabhivanditacaraṇa āpūrṇārṇava iva nibhṛtakaraṇormyāśayo dharaṇimimāṃ vicacāra
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, O son of mother Uttarā, there were some waves of dissatisfaction in the mind of Jaḍa Bharata due to his being insulted by King Rahūgaṇa, who made him carry his palanquin, but Jaḍa Bharata neglected this, and his heart again became calm and quiet like an ocean. Although King Rahūgaṇa had insulted him, he was a great paramahaṁsa. Being a Vaiṣṇava, he was naturally very kindhearted, and he therefore told the King about the constitutional position of the soul. He then forgot the insult because King Rahūgaṇa pitifully begged pardon at his lotus feet. After this, he began to wander all over the earth, just as before.
SB 5.13.25Open verse →
सौवीरपतिरपि सुजनसमवगतपरमात्मसतत्त्व आत्मन्यविद्याध्यारोपितां च देहात्ममतिं विससर्ज एवं हि नृप भगवदाश्रिताश्रितानुभावः
sauvīrapatirapi sujanasamavagataparamātmasatattva ātmanyavidyādhyāropitāṃ ca dehātmamatiṃ visasarja evaṃ hi nṛpa bhagavadāśritāśritānubhāvaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
After receiving lessons from the great devotee Jaḍa Bharata, King Rahūgaṇa of the state of Sauvīra became completely aware of the constitutional position of the soul. He thus gave up the bodily conception completely. My dear King, whoever takes shelter of the servant of the servant of the Lord is certainly glorified because he can without difficulty give up the bodily conception.
SB 5.13.26Open verse →
राजोवाच । यो ह वा इह बहुविदा महाभागवत त्वयाभिहितः परोक्षेण वचसा जीवलोकभवाध्वा स ह्यार्य मनीषया कल्पितविषयो नाञ्जसाव्युत्पन्नलोक- समधिगमः अथ तदेवैतद्दुरवगमं समवेता- नुकल्पेन निर्दिश्यतामिति
rājovāca | yo ha vā iha bahuvidā mahābhāgavata tvayābhihitaḥ parokṣeṇa vacasā jīvalokabhavādhvā sa hyārya manīṣayā kalpitaviṣayo nāñjasāvyutpannaloka- samadhigamaḥ atha tadevaitadduravagamaṃ samavetā- nukalpena nirdiśyatāmiti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
King Parīkṣit then told Śukadeva Gosvāmī: My dear lord, O great devotee sage, you are omniscient. You have very nicely described the position of the conditioned soul, who is compared to a merchant in the forest. From these instructions intelligent men can understand that the senses of a person in the bodily conception are like rogues and thieves in that forest, and one’s wife and children are like jackals and other ferocious animals. However, it is not very easy for the unintelligent to understand the purport of this story because it is difficult to extricate the exact meaning from the allegory. I therefore request Your Holiness to give the direct meaning.
SB 5.14.1Open verse →
स होवाच । य एष देहात्ममानिनां सत्त्वादिगुणविशेषविकल्पित- कुशलाकुशलसमवहारविनिर्मितविविधदेहावलिभि- र्वियोगसंयोगादि अनादिसंसारानुभवस्य द्वारभूतेन षडिन्द्रियवर्गेण तस्मिन् दुर्गाध्ववदसुगमेऽध्व- न्यापतित ईश्वरस्य भगवतो विष्णोर्वशवर्तिन्या मायया जीवलोकोऽयं यथा वणिक्सार्थोऽर्थपरः स्वदेहनिष्पादितकर्मानुभवः श्मशानवदशिवतमायां संसाराटव्यां गतो नाद्यापि विफलबहुप्रतियोगेहस्त- त्तापोपशमनीं हरिगुरुचरणारविन्दमधुकरानुपदवी- मवरुन्धे
sa hovāca | ya eṣa dehātmamānināṃ sattvādiguṇaviśeṣavikalpita- kuśalākuśalasamavahāravinirmitavividhadehāvalibhi- rviyogasaṃyogādi anādisaṃsārānubhavasya dvārabhūtena ṣaḍindriyavargeṇa tasmin durgādhvavadasugame'dhva- nyāpatita īśvarasya bhagavato viṣṇorvaśavartinyā māyayā jīvaloko'yaṃ yathā vaṇiksārtho'rthaparaḥ svadehaniṣpāditakarmānubhavaḥ śmaśānavadaśivatamāyāṃ saṃsārāṭavyāṃ gato nādyāpi viphalabahupratiyogehasta- ttāpopaśamanīṃ harigurucaraṇāravindamadhukarānupadavī- mavarundhe
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When King Parīkṣit asked Śukadeva Gosvāmī about the direct meaning of the material forest, Śukadeva Gosvāmī replied as follows: My dear King, a man belonging to the mercantile community [vaṇik] is always interested in earning money. Sometimes he enters the forest to acquire some cheap commodities like wood and earth and sell them in the city at good prices. Similarly, the conditioned soul, being greedy, enters this material world for some material profit. Gradually he enters the deepest part of the forest, not really knowing how to get out. Having entered the material world, the pure soul becomes conditioned by the material atmosphere, which is created by the external energy under the control of Lord Viṣṇu. Thus the living entity comes under the control of the external energy, daivī māyā. Living independently and bewildered in the forest, he does not attain the association of devotees who are always engaged in the service of the Lord. Once in the bodily conception, he gets different types of bodies one after the other under the influence of material energy and impelled by the modes of material nature [sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa]. In this way the conditioned soul goes sometimes to the heavenly planets, sometimes to the earthly planets and sometimes to the lower planets and lower species. Thus he suffers continuously due to different types of bodies. These sufferings and pains are sometimes mixed. Sometimes they are very severe, and sometimes they are not. These bodily conditions are acquired due to the conditioned soul’s mental speculation. He uses his mind and five senses to acquire knowledge, and these bring about the different bodies and different conditions. Using the senses under the control of the external energy, māyā, the living entity suffers the miserable conditions of material existence. He is actually searching for relief, but he is generally baffled, although sometimes he is relieved after great difficulty. Struggling for existence in this way, he cannot get the shelter of pure devotees, who are like bumblebees engaged in loving service at the lotus feet of Lord Viṣṇu.
SB 5.14.2Open verse →
यस्यामु ह वा एते षडिन्द्रियनामानः कर्मणा दस्यव एव ते तद्यथा पुरुषस्य धनं यत्किञ्चिद्धर्मौपयिकं बहु कृच्छ्राधिगतं साक्षात्परमपुरुषाराधनलक्षणो योऽसौ धर्मस्तं तु साम्पराय उदाहरन्ति । तद्धर्म्यं धनं दर्शन- स्पर्शनश्रवणास्वादनावघ्राणसङ्कल्पव्यवसायगृह- ग्राम्योपभोगेन कुनाथस्याजितात्मनो यथा सार्थस्य विलुम्पन्ति
yasyāmu ha vā ete ṣaḍindriyanāmānaḥ karmaṇā dasyava eva te tadyathā puruṣasya dhanaṃ yatkiñciddharmaupayikaṃ bahu kṛcchrādhigataṃ sākṣātparamapuruṣārādhanalakṣaṇo yo'sau dharmastaṃ tu sāmparāya udāharanti | taddharmyaṃ dhanaṃ darśana- sparśanaśravaṇāsvādanāvaghrāṇasaṅkalpavyavasāyagṛha- grāmyopabhogena kunāthasyājitātmano yathā sārthasya vilumpanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In the forest of material existence, the uncontrolled senses are like plunderers. The conditioned soul may earn some money for the advancement of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, but unfortunately the uncontrolled senses plunder his money through sense gratification. The senses are plunderers because they make one spend his money unnecessarily for seeing, smelling, tasting, touching, hearing, desiring and willing. In this way the conditioned soul is obliged to gratify his senses, and thus all his money is spent. This money is actually acquired for the execution of religious principles, but it is taken away by the plundering senses.
SB 5.14.3Open verse →
अथ च यत्र कौटुम्बिका दारापत्यादयो नाम्ना कर्मणा वृकसृगाला एवानिच्छतोऽपि कदर्यस्य कुटुम्बिन उरणकवत्संरक्ष्यमाणं मिषतोऽपि हरन्ति
atha ca yatra kauṭumbikā dārāpatyādayo nāmnā karmaṇā vṛkasṛgālā evānicchato'pi kadaryasya kuṭumbina uraṇakavatsaṃrakṣyamāṇaṃ miṣato'pi haranti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King, family members in this material world go under the names of wife and children, but actually they behave like tigers and jackals. A herdsman tries to protect his sheep to the best of his ability, but the tigers and foxes take them away by force. Similarly, although a miserly man wants to guard his money very carefully, his family members take away all his assets forcibly, even though he is very vigilant.
SB 5.14.4Open verse →
यथा ह्यनुवत्सरं कृष्यमाणमप्यदग्धबीजं क्षेत्रं पुनरेवावपनकाले गुल्मतृणवीरुद्भिर्गह्वरमिव भवत्येवमेव गृहाश्रमः कर्मक्षेत्रं यस्मिन् न हि कर्माण्युत्सीदन्ति यदयं कामकरण्ड एष आवसथः
yathā hyanuvatsaraṃ kṛṣyamāṇamapyadagdhabījaṃ kṣetraṃ punarevāvapanakāle gulmatṛṇavīrudbhirgahvaramiva bhavatyevameva gṛhāśramaḥ karmakṣetraṃ yasmin na hi karmāṇyutsīdanti yadayaṃ kāmakaraṇḍa eṣa āvasathaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Every year the plowman plows over his grain field, completely uprooting all weeds. Nonetheless, the seeds lie there and, not being completely burned, again come up with the plants sown in the field. Even after being plowed under, the weeds come up densely. Similarly, the gṛhastha-āśrama [family life] is a field of fruitive activity. Unless the desire to enjoy family life is completely burned out, it grows up again and again. Even though camphor may be removed from a pot, the pot nonetheless retains the aroma of camphor. As long as the seeds of desire are not destroyed, fruitive activities are not destroyed.
SB 5.14.5Open verse →
तत्र गतो दंशमशकसमापसदैर्मनुजैः शलभ- शकुन्ततस्करमूषकादिभिरुपरुध्यमानबहिःप्राणः क्वचित्परिवर्तमानोऽस्मिन्नध्वन्यविद्याकामकर्मभि- रुपरक्तमनसानुपपन्नार्थं नरलोकं गन्धर्वनगर- मुपपन्नमिति मिथ्यादृष्टिरनुपश्यति
tatra gato daṃśamaśakasamāpasadairmanujaiḥ śalabha- śakuntataskaramūṣakādibhiruparudhyamānabahiḥprāṇaḥ kvacitparivartamāno'sminnadhvanyavidyākāmakarmabhi- ruparaktamanasānupapannārthaṃ naralokaṃ gandharvanagara- mupapannamiti mithyādṛṣṭiranupaśyati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Sometimes the conditioned soul in household life, being attached to material wealth and possessions, is disturbed by gadflies and mosquitoes, and sometimes locusts, birds of prey and rats give him trouble. Nonetheless, he still wanders down the path of material existence. Due to ignorance he becomes lusty and engages in fruitive activity. Because his mind is absorbed in these activities, he sees the material world as permanent, although it is temporary like a phantasmagoria, a house in the sky.
SB 5.14.6Open verse →
तत्र च क्वचिदातपोदकनिभान् विषयानुपधावति पानभोजनव्यवायादि व्यसनलोलुपः
tatra ca kvacidātapodakanibhān viṣayānupadhāvati pānabhojanavyavāyādi vyasanalolupaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Sometimes in this house in the sky [gandharva-pura] the conditioned soul drinks, eats and has sex. Being overly attached, he chases after the objects of the senses just as a deer chases a mirage in the desert.
SB 5.14.7Open verse →
क्वचिच्चाशेषदोषनिषदनं पुरीषविशेषं तद्वर्णगुण- निर्मितमतिः सुवर्णमुपादित्सत्यग्निकामकातर इवोल्मुकपिशाचम्
kvaciccāśeṣadoṣaniṣadanaṃ purīṣaviśeṣaṃ tadvarṇaguṇa- nirmitamatiḥ suvarṇamupāditsatyagnikāmakātara ivolmukapiśācam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Sometimes the living entity is interested in the yellow stool known as gold and runs after it. That gold is the source of material opulence and envy, and it can enable one to afford illicit sex, gambling, meat-eating and intoxication. Those whose minds are overcome by the mode of passion are attracted by the color of gold, just as a man suffering from cold in the forest runs after a phosphorescent light in a marshy land, considering it to be fire.
SB 5.14.8Open verse →
अथ कदाचिन्निवासपानीयद्रविणाद्यनेकात्मो- पजीवनाभिनिवेश एतस्यां संसाराटव्यामितस्ततः परिधावति
atha kadācinnivāsapānīyadraviṇādyanekātmo- pajīvanābhiniveśa etasyāṃ saṃsārāṭavyāmitastataḥ paridhāvati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Sometimes the conditioned soul is absorbed in finding residential quarters or apartments and getting a supply of water and riches to maintain his body. Absorbed in acquiring a variety of necessities, he forgets everything and perpetually runs around the forest of material existence.
SB 5.14.9Open verse →
क्वचिच्च वात्यौपम्यया प्रमदयाऽऽरोहमारोपित- स्तत्कालरजसा रजनीभूत इवासाधुमर्यादो रजस्वलाक्षोऽपि दिग्देवता अतिरजस्वलमतिर्न विजानाति
kvacicca vātyaupamyayā pramadayā''rohamāropita- statkālarajasā rajanībhūta ivāsādhumaryādo rajasvalākṣo'pi digdevatā atirajasvalamatirna vijānāti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Sometimes, as if blinded by the dust of a whirlwind, the conditioned soul sees the beauty of the opposite sex, which is called pramadā. Being thus bewildered, he is raised upon the lap of a woman, and at that time his good senses are overcome by the force of passion. He thus becomes almost blind with lusty desire and disobeys the rules and regulations governing sex life. He does not know that his disobedience is witnessed by different demigods, and he enjoys illicit sex in the dead of night, not seeing the future punishment awaiting him.
SB 5.14.10Open verse →
क्वचित्सकृदवगतविषयवैतथ्यः स्वयं पराभिध्यानेन विभ्रंशितस्मृतिस्तयैव मरीचितोयप्रायांस्तानेवाभिधावति
kvacitsakṛdavagataviṣayavaitathyaḥ svayaṃ parābhidhyānena vibhraṃśitasmṛtistayaiva marīcitoyaprāyāṃstānevābhidhāvati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The conditioned soul sometimes personally appreciates the futility of sense enjoyment in the material world, and he sometimes considers material enjoyment to be full of miseries. However, due to his strong bodily conception, his memory is destroyed, and again and again he runs after material enjoyment, just as an animal runs after a mirage in the desert.
SB 5.14.11Open verse →
क्वचिदुलूकझिल्लीस्वनवदतिपरुषरभसाटोपं प्रत्यक्षं परोक्षं वा रिपुराजकुलनिर्भर्त्सितेना- तिव्यथितकर्णमूलहृदयः
kvacidulūkajhillīsvanavadatiparuṣarabhasāṭopaṃ pratyakṣaṃ parokṣaṃ vā ripurājakulanirbhartsitenā- tivyathitakarṇamūlahṛdayaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Sometimes the conditioned soul is very aggrieved by the chastisement of his enemies and government servants, who use harsh words against him directly or indirectly. At that time his heart and ears become very saddened. Such chastisement may be compared to the sounds of owls and crickets.
SB 5.14.12Open verse →
स यदा दुग्धपूर्वसुकृतस्तदा कारस्करकाकतुण्डा- द्यपुण्यद्रुमलताविषोदपानवदुभयार्थशून्यद्रविणान् जीवन्मृतान् स्वयं जीवन् म्रियमाण उपधावति
sa yadā dugdhapūrvasukṛtastadā kāraskarakākatuṇḍā- dyapuṇyadrumalatāviṣodapānavadubhayārthaśūnyadraviṇān jīvanmṛtān svayaṃ jīvan mriyamāṇa upadhāvati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Due to his pious activities in previous lives, the conditioned soul attains material facilities in this life, but when they are finished, he takes shelter of wealth and riches, which cannot help him in this life or the next. Because of this, he approaches the living dead who possess these things. Such people are compared to impure trees, creepers and poisonous wells.
SB 5.14.13Open verse →
एकदासत्प्रसङ्गान्निकृतमतिर्व्युदकस्रोतः स्खलनव- दुभयतोऽपि दुःखदं पाखण्डमभियाति
ekadāsatprasaṅgānnikṛtamatirvyudakasrotaḥ skhalanava- dubhayato'pi duḥkhadaṃ pākhaṇḍamabhiyāti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Sometimes, to mitigate distresses in this forest of the material world, the conditioned soul receives cheap blessings from atheists. He then loses all intelligence in their association. This is exactly like jumping in a shallow river. As a result one simply breaks his head. He is not able to mitigate his sufferings from the heat, and in both ways he suffers. The misguided conditioned soul also approaches so-called sādhus and svāmīs who preach against the principles of the Vedas. He does not receive benefit from them, either in the present or in the future.
SB 5.14.14Open verse →
यदा तु परबाधयान्ध आत्मने नोपनमति तदा हि पितृपुत्रबर्हिष्मतः पितृपुत्रान् वा स खलु भक्षयति
yadā tu parabādhayāndha ātmane nopanamati tadā hi pitṛputrabarhiṣmataḥ pitṛputrān vā sa khalu bhakṣayati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In this material world, when the conditioned soul cannot arrange for his own maintenance, despite exploiting others, he tries to exploit his own father or son, taking away that relative’s possessions, although they may be very insignificant. If he cannot acquire things from his father, son or other relatives, he is prepared to give them all kinds of trouble.
SB 5.14.15Open verse →
क्वचिदासाद्य गृहं दाववत्प्रियार्थविधुरमसुखोदर्कं शोकाग्निना दह्यमानो भृशं निर्वेदमुपगच्छति
kvacidāsādya gṛhaṃ dāvavatpriyārthavidhuramasukhodarkaṃ śokāgninā dahyamāno bhṛśaṃ nirvedamupagacchati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In this world, family life is exactly like a blazing fire in the forest. There is not the least happiness, and gradually one becomes more and more implicated in unhappiness. In household life, there is nothing favorable for perpetual happiness. Being implicated in home life, the conditioned soul is burned by the fire of lamentation. Sometimes he condemns himself as being very unfortunate, and sometimes he claims that he suffers because he performed no pious activities in his previous life.
SB 5.14.16Open verse →
क्वचित्कालविषमितराजकुलरक्षसापहृतप्रियतम- धनासुः प्रमृतक इव विगतजीवलक्षण आस्ते
kvacitkālaviṣamitarājakularakṣasāpahṛtapriyatama- dhanāsuḥ pramṛtaka iva vigatajīvalakṣaṇa āste
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Government men are always like carnivorous demons called Rākṣasas [man-eaters]. Sometimes these government men turn against the conditioned soul and take away all his accumulated wealth. Being bereft of his life’s reserved wealth, the conditioned soul loses all enthusiasm. Indeed, it is as though he loses his life.
SB 5.14.17Open verse →
कदाचिन्मनोरथोपगतपितृपितामहाद्यसत्सदिति स्वप्ननिर्वृतिलक्षणमनुभवति
kadācinmanorathopagatapitṛpitāmahādyasatsaditi svapnanirvṛtilakṣaṇamanubhavati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Sometimes the conditioned soul imagines that his father or grandfather has again come in the form of his son or grandson. In this way he feels the happiness one sometimes feels in a dream, and the conditioned soul sometimes takes pleasure in such mental concoctions.
SB 5.14.18Open verse →
क्वचिद्गृहाश्रमकर्मचोदनातिभरगिरि- मारुरुक्षमाणो लोकव्यसनकर्षितमनाः कण्टकशर्कराक्षेत्रं प्रविशन्निव सीदति
kvacidgṛhāśramakarmacodanātibharagiri- mārurukṣamāṇo lokavyasanakarṣitamanāḥ kaṇṭakaśarkarākṣetraṃ praviśanniva sīdati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In household life one is ordered to execute many yajñas and fruitive activities, especially the vivāha-yajña [the marriage ceremony for sons and daughters] and the sacred thread ceremony. These are all the duties of a gṛhastha, and they are very extensive and troublesome to execute. They are compared to a big hill over which one must cross when one is attached to material activities. A person desiring to cross over these ritualistic ceremonies certainly feels pains like the piercing of thorns and pebbles endured by one attempting to climb a hill. Thus the conditioned soul suffers unlimitedly.
SB 5.14.19Open verse →
क्वचिच्च दुःसहेन कायाभ्यन्तरवह्निना गृहीतसारः स्वकुटुम्बाय क्रुध्यति
kvacicca duḥsahena kāyābhyantaravahninā gṛhītasāraḥ svakuṭumbāya krudhyati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Sometimes, due to bodily hunger and thirst, the conditioned soul becomes so disturbed that he loses his patience and becomes angry with his own beloved sons, daughters and wife. Thus, being unkind to them, he suffers all the more.
SB 5.14.20Open verse →
स एव पुनर्निद्राजगरगृहीतोऽन्धे तमसि मग्नः शून्यारण्य इव शेते नान्यत्किञ्चन वेद शव इवापविद्धः
sa eva punarnidrājagaragṛhīto'ndhe tamasi magnaḥ śūnyāraṇya iva śete nānyatkiñcana veda śava ivāpaviddhaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued speaking to Mahārāja Parīkṣit: My dear King, sleep is exactly like a python. Those who wander in the forest of material life are always devoured by the python of sleep. Being bitten by this python, they always remain in the darkness of ignorance. They are like dead bodies thrown in a distant forest. Thus the conditioned souls cannot understand what is going on in life.
SB 5.14.21Open verse →
कदाचिद्भग्नमानदंष्ट्रो दुर्जनदन्दशूकैरलब्ध- निद्राक्षणो व्यथितहृदयेनानुक्षीयमाणविज्ञानो- ऽन्धकूपेऽन्धवत्पतति
kadācidbhagnamānadaṃṣṭro durjanadandaśūkairalabdha- nidrākṣaṇo vyathitahṛdayenānukṣīyamāṇavijñāno- 'ndhakūpe'ndhavatpatati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In the forest of the material world, the conditioned soul is sometimes bitten by envious enemies, which are compared to serpents and other creatures. Through the tricks of the enemy, the conditioned soul falls from his prestigious position. Being anxious, he cannot even sleep properly. He thus becomes more and more unhappy, and he gradually loses his intelligence and consciousness. In that state he becomes almost perpetually like a blind man who has fallen into a dark well of ignorance.
SB 5.14.22Open verse →
कर्हि स्म चित्काममधुलवान् विचिन्वन् यदा परदारपरद्रव्याण्यवरुन्धानो राज्ञा स्वामिभिर्वा निहतः पतत्यपारे निरये
karhi sma citkāmamadhulavān vicinvan yadā paradāraparadravyāṇyavarundhāno rājñā svāmibhirvā nihataḥ patatyapāre niraye
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The conditioned soul is sometimes attracted to the little happiness derived from sense gratification. Thus he has illicit sex or steals another’s property. At such a time he may be arrested by the government or chastised by the woman’s husband or protector. Thus simply for a little material satisfaction, he falls into a hellish condition and is put into jail for rape, kidnapping, theft and so forth.
SB 5.14.23Open verse →
अथ च तस्मादुभयथापि हि कर्मास्मिन्नात्मनः संसारावपनमुदाहरन्ति
atha ca tasmādubhayathāpi hi karmāsminnātmanaḥ saṃsārāvapanamudāharanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Learned scholars and transcendentalists therefore condemn the materialistic path of fruitive activity because it is the original source and breeding ground of material miseries, both in this life and in the next.
SB 5.14.24Open verse →
मुक्तस्ततो यदि बन्धाद्देवदत्त उपाच्छिनत्ति तस्मादपि विष्णुमित्र इत्यनवस्थितिः
muktastato yadi bandhāddevadatta upācchinatti tasmādapi viṣṇumitra ityanavasthitiḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Stealing or cheating another person out of his money, the conditioned soul somehow or other keeps it in his possession and escapes punishment. Then another man, named Devadatta, cheats him and takes the money away. Similarly, another man, named Viṣṇumitra, steals the money from Devadatta and takes it away. In any case, the money does not stay in one place. It passes from one hand to another. Ultimately no one can enjoy the money, and it remains the property of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
SB 5.14.25Open verse →
क्वचिच्च शीतवाताद्यनेकाधिदैविकभौतिका- त्मीयानां दशानां प्रतिनिवारणेऽकल्पो दुरन्तचिन्तया विषण्ण आस्ते
kvacicca śītavātādyanekādhidaivikabhautikā- tmīyānāṃ daśānāṃ pratinivāraṇe'kalpo durantacintayā viṣaṇṇa āste
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Being unable to protect himself from the threefold miseries of material existence, the conditioned soul becomes very morose and lives a life of lamentation. These threefold miseries are miseries suffered by mental calamity at the hands of the demigods [such as freezing wind and scorching heat], miseries offered by other living entities, and miseries arising from the mind and body themselves.
SB 5.14.26Open verse →
क्वचिन्मिथो व्यवहरन् यत्किञ्चिद्धनमन्येभ्यो वा काकिणिकामात्रमप्यपहरन् यत्किञ्चिद्वा विद्वेषमेति वित्तशाठ्यात्
kvacinmitho vyavaharan yatkiñciddhanamanyebhyo vā kākiṇikāmātramapyapaharan yatkiñcidvā vidveṣameti vittaśāṭhyāt
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
As far as transactions with money are concerned, if one person cheats another by a farthing or less, they become enemies.
SB 5.14.27Open verse →
अध्वन्यमुष्मिन्निम उपसर्गास्तथा सुखदुःख- रागद्वेषभयाभिमानप्रमादोन्मादशोकमोहलोभ- मात्सर्येर्ष्यावमानक्षुत्पिपासाऽऽधिव्याधिजन्म- जरामरणादयः
adhvanyamuṣminnima upasargāstathā sukhaduḥkha- rāgadveṣabhayābhimānapramādonmādaśokamohalobha- mātsaryerṣyāvamānakṣutpipāsā''dhivyādhijanma- jarāmaraṇādayaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In this materialistic life, there are many difficulties, as I have just mentioned, and all of these are insurmountable. In addition, there are difficulties arising from so-called happiness, distress, attachment, hate, fear, false prestige, illusion, madness, lamentation, bewilderment, greed, envy, enmity, insult, hunger, thirst, tribulation, disease, birth, old age and death. All these combine together to give the materialistic conditioned soul nothing but misery.
SB 5.14.28Open verse →
क्वापि देवमायया स्त्रिया भुजलतोपगूढः प्रस्कन्न- विवेकविज्ञानो यद्विहारगृहारम्भाकुलहृदय- स्तदाश्रयावसक्तसुतदुहितृकलत्रभाषितावलोक- विचेष्टितापहृतहृदय आत्मानमजितात्मापारेऽन्धे तमसि प्रहिणोति
kvāpi devamāyayā striyā bhujalatopagūḍhaḥ praskanna- vivekavijñāno yadvihāragṛhārambhākulahṛdaya- stadāśrayāvasaktasutaduhitṛkalatrabhāṣitāvaloka- viceṣṭitāpahṛtahṛdaya ātmānamajitātmāpāre'ndhe tamasi prahiṇoti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Sometimes the conditioned soul is attracted by illusion personified (his wife or girlfriend) and becomes eager to be embraced by a woman. Thus he loses his intelligence as well as knowledge of life’s goal. At that time, no longer attempting spiritual cultivation, he becomes overly attached to his wife or girlfriend and tries to provide her with a suitable apartment. Again, he becomes very busy under the shelter of that home and is captivated by the talks, glances and activities of his wife and children. In this way he loses his Kṛṣṇa consciousness and throws himself in the dense darkness of material existence.
SB 5.14.29Open verse →
कदाचिदीश्वरस्य भगवतो विष्णोश्चक्रात्परमाण्वादि द्विपरार्धापवर्गकालोपलक्षणात्परिवर्तितेन वयसा रंहसा हरत आब्रह्मतृणस्तम्बादीनां भूतानामनिमिषतो मिषतां वित्रस्तहृदयस्तमेवेश्वरं कालचक्रनिजायुधं साक्षाद्भगवन्तं यज्ञपुरुषमनादृत्य पाखण्डदेवताः कङ्कगृध्रबकवटप्राया आर्यसमयपरिहृताः साङ्केत्येनाभिधत्ते
kadācidīśvarasya bhagavato viṣṇoścakrātparamāṇvādi dviparārdhāpavargakālopalakṣaṇātparivartitena vayasā raṃhasā harata ābrahmatṛṇastambādīnāṃ bhūtānāmanimiṣato miṣatāṃ vitrastahṛdayastameveśvaraṃ kālacakranijāyudhaṃ sākṣādbhagavantaṃ yajñapuruṣamanādṛtya pākhaṇḍadevatāḥ kaṅkagṛdhrabakavaṭaprāyā āryasamayaparihṛtāḥ sāṅketyenābhidhatte
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The personal weapon used by Lord Kṛṣṇa, the disc, is called hari-cakra, the disc of Hari. This cakra is the wheel of time. It expands from the beginning of the atoms up to the time of Brahmā’s death, and it controls all activities. It is always revolving and spending the lives of the living entities, from Lord Brahmā down to an insignificant blade of grass. Thus one changes from infancy, to childhood, to youth and maturity, and thus one approaches the end of life. It is impossible to check this wheel of time. This wheel is very exacting because it is the personal weapon of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Sometimes the conditioned soul, fearing the approach of death, wants to worship someone who can save him from imminent danger. Yet he does not care for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose weapon is the indefatigable time factor. The conditioned soul instead takes shelter of a man-made god described in unauthorized scriptures. Such gods are like buzzards, vultures, herons and crows. Vedic scriptures do not refer to them. Imminent death is like the attack of a lion, and neither vultures, buzzards, crows nor herons can save one from such an attack. One who takes shelter of unauthorized man-made gods cannot be saved from the clutches of death.
SB 5.14.30Open verse →
यदा पाखण्डिभिरात्मवञ्चितैस्तैरुरुवञ्चितो ब्रह्मकुलं समावसंस्तेषां शीलमुपनयनादि श्रौतस्मार्तकर्मा- नुष्ठानेन भगवतो यज्ञपुरुषस्याराधनमेव तदरोचयन् शूद्रकुलं भजते निगमाचारेऽशुद्धितो यस्य मिथुनीभावः कुटुम्बभरणं यथा वानरजातेः
yadā pākhaṇḍibhirātmavañcitaistairuruvañcito brahmakulaṃ samāvasaṃsteṣāṃ śīlamupanayanādi śrautasmārtakarmā- nuṣṭhānena bhagavato yajñapuruṣasyārādhanameva tadarocayan śūdrakulaṃ bhajate nigamācāre'śuddhito yasya mithunībhāvaḥ kuṭumbabharaṇaṃ yathā vānarajāteḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The pseudo svāmīs, yogīs and incarnations who do not believe in the Supreme Personality of Godhead are known as pāṣaṇḍīs. They themselves are fallen and cheated because they do not know the real path of spiritual advancement, and whoever goes to them is certainly cheated in his turn. When one is thus cheated, he sometimes takes shelter of the real followers of Vedic principles [brāhmaṇas or those in Kṛṣṇa consciousness], who teach everyone how to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead according to the Vedic rituals. However, being unable to stick to these principles, these rascals again fall down and take shelter among śūdras who are very expert in making arrangements for sex indulgence. Sex is very prominent among animals like monkeys, and such people who are enlivened by sex may be called descendants of monkeys.
SB 5.14.31Open verse →
तत्रापि निरवरोधः स्वैरेण विहरन्नतिकृपणबुद्धि- रन्योन्यमुखनिरीक्षणादिना ग्राम्यकर्मणैव विस्मृतकालावधिः
tatrāpi niravarodhaḥ svaireṇa viharannatikṛpaṇabuddhi- ranyonyamukhanirīkṣaṇādinā grāmyakarmaṇaiva vismṛtakālāvadhiḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In this way the descendants of the monkeys intermingle with each other, and they are generally known as śūdras. Without hesitating, they live and move freely, not knowing the goal of life. They are captivated simply by seeing the faces of one another, which remind them of sense gratification. They are always engaged in material activities, known as grāmya-karma, and they work hard for material benefit. Thus they forget completely that one day their small life spans will be finished and they will be degraded in the evolutionary cycle.
SB 5.14.32Open verse →
क्वचिद्द्रुमवदैहिकार्थेषु गृहेषु रंस्यन् यथा वानरः सुतदारवत्सलो व्यवायक्षणः
kvaciddrumavadaihikārtheṣu gṛheṣu raṃsyan yathā vānaraḥ sutadāravatsalo vyavāyakṣaṇaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Just as a monkey jumps from one tree to another, the conditioned soul jumps from one body to another. As the monkey is ultimately captured by the hunter and is unable to get out of captivity, the conditioned soul, being captivated by momentary sex pleasure, becomes attached to different types of bodies and is encaged in family life. Family life affords the conditioned soul a festival of momentary sex pleasure, and thus he is completely unable to get out of the material clutches.
SB 5.14.33Open verse →
एवमध्वन्यवरुन्धानो मृत्युगजभयात्तमसि गिरिकन्दरप्राये
evamadhvanyavarundhāno mṛtyugajabhayāttamasi girikandaraprāye
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In this material world, when the conditioned soul forgets his relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead and does not care for Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he simply engages in different types of mischievous and sinful activities. He is then subjected to the threefold miseries, and, out of fear of the elephant of death, he falls into the darkness found in a mountain cave.
SB 5.14.34Open verse →
क्वचिच्छीतवाताद्यनेकदैविकभौतिकात्मीयानां दुःखानां प्रतिनिवारणेऽकल्पो दुरन्तविषयविषण्ण आस्ते
kvacicchītavātādyanekadaivikabhautikātmīyānāṃ duḥkhānāṃ pratinivāraṇe'kalpo durantaviṣayaviṣaṇṇa āste
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The conditioned soul suffers many miserable bodily conditions, such as being affected by severe cold and strong winds. He also suffers due to the activities of other living beings and due to natural disturbances. When he is unable to counteract them and has to remain in a miserable condition, he naturally becomes very morose because he wants to enjoy material facilities.
SB 5.14.35Open verse →
क्वचिन्मिथो व्यवहरन् यत्किञ्चिद्धनमुपयाति वित्तशाठ्येन
kvacinmitho vyavaharan yatkiñciddhanamupayāti vittaśāṭhyena
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Sometimes conditioned souls exchange money, but in due course of time, enmity arises because of cheating. Although there may be a tiny profit, the conditioned souls cease to be friends and become enemies.
SB 5.14.36Open verse →
क्वचित्क्षीणधनः शय्यासनाशनाद्युपभोगविहीनो यावदप्रतिलब्धमनोरथोपगतादानेऽवसितमति- स्ततस्ततोऽवमानादीनि जनादभिलभते
kvacitkṣīṇadhanaḥ śayyāsanāśanādyupabhogavihīno yāvadapratilabdhamanorathopagatādāne'vasitamati- statastato'vamānādīni janādabhilabhate
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Sometimes, having no money, the conditioned soul does not get sufficient accommodations. Sometimes he doesn’t even have a place to sit, nor does he have the other necessities. In other words, he falls into scarcity, and at that time, when he is unable to secure the necessities by fair means, he decides to seize the property of others unfairly. When he cannot get the things he wants, he simply receives insults from others and thus becomes very morose.
SB 5.14.37Open verse →
एवं वित्तव्यतिषङ्गविवृद्धवैरानुबन्धोऽपि पूर्ववासनया मिथ उद्वहत्यथापवहति
evaṃ vittavyatiṣaṅgavivṛddhavairānubandho'pi pūrvavāsanayā mitha udvahatyathāpavahati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Although people may be enemies, in order to fulfill their desires again and again, they sometimes get married. Unfortunately, these marriages do not last very long, and the people involved are separated again by divorce or other means.
SB 5.14.38Open verse →
एतस्मिन् संसाराध्वनि नानाक्लेशोपसर्गबाधित आपन्नविपन्नो यत्र यस्तमु ह वावेतरस्तत्र विसृज्य जातं जातमुपादाय शोचन्मुह्यन्बिभ्य- द्विवदन् क्रन्दन्संहृष्यन् गायन्नह्यमानः साधुवर्जितो नैवावर्ततेऽद्यापि यत आरब्ध एष नरलोकसार्थो यमध्वनः पारमुपदिशन्ति
etasmin saṃsārādhvani nānākleśopasargabādhita āpannavipanno yatra yastamu ha vāvetarastatra visṛjya jātaṃ jātamupādāya śocanmuhyanbibhya- dvivadan krandansaṃhṛṣyan gāyannahyamānaḥ sādhuvarjito naivāvartate'dyāpi yata ārabdha eṣa naralokasārtho yamadhvanaḥ pāramupadiśanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The path of this material world is full of material miseries, and various troubles disturb the conditioned souls. Sometimes he loses, and sometimes he gains. In either case, the path is full of danger. Sometimes the conditioned soul is separated from his father by death or other circumstances. Leaving him aside he gradually becomes attached to others, such as his children. In this way, the conditioned soul is sometimes illusioned and afraid. Sometimes he cries loudly out of fear. Sometimes he is happy maintaining his family, and sometimes he is overjoyed and sings melodiously. In this way he becomes entangled and forgets his separation from the Supreme Personality of Godhead since time immemorial. Thus he traverses the dangerous path of material existence, and on this path he is not at all happy. Those who are self-realized simply take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in order to get out of this dangerous material existence. Without accepting the devotional path, one cannot get out of the clutches of material existence. The conclusion is that no one can be happy in material life. One must take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
SB 5.14.39Open verse →
यदिदं योगानुशासनं न वा एतदवरुन्धते यन्न्यस्तदण्डा मुनय उपशमशीला उपरतात्मानः समवगच्छन्ति
yadidaṃ yogānuśāsanaṃ na vā etadavarundhate yannyastadaṇḍā munaya upaśamaśīlā uparatātmānaḥ samavagacchanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Saintly persons, who are friends to all living entities, have a peaceful consciousness. They have controlled their senses and minds, and they easily attain the path of liberation, the path back to Godhead. Being unfortunate and attached to the miserable material conditions, a materialistic person cannot associate with them.
SB 5.14.40Open verse →
यदपि दिगिभजयिनो यज्विनो ये वै राजर्षयः किं तु परं मृधे शयीरन्नस्यामेव ममेयमिति कृतवैरानुबन्धायां विसृज्य स्वयमुपसंहृताः
yadapi digibhajayino yajvino ye vai rājarṣayaḥ kiṃ tu paraṃ mṛdhe śayīrannasyāmeva mameyamiti kṛtavairānubandhāyāṃ visṛjya svayamupasaṃhṛtāḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
There were many great saintly kings who were very expert in performing sacrificial rituals and very competent in conquering other kingdoms, yet despite their power they could not attain the loving service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is because those great kings could not even conquer the false consciousness of “I am this body, and this is my property.” Thus they simply created enmity with rival kings, fought with them and died without having discharged life’s real mission.
SB 5.14.41Open verse →
कर्मवल्लीमवलम्ब्य तत आपदः कथञ्चिन्नरकाद्विमुक्तः पुनरप्येवं संसाराध्वनि वर्तमानो नरलोकसार्थमुपयाति एवमुपरिगतोऽपि
karmavallīmavalambya tata āpadaḥ kathañcinnarakādvimuktaḥ punarapyevaṃ saṃsārādhvani vartamāno naralokasārthamupayāti evamuparigato'pi
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When the conditioned soul accepts the shelter of the creeper of fruitive activity, he may be elevated by his pious activities to higher planetary systems and thus gain liberation from hellish conditions, but unfortunately he cannot remain there. After reaping the results of his pious activities, he has to return to the lower planetary systems. In this way he perpetually goes up and comes down.
SB 5.14.42Open verse →
तस्येदमुपगायन्ति - आर्षभस्येह राजर्षेर्मनसापि महात्मनः । नानुवर्त्मार्हति नृपो मक्षिकेव गरुत्मतः
tasyedamupagāyanti - ārṣabhasyeha rājarṣermanasāpi mahātmanaḥ | nānuvartmārhati nṛpo makṣikeva garutmataḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Having summarized the teachings of Jaḍa Bharata, Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King Parīkṣit, the path indicated by Jaḍa Bharata is like the path followed by Garuḍa, the carrier of the Lord, and ordinary kings are just like flies. Flies cannot follow the path of Garuḍa, and to date none of the great kings and victorious leaders could follow this path of devotional service, not even mentally.
SB 5.14.43Open verse →
यो दुस्त्यजान् दारसुतान् सुहृद्राज्यं हृदिस्पृशः । जहौ युवैव मलवदुत्तमश्लोकलालसः
yo dustyajān dārasutān suhṛdrājyaṃ hṛdispṛśaḥ | jahau yuvaiva malavaduttamaślokalālasaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
While in the prime of life, the great Mahārāja Bharata gave up everything because he was fond of serving the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Uttamaśloka. He gave up his beautiful wife, nice children, great friends and an enormous empire. Although these things were very difficult to give up, Mahārāja Bharata was so exalted that he gave them up just as one gives up stool after evacuating. Such was the greatness of His Majesty.
SB 5.14.44Open verse →
यो दुस्त्यजान् क्षितिसुतस्वजनार्थदारान् प्रार्थ्यां श्रियं सुरवरैः सदयावलोकाम् । नैच्छन्नृपस्तदुचितं महतां मधुद्विट् सेवानुरक्तमनसामभवोऽपि फल्गुः
yo dustyajān kṣitisutasvajanārthadārān prārthyāṃ śriyaṃ suravaraiḥ sadayāvalokām | naicchannṛpastaducitaṃ mahatāṃ madhudviṭ sevānuraktamanasāmabhavo'pi phalguḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, the activities of Bharata Mahārāja are wonderful. He gave up everything difficult for others to give up. He gave up his kingdom, his wife and his family. His opulence was so great that even the demigods envied it, yet he gave it up. It was quite befitting a great personality like him to be a great devotee. He could renounce everything because he was so attracted to the beauty, opulence, reputation, knowledge, strength and renunciation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is so attractive that one can give up all desirable things for His sake. Indeed, even liberation is considered insignificant for those whose minds are attracted to the loving service of the Lord.
SB 5.14.45Open verse →
यज्ञाय धर्मपतये विधिनैपुणाय योगाय साङ्ख्यशिरसे प्रकृतीश्वराय । नारायणाय हरये नम इत्युदारं हास्यन् मृगत्वमपि यः समुदाजहार
yajñāya dharmapataye vidhinaipuṇāya yogāya sāṅkhyaśirase prakṛtīśvarāya | nārāyaṇāya haraye nama ityudāraṃ hāsyan mṛgatvamapi yaḥ samudājahāra
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Even though in the body of a deer, Mahārāja Bharata did not forget the Supreme Personality of Godhead; therefore when he was giving up the body of a deer, he loudly uttered the following prayer: “The Supreme Personality of Godhead is sacrifice personified. He gives the results of ritualistic activity. He is the protector of religious systems, the personification of mystic yoga, the source of all knowledge, the controller of the entire creation, and the Supersoul in every living entity. He is beautiful and attractive. I am quitting this body offering obeisances unto Him and hoping that I may perpetually engage in His transcendental loving service.” Uttering this, Mahārāja Bharata left his body.
SB 5.14.46Open verse →
य इदं भागवतसभाजितावदातगुणकर्मणो राजर्षेर्भरतस्यानुचरितं स्वस्त्ययनमायुष्यं धन्यं यशस्यं स्वर्ग्यापवर्ग्यं वानुशृणो- त्याख्यास्यत्यभिनन्दति च सर्वा एवाशिष आत्मन आशास्ते न काञ्चन परत इति
ya idaṃ bhāgavatasabhājitāvadātaguṇakarmaṇo rājarṣerbharatasyānucaritaṃ svastyayanamāyuṣyaṃ dhanyaṃ yaśasyaṃ svargyāpavargyaṃ vānuśṛṇo- tyākhyāsyatyabhinandati ca sarvā evāśiṣa ātmana āśāste na kāñcana parata iti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Devotees interested in hearing and chanting [śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam] regularly discuss the pure characteristics of Bharata Mahārāja and praise his activities. If one submissively hears and chants about the all-auspicious Mahārāja Bharata, one’s life span and material opulences certainly increase. One can become very famous and easily attain promotion to the heavenly planets, or attain liberation by merging into the existence of the Lord. Whatever one desires can be attained simply by hearing, chanting and glorifying the activities of Mahārāja Bharata. In this way, one can fulfill all his material and spiritual desires. One does not have to ask anyone else for these things, for simply by studying the life of Mahārāja Bharata, one can attain all desirable things.
SB 5.15.1Open verse →
श्रीशुक उवाच । भरतस्यात्मजः सुमतिर्नामाभिहितो यमु ह वाव केचित्पाखण्डिन ऋषभपदवीमनुवर्तमानं चानार्या अवेदसमाम्नातां देवतां स्वमनीषया पापीयस्या कलौ कल्पयिष्यन्ति
śrīśuka uvāca | bharatasyātmajaḥ sumatirnāmābhihito yamu ha vāva kecitpākhaṇḍina ṛṣabhapadavīmanuvartamānaṃ cānāryā avedasamāmnātāṃ devatāṃ svamanīṣayā pāpīyasyā kalau kalpayiṣyanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: The son of Mahārāja Bharata known as Sumati followed the path of Ṛṣabhadeva, but in the Age of Kali some unscrupulous people will imagine him to be Lord Buddha himself. These people, who will actually be atheistic and of bad character, will interpret the Vedic principles in an imaginary, infamous way to support their activities. Thus these sinful people will accept Sumati as Lord Buddhadeva and propagate the theory that everyone should follow the principles of Sumati. In this way they will be carried away by mental concoction.
SB 5.15.2Open verse →
तस्माद्वृद्धसेनायां देवताजिन्नाम पुत्रोऽभवत्
tasmādvṛddhasenāyāṃ devatājinnāma putro'bhavat
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
From Sumati, a son named Devatājit was born by the womb of his wife named Vṛddhasenā.
SB 5.15.3Open verse →
अथासुर्यां तत्तनयो देवद्युम्नस्ततो धेनुमत्यां सुतः परमेष्ठी तस्य सुवर्चलायां प्रतीह उपजातः
athāsuryāṃ tattanayo devadyumnastato dhenumatyāṃ sutaḥ parameṣṭhī tasya suvarcalāyāṃ pratīha upajātaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Thereafter, in the womb of Āsurī, the wife of Devatājit, a son named Devadyumna was begotten. Devadyumna begot in the womb of his wife, Dhenumatī, a son named Parameṣṭhī. Parameṣṭhī begot a son named Pratīha in the womb of his wife, Suvarcalā.
SB 5.15.4Open verse →
य आत्मविद्यामाख्याय स्वयं संशुद्धो महापुरुषमनुसस्मार
ya ātmavidyāmākhyāya svayaṃ saṃśuddho mahāpuruṣamanusasmāra
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
King Pratīha personally propagated the principles of self-realization. In this way, not only was he purified, but he became a great devotee of the Supreme Person, Lord Viṣṇu, and directly realized Him.
SB 5.15.5Open verse →
प्रतीहात्सुवर्चलायां प्रतिहर्त्रादयस्त्रय आसन्निज्या- कोविदाः सूनवः प्रतिहर्तुः स्तुत्यामजभूमाना- वजनिषाताम्
pratīhātsuvarcalāyāṃ pratihartrādayastraya āsannijyā- kovidāḥ sūnavaḥ pratihartuḥ stutyāmajabhūmānā- vajaniṣātām
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In the womb of his wife Suvarcalā, Pratīha begot three sons, named Pratihartā, Prastotā and Udgātā. These three sons were very expert in performing Vedic rituals. Pratihartā begot two sons, named Aja and Bhūmā, in the womb of his wife, named Stutī.
SB 5.15.6Open verse →
भूम्न ऋषिकुल्यायामुद्गीथस्ततः प्रस्तावो देवकुल्यायां प्रस्तावान्नियुत्सायां हृदयज आसीद्विभुर्विभो रत्यां च पृथुषेणस्तस्मान्नक्त आकूत्यां जज्ञे नक्ताद्द्रुतिपुत्रो गयो राजर्षिप्रवर उदारश्रवा अजायत । साक्षाद्भगवतो विष्णोर्जगद्रिरक्षिषया गृहीतसत्त्वस्य कलात्मवत्त्वादि लक्षणेन महापुरुषतां प्राप्तः
bhūmna ṛṣikulyāyāmudgīthastataḥ prastāvo devakulyāyāṃ prastāvānniyutsāyāṃ hṛdayaja āsīdvibhurvibho ratyāṃ ca pṛthuṣeṇastasmānnakta ākūtyāṃ jajñe naktāddrutiputro gayo rājarṣipravara udāraśravā ajāyata | sākṣādbhagavato viṣṇorjagadrirakṣiṣayā gṛhītasattvasya kalātmavattvādi lakṣaṇena mahāpuruṣatāṃ prāptaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In the womb of his wife, Ṛṣikulyā, King Bhūmā begot a son named Udgītha. From Udgītha’s wife, Devakulyā, a son named Prastāva was born, and Prastāva begot a son named Vibhu through his wife, Niyutsā. In the womb of his wife, Ratī, Vibhu begot a son named Pṛthuṣeṇa. Pṛthuṣeṇa begot a son named Nakta in the womb of his wife, named Ākūti. Nakta’s wife was Druti, and from her womb the great King Gaya was born. Gaya was very famous and pious; he was the best of saintly kings. Lord Viṣṇu and His expansions, who are meant to protect the universe, are always situated in the transcendental mode of goodness, known as viśuddha-sattva. Being the direct expansion of Lord Viṣṇu, King Gaya was also situated in the viśuddha-sattva. Because of this, Mahārāja Gaya was fully equipped with transcendental knowledge. Therefore he was called Mahāpuruṣa.
SB 5.15.7Open verse →
स वै स्वधर्मेण प्रजापालनपोषणप्रीणनोपलालना- नुशासनलक्षणेनेज्यादिना च भगवति महापुरुषे परावरे ब्रह्मणि सर्वात्मनार्पितपरमार्थलक्षणेन ब्रह्मविच्चरणानुसेवयाऽऽपादितभगवद्भक्तियोगेन चाभीक्ष्णशः परिभावितातिशुद्धमतिरुपरतानात्म्य आत्मनि स्वयमुपलभ्यमानब्रह्मात्मानुभवोऽपि निरभिमान एवावनिमजूगुपत्
sa vai svadharmeṇa prajāpālanapoṣaṇaprīṇanopalālanā- nuśāsanalakṣaṇenejyādinā ca bhagavati mahāpuruṣe parāvare brahmaṇi sarvātmanārpitaparamārthalakṣaṇena brahmaviccaraṇānusevayā''pāditabhagavadbhaktiyogena cābhīkṣṇaśaḥ paribhāvitātiśuddhamatiruparatānātmya ātmani svayamupalabhyamānabrahmātmānubhavo'pi nirabhimāna evāvanimajūgupat
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
King Gaya gave full protection and security to the citizens so that their personal property would not be disturbed by undesirable elements. He also saw that there was sufficient food to feed all the citizens. [This is called poṣaṇa.] He would sometimes distribute gifts to the citizens to satisfy them. [This is called prīṇana.] He would sometimes call meetings and satisfy the citizens with sweet words. [This is called upalālana.] He would also give them good instructions on how to become first-class citizens. [This is called anuśāsana.] Such were the characteristics of King Gaya’s royal order. Besides all this, King Gaya was a householder who strictly observed the rules and regulations of household life. He performed sacrifices and was an unalloyed pure devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He was called Mahāpuruṣa because as a king he gave the citizens all facilities, and as a householder he executed all his duties so that at the end he became a strict devotee of the Supreme Lord. As a devotee, he was always ready to give respect to other devotees and to engage in the devotional service of the Lord. This is the bhakti-yoga process. Due to all these transcendental activities, King Gaya was always free from the bodily conception. He was full in Brahman realization, and consequently he was always jubilant. He did not experience material lamentation. Although he was perfect in all respects, he was not proud, nor was he anxious to rule the kingdom.
SB 5.15.8Open verse →
तस्येमां गाथां पाण्डवेय पुराविद उपगायन्ति
tasyemāṃ gāthāṃ pāṇḍaveya purāvida upagāyanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King Parīkṣit, those who are learned scholars in the histories of the Purāṇas eulogize and glorify King Gaya with the following verses.
SB 5.15.9Open verse →
गयं नृपः कः प्रतियाति कर्मभि- र्यज्वाभिमानी बहुविद्धर्मगोप्ता । समागतश्रीः सदसस्पतिः सतां सत्सेवकोऽन्यो भगवत्कलामृते
gayaṃ nṛpaḥ kaḥ pratiyāti karmabhi- ryajvābhimānī bahuviddharmagoptā | samāgataśrīḥ sadasaspatiḥ satāṃ satsevako'nyo bhagavatkalāmṛte
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The great King Gaya used to perform all kinds of Vedic rituals. He was highly intelligent and expert in studying all the Vedic literatures. He maintained the religious principles and possessed all kinds of opulence. He was a leader among gentlemen and a servant of the devotees. He was a totally qualified plenary expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore who could equal him in the performance of gigantic ritualistic ceremonies?
SB 5.15.10Open verse →
यमभ्यषिञ्चन् परया मुदा सतीः सत्याशिषो दक्षकन्याः सरिद्भिः । यस्य प्रजानां दुदुहे धराशिषो निराशिषो गुणवत्सस्नुतोधाः
yamabhyaṣiñcan parayā mudā satīḥ satyāśiṣo dakṣakanyāḥ saridbhiḥ | yasya prajānāṃ duduhe dharāśiṣo nirāśiṣo guṇavatsasnutodhāḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
All the chaste and honest daughters of Mahārāja Dakṣa, such as Śraddhā, Maitrī and Dayā, whose blessings were always effective, bathed Mahārāja Gaya with sanctified water. Indeed, they were very satisfied with Mahārāja Gaya. The planet earth personified came as a cow, and, as though she saw her calf, she delivered milk profusely when she saw all the good qualities of Mahārāja Gaya. In other words, Mahārāja Gaya was able to derive all benefits from the earth and thus satisfy the desires of his citizens. However, he personally had no desire.
SB 5.15.11Open verse →
छन्दांस्यकामस्य च यस्य कामान् दुदूहुराजह्रुरथो बलिं नृपाः । प्रत्यञ्चिता युधि धर्मेण विप्रा यदाशिषां षष्ठमंशं परेत्य
chandāṃsyakāmasya ca yasya kāmān dudūhurājahruratho baliṃ nṛpāḥ | pratyañcitā yudhi dharmeṇa viprā yadāśiṣāṃ ṣaṣṭhamaṃśaṃ paretya
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Although King Gaya had no personal desire for sense gratification, all his desires were fulfilled by virtue of his performance of Vedic rituals. All the kings with whom Mahārāja Gaya had to fight were forced to fight on religious principles. They were very satisfied with his fighting, and they would present all kinds of gifts to him. Similarly, all the brāhmaṇas in his kingdom were very satisfied with King Gaya’s munificent charities. Consequently the brāhmaṇas contributed a sixth of their pious activities for King Gaya’s benefit in the next life.
SB 5.15.12Open verse →
यस्याध्वरे भगवानध्वरात्मा मघोनि माद्यत्युरुसोमपीथे । श्रद्धा विशुद्धाचलभक्तियोग- समर्पितेज्याफलमाजहार
yasyādhvare bhagavānadhvarātmā maghoni mādyatyurusomapīthe | śraddhā viśuddhācalabhaktiyoga- samarpitejyāphalamājahāra
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In Mahārāja Gaya’s sacrifices, there was a great supply of the intoxicant known as soma. King Indra used to come and become intoxicated by drinking large quantities of soma-rasa. Also, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu [the yajña-puruṣa] also came and personally accepted all the sacrifices offered unto Him with pure and firm devotion in the sacrificial arena.
SB 5.15.13Open verse →
यत्प्रीणनाद्बर्हिषि देवतिर्यङ्- मनुष्यवीरुत्तृणमाविरिञ्चात् । प्रीयेत सद्यः स ह विश्वजीवः प्रीतः स्वयं प्रीतिमगाद्गयस्य
yatprīṇanādbarhiṣi devatiryaṅ- manuṣyavīruttṛṇamāviriñcāt | prīyeta sadyaḥ sa ha viśvajīvaḥ prītaḥ svayaṃ prītimagādgayasya
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When the Supreme Lord is pleased by a person’s actions, automatically all the demigods, human beings, animals, birds, bees, creepers, trees, grass and all other living entities, beginning with Lord Brahmā, are pleased. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the Supersoul of everyone, and He is by nature fully pleased. Nonetheless, He came to the arena of Mahārāja Gaya and said, “I am fully pleased.”
SB 5.15.16Open verse →
तत्रायं श्लोकः प्रैयव्रतं वंशमिमं विरजश्चरमोद्भवः । अकरोदत्यलं कीर्त्या विष्णुः सुरगणं यथा
tatrāyaṃ ślokaḥ praiyavrataṃ vaṃśamimaṃ virajaścaramodbhavaḥ | akarodatyalaṃ kīrtyā viṣṇuḥ suragaṇaṃ yathā
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
There is a famous verse about King Viraja. “Because of his high qualities and wide fame, King Viraja became the jewel of the dynasty of King Priyavrata, just as Lord Viṣṇu, by His transcendental potency, decorates and blesses the demigods.”
SB 5.16.1Open verse →
राजोवाच । उक्तस्त्वया भूमण्डलायामविशेषो यावदादित्य- स्तपति यत्र चासौ ज्योतिषां गणैश्चन्द्रमा वा सह दृश्यते
rājovāca | uktastvayā bhūmaṇḍalāyāmaviśeṣo yāvadāditya- stapati yatra cāsau jyotiṣāṃ gaṇaiścandramā vā saha dṛśyate
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
King Parīkṣit said to Śukadeva Gosvāmī: O brāhmaṇa, you have already informed me that the radius of Bhū-maṇḍala extends as far as the sun spreads its light and heat and as far as the moon and all the stars can be seen.
SB 5.16.2Open verse →
तत्रापि प्रियव्रतरथचरणपरिखातैः सप्तभिः सप्तसिन्धव उपकॢप्ता यत एतस्याः सप्तद्वीप- विशेषविकल्पस्त्वया भगवन् खलु सूचित एतदेवाखिलमहं मानतो लक्षणतश्च सर्वं विजिज्ञासामि
tatrāpi priyavratarathacaraṇaparikhātaiḥ saptabhiḥ saptasindhava upakḷptā yata etasyāḥ saptadvīpa- viśeṣavikalpastvayā bhagavan khalu sūcita etadevākhilamahaṃ mānato lakṣaṇataśca sarvaṃ vijijñāsāmi
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear Lord, the rolling wheels of Mahārāja Priyavrata’s chariot created seven ditches, in which the seven oceans came into existence. Because of these seven oceans, Bhū-maṇḍala is divided into seven islands. You have given a very general description of their measurement, names and characteristics. Now I wish to know of them in detail. Kindly fulfill my desire.
SB 5.16.3Open verse →
भगवतो गुणमये स्थूलरूप आवेशितं मनो ह्यगुणेऽपि सूक्ष्मतम आत्मज्योतिषि परे ब्रह्मणि भगवति वासुदेवाख्ये क्षममावेशितुं तदु हैतद्गुरोऽर्हस्यनुवर्णयितुमिति
bhagavato guṇamaye sthūlarūpa āveśitaṃ mano hyaguṇe'pi sūkṣmatama ātmajyotiṣi pare brahmaṇi bhagavati vāsudevākhye kṣamamāveśituṃ tadu haitadguro'rhasyanuvarṇayitumiti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When the mind is fixed upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His external feature made of the material modes of nature — the gross universal form — it is brought to the platform of pure goodness. In that transcendental position, one can understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva, who in His subtler form is self-effulgent and beyond the modes of nature. O my lord, please describe vividly how that form, which covers the entire universe, is perceived.
SB 5.16.4Open verse →
ऋषिरुवाच । न वै महाराज भगवतो मायागुणविभूतेः काष्ठां मनसा वचसा वाधिगन्तुमलं विबुधायुषापि पुरुषस्तस्मात्प्राधान्येनैव भूगोलकविशेषं नामरूपमानलक्षणतो व्याख्यास्यामः
ṛṣiruvāca | na vai mahārāja bhagavato māyāguṇavibhūteḥ kāṣṭhāṃ manasā vacasā vādhigantumalaṃ vibudhāyuṣāpi puruṣastasmātprādhānyenaiva bhūgolakaviśeṣaṃ nāmarūpamānalakṣaṇato vyākhyāsyāmaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The great ṛṣi Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, there is no limit to the expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s material energy. This material world is a transformation of the material qualities [sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa], yet no one could possibly explain it perfectly, even in a lifetime as long as that of Brahmā. No one in the material world is perfect, and an imperfect person could not describe this material universe accurately, even after continued speculation. O King, I shall nevertheless try to explain to you the principal regions, such as Bhūloka, with their names, forms, measurements and various symptoms.
SB 5.16.5Open verse →
यो वायं द्वीपः कुवलयकमलकोशाभ्यन्तर- कोशो नियुतयोजनविशालः समवर्तुलो यथा पुष्करपत्रम्
yo vāyaṃ dvīpaḥ kuvalayakamalakośābhyantara- kośo niyutayojanaviśālaḥ samavartulo yathā puṣkarapatram
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The planetary system known as Bhū-maṇḍala resembles a lotus flower, and its seven islands resemble the whorl of that flower. The length and breadth of the island known as Jambūdvīpa, which is situated in the middle of the whorl, are one million yojanas [eight million miles]. Jambūdvīpa is round like the leaf of a lotus flower.
SB 5.16.6Open verse →
यस्मिन् नव वर्षाणि नवयोजनसहस्रायामा- न्यष्टभिर्मर्यादागिरिभिः सुविभक्तानि भवन्ति
yasmin nava varṣāṇi navayojanasahasrāyāmā- nyaṣṭabhirmaryādāgiribhiḥ suvibhaktāni bhavanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In Jambūdvīpa there are nine divisions of land, each with a length of 9,000 yojanas [72,000 miles]. There are eight mountains that mark the boundaries of these divisions and separate them nicely.
SB 5.16.7Open verse →
एषां मध्ये इलावृतं नामाभ्यन्तरवर्षं यस्य नाभ्यामवस्थितः सर्वतः सौवर्णः कुलगिरिराजो मेरुर्द्वीपायामसमुन्नाहः कर्णिकाभूतः कुवलय- कमलस्य मूर्धनि द्वात्रिंशत्सहस्रयोजनविततो मूले षोडशसहस्रं तावतान्तर्भूम्यां प्रविष्टः
eṣāṃ madhye ilāvṛtaṃ nāmābhyantaravarṣaṃ yasya nābhyāmavasthitaḥ sarvataḥ sauvarṇaḥ kulagirirājo merurdvīpāyāmasamunnāhaḥ karṇikābhūtaḥ kuvalaya- kamalasya mūrdhani dvātriṃśatsahasrayojanavitato mūle ṣoḍaśasahasraṃ tāvatāntarbhūmyāṃ praviṣṭaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Amidst these divisions, or varṣas, is the varṣa named Ilāvṛta, which is situated in the middle of the whorl of the lotus. Within Ilāvṛta-varṣa is Sumeru Mountain, which is made of gold. Sumeru Mountain is like the pericarp of the lotuslike Bhū-maṇḍala planetary system. The mountain’s height is the same as the width of Jambūdvīpa — or, in other words, 100,000 yojanas [800,000 miles]. Of that, 16,000 yojanas [128,000 miles] are within the earth, and therefore the mountain’s height above the earth is 84,000 yojanas [672,000 miles]. The mountain’s width is 32,000 yojanas [256,000 miles] at its summit and 16,000 yojanas at its base.
SB 5.16.8Open verse →
उत्तरोत्तरेणेलावृतं नीलः श्वेतः शृङ्गवानिति त्रयो रम्यकहिरण्मयकुरूणां वर्षाणां मर्यादागिरयः प्रागायता उभयतः क्षारोदावधयो द्विसहस्रपृथव एकैकशः पूर्वस्मात्पूर्वस्मादुत्तर उत्तरो दशांशाधिकांशेन दैर्घ्य एव ह्रसन्ति
uttarottareṇelāvṛtaṃ nīlaḥ śvetaḥ śṛṅgavāniti trayo ramyakahiraṇmayakurūṇāṃ varṣāṇāṃ maryādāgirayaḥ prāgāyatā ubhayataḥ kṣārodāvadhayo dvisahasrapṛthava ekaikaśaḥ pūrvasmātpūrvasmāduttara uttaro daśāṃśādhikāṃśena dairghya eva hrasanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Just north of Ilāvṛta-varṣa — and going further northward, one after another — are three mountains named Nīla, Śveta and Śṛṅgavān. These mark the borders of the three varṣas named Ramyaka, Hiraṇmaya and Kuru and separate them from one another. The width of these mountains is 2,000 yojanas [16,000 miles]. Lengthwise, they extend east and west to the beaches of the ocean of salt water. Going from south to north, the length of each mountain is one tenth that of the previous mountain, but the height of them all is the same.
SB 5.16.9Open verse →
एवं दक्षिणेनेलावृतं निषधो हेमकूटो हिमालय इति प्रागायता यथा नीलादयोऽयुतयोजनोत्सेधा हरिवर्ष- किम्पुरुषभारतानां यथासङ्ख्यम्
evaṃ dakṣiṇenelāvṛtaṃ niṣadho hemakūṭo himālaya iti prāgāyatā yathā nīlādayo'yutayojanotsedhā harivarṣa- kimpuruṣabhāratānāṃ yathāsaṅkhyam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Similarly, south of Ilāvṛta-varṣa and extending from east to west are three great mountains named (from north to south) Niṣadha, Hemakūṭa and Himālaya. Each of them is 10,000 yojanas [80,000 miles] high. They mark the boundaries of the three varṣas named Hari-varṣa, Kimpuruṣa-varṣa and Bhārata-varṣa [India].
SB 5.16.10Open verse →
तथैवेलावृतमपरेण पूर्वेण च माल्यवद्गन्धमादना- वानीलनिषधायतौ द्विसहस्रं पप्रथतुः केतुमाल- भद्राश्वयोः सीमानं विदधाते
tathaivelāvṛtamapareṇa pūrveṇa ca mālyavadgandhamādanā- vānīlaniṣadhāyatau dvisahasraṃ paprathatuḥ ketumāla- bhadrāśvayoḥ sīmānaṃ vidadhāte
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In the same way, west and east of Ilāvṛta-varṣa are two great mountains named Mālyavān and Gandhamādana respectively. These two mountains, which are 2,000 yojanas [16,000 miles] high, extend as far as Nīla Mountain in the north and Niṣadha in the south. They indicate the borders of Ilāvṛta-varṣa and also the varṣas known as Ketumāla and Bhadrāśva.
SB 5.16.11Open verse →
मन्दरो मेरुमन्दरः सुपार्श्वः कुमुद इत्ययुतयोजन- विस्तारोन्नाहा मेरोः चतुर्दिशमवष्टम्भगिरय उपकॢप्ताः
mandaro merumandaraḥ supārśvaḥ kumuda ityayutayojana- vistāronnāhā meroḥ caturdiśamavaṣṭambhagiraya upakḷptāḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
On the four sides of the great mountain known as Sumeru are four mountains — Mandara, Merumandara, Supārśva and Kumuda — which are like its belts. The length and height of these mountains are calculated to be 10,000 yojanas [80,000 miles].
SB 5.16.12Open verse →
चतुर्ष्वेतेषु चूतजम्बूकदम्बन्यग्रोधाश्चत्वारः पादपप्रवराः पर्वतकेतव इवाधिसहस्रयोजनोन्नाहास्तावद्विटपविततयः शतयोजनपरिणाहाः
caturṣveteṣu cūtajambūkadambanyagrodhāścatvāraḥ pādapapravarāḥ parvataketava ivādhisahasrayojanonnāhāstāvadviṭapavitatayaḥ śatayojanapariṇāhāḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Standing like flagstaffs on the summits of these four mountains are a mango tree, a rose apple tree, a kadamba tree and a banyan tree. Those trees are calculated to have a width of 100 yojanas [800 miles] and a height of 1,100 yojanas [8,800 miles]. Their branches also spread to a radius of 1,100 yojanas.
SB 5.16.15Open verse →
येष्वमरपरिवृढाः सह सुरललनाललामयूथपतय उपदेवगणैरुपगीयमानमहिमानः किल विहरन्ति
yeṣvamaraparivṛḍhāḥ saha suralalanālalāmayūthapataya upadevagaṇairupagīyamānamahimānaḥ kila viharanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The best of the demigods, along with their wives, who are like ornaments of heavenly beauty, meet together and enjoy within those gardens, while their glories are sung by lesser demigods known as Gandharvas.
SB 5.16.16Open verse →
मन्दरोत्सङ्ग एकादशशतयोजनोत्तुङ्गदेवचूतशिरसो गिरिशिखरस्थूलानि फलान्यमृतकल्पानि पतन्ति
mandarotsaṅga ekādaśaśatayojanottuṅgadevacūtaśiraso giriśikharasthūlāni phalānyamṛtakalpāni patanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
On the lower slopes of Mandara Mountain is a mango tree named Devacūta. It is 1,100 yojanas high. Mangoes as big as mountain peaks and as sweet as nectar fall from the top of this tree for the enjoyment of the denizens of heaven.
SB 5.16.17Open verse →
तेषां विशीर्यमाणानामतिमधुरसुरभिसुगन्धिबहुलारुण- रसोदेनारुणोदा नाम नदी मन्दरगिरिशिखरान्निपतन्ती पूर्वेणेलावृतमुपप्लावयति
teṣāṃ viśīryamāṇānāmatimadhurasurabhisugandhibahulāruṇa- rasodenāruṇodā nāma nadī mandaragiriśikharānnipatantī pūrveṇelāvṛtamupaplāvayati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When all those solid fruits fall from such a height, they break, and the sweet, fragrant juice within them flows out and becomes increasingly more fragrant as it mixes with other scents. That juice cascades from the mountain in waterfalls and becomes a river called Aruṇodā, which flows pleasantly through the eastern side of Ilāvṛta.
SB 5.16.18Open verse →
यदुपजोषणाद्भवान्या अनुचरीणां पुण्यजनवधूनामवयव- स्पर्शसुगन्धवातो दशयोजनं समन्तादनुवासयति
yadupajoṣaṇādbhavānyā anucarīṇāṃ puṇyajanavadhūnāmavayava- sparśasugandhavāto daśayojanaṃ samantādanuvāsayati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The pious wives of the Yakṣas act as personal maidservants to assist Bhavānī, the wife of Lord Śiva. Because they drink the water of the river Aruṇodā, their bodies become fragrant, and as the air carries away that fragrance, it perfumes the entire atmosphere for eighty miles around.
SB 5.16.19Open verse →
एवं जम्बूफलानामत्युच्चनिपातविशीर्णानामनस्थिप्रायाणा- मिभकायनिभानां रसेन जम्बू नाम नदी मेरुमन्दर- शिखरादयुतयोजनादवनितले निपतन्ती दक्षिणेना- त्मानं यावदिलावृतमुपस्यन्दयति
evaṃ jambūphalānāmatyuccanipātaviśīrṇānāmanasthiprāyāṇā- mibhakāyanibhānāṃ rasena jambū nāma nadī merumandara- śikharādayutayojanādavanitale nipatantī dakṣiṇenā- tmānaṃ yāvadilāvṛtamupasyandayati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Similarly, the fruits of the jambū tree, which are full of pulp and have very small seeds, fall from a great height and break to pieces. Those fruits are the size of elephants, and the juice gliding from them becomes a river named Jambū-nadī. This river falls a distance of 10,000 yojanas, from the summit of Merumandara to the southern side of Ilāvṛta, and floods the entire land of Ilāvṛta with juice.
SB 5.16.22Open verse →
यस्तु महाकदम्बः सुपार्श्वनिरूढो यास्तस्य कोटरेभ्यो विनिःसृताः पञ्चायामपरिणाहाः पञ्च मधुधाराः सुपार्श्व- शिखरात्पतन्त्योऽपरेणात्मानमिलावृतमनुमोदयन्ति
yastu mahākadambaḥ supārśvanirūḍho yāstasya koṭarebhyo viniḥsṛtāḥ pañcāyāmapariṇāhāḥ pañca madhudhārāḥ supārśva- śikharātpatantyo'pareṇātmānamilāvṛtamanumodayanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
On the side of Supārśva Mountain stands a big tree called Mahākadamba, which is very celebrated. From the hollows of this tree flow five rivers of honey, each about five vyāmas wide. This flowing honey falls incessantly from the top of Supārśva Mountain and flows all around Ilāvṛta-varṣa, beginning from the western side. Thus the whole land is saturated with the pleasing fragrance.
SB 5.16.23Open verse →
या ह्युपयुञ्जानानां मुखनिर्वासितो वायुः समन्ता- च्छतयोजनमनुवासयति
yā hyupayuñjānānāṃ mukhanirvāsito vāyuḥ samantā- cchatayojanamanuvāsayati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The air carrying the scent from the mouths of those who drink that honey perfumes the land for a hundred yojanas around.
SB 5.16.24Open verse →
एवं कुमुदनिरूढो यः शतवल्शो नाम वटस्तस्य स्कन्धेभ्यो नीचीनाः पयोदधिमधुघृतगुडान्ना- द्यम्बरशय्यासनाभरणादयः सर्व एव कामदुघा नदाः कुमुदाग्रात्पतन्तस्तमुत्तरेणेलावृतमुपयोजयन्ति
evaṃ kumudanirūḍho yaḥ śatavalśo nāma vaṭastasya skandhebhyo nīcīnāḥ payodadhimadhughṛtaguḍānnā- dyambaraśayyāsanābharaṇādayaḥ sarva eva kāmadughā nadāḥ kumudāgrātpatantastamuttareṇelāvṛtamupayojayanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Similarly, on Kumuda Mountain there is a great banyan tree, which is called Śatavalśa because it has a hundred main branches. From those branches come many roots, from which many rivers are flowing. These rivers flow down from the top of the mountain to the northern side of Ilāvṛta-varṣa for the benefit of those who live there. Because of these flowing rivers, all the people have ample supplies of milk, yogurt, honey, clarified butter [ghee], molasses, food grains, clothes, bedding, sitting places and ornaments. All the objects they desire are sufficiently supplied for their prosperity, and therefore they are very happy.
SB 5.16.25Open verse →
यानुपजुषाणानां न कदाचिदपि प्रजानां वलीपलितक्लमस्वेददौर्गन्ध्यजराऽऽमय- मृत्युशीतोष्णवैवर्ण्योपसर्गादयस्तापविशेषा भवन्ति यावज्जीवं सुखं निरतिशयमेव
yānupajuṣāṇānāṃ na kadācidapi prajānāṃ valīpalitaklamasvedadaurgandhyajarā''maya- mṛtyuśītoṣṇavaivarṇyopasargādayastāpaviśeṣā bhavanti yāvajjīvaṃ sukhaṃ niratiśayameva
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The residents of the material world who enjoy the products of these flowing rivers have no wrinkles on their bodies and no grey hair. They never feel fatigue, and perspiration does not give their bodies a bad odor. They are not afflicted by old age, disease or untimely death, they do not suffer from chilly cold or scorching heat, nor do their bodies lose their luster. They all live very happily, without anxieties, until death.
SB 5.16.26Open verse →
कुरङ्गकुररकुसुम्भवैकङ्कत्रिकूटशिशिरपतङ्ग- रुचकनिषधशिनीवासकपिलशङ्खवैदूर्यजारुधि- हंसऋषभनागकालञ्जरनारदादयो विंशति गिरयो मेरोः कर्णिकाया इव केसरभूता मूलदेशे परित उपकॢप्ताः
kuraṅgakurarakusumbhavaikaṅkatrikūṭaśiśirapataṅga- rucakaniṣadhaśinīvāsakapilaśaṅkhavaidūryajārudhi- haṃsaṛṣabhanāgakālañjaranāradādayo viṃśati girayo meroḥ karṇikāyā iva kesarabhūtā mūladeśe parita upakḷptāḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
There are other mountains beautifully arranged around the foot of Mount Meru like the filaments around the whorl of a lotus flower. Their names are Kuraṅga, Kurara, Kusumbha, Vaikaṅka, Trikūṭa, Śiśira, Pataṅga, Rucaka, Niṣadha, Sinīvāsa, Kapila, Śaṅkha, Vaidūrya, Jārudhi, Haṁsa, Ṛṣabha, Nāga, Kālañjara and Nārada.
SB 5.16.27Open verse →
जठरदेवकूटौ मेरुं पूर्वेणाष्टादशयोजनसहस्र- मुदगायतौ द्विसहस्रं पृथुतुङ्गौ भवतः एवमपरेण पवनपारियात्रौ दक्षिणेन कैलासकरवीरौ प्रागायतावेवमुत्तरतस्त्रिशृङ्गमकरावष्टभिरेतैः परिसृतोऽग्निरिव परितश्चकास्ति काञ्चनगिरिः
jaṭharadevakūṭau meruṃ pūrveṇāṣṭādaśayojanasahasra- mudagāyatau dvisahasraṃ pṛthutuṅgau bhavataḥ evamapareṇa pavanapāriyātrau dakṣiṇena kailāsakaravīrau prāgāyatāvevamuttaratastriśṛṅgamakarāvaṣṭabhiretaiḥ parisṛto'gniriva paritaścakāsti kāñcanagiriḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
On the eastern side of Sumeru Mountain are two mountains named Jaṭhara and Devakūṭa, which extend to the north and south for 18,000 yojanas [144,000 miles]. Similarly, on the western side of Sumeru are two mountains named Pavana and Pāriyātra, which also extend north and south for the same distance. On the southern side of Sumeru are two mountains named Kailāsa and Karavīra, which extend east and west for 18,000 yojanas, and on the northern side of Sumeru, extending for the same distance east and west, are two mountains named Triśṛṅga and Makara. The width and height of all these mountains is 2,000 yojanas [16,000 miles]. Sumeru, a mountain of solid gold shining as brilliantly as fire, is surrounded by these eight mountains.
SB 5.16.28Open verse →
मेरोर्मूर्धनि भगवत आत्मयोनेर्मध्यत उपकॢप्तां पुरीमयुतयोजनसाहस्रीं समचतुरस्रां शातकौम्भीं वदन्ति
merormūrdhani bhagavata ātmayonermadhyata upakḷptāṃ purīmayutayojanasāhasrīṃ samacaturasrāṃ śātakaumbhīṃ vadanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In the middle of the summit of Meru is the township of Lord Brahmā. Each of its four sides is calculated to extend for ten million yojanas [eighty million miles]. It is made entirely of gold, and therefore learned scholars and sages call it Śātakaumbhī.
SB 5.16.29Open verse →
तामनुपरितो लोकपालानामष्टानां यथादिशं यथारूपं तुरीयमानेन पुरोऽष्टावुपकॢप्ताः
tāmanuparito lokapālānāmaṣṭānāṃ yathādiśaṃ yathārūpaṃ turīyamānena puro'ṣṭāvupakḷptāḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Surrounding Brahmapurī in all directions are the residences of the eight principal governors of the planetary systems, beginning with King Indra. These abodes are similar to Brahmapurī but are one fourth the size.
SB 5.17.1Open verse →
श्रीशुक उवाच । तत्र भगवतः साक्षाद्यज्ञलिङ्गस्य विष्णोर्विक्रमतो वामपादाङ्गुष्ठनखनिर्भिन्नोर्ध्वाण्डकटाहविवरेणा- न्तःप्रविष्टा या बाह्यजलधारा तच्चरणपङ्कजा- वनेजनारुणकिञ्जल्कोपरञ्जिताखिलजगदघ- मलापहोपस्पर्शनामला साक्षाद्भगवत्पदी- त्यनुपलक्षितवचोऽभिधीयमानातिमहता कालेन युगसहस्रोपलक्षणेन दिवो मूर्धन्यवततार यत्तद्विष्णुपदमाहुः
śrīśuka uvāca | tatra bhagavataḥ sākṣādyajñaliṅgasya viṣṇorvikramato vāmapādāṅguṣṭhanakhanirbhinnordhvāṇḍakaṭāhavivareṇā- ntaḥpraviṣṭā yā bāhyajaladhārā taccaraṇapaṅkajā- vanejanāruṇakiñjalkoparañjitākhilajagadagha- malāpahopasparśanāmalā sākṣādbhagavatpadī- tyanupalakṣitavaco'bhidhīyamānātimahatā kālena yugasahasropalakṣaṇena divo mūrdhanyavatatāra yattadviṣṇupadamāhuḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, Lord Viṣṇu, the enjoyer of all sacrifices, appeared as Vāmanadeva in the sacrificial arena of Bali Mahārāja. Then He extended His left foot to the end of the universe and pierced a hole in its covering with the nail of His big toe. Through the hole, the pure water of the Causal Ocean entered this universe as the Ganges River. Having washed the lotus feet of the Lord, which are covered with reddish powder, the water of the Ganges acquired a very beautiful pink color. Every living being can immediately purify his mind of material contamination by touching the transcendental water of the Ganges, yet its waters remain ever pure. Because the Ganges directly touches the lotus feet of the Lord before descending within this universe, she is known as Viṣṇupadī. Later she received other names like Jāhnavī and Bhāgīrathī. After one thousand millenniums, the water of the Ganges descended to Dhruvaloka, the topmost planet in this universe. Therefore all learned sages and scholars proclaim Dhruvaloka to be Viṣṇupada [“situated on Lord Viṣṇu’s lotus feet”].
SB 5.17.2Open verse →
यत्र ह वाव वीरव्रत औत्तानपादिः परमभागवतो- ऽस्मत्कुलदेवताचरणारविन्दोदकमिति यामनुसवन- मुत्कृष्यमाणभगवद्भक्तियोगेन दृढं क्लिद्यमानान्तर्हृदय औत्कण्ठ्यविवशामीलितलोचनयुगलकुड्मल- विगलितामलबाष्पकलयाभिव्यज्यमानरोमपुलक- कुलकोऽधुनापि परमादरेण शिरसा बिभर्ति
yatra ha vāva vīravrata auttānapādiḥ paramabhāgavato- 'smatkuladevatācaraṇāravindodakamiti yāmanusavana- mutkṛṣyamāṇabhagavadbhaktiyogena dṛḍhaṃ klidyamānāntarhṛdaya autkaṇṭhyavivaśāmīlitalocanayugalakuḍmala- vigalitāmalabāṣpakalayābhivyajyamānaromapulaka- kulako'dhunāpi paramādareṇa śirasā bibharti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Dhruva Mahārāja, the famous son of Mahārāja Uttānapāda, is known as the most exalted devotee of the Supreme Lord because of his firm determination in executing devotional service. Knowing that the sacred Ganges water washes the lotus feet of Lord Viṣṇu, Dhruva Mahārāja, situated on his own planet, to this very day accepts that water on his head with great devotion. Because he constantly thinks of Kṛṣṇa very devoutly within the core of his heart, he is overcome with ecstatic anxiety. Tears flow from his half-open eyes, and eruptions appear on his entire body.
SB 5.17.3Open verse →
ततः सप्तर्षयस्तत्प्रभावाभिज्ञा यां ननु तपस आत्यन्तिकी सिद्धिरेतावती भगवति सर्वात्मनि वासुदेवेऽनुपरतभक्तियोगलाभेनैवोपेक्षितान्या- र्थात्मगतयो मुक्तिमिवागतां मुमुक्षव इव सबहुमान- मद्यापि जटाजूटैरुद्वहन्ति
tataḥ saptarṣayastatprabhāvābhijñā yāṃ nanu tapasa ātyantikī siddhiretāvatī bhagavati sarvātmani vāsudeve'nuparatabhaktiyogalābhenaivopekṣitānyā- rthātmagatayo muktimivāgatāṃ mumukṣava iva sabahumāna- madyāpi jaṭājūṭairudvahanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The seven great sages [Marīci, Vasiṣṭha, Atri and so on] reside on planets beneath Dhruvaloka. Well aware of the influence of the water of the Ganges, to this day they keep Ganges water on the tufts of hair on their heads. They have concluded that this is the ultimate wealth, the perfection of all austerities, and the best means of prosecuting transcendental life. Having obtained uninterrupted devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they neglect all other beneficial processes like religion, economic development, sense gratification and even merging into the Supreme. Just as jñānīs think that merging into the existence of the Lord is the highest truth, these seven exalted personalities accept devotional service as the perfection of life.
SB 5.17.4Open verse →
ततोऽनेकसहस्रकोटिविमानानीकसङ्कुलदेवयानेना- वतरन्तीन्दुमण्डलमावार्य ब्रह्मसदने निपतति
tato'nekasahasrakoṭivimānānīkasaṅkuladevayānenā- vatarantīndumaṇḍalamāvārya brahmasadane nipatati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
After purifying the seven planets near Dhruvaloka [the polestar], the Ganges water is carried through the spaceways of the demigods in billions of celestial airplanes. Then it inundates the moon [Candraloka] and finally reaches Lord Brahmā’s abode atop Mount Meru.
SB 5.17.5Open verse →
तत्र चतुर्धा भिद्यमाना चतुर्भिर्नामभिश्चतुर्दिश- मभिस्पन्दन्ती नदनदीपतिमेवाभिनिविशति सीतालकनन्दा चक्षुर्भद्रेति
tatra caturdhā bhidyamānā caturbhirnāmabhiścaturdiśa- mabhispandantī nadanadīpatimevābhiniviśati sītālakanandā cakṣurbhadreti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
On top of Mount Meru, the Ganges divides into four branches, each of which gushes in a different direction [east, west, north and south]. These branches, known by the names Sītā, Alakanandā, Cakṣu and Bhadrā, flow down to the ocean.
SB 5.17.6Open verse →
सीता तु ब्रह्मसदनात्केसराचलादि गिरिशिखरेभ्यो- ऽधोऽधःप्रस्रवन्ती गन्धमादनमूर्धसु पतित्वान्तरेण भद्राश्ववर्षं प्राच्यां दिशि क्षारसमुद्रमभिप्रविशति
sītā tu brahmasadanātkesarācalādi giriśikharebhyo- 'dho'dhaḥprasravantī gandhamādanamūrdhasu patitvāntareṇa bhadrāśvavarṣaṃ prācyāṃ diśi kṣārasamudramabhipraviśati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The branch of the Ganges known as the Sītā flows through Brahmapurī atop Mount Meru, and from there it runs down to the nearby peaks of the Kesarācala Mountains, which stand almost as high as Mount Meru itself. These mountains are like a bunch of filaments around Mount Meru. From the Kesarācala Mountains, the Ganges falls to the peak of Gandhamādana Mountain and then flows into the land of Bhadrāśva-varṣa. Finally it reaches the ocean of salt water in the west.
SB 5.17.7Open verse →
एवं माल्यवच्छिखरान्निष्पतन्ती ततोऽनुपरतवेगा केतुमालमभिचक्षुः प्रतीच्यां दिशि सरित्पतिं प्रविशति
evaṃ mālyavacchikharānniṣpatantī tato'nuparatavegā ketumālamabhicakṣuḥ pratīcyāṃ diśi saritpatiṃ praviśati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The branch of the Ganges known as Cakṣu falls onto the summit of Mālyavān Mountain and from there cascades onto the land of Ketumāla-varṣa. The Ganges flows incessantly through Ketumāla-varṣa and in this way also reaches the ocean of salt water in the west.
SB 5.17.8Open verse →
भद्रा चोत्तरतो मेरुशिरसो निपतिता गिरिशिखरा- द्गिरिशिखरमतिहाय शृङ्गवतः शृङ्गादवस्यन्दमाना उत्तरांस्तु कुरूनभित उदीच्यां दिशि जलधि- मभिप्रविशति
bhadrā cottarato meruśiraso nipatitā giriśikharā- dgiriśikharamatihāya śṛṅgavataḥ śṛṅgādavasyandamānā uttarāṃstu kurūnabhita udīcyāṃ diśi jaladhi- mabhipraviśati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The branch of the Ganges known as Bhadrā flows from the northern side of Mount Meru. Its waters fall onto the peaks of Kumuda Mountain, Mount Nīla, Śveta Mountain and Śṛṅgavān Mountain in succession. Then it runs down into the province of Kuru and, after crossing through that land, flows into the saltwater ocean in the north.
SB 5.17.9Open verse →
तथैवालकनन्दा दक्षिणेन ब्रह्मसदनाद्बहूनि गिरिकूटान्यतिक्रम्य हेमकूटाद्धैमकूटान्यति- रभसतररंहसा लुठयन्ती भारतमभिवर्षं दक्षिणस्यां दिशि जलधिमभिप्रविशति यस्यां स्नानार्थं चागच्छतः पुंसः पदे पदेऽश्वमेधराजसूयादीनां फलं न दुर्लभमिति
tathaivālakanandā dakṣiṇena brahmasadanādbahūni girikūṭānyatikramya hemakūṭāddhaimakūṭānyati- rabhasatararaṃhasā luṭhayantī bhāratamabhivarṣaṃ dakṣiṇasyāṃ diśi jaladhimabhipraviśati yasyāṃ snānārthaṃ cāgacchataḥ puṃsaḥ pade pade'śvamedharājasūyādīnāṃ phalaṃ na durlabhamiti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Similarly, the branch of the Ganges known as Alakanandā flows from the southern side of Brahmapurī [Brahma-sadana]. Passing over the tops of mountains in various lands, it falls down with fierce force upon the peaks of the mountains Hemakūṭa and Himakūṭa. After inundating the tops of those mountains, the Ganges falls down onto the tract of land known as Bhārata-varṣa, which she also inundates. Then the Ganges flows into the ocean of salt water in the south. Persons who come to bathe in this river are fortunate. It is not very difficult for them to achieve with every step the results of performing great sacrifices like the Rājasūya and Aśvamedha yajñas.
SB 5.17.10Open verse →
अन्ये च नदा नद्यश्च वर्षे वर्षे सन्ति बहुशो मेर्वादिगिरिदुहितरः शतशः
anye ca nadā nadyaśca varṣe varṣe santi bahuśo mervādigiriduhitaraḥ śataśaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Many other rivers, both big and small, flow from the top of Mount Meru. These rivers are like daughters of the mountain, and they flow to the various tracts of land in hundreds of branches.
SB 5.17.11Open verse →
तत्रापि भारतमेव वर्षं कर्मक्षेत्रमन्यान्यष्ट- वर्षाणि स्वर्गिणां पुण्यशेषोपभोगस्थानानि भौमानि स्वर्गपदानि व्यपदिशन्ति
tatrāpi bhāratameva varṣaṃ karmakṣetramanyānyaṣṭa- varṣāṇi svargiṇāṃ puṇyaśeṣopabhogasthānāni bhaumāni svargapadāni vyapadiśanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Among the nine varṣas, the tract of land known as Bhārata-varṣa is understood to be the field of fruitive activities. Learned scholars and saintly persons declare the other eight varṣas to be meant for very highly elevated pious persons. After returning from the heavenly planets, they enjoy the remaining results of their pious activities in these eight earthly varṣas.
SB 5.17.12Open verse →
एषु पुरुषाणामयुतपुरुषायुर्वर्षाणां देवकल्पानां नागायुतप्राणानां वज्रसंहननबलवयोमोदप्रमुदित- महासौरतमिथुनव्यवायापवर्गवर्षधृतैकगर्भकलत्राणां तत्र तु त्रेतायुगसमः कालो वर्तते
eṣu puruṣāṇāmayutapuruṣāyurvarṣāṇāṃ devakalpānāṃ nāgāyutaprāṇānāṃ vajrasaṃhananabalavayomodapramudita- mahāsauratamithunavyavāyāpavargavarṣadhṛtaikagarbhakalatrāṇāṃ tatra tu tretāyugasamaḥ kālo vartate
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In these eight varṣas, or tracts of land, human beings live ten thousand years according to earthly calculations. All the inhabitants are almost like demigods. They have the bodily strength of ten thousand elephants. Indeed, their bodies are as sturdy as thunderbolts. The youthful duration of their lives is very pleasing, and both men and women enjoy sexual union with great pleasure for a long time. After years of sensual pleasure — when a balance of one year of life remains — the wife conceives a child. Thus the standard of pleasure for the residents of these heavenly regions is exactly like that of the human beings who lived during Tretā-yuga.
SB 5.17.13Open verse →
यत्र ह देवपतयः स्वैः स्वैर्गणनायकैर्विहितमहार्हणाः सर्वर्तुकुसुमस्तबकफलकिसलयश्रियाऽऽनम्यमान- विटपलताविटपिभिरुपशुम्भमानरुचिरकाननाश्रमा- यतनवर्षगिरिद्रोणीषु तथा चामलजलाशयेषु विकचविविधनववनरुहामोदमुदितराजहंस- जलकुक्कुटकारण्डवसारसचक्रवाकादिभिः मधुकरनिकराकृतिभिरुपकूजितेषु जलक्रीडादिभि- र्विचित्रविनोदैः सुललितसुरसुन्दरीणां कामकलिलविलासहासलीलावलोकाकृष्टमनोदृष्टयः स्वैरं विहरन्ति
yatra ha devapatayaḥ svaiḥ svairgaṇanāyakairvihitamahārhaṇāḥ sarvartukusumastabakaphalakisalayaśriyā''namyamāna- viṭapalatāviṭapibhirupaśumbhamānarucirakānanāśramā- yatanavarṣagiridroṇīṣu tathā cāmalajalāśayeṣu vikacavividhanavavanaruhāmodamuditarājahaṃsa- jalakukkuṭakāraṇḍavasārasacakravākādibhiḥ madhukaranikarākṛtibhirupakūjiteṣu jalakrīḍādibhi- rvicitravinodaiḥ sulalitasurasundarīṇāṃ kāmakalilavilāsahāsalīlāvalokākṛṣṭamanodṛṣṭayaḥ svairaṃ viharanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In each of those tracts of land, there are many gardens filled with flowers and fruits according to the season, and there are beautifully decorated hermitages as well. Between the great mountains demarcating the borders of those lands lie enormous lakes of clear water filled with newly grown lotus flowers. Aquatic birds such as swans, ducks, water chickens, and cranes become greatly excited by the fragrance of lotus flowers, and the charming sound of bumblebees fills the air. The inhabitants of those lands are important leaders among the demigods. Always attended by their respective servants, they enjoy life in gardens alongside the lakes. In this pleasing situation, the wives of the demigods smile playfully at their husbands and look upon them with lusty desires. All the demigods and their wives are constantly supplied with sandalwood pulp and flower garlands by their servants. In this way, all the residents of the eight heavenly varṣas enjoy, attracted by the activities of the opposite sex.
SB 5.17.14Open verse →
नवस्वपि वर्षेषु भगवान् नारायणो महापुरुषः पुरुषाणां तदनुग्रहायात्मतत्त्वव्यूहेनात्मनाद्यापि सन्निधीयते
navasvapi varṣeṣu bhagavān nārāyaṇo mahāpuruṣaḥ puruṣāṇāṃ tadanugrahāyātmatattvavyūhenātmanādyāpi sannidhīyate
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
To show mercy to His devotees in each of these nine tracts of land, the Supreme Personality of Godhead known as Nārāyaṇa expands Himself in His quadruple principles of Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha. In this way He remains near His devotees to accept their service.
SB 5.17.15Open verse →
इलावृते तु भगवान् भव एक एव पुमान् न ह्यन्य- स्तत्रापरो निर्विशति भवान्याः शापनिमित्तज्ञो यत्प्रवेक्ष्यतः स्त्रीभावस्तत्पश्चाद्वक्ष्यामि
ilāvṛte tu bhagavān bhava eka eva pumān na hyanya- statrāparo nirviśati bhavānyāḥ śāpanimittajño yatpravekṣyataḥ strībhāvastatpaścādvakṣyāmi
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: In the tract of land known as Ilāvṛta-varṣa, the only male person is Lord Śiva, the most powerful demigod. Goddess Durgā, the wife of Lord Śiva, does not like any man to enter that land. If any foolish man dares to do so, she immediately turns him into a woman. I shall explain this later [in the Ninth Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam].
SB 5.17.16Open verse →
भवानीनाथैः स्त्रीगणार्बुदसहस्रैरवरुध्यमानो भगवतश्चतुर्मूर्तेर्महापुरुषस्य तुरीयां तामसीं मूर्तिं प्रकृतिमात्मनः सङ्कर्षणसंज्ञामात्मसमाधि- रूपेण सन्निधाप्यैतदभिगृणन् भव उपधावति
bhavānīnāthaiḥ strīgaṇārbudasahasrairavarudhyamāno bhagavataścaturmūrtermahāpuruṣasya turīyāṃ tāmasīṃ mūrtiṃ prakṛtimātmanaḥ saṅkarṣaṇasaṃjñāmātmasamādhi- rūpeṇa sannidhāpyaitadabhigṛṇan bhava upadhāvati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In Ilāvṛta-varṣa, Lord Śiva is always encircled by ten billion maidservants of Goddess Durgā, who minister to him. The quadruple expansion of the Supreme Lord is composed of Vāsudeva, Pradyumna, Aniruddha and Saṅkarṣaṇa. Saṅkarṣaṇa, the fourth expansion, is certainly transcendental, but because His activities of destruction in the material world are in the mode of ignorance, He is known as tāmasī, the Lord’s form in the mode of ignorance. Lord Śiva knows that Saṅkarṣaṇa is the original cause of his own existence, and thus he always meditates upon Him in trance by chanting the following mantra.
SB 5.17.17Open verse →
श्रीभगवानुवाच । ओं नमो भगवते महापुरुषाय सर्वगुणसङ्ख्यानाया- नन्तायाव्यक्ताय नम इति
śrībhagavānuvāca | oṃ namo bhagavate mahāpuruṣāya sarvaguṇasaṅkhyānāyā- nantāyāvyaktāya nama iti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The most powerful Lord Śiva says: O Supreme Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You in Your expansion as Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa. You are the reservoir of all transcendental qualities. Although You are unlimited, You remain unmanifest to the nondevotees.
SB 5.17.18Open verse →
भजे भजन्यारणपादपङ्कजं भगस्य कृत्स्नस्य परं परायणम् । भक्तेष्वलं भावितभूतभावनं भवापहं त्वा भवभावमीश्वरम्
bhaje bhajanyāraṇapādapaṅkajaṃ bhagasya kṛtsnasya paraṃ parāyaṇam | bhakteṣvalaṃ bhāvitabhūtabhāvanaṃ bhavāpahaṃ tvā bhavabhāvamīśvaram
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O my Lord, You are the only worshipable person, for You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the reservoir of all opulences. Your secure lotus feet are the only source of protection for all Your devotees, whom You satisfy by manifesting Yourself in various forms. O my Lord, You deliver Your devotees from the clutches of material existence. Nondevotees, however, remain entangled in material existence by Your will. Kindly accept me as Your eternal servant.
SB 5.17.19Open verse →
न यस्य मायागुणचित्तवृत्तिभि- र्निरीक्षतो ह्यण्वपि दृष्टिरज्यते । ईशे यथा नोऽजितमन्युरंहसां कस्तं न मन्येत जिगीषुरात्मनः
na yasya māyāguṇacittavṛttibhi- rnirīkṣato hyaṇvapi dṛṣṭirajyate | īśe yathā no'jitamanyuraṃhasāṃ kastaṃ na manyeta jigīṣurātmanaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
We cannot control the force of our anger. Therefore when we look at material things, we cannot avoid feeling attraction or repulsion for them. But the Supreme Lord is never affected in this way. Although He glances over the material world for the purpose of creating, maintaining and destroying it, He is not affected, even to the slightest degree. Therefore, one who desires to conquer the force of the senses must take shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord. Then he will be victorious.
SB 5.17.20Open verse →
असद्दृशो यः प्रतिभाति मायया क्षीबेव मध्वासवताम्रलोचनः । न नागवध्वोऽर्हण ईशिरे ह्रिया यत्पादयोः स्पर्शनधर्षितेन्द्रियाः
asaddṛśo yaḥ pratibhāti māyayā kṣībeva madhvāsavatāmralocanaḥ | na nāgavadhvo'rhaṇa īśire hriyā yatpādayoḥ sparśanadharṣitendriyāḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
For persons with impure vision, the Supreme Lord’s eyes appear like those of someone who indiscriminately drinks intoxicating beverages. Thus bewildered, such unintelligent persons become angry at the Supreme Lord, and due to their angry mood the Lord Himself appears angry and very fearful. However, this is an illusion. When the wives of the serpent demon were agitated by the touch of the Lord’s lotus feet, due to shyness they could proceed no further in their worship of Him. Yet the Lord remained unagitated by their touch, for He is equipoised in all circumstances. Therefore who will not worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
SB 5.17.21Open verse →
यमाहुरस्य स्थितिजन्मसंयमं त्रिभिर्विहीनं यमनन्तमृषयः । न वेद सिद्धार्थमिव क्वचित्स्थितं भूमण्डलं मूर्धसहस्रधामसु
yamāhurasya sthitijanmasaṃyamaṃ tribhirvihīnaṃ yamanantamṛṣayaḥ | na veda siddhārthamiva kvacitsthitaṃ bhūmaṇḍalaṃ mūrdhasahasradhāmasu
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Lord Śiva continued: All the great sages accept the Lord as the source of creation, maintenance and destruction, although He actually has nothing to do with these activities. Therefore the Lord is called unlimited. Although the Lord in His incarnation as Śeṣa holds all the universes on His hoods, each universe feels no heavier than a mustard seed to Him. Therefore, what person desiring perfection will not worship the Lord?
SB 5.17.24Open verse →
यन्निर्मितां कर्ह्यपि कर्मपर्वणीं मायां जनोऽयं गुणसर्गमोहितः । न वेद निस्तारणयोगमञ्जसा तस्मै नमस्ते विलयोदयात्मने
yannirmitāṃ karhyapi karmaparvaṇīṃ māyāṃ jano'yaṃ guṇasargamohitaḥ | na veda nistāraṇayogamañjasā tasmai namaste vilayodayātmane
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The illusory energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead binds all of us conditioned souls to this material world. Therefore, without being favored by Him, persons like us cannot understand how to get out of that illusory energy. Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the Lord, who is the cause of creation and annihilation.
SB 5.18.1Open verse →
श्रीशुक उवाच । तथा च भद्रश्रवा नाम धर्मसुतस्तत्कुलपतयः पुरुषा भद्राश्ववर्षे साक्षाद्भगवतो वासुदेवस्य प्रियां तनुं धर्ममयीं हयशीर्षाभिधानां परमेण समाधिना सन्निधाप्येदमभिगृणन्त उपधावन्ति
śrīśuka uvāca | tathā ca bhadraśravā nāma dharmasutastatkulapatayaḥ puruṣā bhadrāśvavarṣe sākṣādbhagavato vāsudevasya priyāṃ tanuṃ dharmamayīṃ hayaśīrṣābhidhānāṃ parameṇa samādhinā sannidhāpyedamabhigṛṇanta upadhāvanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Bhadraśravā, the son of Dharmarāja, rules the tract of land known as Bhadrāśva-varṣa. Just as Lord Śiva worships Saṅkarṣaṇa in Ilāvṛta-varṣa, Bhadraśravā, accompanied by his intimate servants and all the residents of the land, worships the plenary expansion of Vāsudeva known as Hayaśīrṣa. Lord Hayaśīrṣa is very dear to the devotees, and He is the director of all religious principles. Fixed in the topmost trance, Bhadraśravā and his associates offer their respectful obeisances to the Lord and chant the following prayers with careful pronunciation.
SB 5.18.2Open verse →
भद्रश्रवस ऊचुः । ओं नमो भगवते धर्मायात्मविशोधनाय नम इति
bhadraśravasa ūcuḥ | oṃ namo bhagavate dharmāyātmaviśodhanāya nama iti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The ruler Bhadraśravā and his intimate associates utter the following prayer: We offer our respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the reservoir of all religious principles, who cleanses the heart of the conditioned soul in this material world. Again and again we offer our respectful obeisances unto Him.
SB 5.18.3Open verse →
अहो विचित्रं भगवद्विचेष्टितं घ्नन्तं जनोऽयं हि मिषन्न पश्यति । ध्यायन्नसद्यर्हि विकर्म सेवितुं निर्हृत्य पुत्रं पितरं जिजीविषति
aho vicitraṃ bhagavadviceṣṭitaṃ ghnantaṃ jano'yaṃ hi miṣanna paśyati | dhyāyannasadyarhi vikarma sevituṃ nirhṛtya putraṃ pitaraṃ jijīviṣati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Alas! How wonderful it is that the foolish materialist does not heed the great danger of impending death! He knows that death will surely come, yet he is nevertheless callous and neglectful. If his father dies, he wants to enjoy his father’s property, and if his son dies, he wants to enjoy his son’s possessions as well. In either case, he heedlessly tries to enjoy material happiness with the acquired money.
SB 5.18.4Open verse →
वदन्ति विश्वं कवयः स्म नश्वरं पश्यन्ति चाध्यात्मविदो विपश्चितः । तथापि मुह्यन्ति तवाज मायया सुविस्मितं कृत्यमजं नतोऽस्मि तम्
vadanti viśvaṃ kavayaḥ sma naśvaraṃ paśyanti cādhyātmavido vipaścitaḥ | tathāpi muhyanti tavāja māyayā suvismitaṃ kṛtyamajaṃ nato'smi tam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O unborn one, learned Vedic scholars who are advanced in spiritual knowledge certainly know that this material world is perishable, as do other logicians and philosophers. In trance they realize the factual position of this world, and they preach the truth as well. Yet even they are sometimes bewildered by Your illusory energy. This is Your own wonderful pastime. Therefore, I can understand that Your illusory energy is very wonderful, and I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.
SB 5.18.5Open verse →
विश्वोद्भवस्थाननिरोधकर्म ते ह्यकर्तुरङ्गीकृतमप्यपावृतः । युक्तं न चित्रं त्वयि कार्यकारणे सर्वात्मनि व्यतिरिक्ते च वस्तुतः
viśvodbhavasthānanirodhakarma te hyakarturaṅgīkṛtamapyapāvṛtaḥ | yuktaṃ na citraṃ tvayi kāryakāraṇe sarvātmani vyatirikte ca vastutaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O Lord, although You are completely detached from the creation, maintenance and annihilation of this material world and are not directly affected by these activities, they are all attributed to You. We do not wonder at this, for Your inconceivable energies perfectly qualify You to be the cause of all causes. You are the active principle in everything, although You are separate from everything. Thus we can realize that everything is happening because of Your inconceivable energy.
SB 5.18.6Open verse →
वेदान् युगान्ते तमसा तिरस्कृतान् रसातलाद्यो नृतुरङ्गविग्रहः । प्रत्याददे वै कवयेऽभियाचते तस्मै नमस्तेऽवितथेहिताय इति
vedān yugānte tamasā tiraskṛtān rasātalādyo nṛturaṅgavigrahaḥ | pratyādade vai kavaye'bhiyācate tasmai namaste'vitathehitāya iti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
At the end of the millennium, ignorance personified assumed the form of a demon, stole all the Vedas and took them down to the planet of Rasātala. The Supreme Lord, however, in His form of Hayagrīva retrieved the Vedas and returned them to Lord Brahmā when he begged for them. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Lord, whose determination never fails.
SB 5.18.7Open verse →
हरिवर्षे चापि भगवान् नरहरिरूपेणास्ते तद्रूपग्रहणनिमित्तमुत्तरत्राभिधास्ये तद्दयितं रूपं महापुरुषगुणभाजनो महाभागवतो दैत्यदानवकुलतीर्थीकरणशीलाचरितः प्रह्लादोऽव्यवधानानन्यभक्तियोगेन सह तद्वर्षपुरुषैरुपास्ते इदं चोदाहरति
harivarṣe cāpi bhagavān naraharirūpeṇāste tadrūpagrahaṇanimittamuttaratrābhidhāsye taddayitaṃ rūpaṃ mahāpuruṣaguṇabhājano mahābhāgavato daityadānavakulatīrthīkaraṇaśīlācaritaḥ prahlādo'vyavadhānānanyabhaktiyogena saha tadvarṣapuruṣairupāste idaṃ codāharati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva resides in the tract of land known as Hari-varṣa. In the Seventh Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, I shall describe to you how Prahlāda Mahārāja caused the Lord to assume the form of Nṛsiṁhadeva. Prahlāda Mahārāja, the topmost devotee of the Lord, is a reservoir of all the good qualities of great personalities. His character and activities have delivered all the fallen members of his demoniac family. Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva is very dear to this exalted personality. Thus Prahlāda Mahārāja, along with his servants and all the denizens of Hari-varṣa, worships Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva by chanting the following mantra.
SB 5.18.8Open verse →
ओं नमो भगवते नरसिंहाय नमस्तेजस्तेजसे आविराविर्भव वज्रनख वज्रदंष्ट्र कर्माशयान् रन्धय रन्धय तमो ग्रस ग्रस ओं स्वाहा अभयमभयमात्मनि भूयिष्ठा ओं क्ष्रौम्
oṃ namo bhagavate narasiṃhāya namastejastejase āvirāvirbhava vajranakha vajradaṃṣṭra karmāśayān randhaya randhaya tamo grasa grasa oṃ svāhā abhayamabhayamātmani bhūyiṣṭhā oṃ kṣraum
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
I offer my respectful obeisances unto Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, the source of all power. O my Lord who possess nails and teeth just like thunderbolts, kindly vanquish our demonlike desires for fruitive activity in this material world. Please appear in our hearts and drive away our ignorance so that by Your mercy we may become fearless in the struggle for existence in this material world.
SB 5.18.9Open verse →
स्वस्त्यस्तु विश्वस्य खलः प्रसीदतां ध्यायन्तु भूतानि शिवं मिथो धिया । मनश्च भद्रं भजतादधोक्षजे आवेश्यतां नो मतिरप्यहैतुकी
svastyastu viśvasya khalaḥ prasīdatāṃ dhyāyantu bhūtāni śivaṃ mitho dhiyā | manaśca bhadraṃ bhajatādadhokṣaje āveśyatāṃ no matirapyahaitukī
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
May there be good fortune throughout the universe, and may all envious persons be pacified. May all living entities become calm by practicing bhakti-yoga, for by accepting devotional service they will think of each other’s welfare. Therefore let us all engage in the service of the supreme transcendence, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and always remain absorbed in thought of Him.
SB 5.18.10Open verse →
मागारदारात्मजवित्तबन्धुषु सङ्गो यदि स्याद्भगवत्प्रियेषु नः । यः प्राणवृत्त्या परितुष्ट आत्मवान् सिद्ध्यत्यदूरान्न तथेन्द्रियप्रियः
māgāradārātmajavittabandhuṣu saṅgo yadi syādbhagavatpriyeṣu naḥ | yaḥ prāṇavṛttyā parituṣṭa ātmavān siddhyatyadūrānna tathendriyapriyaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear Lord, we pray that we may never feel attraction for the prison of family life, consisting of home, wife, children, friends, bank balance, relatives and so on. If we do have some attachment, let it be for devotees, whose only dear friend is Kṛṣṇa. A person who is actually self-realized and who has controlled his mind is perfectly satisfied with the bare necessities of life. He does not try to gratify his senses. Such a person quickly advances in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, whereas others, who are too attached to material things, find advancement very difficult.
SB 5.18.11Open verse →
यत्सङ्गलब्धं निजवीर्यवैभवं तीर्थं मुहुः संस्पृशतां हि मानसम् । हरत्यजोऽन्तःश्रुतिभिर्गतोऽङ्गजं को वै न सेवेत मुकुन्दविक्रमम्
yatsaṅgalabdhaṃ nijavīryavaibhavaṃ tīrthaṃ muhuḥ saṃspṛśatāṃ hi mānasam | haratyajo'ntaḥśrutibhirgato'ṅgajaṃ ko vai na seveta mukundavikramam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
By associating with persons for whom the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Mukunda, is the all in all, one can hear of His powerful activities and soon come to understand them. The activities of Mukunda are so potent that simply by hearing of them one immediately associates with the Lord. For a person who constantly and very eagerly hears narrations of the Lord’s powerful activities, the Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead in the form of sound vibrations, enters within his heart and cleanses it of all contamination. On the other hand, although bathing in the Ganges diminishes bodily contaminations and infections, this process and the process of visiting holy places can cleanse the heart only after a long time. Therefore who is the sane man who will not associate with devotees to quickly perfect his life?
SB 5.18.12Open verse →
यस्यास्ति भक्तिर्भगवत्यकिञ्चना सर्वैर्गुणैस्तत्र समासते सुराः । हरावभक्तस्य कुतो महद्गुणा मनोरथेनासति धावतो बहिः
yasyāsti bhaktirbhagavatyakiñcanā sarvairguṇaistatra samāsate surāḥ | harāvabhaktasya kuto mahadguṇā manorathenāsati dhāvato bahiḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
All the demigods and their exalted qualities, such as religion, knowledge and renunciation, become manifest in the body of one who has developed unalloyed devotion for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva. On the other hand, a person devoid of devotional service and engaged in material activities has no good qualities. Even if he is adept at the practice of mystic yoga or the honest endeavor of maintaining his family and relatives, he must be driven by his own mental speculations and must engage in the service of the Lord’s external energy. How can there be any good qualities in such a man?
SB 5.18.13Open verse →
हरिर्हि साक्षाद्भगवान् शरीरिणा- मात्मा झषाणामिव तोयमीप्सितम् । हित्वा महांस्तं यदि सज्जते गृहे तदा महत्त्वं वयसा दम्पतीनाम्
harirhi sākṣādbhagavān śarīriṇā- mātmā jhaṣāṇāmiva toyamīpsitam | hitvā mahāṃstaṃ yadi sajjate gṛhe tadā mahattvaṃ vayasā dampatīnām
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Just as aquatics always desire to remain in the vast mass of water, all conditioned living entities naturally desire to remain in the vast existence of the Supreme Lord. Therefore if someone very great by material calculations fails to take shelter of the Supreme Soul but instead becomes attached to material household life, his greatness is like that of a young, low-class couple. One who is too attached to material life loses all good spiritual qualities.
SB 5.18.14Open verse →
तस्माद्रजोरागविषादमन्यु- मानस्पृहाभयदैन्याधिमूलम् । हित्वा गृहं संसृतिचक्रवालं नृसिंहपादं भजताकुतोभयमिति
tasmādrajorāgaviṣādamanyu- mānaspṛhābhayadainyādhimūlam | hitvā gṛhaṃ saṃsṛticakravālaṃ nṛsiṃhapādaṃ bhajatākutobhayamiti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Therefore, O demons, give up the so-called happiness of family life and simply take shelter of the lotus feet of Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, which are the actual shelter of fearlessness. Entanglement in family life is the root cause of material attachment, indefatigable desires, moroseness, anger, despair, fear and the desire for false prestige, all of which result in the repetition of birth and death.
SB 5.18.15Open verse →
केतुमालेऽपि भगवान् कामदेवस्वरूपेण लक्ष्म्याः प्रियचिकीर्षया प्रजापतेर्दुहितॄणां पुत्राणां तद्वर्षपतीनां पुरुषायुषाहोरात्रपरिसङ्ख्यानानां यासां गर्भा महापुरुष- महास्त्रतेजसोद्वेजितमनसां विध्वस्ता व्यसवः संवत्सरान्ते विनिपतन्ति
ketumāle'pi bhagavān kāmadevasvarūpeṇa lakṣmyāḥ priyacikīrṣayā prajāpaterduhitṝṇāṃ putrāṇāṃ tadvarṣapatīnāṃ puruṣāyuṣāhorātraparisaṅkhyānānāṃ yāsāṃ garbhā mahāpuruṣa- mahāstratejasodvejitamanasāṃ vidhvastā vyasavaḥ saṃvatsarānte vinipatanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: In the tract of land called Ketumāla-varṣa, Lord Viṣṇu lives in the form of Kāmadeva, only for the satisfaction of His devotees. These include Lakṣmījī [the goddess of fortune], the Prajāpati Saṁvatsara and all of Saṁvatsara’s sons and daughters. The daughters of Prajāpati are considered the controlling deities of the nights, and his sons are considered the controllers of the days. The Prajāpati’s offspring number 36,000, one for each day and each night in the lifetime of a human being. At the end of each year, the Prajāpati’s daughters become very agitated upon seeing the extremely effulgent disc of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and thus they all suffer miscarriages.
SB 5.18.16Open verse →
अतीव सुललितगतिविलासविलसितरुचिरहास- लेशावलोकलीलया किञ्चिदुत्तम्भितसुन्दरभ्रूमण्डल- सुभगवदनारविन्दश्रिया रमां रमयन्निन्द्रियाणि रमयते
atīva sulalitagativilāsavilasitarucirahāsa- leśāvalokalīlayā kiñciduttambhitasundarabhrūmaṇḍala- subhagavadanāravindaśriyā ramāṃ ramayannindriyāṇi ramayate
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In Ketumāla-varṣa, Lord Kāmadeva [Pradyumna] moves very graciously. His mild smile is very beautiful, and when He increases the beauty of His face by slightly raising His eyebrows and glancing playfully, He pleases the goddess of fortune. Thus He enjoys His transcendental senses.
SB 5.18.17Open verse →
तद्भगवतो मायामयं रूपं परमसमाधियोगेन रमादेवी संवत्सरस्य रात्रिषु प्रजापतेर्दुहितृभि- रुपेताहःसु च तद्भर्तृभिरुपास्ते इदं चोदाहरति
tadbhagavato māyāmayaṃ rūpaṃ paramasamādhiyogena ramādevī saṃvatsarasya rātriṣu prajāpaterduhitṛbhi- rupetāhaḥsu ca tadbhartṛbhirupāste idaṃ codāharati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Accompanied during the daytime by the sons of the Prajāpati [the predominating deities of the days] and accompanied at night by his daughters [the deities of the nights], Lakṣmīdevī worships the Lord during the period known as the Saṁvatsara in His most merciful form as Kāmadeva. Fully absorbed in devotional service, she chants the following mantras.
SB 5.18.18Open verse →
ओं ह्रां ह्रीं ह्रूं ओं नमो भगवते हृषीकेशाय सर्वगुणविशेषैर्विलक्षितात्मने आकूतीनां चित्तीनां चेतसां विशेषाणां चाधिपतये षोडशकलाय च्छन्दोमयायान्नमयायामृतमयाय सर्वमयाय सहसे ओजसे बलाय कान्ताय कामाय नमस्ते उभयत्र भूयात्
oṃ hrāṃ hrīṃ hrūṃ oṃ namo bhagavate hṛṣīkeśāya sarvaguṇaviśeṣairvilakṣitātmane ākūtīnāṃ cittīnāṃ cetasāṃ viśeṣāṇāṃ cādhipataye ṣoḍaśakalāya cchandomayāyānnamayāyāmṛtamayāya sarvamayāya sahase ojase balāya kāntāya kāmāya namaste ubhayatra bhūyāt
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Hṛṣīkeśa, the controller of all my senses and the origin of everything. As the supreme master of all bodily, mental and intellectual activities, He is the only enjoyer of their results. The five sense objects and eleven senses, including the mind, are His partial manifestations. He supplies all the necessities of life, which are His energy and thus nondifferent from Him, and He is the cause of everyone’s bodily and mental prowess, which is also nondifferent from Him. Indeed, He is the husband and provider of necessities for all living entities. The purpose of all the Vedas is to worship Him. Therefore let us all offer Him our respectful obeisances. May He always be favorable toward us in this life and the next.
SB 5.18.19Open verse →
स्त्रियो व्रतैस्त्वा हृषीकेश्वरं स्वतो ह्याराध्य लोके पतिमाशासतेऽन्यम् । तासां न ते वै परिपान्त्यपत्यं प्रियं धनायूंषि यतोऽस्वतन्त्राः
striyo vrataistvā hṛṣīkeśvaraṃ svato hyārādhya loke patimāśāsate'nyam | tāsāṃ na te vai paripāntyapatyaṃ priyaṃ dhanāyūṃṣi yato'svatantrāḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear Lord, You are certainly the fully independent master of all the senses. Therefore all women who worship You by strictly observing vows because they wish to acquire a husband to satisfy their senses are surely under illusion. They do not know that such a husband cannot actually give protection to them or their children. Nor can he protect their wealth or duration of life, for he himself is dependent on time, fruitive results and the modes of nature, which are all subordinate to You.
SB 5.18.20Open verse →
स वै पतिः स्यादकुतोभयः स्वयं समन्ततः पाति भयातुरं जनम् । स एक एवेतरथा मिथो भयं नैवात्मलाभादधि मन्यते परम्
sa vai patiḥ syādakutobhayaḥ svayaṃ samantataḥ pāti bhayāturaṃ janam | sa eka evetarathā mitho bhayaṃ naivātmalābhādadhi manyate param
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
He alone who is never afraid but who, on the contrary, gives complete shelter to all fearful persons can actually become a husband and protector. Therefore, my Lord, You are the only husband, and no one else can claim this position. If You were not the only husband, You would be afraid of others. Therefore persons learned in all Vedic literature accept only Your Lordship as everyone’s master, and they think no one else a better husband and protector than You.
SB 5.18.21Open verse →
या तस्य ते पादसरोरुहार्हणं निकामयेत्साखिलकामलम्पटा । तदेव रासीप्सितमीप्सितोऽर्चितो यद्भग्नयाच्ञा भगवन् प्रतप्यते
yā tasya te pādasaroruhārhaṇaṃ nikāmayetsākhilakāmalampaṭā | tadeva rāsīpsitamīpsito'rcito yadbhagnayācñā bhagavan pratapyate
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear Lord, You automatically fulfill all the desires of a woman who worships Your lotus feet in pure love. However, if a woman worships Your lotus feet for a particular purpose, You also quickly fulfill her desires, but in the end she becomes broken-hearted and laments. Therefore one need not worship Your lotus feet for some material benefit.
SB 5.18.22Open verse →
मत्प्राप्तयेऽजेशसुरासुरादय- स्तप्यन्त उग्रं तप ऐन्द्रिये धियः । ऋते भवत्पादपरायणान्न मां विन्दन्त्यहं त्वद्धृदया यतोऽजित
matprāptaye'jeśasurāsurādaya- stapyanta ugraṃ tapa aindriye dhiyaḥ | ṛte bhavatpādaparāyaṇānna māṃ vindantyahaṃ tvaddhṛdayā yato'jita
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O supreme unconquerable Lord, when they become absorbed in thoughts of material enjoyment, Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva, as well as other demigods and demons, undergo severe penances and austerities to receive my benedictions. But I do not favor anyone, however great he may be, unless he is always engaged in the service of Your lotus feet. Because I always keep You within my heart, I cannot favor anyone but a devotee.
SB 5.18.23Open verse →
स त्वं ममाप्यच्युत शीर्ष्णि वन्दितं कराम्बुजं यत्त्वदधायि सात्वताम् । बिभर्षि मां लक्ष्म वरेण्य मायया क ईश्वरस्येहितमूहितुं विभुरिति
sa tvaṃ mamāpyacyuta śīrṣṇi vanditaṃ karāmbujaṃ yattvadadhāyi sātvatām | bibharṣi māṃ lakṣma vareṇya māyayā ka īśvarasyehitamūhituṃ vibhuriti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O infallible one, Your lotus palm is the source of all benediction. Therefore Your pure devotees worship it, and You very mercifully place Your hand on their heads. I wish that You may also place Your hand on My head, for although You already bear my insignia of golden streaks on Your chest, I regard this honor as merely a kind of false prestige for me. You show Your real mercy to Your devotees, not to me. Of course, You are the supreme absolute controller, and no one can understand Your motives.
SB 5.18.24Open verse →
रम्यके च भगवतः प्रियतमं मात्स्यमवताररूपं तद्वर्षपुरुषस्य मनोप्राक्प्रदर्शितं स इदानीमपि महता भक्तियोगेनाराधयतीदं चोदाहरति
ramyake ca bhagavataḥ priyatamaṃ mātsyamavatārarūpaṃ tadvarṣapuruṣasya manoprākpradarśitaṃ sa idānīmapi mahatā bhaktiyogenārādhayatīdaṃ codāharati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: In Ramyaka-varṣa, where Vaivasvata Manu rules, the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared as Lord Matsya at the end of the last era [the Cākṣuṣa-manvantara]. Vaivasvata Manu now worships Lord Matsya in pure devotional service and chants the following mantra.
SB 5.18.25Open verse →
ओं नमो भगवते मुख्यतमाय नमः सत्त्वाय प्राणायौजसे सहसे बलाय महामत्स्याय नम इति
oṃ namo bhagavate mukhyatamāya namaḥ sattvāya prāṇāyaujase sahase balāya mahāmatsyāya nama iti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is pure transcendence. He is the origin of all life, bodily strength, mental power and sensory ability. Known as Matsyāvatāra, the gigantic fish incarnation, He appears first among all the incarnations. Again I offer my obeisances unto Him.
SB 5.18.26Open verse →
अन्तर्बहिश्चाखिललोकपालकै- रदृष्टरूपो विचरस्युरुस्वनः । स ईश्वरस्त्वं य इदं वशेऽनय- न्नाम्ना यथा दारुमयीं नरः स्त्रियम्
antarbahiścākhilalokapālakai- radṛṣṭarūpo vicarasyurusvanaḥ | sa īśvarastvaṃ ya idaṃ vaśe'naya- nnāmnā yathā dārumayīṃ naraḥ striyam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear Lord, just as a puppeteer controls his dancing dolls and a husband controls his wife, Your Lordship controls all the living entities in the universe, such as the brāhmaṇas, kṣatriyas, vaiśyas and śūdras. Although You are in everyone’s heart as the supreme witness and commander and are outside everyone as well, the so-called leaders of societies, communities and countries cannot realize You. Only those who hear the vibration of the Vedic mantras can appreciate You.
SB 5.18.27Open verse →
यं लोकपालाः किल मत्सरज्वरा हित्वा यतन्तोऽपि पृथक्समेत्य च । पातुं न शेकुर्द्विपदश्चतुष्पदः सरीसृपं स्थाणु यदत्र दृश्यते
yaṃ lokapālāḥ kila matsarajvarā hitvā yatanto'pi pṛthaksametya ca | pātuṃ na śekurdvipadaścatuṣpadaḥ sarīsṛpaṃ sthāṇu yadatra dṛśyate
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My Lord, from the great leaders of the universe, such as Lord Brahmā and other demigods, down to the political leaders of this world, all are envious of Your authority. Without Your help, however, they could neither separately nor concertedly maintain the innumerable living entities within the universe. You are actually the only maintainer of all human beings, of animals like cows and asses, and of plants, reptiles, birds, mountains and whatever else is visible within this material world.
SB 5.18.28Open verse →
भवान् युगान्तार्णव ऊर्मिमालिनि क्षोणीमिमामोषधिवीरुधां निधिम् । मया सहोरुक्रमतेज ओजसा तस्मै जगत्प्राणगणात्मने नम इति
bhavān yugāntārṇava ūrmimālini kṣoṇīmimāmoṣadhivīrudhāṃ nidhim | mayā sahorukramateja ojasā tasmai jagatprāṇagaṇātmane nama iti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O almighty Lord, at the end of the millennium this planet earth, which is the source of all kinds of herbs, drugs and trees, was inundated by water and drowned beneath the devastating waves. At that time, You protected me along with the earth and roamed the sea with great speed. O unborn one, You are the actual maintainer of the entire universal creation, and therefore You are the cause of all living entities. I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.
SB 5.18.29Open verse →
हिरण्मयेऽपि भगवान् निवसति कूर्मतनुं बिभ्राणस्तस्य तत्प्रियतमां तनुमर्यमा सह वर्षपुरुषैः पितृगणाधिपतिरुपधावति मन्त्रमिमं चानुजपति
hiraṇmaye'pi bhagavān nivasati kūrmatanuṃ bibhrāṇastasya tatpriyatamāṃ tanumaryamā saha varṣapuruṣaiḥ pitṛgaṇādhipatirupadhāvati mantramimaṃ cānujapati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: In Hiraṇmaya-varṣa, the Supreme Lord, Viṣṇu, lives in the form of a tortoise [kūrma-śarīra]. This most dear and beautiful form is always worshiped there in devotional service by Aryamā, the chief resident of Hiraṇmaya-varṣa, along with the other inhabitants of that land. They chant the following hymns.
SB 5.18.30Open verse →
ओं नमो भगवते अकूपाराय सर्वसत्त्वगुण- विशेषणायानुपलक्षितस्थानाय नमो वर्ष्मणे नमो भूम्ने नमो नमोऽवस्थानाय नमस्ते
oṃ namo bhagavate akūpārāya sarvasattvaguṇa- viśeṣaṇāyānupalakṣitasthānāya namo varṣmaṇe namo bhūmne namo namo'vasthānāya namaste
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O my Lord, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You, who have assumed the form of a tortoise. You are the reservoir of all transcendental qualities, and being entirely untinged by matter, You are perfectly situated in pure goodness. You move here and there in the water, but no one can discern Your position. Therefore I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. Because of Your transcendental position, You are not limited by past, present and future. You are present everywhere as the shelter of all things, and therefore I offer my respectful obeisances unto You again and again.
SB 5.18.31Open verse →
यद्रूपमेतन्निजमाययार्पित- मर्थस्वरूपं बहुरूपरूपितम् । सङ्ख्या न यस्यास्त्ययथोपलम्भना- त्तस्मै नमस्तेऽव्यपदेशरूपिणे
yadrūpametannijamāyayārpita- marthasvarūpaṃ bahurūparūpitam | saṅkhyā na yasyāstyayathopalambhanā- ttasmai namaste'vyapadeśarūpiṇe
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear Lord, this visible cosmic manifestation is a demonstration of Your own creative energy. Since the countless varieties of forms within this cosmic manifestation are simply a display of Your external energy, this virāṭ-rūpa [universal body] is not Your real form. Except for a devotee in transcendental consciousness, no one can perceive Your actual form. Therefore I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.
SB 5.18.32Open verse →
जरायुजं स्वेदजमण्डजोद्भिदं चराचरं देवर्षिपितृभूतमैन्द्रियम् । द्यौः खं क्षितिः शैलसरित्समुद्र- द्वीपग्रहर्क्षेत्यभिधेय एकः
jarāyujaṃ svedajamaṇḍajodbhidaṃ carācaraṃ devarṣipitṛbhūtamaindriyam | dyauḥ khaṃ kṣitiḥ śailasaritsamudra- dvīpagraharkṣetyabhidheya ekaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear Lord, You manifest Your different energies in countless forms: as living entities born from wombs, from eggs and from perspiration; as plants and trees that grow out of the earth; as all living entities, both moving and standing, including the demigods, the learned sages and the pitās; as outer space, as the higher planetary system containing the heavenly planets, and as the planet earth with its hills, rivers, seas, oceans and islands. Indeed, all the stars and planets are simply manifestations of Your different energies, but originally You are one without a second. Therefore there is nothing beyond You. This entire cosmic manifestation is therefore not false but is simply a temporary manifestation of Your inconceivable energy.
SB 5.18.33Open verse →
यस्मिन्नसङ्ख्येयविशेषनाम- रूपाकृतौ कविभिः कल्पितेयम् । सङ्ख्या यया तत्त्वदृशापनीयते तस्मै नमः साङ्ख्यनिदर्शनाय ते इति
yasminnasaṅkhyeyaviśeṣanāma- rūpākṛtau kavibhiḥ kalpiteyam | saṅkhyā yayā tattvadṛśāpanīyate tasmai namaḥ sāṅkhyanidarśanāya te iti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O my Lord, Your name, form and bodily features are expanded in countless forms. No one can determine exactly how many forms exist, yet You Yourself, in Your incarnation as the learned scholar Kapiladeva, have analyzed the cosmic manifestation as containing twenty-four elements. Therefore if one is interested in Sāṅkhya philosophy, by which one can enumerate the different truths, he must hear it from You. Unfortunately, nondevotees simply count the different elements and remain ignorant of Your actual form. I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.
SB 5.18.34Open verse →
उत्तरेषु च कुरुषु भगवान् यज्ञपुरुषः कृतवराहरूप आस्ते तं तु देवी हैषा भूः सह कुरुभिरस्खलितभक्तियोगेनोपधावति इमां च परमामुपनिषदमावर्तयति
uttareṣu ca kuruṣu bhagavān yajñapuruṣaḥ kṛtavarāharūpa āste taṃ tu devī haiṣā bhūḥ saha kurubhiraskhalitabhaktiyogenopadhāvati imāṃ ca paramāmupaniṣadamāvartayati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Dear King, the Supreme Lord in His boar incarnation, who accepts all sacrificial offerings, lives in the northern part of Jambūdvīpa. There, in the tract of land known as Uttarakuru-varṣa, mother earth and all the other inhabitants worship Him with unfailing devotional service by repeatedly chanting the following Upaniṣadic mantra.
SB 5.18.35Open verse →
ओं नमो भगवते मन्त्रतत्त्वलिङ्गाय यज्ञक्रतवे महाध्वरावयवाय महापुरुषाय नमः कर्मशुक्लाय त्रियुगाय नमस्ते
oṃ namo bhagavate mantratattvaliṅgāya yajñakratave mahādhvarāvayavāya mahāpuruṣāya namaḥ karmaśuklāya triyugāya namaste
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O Lord, we offer our respectful obeisances unto You as the gigantic person. Simply by chanting mantras, we shall be able to understand You fully. You are yajña [sacrifice], and You are the kratu [ritual]. Therefore all the ritualistic ceremonies of sacrifice are part of Your transcendental body, and You are the only enjoyer of all sacrifices. Your form is composed of transcendental goodness. You are known as tri-yuga because in Kali-yuga You appeared as a concealed incarnation and because You always fully possess the three pairs of opulences.
SB 5.18.36Open verse →
यस्य स्वरूपं कवयो विपश्चितो गुणेषु दारुष्विव जातवेदसम् । मथ्नन्ति मथ्ना मनसा दिदृक्षवो गूढं क्रियार्थैर्नम ईरितात्मने
yasya svarūpaṃ kavayo vipaścito guṇeṣu dāruṣviva jātavedasam | mathnanti mathnā manasā didṛkṣavo gūḍhaṃ kriyārthairnama īritātmane
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
By manipulating a fire-generating stick, great saints and sages can bring forth the fire lying dormant within wood. In the same way, O Lord, those expert in understanding the Absolute Truth try to see You in everything — even in their own bodies. Yet you remain concealed. You are not to be understood by indirect processes involving mental or physical activities. Because You are self-manifested, only when You see that a person is wholeheartedly engaged in searching for You do You reveal Yourself. Therefore I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.
SB 5.18.37Open verse →
द्रव्यक्रियाहेत्वयनेशकर्तृभि- र्मायागुणैर्वस्तुनिरीक्षितात्मने । अन्वीक्षयाङ्गातिशयात्मबुद्धिभि- र्निरस्तमायाकृतये नमो नमः
dravyakriyāhetvayaneśakartṛbhi- rmāyāguṇairvastunirīkṣitātmane | anvīkṣayāṅgātiśayātmabuddhibhi- rnirastamāyākṛtaye namo namaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The objects of material enjoyment [sound, form, taste, touch and smell], the activities of the senses, the controllers of sensory activities [the demigods], the body, eternal time and egotism are all creations of Your material energy. Those whose intelligence has become fixed by perfect execution of mystic yoga can see that all these elements result from the actions of Your external energy. They can also see Your transcendental form as Supersoul in the background of everything. Therefore I repeatedly offer my respectful obeisances unto You.
SB 5.18.38Open verse →
करोति विश्वस्थितिसंयमोदयं यस्येप्सितं नेप्सितमीक्षितुर्गुणैः । माया यथायो भ्रमते तदाश्रयं ग्राव्णो नमस्ते गुणकर्मसाक्षिणे
karoti viśvasthitisaṃyamodayaṃ yasyepsitaṃ nepsitamīkṣiturguṇaiḥ | māyā yathāyo bhramate tadāśrayaṃ grāvṇo namaste guṇakarmasākṣiṇe
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O Lord, You do not desire the creation, maintenance or annihilation of this material world, but You perform these activities for the conditioned souls by Your creative energy. Exactly as a piece of iron moves under the influence of a lodestone, inert matter moves when You glance over the total material energy.
SB 5.18.39Open verse →
प्रमथ्य दैत्यं प्रतिवारणं मृधे यो मां रसाया जगदादिसूकरः । कृत्वाग्रदंष्ट्रे निरगादुदन्वतः क्रीडन्निवेभः प्रणतास्मि तं विभुमिति
pramathya daityaṃ prativāraṇaṃ mṛdhe yo māṃ rasāyā jagadādisūkaraḥ | kṛtvāgradaṃṣṭre niragādudanvataḥ krīḍannivebhaḥ praṇatāsmi taṃ vibhumiti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My Lord, as the original boar within this universe, You fought and killed the great demon Hiraṇyakṣa. Then You lifted me [the earth] from the Garbhodaka Ocean on the end of Your tusk, exactly as a sporting elephant plucks a lotus flower from the water. I bow down before You.
SB 5.19.1Open verse →
श्रीशुक उवाच । किम्पुरुषे वर्षे भगवन्तमादिपुरुषं लक्ष्मणाग्रजं सीताभिरामं रामं तच्चरणसन्निकर्षाभिरतः परमभागवतो हनुमान् सह किम्पुरुषैरविरत- भक्तिरुपास्ते
śrīśuka uvāca | kimpuruṣe varṣe bhagavantamādipuruṣaṃ lakṣmaṇāgrajaṃ sītābhirāmaṃ rāmaṃ taccaraṇasannikarṣābhirataḥ paramabhāgavato hanumān saha kimpuruṣairavirata- bhaktirupāste
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, in Kimpuruṣa-varṣa the great devotee Hanumān is always engaged with the inhabitants of that land in devotional service to Lord Rāmacandra, the elder brother of Lakṣmaṇa and dear husband of Sītādevī.
SB 5.19.2Open verse →
आर्ष्टिषेणेन सह गन्धर्वैरनुगीयमानां परमकल्याणीं भर्तृभगवत्कथां समुपशृणोति स्वयं चेदं गायति
ārṣṭiṣeṇena saha gandharvairanugīyamānāṃ paramakalyāṇīṃ bhartṛbhagavatkathāṃ samupaśṛṇoti svayaṃ cedaṃ gāyati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
A host of Gandharvas is always engaged in chanting the glories of Lord Rāmacandra. That chanting is always extremely auspicious. Hanumānjī and Arṣṭiṣeṇa, the chief person in Kimpuruṣa-varṣa, constantly hear those glories with complete attention. Hanumān chants the following mantras.
SB 5.19.3Open verse →
ओं नमो भगवते उत्तमश्लोकाय नम आर्यलक्षणशील- व्रताय नम उपशिक्षितात्मन उपासितलोकाय नमः साधुवादनिकषणाय नमो ब्रह्मण्यदेवाय महापुरुषाय महाराजाय नम इति
oṃ namo bhagavate uttamaślokāya nama āryalakṣaṇaśīla- vratāya nama upaśikṣitātmana upāsitalokāya namaḥ sādhuvādanikaṣaṇāya namo brahmaṇyadevāya mahāpuruṣāya mahārājāya nama iti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Let me please Your Lordship by chanting the bīja-mantra oṁkāra. I wish to offer my respectful obeisances unto the Personality of Godhead, who is the best among the most highly elevated personalities. Your Lordship is the reservoir of all the good qualities of Āryans, people who are advanced. Your character and behavior are always consistent, and You always control Your senses and mind. Acting just like an ordinary human being, You exhibit exemplary character to teach others how to behave. There is a touchstone that can be used to examine the quality of gold, but You are like a touchstone that can verify all good qualities. You are worshiped by brāhmaṇas who are the foremost of all devotees. You, the Supreme Person, are the King of kings, and therefore I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.
SB 5.19.4Open verse →
यत्तद्विशुद्धानुभवमात्रमेकं स्वतेजसा ध्वस्तगुणव्यवस्थम् । प्रत्यक्प्रशान्तं सुधियोपलम्भनं ह्यनामरूपं निरहं प्रपद्ये
yattadviśuddhānubhavamātramekaṃ svatejasā dhvastaguṇavyavastham | pratyakpraśāntaṃ sudhiyopalambhanaṃ hyanāmarūpaṃ nirahaṃ prapadye
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Lord, whose pure form [sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha] is uncontaminated by the modes of material nature, can be perceived by pure consciousness. In the Vedānta He is described as being one without a second. Because of His spiritual potency, He is untouched by the contamination of material nature, and because He is not subjected to material vision, He is known as transcendental. He has no material activities, nor has He a material form or name. Only in pure consciousness, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, can one perceive the transcendental form of the Lord. Let us be firmly fixed at the lotus feet of Lord Rāmacandra, and let us offer our respectful obeisances unto those transcendental lotus feet.
SB 5.19.5Open verse →
मर्त्यावतारस्त्विह मर्त्यशिक्षणं रक्षोवधायैव न केवलं विभोः । कुतोऽन्यथा स्याद्रमतः स्व आत्मनः सीताकृतानि व्यसनानीश्वरस्य
martyāvatārastviha martyaśikṣaṇaṃ rakṣovadhāyaiva na kevalaṃ vibhoḥ | kuto'nyathā syādramataḥ sva ātmanaḥ sītākṛtāni vyasanānīśvarasya
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
It was ordained that Rāvaṇa, chief of the Rākṣasas, could not be killed by anyone but a man, and for this reason Lord Rāmacandra, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, appeared in the form of a human being. Lord Rāmacandra’s mission, however, was not only to kill Rāvaṇa but also to teach mortal beings that material happiness centered around sex life or centered around one’s wife is the cause of many miseries. He is the self-sufficient Supreme Personality of Godhead, and nothing is lamentable for Him. Therefore why else could He be subjected to tribulations by the kidnapping of mother Sītā?
SB 5.19.6Open verse →
न वै स आत्माऽऽत्मवतां सुहृत्तमः सक्तस्त्रिलोक्यां भगवान्वासुदेवः । न स्त्रीकृतं कश्मलमश्नुवीत न लक्ष्मणं चापि विहातुमर्हति
na vai sa ātmā''tmavatāṃ suhṛttamaḥ saktastrilokyāṃ bhagavānvāsudevaḥ | na strīkṛtaṃ kaśmalamaśnuvīta na lakṣmaṇaṃ cāpi vihātumarhati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Since Lord Śrī Rāmacandra is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva, He is not attached to anything in this material world. He is the most beloved Supersoul of all self-realized souls, and He is their very intimate friend. He is full of all opulences. Therefore He could not possibly have suffered because of separation from His wife, nor could He have given up His wife and Lakṣmaṇa, His younger brother. To give up either would have been absolutely impossible.
SB 5.19.7Open verse →
न जन्म नूनं महतो न सौभगं न वाङ् न बुद्धिर्नाकृतिस्तोषहेतुः । तैर्यद्विसृष्टानपि नो वनौकस- श्चकार सख्ये बत लक्ष्मणाग्रजः
na janma nūnaṃ mahato na saubhagaṃ na vāṅ na buddhirnākṛtistoṣahetuḥ | tairyadvisṛṣṭānapi no vanaukasa- ścakāra sakhye bata lakṣmaṇāgrajaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
One cannot establish a friendship with the Supreme Lord Rāmacandra on the basis of material qualities such as one’s birth in an aristocratic family, one’s personal beauty, one’s eloquence, one’s sharp intelligence or one’s superior race or nation. None of these qualifications is actually a prerequisite for friendship with Lord Śrī Rāmacandra. Otherwise how is it possible that although we uncivilized inhabitants of the forest have not taken noble births, although we have no physical beauty and although we cannot speak like gentlemen, Lord Rāmacandra has nevertheless accepted us as friends?
SB 5.19.8Open verse →
सुरोऽसुरो वाप्यथ वानरो नरः सर्वात्मना यः सुकृतज्ञमुत्तमम् । भजेत रामं मनुजाकृतिं हरिं य उत्तराननयत्कोसलान् दिवमिति
suro'suro vāpyatha vānaro naraḥ sarvātmanā yaḥ sukṛtajñamuttamam | bhajeta rāmaṃ manujākṛtiṃ hariṃ ya uttarānanayatkosalān divamiti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Therefore, whether one is a demigod or a demon, a man or a creature other than man, such as a beast or bird, everyone should worship Lord Rāmacandra, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who appears on this earth just like a human being. There is no need of great austerities or penances to worship the Lord, for He accepts even a small service offered by His devotee. Thus He is satisfied, and as soon as He is satisfied, the devotee is successful. Indeed, Lord Śrī Rāmacandra brought all the devotees of Ayodhyā back home, back to Godhead [Vaikuṇṭha].
SB 5.19.9Open verse →
भारतेऽपि वर्षे भगवान् नरनारायणाख्य आकल्पान्त- मुपचितधर्म ज्ञानवैराग्यैश्वर्योपशमोपरमात्मोपलम्भन- मनुग्रहायात्मवतामनुकम्पया तपोऽव्यक्तगतिश्चरति
bhārate'pi varṣe bhagavān naranārāyaṇākhya ākalpānta- mupacitadharma jñānavairāgyaiśvaryopaśamoparamātmopalambhana- manugrahāyātmavatāmanukampayā tapo'vyaktagatiścarati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
[Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] The glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are inconceivable. He has appeared in the form of Nara-Nārāyaṇa in the land of Bhārata-varṣa, at the place known as Badarikāśrama, to favor His devotees by teaching them religion, knowledge, renunciation, spiritual power, sense control and freedom from false ego. He is advanced in the opulence of spiritual assets, and He engages in executing austerity until the end of this millennium. This is the process of self-realization.
SB 5.19.10Open verse →
तं भगवान् नारदो वर्णाश्रमवतीभिर्भारतीभिः प्रजाभि- र्भगवत्प्रोक्ताभ्यां साङ्ख्ययोगाभ्यां भगवदनुभावोपवर्णनं सावर्णेरुपदेक्ष्यमाणः परमभक्तिभावेनोपसरति इदं चाभिगृणाति
taṃ bhagavān nārado varṇāśramavatībhirbhāratībhiḥ prajābhi- rbhagavatproktābhyāṃ sāṅkhyayogābhyāṃ bhagavadanubhāvopavarṇanaṃ sāvarṇerupadekṣyamāṇaḥ paramabhaktibhāvenopasarati idaṃ cābhigṛṇāti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In his own book, known as Nārada Pañcarātra, Bhagavān Nārada has very vividly described how to work to achieve the ultimate goal of life — devotion — through knowledge and through execution of the mystic yoga system. He has also described the glories of the Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The great sage Nārada instructed the tenets of this transcendental literature to Sāvarṇi Manu in order to teach those inhabitants of Bhārata-varṣa who strictly follow the principles of varṇāśrama-dharma how to achieve the devotional service of the Lord. Thus Nārada Muni, along with the other inhabitants of Bhārata-varṣa, always engages in the service of Nara-Nārāyaṇa, and he chants as follows.
SB 5.19.11Open verse →
ओं नमो भगवते उपशमशीलायोपरतानात्म्याय नमोऽकिञ्चनवित्ताय ऋषिऋषभाय नरनारायणाय परमहंस परमगुरवे आत्मारामाधिपतये नमो नम इति
oṃ namo bhagavate upaśamaśīlāyoparatānātmyāya namo'kiñcanavittāya ṛṣiṛṣabhāya naranārāyaṇāya paramahaṃsa paramagurave ātmārāmādhipataye namo nama iti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Nara-Nārāyaṇa, the best of all saintly persons, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is the most self-controlled and self-realized, He is free from false prestige, and He is the asset of persons who have no material possessions. He is the spiritual master of all paramahaṁsas, who are the most exalted human beings, and He is the master of the self-realized. Let me offer my repeated obeisances at His lotus feet.
SB 5.19.12Open verse →
गायति चेदम् । कर्तास्य सर्गादिषु यो न बध्यते न हन्यते देहगतोऽपि दैहिकैः । द्रष्टुर्न दृग्यस्य गुणैर्विदूष्यते तस्मै नमोऽसक्तविविक्तसाक्षिणे
gāyati cedam | kartāsya sargādiṣu yo na badhyate na hanyate dehagato'pi daihikaiḥ | draṣṭurna dṛgyasya guṇairvidūṣyate tasmai namo'saktaviviktasākṣiṇe
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Nārada, the most powerful saintly sage, also worships Nara-Nārāyaṇa by chanting the following mantra: The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the master of the creation, maintenance and annihilation of this visible cosmic manifestation, yet He is completely free from false prestige. Although to the foolish He appears to have accepted a material body like us, He is unaffected by bodily tribulations like hunger, thirst and fatigue. Although He is the witness who sees everything, His senses are unpolluted by the objects He sees. Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto that unattached, pure witness of the world, the Supreme Soul, the Personality of Godhead.
SB 5.19.13Open verse →
इदं हि योगेश्वर योगनैपुणं हिरण्यगर्भो भगवाञ्जगाद यत् । यदन्तकाले त्वयि निर्गुणे मनो भक्त्या दधीतोज्झितदुष्कलेवरः
idaṃ hi yogeśvara yoganaipuṇaṃ hiraṇyagarbho bhagavāñjagāda yat | yadantakāle tvayi nirguṇe mano bhaktyā dadhītojjhitaduṣkalevaraḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O my Lord, master of all mystic yoga, this is the explanation of the yogic process spoken of by Lord Brahmā [Hiraṇyagarbha], who is self-realized. At the time of death, all yogīs give up the material body with full detachment simply by placing their minds at Your lotus feet. That is the perfection of yoga.
SB 5.19.14Open verse →
यथैहिकामुष्मिककामलम्पटः सुतेषु दारेषु धनेषु चिन्तयन् । शङ्केत विद्वान् कुकलेवरात्यया- द्यस्तस्य यत्नः श्रम एव केवलम्
yathaihikāmuṣmikakāmalampaṭaḥ suteṣu dāreṣu dhaneṣu cintayan | śaṅketa vidvān kukalevarātyayā- dyastasya yatnaḥ śrama eva kevalam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Materialists are generally very attached to their present bodily comforts and to the bodily comforts they expect in the future. Therefore they are always absorbed in thoughts of their wives, children and wealth and are afraid of giving up their bodies, which are full of stool and urine. If a person engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, however, is also afraid of giving up his body, what is the use of his having labored to study the śāstras? It was simply a waste of time.
SB 5.19.15Open verse →
तन्नः प्रभो त्वं कुकलेवरार्पितां त्वन्माययाहम्ममतामधोक्षज । भिन्द्याम येनाशु वयं सुदुर्भिदां विधेहि योगं त्वयि नः स्वभावमिति
tannaḥ prabho tvaṃ kukalevarārpitāṃ tvanmāyayāhammamatāmadhokṣaja | bhindyāma yenāśu vayaṃ sudurbhidāṃ vidhehi yogaṃ tvayi naḥ svabhāvamiti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Therefore, O Lord, O Transcendence, kindly help us by giving us the power to execute bhakti-yoga so that we can control our restless minds and fix them upon You. We are all infected by Your illusory energy; therefore we are very attached to the body, which is full of stool and urine, and to anything related with the body. Except for devotional service, there is no way to give up this attachment. Therefore kindly bestow upon us this benediction.
SB 5.19.16Open verse →
भारतेऽप्यस्मिन् वर्षे सरिच्छैलाः सन्ति बहवो मलयो मङ्गलप्रस्थो मैनाकस्त्रिकूटऋषभः कूटकः कोल्लकः सह्यो देवगिरिरृष्यमूकः श्रीशैलो वेङ्कटो महेन्द्रो वारिधारो विन्ध्यः शुक्तिमान् ऋक्षगिरिः पारियात्रो द्रोणश्चित्रकूटो गोवर्धनो रैवतकः ककुभो नीलो गोकामुख इन्द्रकीलः कामगिरिरिति चान्ये च शतसहस्रशः शैलास्तेषां नितम्बप्रभवा नदा नद्यश्च सन्त्यसङ्ख्याताः
bhārate'pyasmin varṣe saricchailāḥ santi bahavo malayo maṅgalaprastho mainākastrikūṭaṛṣabhaḥ kūṭakaḥ kollakaḥ sahyo devagirirṛṣyamūkaḥ śrīśailo veṅkaṭo mahendro vāridhāro vindhyaḥ śuktimān ṛkṣagiriḥ pāriyātro droṇaścitrakūṭo govardhano raivatakaḥ kakubho nīlo gokāmukha indrakīlaḥ kāmagiririti cānye ca śatasahasraśaḥ śailāsteṣāṃ nitambaprabhavā nadā nadyaśca santyasaṅkhyātāḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In the tract of land known as Bhārata-varṣa, as in Ilāvṛta-varṣa, there are many mountains and rivers. Some of the mountains are known as Malaya, Maṅgala-prastha, Maināka, Trikūṭa, Ṛṣabha, Kūṭaka, Kollaka, Sahya, Devagiri, Ṛṣyamūka, Śrī-śaila, Veṅkaṭa, Mahendra, Vāridhāra, Vindhya, Śuktimān, Ṛkṣagiri, Pāriyātra, Droṇa, Citrakūṭa, Govardhana, Raivataka, Kakubha, Nīla, Gokāmukha, Indrakīla and Kāmagiri. Besides these, there are many other hills, with many large and small rivers flowing from their slopes.
SB 5.19.19Open verse →
अस्मिन्नेव वर्षे पुरुषैर्लब्धजन्मभिः शुक्ललोहित- कृष्णवर्णेन स्वारब्धेन कर्मणा दिव्यमानुषनारक- गतयो बह्व्य आत्मन आनुपूर्व्येण सर्वा ह्येव सर्वेषां विधीयन्ते यथा वर्णविधानमपवर्गश्चापि भवति
asminneva varṣe puruṣairlabdhajanmabhiḥ śuklalohita- kṛṣṇavarṇena svārabdhena karmaṇā divyamānuṣanāraka- gatayo bahvya ātmana ānupūrvyeṇa sarvā hyeva sarveṣāṃ vidhīyante yathā varṇavidhānamapavargaścāpi bhavati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The people who take birth in this tract of land are divided according to the qualities of material nature — the modes of goodness [sattva-guṇa], passion [rajo-guṇa], and ignorance [tamo-guṇa]. Some of them are born as exalted personalities, some are ordinary human beings, and some are extremely abominable, for in Bhārata-varṣa one takes birth exactly according to one’s past karma. If one’s position is ascertained by a bona fide spiritual master and one is properly trained to engage in the service of Lord Viṣṇu according to the four social divisions [brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya and śūdra] and the four spiritual divisions [brahmacārī, gṛhastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa], one’s life becomes perfect.
SB 5.19.20Open verse →
योऽसौ भगवति सर्वभूतात्मन्यनात्म्येऽनिरुक्ते- ऽनिलयने परमात्मनि वासुदेवेऽनन्यनिमित्त- भक्तियोगलक्षणो नानागतिनिमित्ताविद्याग्रन्थि- रन्धनद्वारेण यदा हि महापुरुषपुरुषप्रसङ्गः
yo'sau bhagavati sarvabhūtātmanyanātmye'nirukte- 'nilayane paramātmani vāsudeve'nanyanimitta- bhaktiyogalakṣaṇo nānāgatinimittāvidyāgranthi- randhanadvāreṇa yadā hi mahāpuruṣapuruṣaprasaṅgaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
After many, many births, when the results of one’s pious activities mature, one gets an opportunity to associate with pure devotees. Then one is able to cut the knot of bondage to ignorance, which bound him because of varied fruitive activities. As a result of associating with devotees, one gradually renders service to Lord Vāsudeva, who is transcendental, free from attachment to the material world, beyond the mind and words, and independent of everything else. That bhakti-yoga, devotional service to Lord Vāsudeva, is the real path of liberation.
SB 5.19.21Open verse →
एतदेव हि देवा गायन्ति - अहो अमीषां किमकारि शोभनं प्रसन्न एषां स्विदुत स्वयं हरिः । यैर्जन्म लब्धं नृषु भारताजिरे मुकुन्दसेवौपयिकं स्पृहा हि नः
etadeva hi devā gāyanti - aho amīṣāṃ kimakāri śobhanaṃ prasanna eṣāṃ sviduta svayaṃ hariḥ | yairjanma labdhaṃ nṛṣu bhāratājire mukundasevaupayikaṃ spṛhā hi naḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Since the human form of life is the sublime position for spiritual realization, all the demigods in heaven speak in this way: How wonderful it is for these human beings to have been born in the land of Bhārata-varṣa. They must have executed pious acts of austerity in the past, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself must have been pleased with them. Otherwise, how could they engage in devotional service in so many ways? We demigods can only aspire to achieve human births in Bhārata-varṣa to execute devotional service, but these human beings are already engaged there.
SB 5.19.22Open verse →
किं दुष्करैर्नः क्रतुभिस्तपोव्रतै- र्दानादिभिर्वा द्युजयेन फल्गुना । न यत्र नारायणपादपङ्कज- स्मृतिः प्रमुष्टातिशयेन्द्रियोत्सवात्
kiṃ duṣkarairnaḥ kratubhistapovratai- rdānādibhirvā dyujayena phalgunā | na yatra nārāyaṇapādapaṅkaja- smṛtiḥ pramuṣṭātiśayendriyotsavāt
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The demigods continue: After performing the very difficult tasks of executing Vedic ritualistic sacrifices, undergoing austerities, observing vows and giving charity, we have achieved this position as inhabitants of the heavenly planets. But what is the value of this achievement? Here we are certainly very engaged in material sense gratification, and therefore we can hardly remember the lotus feet of Lord Nārāyaṇa. Indeed, because of our excessive sense gratification, we have almost forgotten His lotus feet.
SB 5.19.23Open verse →
कल्पायुषां स्थानजयात्पुनर्भवात् क्षणायुषां भारतभूजयो वरम् । क्षणेन मर्त्येन कृतं मनस्विनः सन्न्यस्य संयान्त्यभयं पदं हरेः
kalpāyuṣāṃ sthānajayātpunarbhavāt kṣaṇāyuṣāṃ bhāratabhūjayo varam | kṣaṇena martyena kṛtaṃ manasvinaḥ sannyasya saṃyāntyabhayaṃ padaṃ hareḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
A short life in the land of Bharata-varṣa is preferable to a life achieved in Brahmaloka for millions and billions of years because even if one is elevated to Brahmaloka, he must return to repeated birth and death. Although life in Bhārata-varṣa, in a lower planetary system, is very short, one who lives there can elevate himself to full Kṛṣṇa consciousness and achieve the highest perfection, even in this short life, by fully surrendering unto the lotus feet of the Lord. Thus one attains Vaikuṇṭhaloka, where there is neither anxiety nor repeated birth in a material body.
SB 5.19.24Open verse →
न यत्र वैकुण्ठकथासुधापगा न साधवो भागवतास्तदाश्रयाः । न यत्र यज्ञेशमखा महोत्सवाः सुरेशलोकोऽपि न वै स सेव्यताम्
na yatra vaikuṇṭhakathāsudhāpagā na sādhavo bhāgavatāstadāśrayāḥ | na yatra yajñeśamakhā mahotsavāḥ sureśaloko'pi na vai sa sevyatām
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
An intelligent person does not take interest in a place, even in the topmost planetary system, if the pure Ganges of topics concerning the Supreme Lord’s activities does not flow there, if there are not devotees engaged in service on the banks of such a river of piety, or if there are no festivals of saṅkīrtana-yajña to satisfy the Lord [especially since saṅkīrtana-yajña is recommended in this age].
SB 5.19.25Open verse →
प्राप्ता नृजातिं त्विह ये च जन्तवो ज्ञानक्रियाद्रव्यकलापसम्भृताम् । न वै यतेरन्नपुनर्भवाय ते भूयो वनौका इव यान्ति बन्धनम्
prāptā nṛjātiṃ tviha ye ca jantavo jñānakriyādravyakalāpasambhṛtām | na vai yaterannapunarbhavāya te bhūyo vanaukā iva yānti bandhanam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Bhārata-varṣa offers the proper land and circumstances in which to execute devotional service, which can free one from the results of jñāna and karma. If one obtains a human body in the land of Bhārata-varṣa, with clear sensory organs with which to execute the saṅkīrtana-yajña, but in spite of this opportunity he does not take to devotional service, he is certainly like liberated forest animals and birds that are careless and are therefore again bound by a hunter.
SB 5.19.26Open verse →
यैः श्रद्धया बर्हिषि भागशो हवि र्निरुप्तमिष्टं विधिमन्त्रवस्तुतः । एकः पृथङ् नामभिराहुतो मुदा गृह्णाति पूर्णः स्वयमाशिषां प्रभुः
yaiḥ śraddhayā barhiṣi bhāgaśo havi rniruptamiṣṭaṃ vidhimantravastutaḥ | ekaḥ pṛthaṅ nāmabhirāhuto mudā gṛhṇāti pūrṇaḥ svayamāśiṣāṃ prabhuḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In India [Bhārata-varṣa], there are many worshipers of the demigods, the various officials appointed by the Supreme Lord, such as Indra, Candra and Sūrya, all of whom are worshiped differently. The worshipers offer the demigods their oblations, considering the demigods part and parcel of the whole, the Supreme Lord. Therefore the Supreme Personality of Godhead accepts these offerings and gradually raises the worshipers to the real standard of devotional service by fulfilling their desires and aspirations. Because the Lord is complete, He offers the worshipers the benedictions they desire even if they worship only part of His transcendental body.
SB 5.19.27Open verse →
सत्यं दिशत्यर्थितमर्थितो नृणां नैवार्थदो यत्पुनरर्थिता यतः । स्वयं विधत्ते भजतामनिच्छता- मिच्छापिधानं निजपादपल्लवम्
satyaṃ diśatyarthitamarthito nṛṇāṃ naivārthado yatpunararthitā yataḥ | svayaṃ vidhatte bhajatāmanicchatā- micchāpidhānaṃ nijapādapallavam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Supreme Personality of Godhead fulfills the material desires of a devotee who approaches Him with such motives, but He does not bestow benedictions upon the devotee that will cause him to demand more benedictions again. However, the Lord willingly gives the devotee shelter at His own lotus feet, even though such a person does not aspire for it, and that shelter satisfies all his desires. That is the Supreme Personality’s special mercy.
SB 5.19.28Open verse →
यद्यत्र नः स्वर्गसुखावशेषितं स्विष्टस्य सूक्तस्य कृतस्य शोभनम् । तेनाजनाभे स्मृतिमज्जन्म नः स्या- द्वर्षे हरिर्यद्भजतां शं तनोति
yadyatra naḥ svargasukhāvaśeṣitaṃ sviṣṭasya sūktasya kṛtasya śobhanam | tenājanābhe smṛtimajjanma naḥ syā- dvarṣe hariryadbhajatāṃ śaṃ tanoti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
We are now living in the heavenly planets, undoubtedly as a result of our having performed ritualistic ceremonies, pious activities and yajñas and having studied the Vedas. However, our lives here will one day be finished. We pray that at that time, if any merit remains from our pious activities, we may again take birth in Bhārata-varṣa as human beings able to remember the lotus feet of the Lord. The Lord is so kind that He personally comes to the land of Bhārata-varṣa and expands the good fortune of its people.
SB 5.19.31Open verse →
एवं तव भारतोत्तम जम्बूद्वीपवर्षविभागो यथोपदेशमुपवर्णित इति
evaṃ tava bhāratottama jambūdvīpavarṣavibhāgo yathopadeśamupavarṇita iti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King Parīkṣit, O best of the descendants of Bharata Mahārāja, I have thus described to you, as I myself have been instructed, the island of Bhārata-varṣa and its adjoining islands. These are the islands that constitute Jambūdvīpa.
SB 5.20.1Open verse →
श्रीशुक उवाच । अतः परं प्लक्षादीनां प्रमाणलक्षणसंस्थानतो वर्षविभाग उपवर्ण्यते
śrīśuka uvāca | ataḥ paraṃ plakṣādīnāṃ pramāṇalakṣaṇasaṃsthānato varṣavibhāga upavarṇyate
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The great sage Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Hereafter I shall describe the dimensions, characteristics and forms of the six islands beginning with the island of Plakṣa.
SB 5.20.2Open verse →
जम्बूद्वीपोऽयं यावत्प्रमाणविस्तारस्तावता क्षारोदधिना परिवेष्टितो यथा मेरुर्जम्ब्वाख्येन लवणोदधिरपि ततो द्विगुणविशालेन प्लक्षाख्येन परिक्षिप्तो यथा परिखा बाह्योपवनेन प्लक्षो जम्बूप्रमाणो द्वीपाख्याकरो हिरण्मय उत्थितो यत्राग्निरुपास्ते सप्तजिह्वस्तस्याधिपतिः प्रियव्रतात्मज इध्मजिह्वः स्वं द्वीपं सप्तवर्षाणि विभज्य सप्तवर्षनामभ्य आत्मजेभ्य आकलय्य स्वयमात्मयोगे- नोपरराम
jambūdvīpo'yaṃ yāvatpramāṇavistārastāvatā kṣārodadhinā pariveṣṭito yathā merurjambvākhyena lavaṇodadhirapi tato dviguṇaviśālena plakṣākhyena parikṣipto yathā parikhā bāhyopavanena plakṣo jambūpramāṇo dvīpākhyākaro hiraṇmaya utthito yatrāgnirupāste saptajihvastasyādhipatiḥ priyavratātmaja idhmajihvaḥ svaṃ dvīpaṃ saptavarṣāṇi vibhajya saptavarṣanāmabhya ātmajebhya ākalayya svayamātmayoge- nopararāma
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
As Sumeru Mountain is surrounded by Jambūdvīpa, Jambūdvīpa is also surrounded by an ocean of salt water. The breadth of Jambūdvīpa is 100,000 yojanas [800,000 miles], and the breadth of the saltwater ocean is the same. As a moat around a fort is sometimes surrounded by gardenlike forest, the saltwater ocean surrounding Jambūdvīpa is itself surrounded by Plakṣadvīpa. The breadth of Plakṣadvīpa is twice that of the saltwater ocean — in other words 200,000 yojanas [1,600,000 miles]. On Plakṣadvīpa there is a tree shining like gold and as tall as the jambū tree on Jambūdvīpa. At its root is a fire with seven flames. It is because this tree is a plakṣa tree that the island is called Plakṣadvīpa. Plakṣadvīpa was governed by Idhmajihva, one of the sons of Mahārāja Priyavrata. He endowed the seven islands with the names of his seven sons, divided the islands among the sons, and then retired from active life to engage in the devotional service of the Lord.
SB 5.20.5Open verse →
प्रत्नस्य विष्णो रूपं यत्सत्यस्यर्तस्य ब्रह्मणः । अमृतस्य च मृत्योश्च सूर्यमात्मानमीमहीति
pratnasya viṣṇo rūpaṃ yatsatyasyartasya brahmaṇaḥ | amṛtasya ca mṛtyośca sūryamātmānamīmahīti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
[This is the mantra by which the inhabitants of Plakṣadvīpa worship the Supreme Lord.] Let us take shelter of the sun-god, who is a reflection of Lord Viṣṇu, the all-expanding Supreme Personality of Godhead, the oldest of all persons. Viṣṇu is the only worshipable Lord. He is the Vedas, He is religion, and He is the origin of all auspicious and inauspicious results.
SB 5.20.6Open verse →
प्लक्षादिषु पञ्चसु पुरुषाणामायुरिन्द्रियमोजः सहो बलं बुद्धिर्विक्रम इति च सर्वेषामौत्पत्तिकी सिद्धिरविशेषेण वर्तते
plakṣādiṣu pañcasu puruṣāṇāmāyurindriyamojaḥ saho balaṃ buddhirvikrama iti ca sarveṣāmautpattikī siddhiraviśeṣeṇa vartate
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O King, longevity, sensory prowess, physical and mental strength, intelligence and bravery are naturally and equally manifested in all the inhabitants of the five islands headed by Plakṣadvīpa.
SB 5.20.7Open verse →
प्लक्षः स्वसमानेनेक्षुरसोदेनावृतो यथा तथा द्वीपोऽपि शाल्मलो द्विगुणविशालःसमानेन सुरोदेनावृतः परिवृङ्क्ते
plakṣaḥ svasamānenekṣurasodenāvṛto yathā tathā dvīpo'pi śālmalo dviguṇaviśālaḥsamānena surodenāvṛtaḥ parivṛṅkte
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Plakṣadvīpa is surrounded by an ocean of sugarcane juice, equal in breadth to the island itself. Similarly, there is then another island — Sālmalīdvīpa — twice as broad as Plakṣadvīpa [400,000 yojanas, or 3,200,000 miles] and surrounded by an equally broad body of water called Surāsāgara, the ocean that tastes like liquor.
SB 5.20.8Open verse →
यत्र ह वै शाल्मली प्लक्षायामा यस्यां वाव किल निलयमाहुर्भगवतश्छन्दः स्तुतः पतत्त्रिराजस्य सा द्वीपहूतये उपलक्ष्यते
yatra ha vai śālmalī plakṣāyāmā yasyāṃ vāva kila nilayamāhurbhagavataśchandaḥ stutaḥ patattrirājasya sā dvīpahūtaye upalakṣyate
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
On Sālmalīdvīpa there is a śālmalī tree, from which the island takes its name. That tree is as broad and tall as the plakṣa tree — in other words 100 yojanas [800 miles] broad and 1,100 yojanas [8,800 miles] tall. Learned scholars say that this gigantic tree is the residence of Garuḍa, the king of all birds and carrier of Lord Viṣṇu. In that tree, Garuḍa offers Lord Viṣṇu his Vedic prayers.
SB 5.20.9Open verse →
तद्द्वीपाधिपतिः प्रियव्रतात्मजो यज्ञबाहुः स्वसुतेभ्यः सप्तभ्यस्तन्नामानि सप्तवर्षाणि व्यभजत्सुरोचनं सौमनस्यं रमणकं देववर्षं पारिभद्रमाप्यायनमविज्ञातमिति
taddvīpādhipatiḥ priyavratātmajo yajñabāhuḥ svasutebhyaḥ saptabhyastannāmāni saptavarṣāṇi vyabhajatsurocanaṃ saumanasyaṃ ramaṇakaṃ devavarṣaṃ pāribhadramāpyāyanamavijñātamiti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The son of Mahārāja Priyavrata named Yajñabāhu, the master of Sālmalīdvīpa, divided the island into seven tracts of land, which he gave to his seven sons. The names of those divisions, which correspond to the names of the sons, are Surocana, Saumanasya, Ramaṇaka, Deva-varṣa, Pāribhadra, Āpyāyana and Avijñāta.
SB 5.20.10Open verse →
तेषु वर्षाद्रयो नद्यश्च सप्तैवाभिज्ञाताः स्वरसः शतशृङ्गो वामदेवः कुन्दो मुकुन्दः पुष्पवर्षः सहस्रश्रुतिरिति अनुमतिः सिनीवाली सरस्वती कुहू रजनी नन्दा राकेति
teṣu varṣādrayo nadyaśca saptaivābhijñātāḥ svarasaḥ śataśṛṅgo vāmadevaḥ kundo mukundaḥ puṣpavarṣaḥ sahasraśrutiriti anumatiḥ sinīvālī sarasvatī kuhū rajanī nandā rāketi
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In those tracts of land there are seven mountains — Svarasa, Śataśṛṅga, Vāmadeva, Kunda, Mukunda, Puṣpa-varṣa and Sahasra-śruti. There are also seven rivers — Anumati, Sinīvālī, Sarasvatī, Kuhū, Rajanī, Nandā and Rākā. They are still existing.
SB 5.20.11Open verse →
तद्वर्षपुरुषाः श्रुतधरवीर्यधरवसुन्धरेषन्धरसंज्ञा भगवन्तं वेदमयं सोममात्मानं वेदेन यजन्ते
tadvarṣapuruṣāḥ śrutadharavīryadharavasundhareṣandharasaṃjñā bhagavantaṃ vedamayaṃ somamātmānaṃ vedena yajante
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Strictly following the cult of varṇāśrama-dharma, the inhabitants of those islands, who are known as Śrutidharas, Vīryadharas, Vasundharas and Iṣandharas, all worship the expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead named Soma, the moon-god.
SB 5.20.12Open verse →
स्वगोभिः पितृदेवेभ्यो विभजन् कृष्णशुक्लयोः । प्रजानां सर्वासां राजान्धः सोमो न आस्त्विति
svagobhiḥ pitṛdevebhyo vibhajan kṛṣṇaśuklayoḥ | prajānāṃ sarvāsāṃ rājāndhaḥ somo na āstviti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
[The inhabitants of Śālmalīdvīpa worship the demigod of the moon in the following words.] By his own rays, the moon-god has divided the month into two fortnights, known as śukla and kṛṣṇa, for the distribution of food grains to the pitās and the demigods. The demigod of the moon is he who divides time, and he is the king of all the residents of the universe. We therefore pray that he may remain our king and guide, and we offer him our respectful obeisances.
SB 5.20.13Open verse →
एवं सुरोदाद्बहिस्तद्द्विगुणः समानेनावृतो घृतोदेन यथा पूर्वः कुशद्वीपो यस्मिन् कुशस्तम्बो देवकृत- स्तद्द्वीपाख्याकरो ज्वलन इवापरः स्वशष्परोचिषा दिशो विराजयति
evaṃ surodādbahistaddviguṇaḥ samānenāvṛto ghṛtodena yathā pūrvaḥ kuśadvīpo yasmin kuśastambo devakṛta- staddvīpākhyākaro jvalana ivāparaḥ svaśaṣparociṣā diśo virājayati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Outside the ocean of liquor is another island, known as Kuśadvīpa, which is 800,000 yojanas [6,400,000 miles] wide, twice as wide as the ocean of liquor. As Śālmalīdvīpa is surrounded by a liquor ocean, Kuśadvīpa is surrounded by an ocean of liquid ghee as broad as the island itself. On Kuśadvīpa there are clumps of kuśa grass, from which the island takes its name. This kuśa grass, which was created by the demigods by the will of the Supreme Lord, appears like a second form of fire, but with very mild and pleasing flames. Its young shoots illuminate all directions.
SB 5.20.14Open verse →
तद्द्वीपपतिः प्रैयव्रतो राजन् हिरण्यरेता नाम स्वं द्वीपं सप्तभ्यः स्वपुत्रेभ्यो यथाभागं विभज्य स्वयं तप आतिष्ठत वसुवसुदानदृढरुचिनाभिगुप्तस्तुत्यव्रत- विविक्तवामदेवनामभ्यः
taddvīpapatiḥ praiyavrato rājan hiraṇyaretā nāma svaṃ dvīpaṃ saptabhyaḥ svaputrebhyo yathābhāgaṃ vibhajya svayaṃ tapa ātiṣṭhata vasuvasudānadṛḍharucinābhiguptastutyavrata- viviktavāmadevanāmabhyaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O King, another son of Mahārāja Priyavrata, Hiraṇyaretā, was the king of this island. He divided it into seven parts, which he delivered to his seven sons according to the rights of inheritance. The King then retired from family life to engage in austerities. The names of those sons are Vasu, Vasudāna, Dṛḍharuci, Stutyavrata, Nābhigupta, Vivikta and Vāmadeva.
SB 5.20.15Open verse →
तेषां वर्षेषु सीमागिरयो नद्यश्चाभिज्ञाताः सप्त सप्तैव चक्रश्चतुःशृङ्गः कपिलश्चित्रकूटो देवानीक ऊर्ध्वरोमा द्रविण इति । रसकुल्या मधुकुल्या मित्रविन्दा श्रुतविन्दा देवगर्भा घृतच्युता मन्त्रमालेति
teṣāṃ varṣeṣu sīmāgirayo nadyaścābhijñātāḥ sapta saptaiva cakraścatuḥśṛṅgaḥ kapilaścitrakūṭo devānīka ūrdhvaromā draviṇa iti | rasakulyā madhukulyā mitravindā śrutavindā devagarbhā ghṛtacyutā mantramāleti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In those seven islands there are seven boundary mountains, known as Cakra, Catuḥśṛṅga, Kapila, Citrakūṭa, Devānīka, Ūrdhvaromā and Draviṇa. There are also seven rivers, known as Ramakulyā, Madhukulyā, Mitravindā, Śrutavindā, Devagarbhā, Ghṛtacyutā and Mantramālā.
SB 5.20.16Open verse →
यासां पयोभिः कुशद्वीपौकसः कुशलकोविदाभियुक्त- कुलकसंज्ञा भगवन्तं जातवेदसरूपिणं कर्मकौशलेन यजन्ते
yāsāṃ payobhiḥ kuśadvīpaukasaḥ kuśalakovidābhiyukta- kulakasaṃjñā bhagavantaṃ jātavedasarūpiṇaṃ karmakauśalena yajante
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The inhabitants of the island of Kuśadvīpa are celebrated as the Kuśalas, Kovidas, Abhiyuktas and Kulakas. They are like the brāhmaṇas, kṣatriyas, vaiśyas and śūdras respectively. By bathing in the waters of those rivers, they all become purified. They are expert in performing ritualistic ceremonies according to the orders of the Vedic scriptures. Thus they worship the Lord in His aspect as the demigod of fire.
SB 5.20.17Open verse →
परस्य ब्रह्मणः साक्षाज्जातवेदोऽसि हव्यवाट् । देवानां पुरुषाङ्गानां यज्ञेन पुरुषं यजेति
parasya brahmaṇaḥ sākṣājjātavedo'si havyavāṭ | devānāṃ puruṣāṅgānāṃ yajñena puruṣaṃ yajeti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
[This is the mantra by which the inhabitants of Kuśadvīpa worship the fire-god.] O fire-god, you are a part of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, and you carry to Him all the offerings of sacrifices. Therefore we request you to offer to the Supreme Personality of Godhead the yajñic ingredients we are offering the demigods, for the Lord is the real enjoyer.
SB 5.20.18Open verse →
तथा घृतोदाद्बहिः क्रौञ्चद्वीपो द्विगुणः स्वमानेन क्षीरोदेन परित उपकॢप्तो वृतो यथा कुशद्वीपो घृतोदेन यस्मिन् क्रौञ्चो नाम पर्वतराजो द्वीपनामनिर्वर्तक आस्ते
tathā ghṛtodādbahiḥ krauñcadvīpo dviguṇaḥ svamānena kṣīrodena parita upakḷpto vṛto yathā kuśadvīpo ghṛtodena yasmin krauñco nāma parvatarājo dvīpanāmanirvartaka āste
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Outside the ocean of clarified butter is another island, known as Krauñcadvīpa, which has a width of 1,600,000 yojanas [12,800,000 miles], twice the width of the ocean of clarified butter. As Kuśadvīpa is surrounded by an ocean of clarified butter, Krauñcadvīpa is surrounded by an ocean of milk as broad as the island itself. On Krauñcadvīpa there is a great mountain known as Krauñca, from which the island takes its name.
SB 5.20.19Open verse →
योऽसौ गुहप्रहरणोन्मथितनितम्बकुञ्जोऽपि क्षीरोदेनासिच्यमानो भगवता वरुणेनाभिगुप्तो विभयो बभूव
yo'sau guhapraharaṇonmathitanitambakuñjo'pi kṣīrodenāsicyamāno bhagavatā varuṇenābhigupto vibhayo babhūva
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Although the vegetables living on the slopes of Mount Krauñca were attacked and devastated by the weapons of Kārttikeya, the mountain has become fearless because it is always bathed on all sides by the Ocean of Milk and protected by Varuṇadeva.
SB 5.20.20Open verse →
तस्मिन्नपि प्रैयव्रतो घृतपृष्ठो नामाधिपतिः स्वे द्वीपे वर्षाणि सप्त विभज्य तेषु पुत्रनामसु सप्त रिक्थादान् वर्षपान् निवेश्य स्वयं भगवान् भगवतः परमकल्याण- यशस आत्मभूतस्य हरेश्चरणारविन्दमुपजगाम
tasminnapi praiyavrato ghṛtapṛṣṭho nāmādhipatiḥ sve dvīpe varṣāṇi sapta vibhajya teṣu putranāmasu sapta rikthādān varṣapān niveśya svayaṃ bhagavān bhagavataḥ paramakalyāṇa- yaśasa ātmabhūtasya hareścaraṇāravindamupajagāma
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The ruler of this island was another son of Mahārāja Priyavrata. His name was Ghṛtapṛṣṭha, and he was a very learned scholar. He also divided his own island among his seven sons. After dividing the island into seven parts, named according to the names of his sons, Ghṛtapṛṣṭha Mahārāja completely retired from family life and took shelter at the lotus feet of the Lord, the soul of all souls, who has all auspicious qualities. Thus he attained perfection.
SB 5.20.21Open verse →
आमो मधुरुहो मेघपृष्ठः सुधामा भ्राजिष्ठो लोहितार्णो वनस्पतिरिति घृतपृष्ठसुतास्तेषां वर्षगिरयः सप्त सप्तैव नद्यश्चाभिख्याताः शुक्लो वर्धमानो भोजन उपबर्हिणो नन्दो नन्दनः सर्वतोभद्र इति अभया अमृतौघा आर्यका तीर्थवती रूपवती पवित्रवती शुक्लेति
āmo madhuruho meghapṛṣṭhaḥ sudhāmā bhrājiṣṭho lohitārṇo vanaspatiriti ghṛtapṛṣṭhasutāsteṣāṃ varṣagirayaḥ sapta saptaiva nadyaścābhikhyātāḥ śuklo vardhamāno bhojana upabarhiṇo nando nandanaḥ sarvatobhadra iti abhayā amṛtaughā āryakā tīrthavatī rūpavatī pavitravatī śukleti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The sons of Mahārāja Ghṛtapṛṣṭha were named Āma, Madhuruha, Meghapṛṣṭha, Sudhāmā, Bhrājiṣṭha, Lohitārṇa and Vanaspati. In their island there are seven mountains, which indicate the boundaries of the seven tracts of land, and there are also seven rivers. The mountains are named Śukla, Vardhamāna, Bhojana, Upabarhiṇa, Nanda, Nandana and Sarvatobhadra. The rivers are named Abhayā, Amṛtaughā, Āryakā, Tīrthavatī, Rūpavatī, Pavitravatī and Śuklā.
SB 5.20.22Open verse →
यासामम्भः पवित्रममलमुपयुञ्जानाः पुरुषऋषभ- द्रविणदेवकसंज्ञा वर्षपुरुषा आपोमयं देवमपां पूर्णेनाञ्जलिना यजन्ते
yāsāmambhaḥ pavitramamalamupayuñjānāḥ puruṣaṛṣabha- draviṇadevakasaṃjñā varṣapuruṣā āpomayaṃ devamapāṃ pūrṇenāñjalinā yajante
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The inhabitants of Krauñcadvīpa are divided into four castes, called the Puruṣas, Ṛṣabhas, Draviṇas and Devakas. Using the waters of those sanctified rivers, they worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead by offering a palmful of water at the lotus feet of Varuṇa, the demigod who has a form of water.
SB 5.20.23Open verse →
आपः पुरुषवीर्याः स्थ पुनन्तीर्भूर्भुवः सुवः । ता नः पुनीतामीव घ्नीः स्पृशतामात्मना भुव इति
āpaḥ puruṣavīryāḥ stha punantīrbhūrbhuvaḥ suvaḥ | tā naḥ punītāmīva ghnīḥ spṛśatāmātmanā bhuva iti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
[The inhabitants of Krauñcadvīpa worship with this mantra.] O water of the rivers, you have obtained energy from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore you purify the three planetary systems, known as Bhūloka, Bhuvarloka and Svarloka. By your constitutional nature, you take away sins, and that is why we are touching you. Kindly continue to purify us.
SB 5.20.24Open verse →
एवं पुरस्तात्क्षीरोदात्परित उपवेशितः शाकद्वीपो द्वात्रिंशल्लक्षयोजनायामः समानेन च दधिमण्डोदेन परीतो यस्मिन् शाको नाम महीरुहः स्वक्षेत्रव्यपदेशको यस्य ह महासुरभिगन्धस्तं द्वीपमनुवासयति
evaṃ purastātkṣīrodātparita upaveśitaḥ śākadvīpo dvātriṃśallakṣayojanāyāmaḥ samānena ca dadhimaṇḍodena parīto yasmin śāko nāma mahīruhaḥ svakṣetravyapadeśako yasya ha mahāsurabhigandhastaṃ dvīpamanuvāsayati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Outside the Ocean of Milk is another island, Śākadvīpa, which has a width of 3,200,000 yojanas [25,600,000 miles]. As Krauñcadvīpa is surrounded by its own ocean of milk, Śākadvīpa is surrounded by an ocean of churned yogurt as broad as the island itself. In Śākadvīpa there is a big śāka tree, from which the island takes its name. This tree is very fragrant. Indeed, it lends its scent to the entire island.
SB 5.20.25Open verse →
तस्यापि प्रैयव्रत एवाधिपतिर्नाम्ना मेधातिथिः सोऽपि विभज्य सप्त वर्षाणि पुत्रनामानि तेषु स्वात्मजान् पुरोजवमनोजवपवमानधूम्रानीक-चित्ररेफबहुरूप- विश्वधारसंज्ञान् निधाप्याधिपतीन् स्वयं भगवत्यनन्त आवेशितमतिस्तपोवनं प्रविवेश
tasyāpi praiyavrata evādhipatirnāmnā medhātithiḥ so'pi vibhajya sapta varṣāṇi putranāmāni teṣu svātmajān purojavamanojavapavamānadhūmrānīka-citrarephabahurūpa- viśvadhārasaṃjñān nidhāpyādhipatīn svayaṃ bhagavatyananta āveśitamatistapovanaṃ praviveśa
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The master of this island, also one of the sons of Priyavrata, was known as Medhātithi. He also divided his island into seven sections, named according to the names of his own sons, whom he made the kings of that island. The names of those sons are Purojava, Manojava, Pavamāna, Dhūmrānīka, Citrarepha, Bahurūpa and Viśvadhāra. After dividing the island and situating his sons as its rulers, Medhātithi personally retired, and to fix his mind completely upon the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he entered a forest suitable for meditation.
SB 5.20.26Open verse →
एतेषां वर्षमर्यादागिरयो नद्यश्च सप्त सप्तैव ईशान उरुशृङ्गो बलभद्रः शतकेसरः सहस्रस्रोतो देवपालो महानस इति अनघाऽऽयुर्दा उभयस्पृष्टिरपराजिता पञ्चपदी सहस्रस्रुतिर्निजधृतिरिति
eteṣāṃ varṣamaryādāgirayo nadyaśca sapta saptaiva īśāna uruśṛṅgo balabhadraḥ śatakesaraḥ sahasrasroto devapālo mahānasa iti anaghā''yurdā ubhayaspṛṣṭiraparājitā pañcapadī sahasrasrutirnijadhṛtiriti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
For these lands also, there are seven boundary mountains and seven rivers. The mountains are Īśāna, Uruśṛṅga, Balabhadra, Śatakesara, Sahasrasrota, Devapāla and Mahānasa. The rivers are Anaghā, Āyurdā, Ubhayaspṛṣṭi, Aparājitā, Pañcapadī, Sahasra-śruti and Nijadhṛti.
SB 5.20.27Open verse →
तद्वर्षपुरुषा ऋतव्रतसत्यव्रतदानव्रतानुव्रतनामानो भगवन्तं वाय्वात्मकं प्राणायामविधूतरजस्तमसः परमसमाधिना यजन्ते
tadvarṣapuruṣā ṛtavratasatyavratadānavratānuvratanāmāno bhagavantaṃ vāyvātmakaṃ prāṇāyāmavidhūtarajastamasaḥ paramasamādhinā yajante
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The inhabitants of those islands are also divided into four castes — Ṛtavrata, Satyavrata, Dānavrata and Anuvrata — which exactly resemble brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya and śūdra. They practice prāṇāyāma and mystic yoga, and in trance they worship the Supreme Lord in the form of Vāyu.
SB 5.20.28Open verse →
अन्तः प्रविश्य भूतानि यो बिभर्त्यात्मकेतुभिः । अन्तर्यामीश्वरः साक्षात्पातु नो यद्वशे स्फुटम्
antaḥ praviśya bhūtāni yo bibhartyātmaketubhiḥ | antaryāmīśvaraḥ sākṣātpātu no yadvaśe sphuṭam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
[The inhabitants of Śākadvīpa worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the form of Vāyu in the following words.] O Supreme Person, situated as the Supersoul within the body, You direct the various actions of the different airs, such as prāṇa, and thus You maintain all living entities. O Lord, O Supersoul of everyone, O controller of the cosmic manifestation under whom everything exists, may You protect us from all dangers.
SB 5.20.29Open verse →
एवमेव दधिमण्डोदात्परतः पुष्करद्वीपस्ततो द्विगुणायामः समन्तत उपकल्पितः समानेन स्वादूदकेन समुद्रेण बहिरावृतो यस्मिन् बृहत्पुष्करं ज्वलनशिखामलकनकपत्रायुतायुतं भगवतः कमलासनस्याध्यासनं परिकल्पितम्
evameva dadhimaṇḍodātparataḥ puṣkaradvīpastato dviguṇāyāmaḥ samantata upakalpitaḥ samānena svādūdakena samudreṇa bahirāvṛto yasmin bṛhatpuṣkaraṃ jvalanaśikhāmalakanakapatrāyutāyutaṃ bhagavataḥ kamalāsanasyādhyāsanaṃ parikalpitam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Outside the ocean of yogurt is another island, known as Puṣkaradvīpa, which is 6,400,000 yojanas [51,200,000 miles] wide, twice as wide as the ocean of yogurt. It is surrounded by an ocean of very tasteful water as broad as the island itself. On Puṣkaradvīpa there is a great lotus flower with 100,000,000 pure golden petals, as effulgent as the flames of fire. That lotus flower is considered the sitting place of Lord Brahmā, who is the most powerful living being and who is therefore sometimes called bhagavān.
SB 5.20.30Open verse →
तद्द्वीपमध्ये मानसोत्तरनामैक एवार्वाचीनपराचीन- वर्षयोर्मर्यादाचलोऽयुतयोजनोच्छ्रायायामो यत्र तु चतसृषु दिक्षु चत्वारि पुराणि लोकपालानामिन्द्रादीनां यदुपरिष्टात्सूर्यरथस्य मेरुं परिभ्रमतः संवत्सरात्मकं चक्रं देवानामहोरात्राभ्यां परिभ्रमति
taddvīpamadhye mānasottaranāmaika evārvācīnaparācīna- varṣayormaryādācalo'yutayojanocchrāyāyāmo yatra tu catasṛṣu dikṣu catvāri purāṇi lokapālānāmindrādīnāṃ yadupariṣṭātsūryarathasya meruṃ paribhramataḥ saṃvatsarātmakaṃ cakraṃ devānāmahorātrābhyāṃ paribhramati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In the middle of that island is a great mountain named Mānasottara, which forms the boundary between the inner side and the outer side of the island. Its breadth and height are 10,000 yojanas [80,000 miles]. On that mountain, in the four directions, are the residential quarters of demigods such as Indra. In the chariot of the sun-god, the sun travels on the top of the mountain in an orbit called the Saṁvatsara, encircling Mount Meru. The sun’s path on the northern side is called Uttarāyaṇa, and its path on the southern side is called Dakṣiṇāyana. One side represents a day for the demigods, and the other represents their night.
SB 5.20.31Open verse →
तद्द्वीपस्याप्यधिपतिः प्रैयव्रतो वीतिहोत्रो नामैतस्यात्मजौ रमणकधातकिनामानौ वर्षपती नियुज्य स स्वयं पूर्वजव- द्भगवत्कर्मशील एवास्ते
taddvīpasyāpyadhipatiḥ praiyavrato vītihotro nāmaitasyātmajau ramaṇakadhātakināmānau varṣapatī niyujya sa svayaṃ pūrvajava- dbhagavatkarmaśīla evāste
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The ruler of this island, the son of Mahārāja Priyavrata named Vītihotra, had two sons named Ramaṇaka and Dhātaki. He granted the two sides of the island to these two sons and then personally engaged himself in activities for the sake of the Supreme Personality of Godhead like his elder brother Medhātithi.
SB 5.20.32Open verse →
तद्वर्षपुरुषा भगवन्तं ब्रह्मरूपिणं सकर्मकेण कर्मणाराधयन्तीदं चोदाहरन्ति
tadvarṣapuruṣā bhagavantaṃ brahmarūpiṇaṃ sakarmakeṇa karmaṇārādhayantīdaṃ codāharanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
For the fulfillment of material desires, the inhabitants of this tract of land worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead as represented by Lord Brahmā. They offer prayers to the Lord as follows.
SB 5.20.33Open verse →
यत्तत्कर्ममयं लिङ्गं ब्रह्मलिङ्गं जनोऽर्चयेत् । एकान्तमद्वयं शान्तं तस्मै भगवते नम इति
yattatkarmamayaṃ liṅgaṃ brahmaliṅgaṃ jano'rcayet | ekāntamadvayaṃ śāntaṃ tasmai bhagavate nama iti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Lord Brahmā is known as karma-maya, the form of ritualistic ceremonies, because by performing ritualistic ceremonies one may attain his position and because the Vedic ritualistic hymns become manifest from him. He is devoted to the Supreme Personality of Godhead without deviation, and therefore in one sense he is not different from the Lord. Nevertheless, he should be worshiped not as the monists worship him, but in duality. One should always remain a servitor of the Supreme Lord, the supreme worshipable Deity. We therefore offer our respectful obeisances unto Lord Brahmā, the form of manifest Vedic knowledge.
SB 5.20.34Open verse →
ऋषिरुवाच । ततः परस्ताल्लोकालोकनामाचलो लोकालोकयो- रन्तराले परित उपक्षिप्तः
ṛṣiruvāca | tataḥ parastāllokālokanāmācalo lokālokayo- rantarāle parita upakṣiptaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Thereafter, beyond the ocean of sweet water and fully surrounding it, is a mountain named Lokāloka, which divides the countries that are full of sunlight from those not lit by the sun.
SB 5.20.35Open verse →
यावन्मानसोत्तरमेर्वोरन्तरं तावती भूमिः काञ्चन्य- न्यादर्शतलोपमा यस्यां प्रहितः पदार्थो न कथञ्चित्पुनः प्रत्युपलभ्यते तस्मात्सर्वसत्त्वपरिहृताऽऽसीत्
yāvanmānasottaramervorantaraṃ tāvatī bhūmiḥ kāñcanya- nyādarśatalopamā yasyāṃ prahitaḥ padārtho na kathañcitpunaḥ pratyupalabhyate tasmātsarvasattvaparihṛtā''sīt
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Beyond the ocean of sweet water is a tract of land as broad as the area between the middle of Mount Sumeru and the boundary of Mānasottara Mountain. In that tract of land there are many living beings. Beyond it, extending to Lokāloka Mountain, is another land, which is made of gold. Because of its golden surface, it reflects light like the surface of a mirror, and any physical article that falls on that land can never be perceived again. All living entities, therefore, have abandoned that golden land.
SB 5.20.36Open verse →
लोकालोक इति समाख्या यदनेनाचलेन लोकालोकस्यान्तर्वर्तिनावस्थाप्यते
lokāloka iti samākhyā yadanenācalena lokālokasyāntarvartināvasthāpyate
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Between the lands inhabited by living entities and those that are uninhabited stands the great mountain which separates the two and which is therefore celebrated as Lokāloka.
SB 5.20.37Open verse →
स लोकत्रयान्ते परित ईश्वरेण विहितो यस्मात्सूर्यादीनां ध्रुवापवर्गाणां ज्योतिर्गणानां गभस्तयोऽर्वाचीनांस्त्रीन् लोकानावितन्वाना न कदाचित्पराचीना भवितुमुत्सहन्ते तावदुन्नहनायामः
sa lokatrayānte parita īśvareṇa vihito yasmātsūryādīnāṃ dhruvāpavargāṇāṃ jyotirgaṇānāṃ gabhastayo'rvācīnāṃstrīn lokānāvitanvānā na kadācitparācīnā bhavitumutsahante tāvadunnahanāyāmaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
By the supreme will of Kṛṣṇa, the mountain known as Lokāloka has been installed as the outer border of the three worlds — Bhūrloka, Bhuvarloka and Svarloka — to control the rays of the sun throughout the universe. All the luminaries, from the sun up to Dhruvaloka, distribute their rays throughout the three worlds, but only within the boundary formed by this mountain. Because it is extremely high, extending even higher than Dhruvaloka, it blocks the rays of the luminaries, which therefore can never extend beyond it.
SB 5.20.38Open verse →
एतावान् लोकविन्यासो मानलक्षणसंस्थाभिर्विचिन्तितः कविभिः स तु पञ्चाशत्कोटिगणितस्य भूगोलस्य तुरीयभागोऽयं लोकालोकाचलः
etāvān lokavinyāso mānalakṣaṇasaṃsthābhirvicintitaḥ kavibhiḥ sa tu pañcāśatkoṭigaṇitasya bhūgolasya turīyabhāgo'yaṃ lokālokācalaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Learned scholars who are free from mistakes, illusions and propensities to cheat have thus described the planetary systems and their particular symptoms, measurements and locations. With great deliberation, they have established the truth that the distance between Sumeru and the mountain known as Lokāloka is one fourth of the diameter of the universe — or, in other words, 125,000,000 yojanas [1 billion miles].
SB 5.20.39Open verse →
तदुपरिष्टाच्चतसृष्वाशास्वात्मयोनिनाखिलजगद्गुरुणा- धिनिवेशिता ये द्विरदपतय ऋषभः पुष्करचूडो वामनोऽपराजित इति सकललोकस्थितिहेतवः
tadupariṣṭāccatasṛṣvāśāsvātmayoninākhilajagadguruṇā- dhiniveśitā ye dviradapataya ṛṣabhaḥ puṣkaracūḍo vāmano'parājita iti sakalalokasthitihetavaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
On the top of Lokāloka Mountain are the four gaja-patis, the best of elephants, which were established in the four directions by Lord Brahmā, the supreme spiritual master of the entire universe. The names of those elephants are Ṛṣabha, Puṣkaracūḍa, Vāmana and Aparājita. They are responsible for maintaining the planetary systems of the universe.
SB 5.20.40Open verse →
तेषां स्वविभूतीनां लोकपालानां च विविधवीर्यो- पबृंहणाय भगवान् परममहापुरुषो महाविभूतिपति- रन्तर्याम्यात्मनो विशुद्धसत्त्वं धर्मज्ञानवैराग्यैश्वर्या- द्यष्टमहासिद्ध्युपलक्षणं विष्वक्सेनादिभिः स्वपार्षदप्रवरैः परिवारितो निजवरायुधोपशोभितैर्निजभुजदण्डैः सन्धारयमाणस्तस्मिन् गिरिवरे समन्तात्सकललोक- स्वस्तय आस्ते
teṣāṃ svavibhūtīnāṃ lokapālānāṃ ca vividhavīryo- pabṛṃhaṇāya bhagavān paramamahāpuruṣo mahāvibhūtipati- rantaryāmyātmano viśuddhasattvaṃ dharmajñānavairāgyaiśvaryā- dyaṣṭamahāsiddhyupalakṣaṇaṃ viṣvaksenādibhiḥ svapārṣadapravaraiḥ parivārito nijavarāyudhopaśobhitairnijabhujadaṇḍaiḥ sandhārayamāṇastasmin girivare samantātsakalaloka- svastaya āste
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the master of all transcendental opulences and the master of the spiritual sky. He is the Supreme Person, Bhagavān, the Supersoul of everyone. The demigods, led by Indra, the King of heaven, are entrusted with seeing to the affairs of the material world. To benefit all living beings in all the varied planets and to increase the power of those elephants and of the demigods, the Lord manifests Himself on top of that mountain in a spiritual body, uncontaminated by the modes of material nature. Surrounded by His personal expansions and assistants like Viṣvaksena, He exhibits all His perfect opulences, such as religion and knowledge, and His mystic powers such as aṇimā, laghimā and mahimā. He is beautifully situated, and He is decorated by the different weapons in His four hands.
SB 5.20.41Open verse →
आकल्पमेवं वेषं गत एष भगवानात्मयोगमायया विरचितविविधलोकयात्रागोपीयायेत्यर्थः
ākalpamevaṃ veṣaṃ gata eṣa bhagavānātmayogamāyayā viracitavividhalokayātrāgopīyāyetyarthaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The various forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, such as Nārāyaṇa and Viṣṇu, are beautifully decorated with different weapons. The Lord exhibits those forms to maintain all the varied planets created by His personal potency, yoga-māyā.
SB 5.20.42Open verse →
योऽन्तर्विस्तार एतेन ह्यलोकपरिमाणं च व्याख्यातं यद्बहिर्लोकालोकाचलात्ततः परस्ताद्योगेश्वरगतिं विशुद्धामुदाहरन्ति
yo'ntarvistāra etena hyalokaparimāṇaṃ ca vyākhyātaṃ yadbahirlokālokācalāttataḥ parastādyogeśvaragatiṃ viśuddhāmudāharanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King, outside Lokāloka Mountain is the tract of land known as Aloka-varṣa, which extends for the same breadth as the area within the mountain — in other words, 125,000,000 yojanas [one billion miles]. Beyond Aloka-varṣa is the destination of those who aspire for liberation from the material world. It is beyond the jurisdiction of the material modes of nature, and therefore it is completely pure. Lord Kṛṣṇa took Arjuna through this place to bring back the sons of the brāhmaṇa.
SB 5.20.43Open verse →
अण्डमध्यगतः सूर्यो द्यावाभूम्योर्यदन्तरम् । सूर्याण्डगोलयोर्मध्ये कोट्यः स्युः पञ्चविंशतिः
aṇḍamadhyagataḥ sūryo dyāvābhūmyoryadantaram | sūryāṇḍagolayormadhye koṭyaḥ syuḥ pañcaviṃśatiḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The sun is situated [vertically] in the middle of the universe, in the area between Bhūrloka and Bhuvarloka, which is called antarikṣa, outer space. The distance between the sun and the circumference of the universe is twenty-five koṭi yojanas [two billion miles].
SB 5.20.44Open verse →
मृतेऽण्ड एष एतस्मिन् यदभूत्ततो मार्तण्ड इति व्यपदेशः हिरण्यगर्भ इति यद्धिरण्याण्डसमुद्भवः
mṛte'ṇḍa eṣa etasmin yadabhūttato mārtaṇḍa iti vyapadeśaḥ hiraṇyagarbha iti yaddhiraṇyāṇḍasamudbhavaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The sun-god is also known as Vairāja, the total material body for all living entities. Because he entered this dull egg of the universe at the time of creation, he is also called Mārtaṇḍa. He is also known as Hiraṇyagarbha because he received his material body from Hiraṇyagarbha [Lord Brahmā].
SB 5.20.45Open verse →
सूर्येण हि विभज्यन्ते दिशः खं द्यौर्मही भिदा । स्वर्गापवर्गौ नरका रसौकांसि च सर्वशः
sūryeṇa hi vibhajyante diśaḥ khaṃ dyaurmahī bhidā | svargāpavargau narakā rasaukāṃsi ca sarvaśaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
O King, the sun-god and the sun planet divide all the directions of the universe. It is only because of the presence of the sun that we can understand what the sky, the higher planets, this world and the lower planets are. It is also only because of the sun that we can understand which places are for material enjoyment, which are for liberation, which are hellish and subterranean.
SB 5.20.46Open verse →
देवतिर्यङ् मनुष्याणां सरीसृपसवीरुधाम् । सर्वजीवनिकायानां सूर्य आत्मा दृगीश्वरः
devatiryaṅ manuṣyāṇāṃ sarīsṛpasavīrudhām | sarvajīvanikāyānāṃ sūrya ātmā dṛgīśvaraḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
All living entities, including demigods, human beings, animals, birds, insects, reptiles, creepers and trees, depend upon the heat and light given by the sun-god from the sun planet. Furthermore, it is because of the sun’s presence that all living entities can see, and therefore he is called dṛg-īśvara, the Personality of Godhead presiding over sight.
SB 5.21.1Open verse →
श्रीशुक उवाच । एतावानेव भूवलयस्य सन्निवेशः प्रमाणलक्षणतो व्याख्यातः
śrīśuka uvāca | etāvāneva bhūvalayasya sanniveśaḥ pramāṇalakṣaṇato vyākhyātaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, I have thus far described the diameter of the universe [fifty crores of yojanas, or four billion miles] and its general characteristics, according to the estimations of learned scholars.
SB 5.21.2Open verse →
एतेन हि दिवो मण्डलमानं तद्विद उपदिशन्ति यथा द्विदलयोर्निष्पावादीनां ते अन्तरेणान्तरिक्षं तदुभयसन्धितम्
etena hi divo maṇḍalamānaṃ tadvida upadiśanti yathā dvidalayorniṣpāvādīnāṃ te antareṇāntarikṣaṃ tadubhayasandhitam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
As a grain of wheat is divided into two parts and one can estimate the size of the upper part by knowing that of the lower, so, expert geographers instruct, one can understand the measurements of the upper part of the universe by knowing those of the lower part. The sky between the earthly sphere and heavenly sphere is called antarikṣa, or outer space. It adjoins the top of the sphere of earth and the bottom of that of heaven.
SB 5.21.3Open verse →
यन्मध्यगतो भगवांस्तपतां पतिस्तपन आतपेन त्रिलोकीं प्रतपत्यवभासयत्यात्मभासा स एष उदगयनदक्षिणायनवैषुवतसंज्ञाभिर्मान्द्यशैघ्र्य- मानाभिर्गतिभिरारोहणावरोहणसमानस्थानेषु यथा सवनमभिपद्यमानो मकरादिषु राशिष्व- होरात्राणि दीर्घह्रस्वसमानानि विधत्ते
yanmadhyagato bhagavāṃstapatāṃ patistapana ātapena trilokīṃ pratapatyavabhāsayatyātmabhāsā sa eṣa udagayanadakṣiṇāyanavaiṣuvatasaṃjñābhirmāndyaśaighrya- mānābhirgatibhirārohaṇāvarohaṇasamānasthāneṣu yathā savanamabhipadyamāno makarādiṣu rāśiṣva- horātrāṇi dīrghahrasvasamānāni vidhatte
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In the midst of that region of outer space [antarikṣa] is the most opulent sun, the king of all the planets that emanate heat, such as the moon. By the influence of its radiation, the sun heats the universe and maintains its proper order. It also gives light to help all living entities see. While passing toward the north, toward the south or through the equator, in accordance with the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, it is said to move slowly, swiftly or moderately. According to its movements in rising above, going beneath or passing through the equator — and correspondingly coming in touch with various signs of the zodiac, headed by Makara [Capricorn] — days and nights are short, long or equal to one another.
SB 5.21.4Open verse →
यदा मेषतुलयोर्वर्तते तदाहोरात्राणि समानानि भवन्ति यदा वृषभादिषु पञ्चसु च राशिषु चरति तदाहान्येव वर्धन्ते ह्रसति च मासि मास्येकैका घटिका रात्रिषु
yadā meṣatulayorvartate tadāhorātrāṇi samānāni bhavanti yadā vṛṣabhādiṣu pañcasu ca rāśiṣu carati tadāhānyeva vardhante hrasati ca māsi māsyekaikā ghaṭikā rātriṣu
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When the sun passes through Meṣa [Aries] and Tulā [Libra], the durations of day and night are equal. When it passes through the five signs headed by Vṛṣabha [Taurus], the duration of the days increases [until Cancer], and then it gradually decreases by half an hour each month, until day and night again become equal [in Libra].
SB 5.21.5Open verse →
यदा वृश्चिकादिषु पञ्चसु वर्तते तदाहोरात्राणि विपर्ययाणि भवन्ति
yadā vṛścikādiṣu pañcasu vartate tadāhorātrāṇi viparyayāṇi bhavanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When the sun passes through the five signs beginning with Vṛścika [Scorpio], the duration of the days decreases [until Capricorn], and then gradually it increases month after month, until day and night become equal [in Aries].
SB 5.21.6Open verse →
यावद्दक्षिणायनमहानि वर्धन्ते यावदुदगयनं रात्रयः
yāvaddakṣiṇāyanamahāni vardhante yāvadudagayanaṃ rātrayaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Until the sun travels to the south the days grow longer, and until it travels to the north the nights grow longer.
SB 5.21.7Open verse →
एवं नवकोटय एकपञ्चाशल्लक्षाणि योजनानां मानसोत्तरगिरिपरिवर्तनस्योपदिशन्ति तस्मिन्नैन्द्रीं पुरीं पूर्वस्मान्मेरोर्देवधानीं नाम दक्षिणतो याम्यां संयमनीं नाम पश्चाद्वारुणीं निम्लोचनीं नाम उत्तरतः सौम्यां विभावरीं नाम तासूदयमध्याह्नास्तमयनिशीथानीति भूतानां प्रवृत्तिनिवृत्तिनिमित्तानि समयविशेषेण मेरोश्चतुर्दिशम्
evaṃ navakoṭaya ekapañcāśallakṣāṇi yojanānāṃ mānasottaragiriparivartanasyopadiśanti tasminnaindrīṃ purīṃ pūrvasmānmerordevadhānīṃ nāma dakṣiṇato yāmyāṃ saṃyamanīṃ nāma paścādvāruṇīṃ nimlocanīṃ nāma uttarataḥ saumyāṃ vibhāvarīṃ nāma tāsūdayamadhyāhnāstamayaniśīthānīti bhūtānāṃ pravṛttinivṛttinimittāni samayaviśeṣeṇa meroścaturdiśam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued; My dear King, as stated before, the learned say that the sun travels over all sides of Mānasottara Mountain in a circle whose length is 95,100,000 yojanas [760,800,000 miles]. On Mānasottara Mountain, due east of Mount Sumeru, is a place known as Devadhānī, possessed by King Indra. Similarly, in the south is a place known as Saṁyamanī, possessed by Yamarāja, in the west is a place known as Nimlocanī, possessed by Varuṇa, and in the north is a place named Vibhāvarī, possessed by the moon-god. Sunrise, midday, sunset and midnight occur in all those places according to specific times, thus engaging all living entities in their various occupational duties and also making them cease such duties.
SB 5.21.10Open verse →
यदा चैन्द्र्याः पुर्याः प्रचलते पञ्चदशघटिकाभिर्याम्यां सपादकोटिद्वयं योजनानां सार्धद्वादशलक्षाणि साधिकानि चोपयाति
yadā caindryāḥ puryāḥ pracalate pañcadaśaghaṭikābhiryāmyāṃ sapādakoṭidvayaṃ yojanānāṃ sārdhadvādaśalakṣāṇi sādhikāni copayāti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When the sun travels from Devadhānī, the residence of Indra, to Saṁyamanī, the residence of Yamarāja, it travels 23,775,000 yojanas [190,200,000 miles] in fifteen ghaṭikās [six hours].
SB 5.21.11Open verse →
एवं ततो वारुणीं सौम्यामैन्द्रीं च पुनस्तथान्ये च ग्रहाः सोमादयो नक्षत्रैः सह ज्योतिश्चक्रे सम- भ्युद्यन्ति सह वा निम्लोचन्ति
evaṃ tato vāruṇīṃ saumyāmaindrīṃ ca punastathānye ca grahāḥ somādayo nakṣatraiḥ saha jyotiścakre sama- bhyudyanti saha vā nimlocanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
From the residence of Yamarāja the sun travels to Nimlocanī, the residence of Varuṇa, from there to Vibhāvarī, the residence of the moon-god, and from there again to the residence of Indra. In a similar way, the moon, along with the other stars and planets, becomes visible in the celestial sphere and then sets and again becomes invisible.
SB 5.21.12Open verse →
एवं मुहूर्तेन चतुस्त्रिंशल्लक्षयोजनान्यष्टशताधिकानि सौरो रथस्त्रयीमयोऽसौचतसृषु परिवर्तते पुरीषु
evaṃ muhūrtena catustriṃśallakṣayojanānyaṣṭaśatādhikāni sauro rathastrayīmayo'saucatasṛṣu parivartate purīṣu
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Thus the chariot of the sun-god, which is trayīmaya, or worshiped by the words om bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ, travels through the four residences mentioned above at a speed of 3,400,800 yojanas [27,206,400 miles] in a muhūrta.
SB 5.21.13Open verse →
यस्यैकं चक्रं द्वादशारं षण्नेमि त्रिणाभि संवत्सरात्मकं समामनन्ति तस्याक्षो मेरोर्मूर्धनि कृतो मानसोत्तरे कृतेतरभागो यत्र प्रोतं रविरथचक्रं तैलयन्त्रचक्रवद्भ्रमन् मानसोत्तरगिरौ परिभ्रमति
yasyaikaṃ cakraṃ dvādaśāraṃ ṣaṇnemi triṇābhi saṃvatsarātmakaṃ samāmananti tasyākṣo merormūrdhani kṛto mānasottare kṛtetarabhāgo yatra protaṃ ravirathacakraṃ tailayantracakravadbhraman mānasottaragirau paribhramati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The chariot of the sun-god has only one wheel, which is known as Saṁvatsara. The twelve months are calculated to be its twelve spokes, the six seasons are the sections of its rim, and the three cātur-māsya periods are its three-sectioned hub. One side of the axle carrying the wheel rests upon the summit of Mount Sumeru, and the other rests upon Mānasottara Mountain. Affixed to the outer end of the axle, the wheel continuously rotates on Mānasottara Mountain like the wheel of an oil-pressing machine.
SB 5.21.14Open verse →
तस्मिन्नक्षे कृतमूलो द्वितीयोऽक्षस्तुर्यमानेन सम्मितस्तैलयन्त्राक्षवद्ध्रुवे कृतोपरिभागः
tasminnakṣe kṛtamūlo dvitīyo'kṣasturyamānena sammitastailayantrākṣavaddhruve kṛtoparibhāgaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
As in an oil-pressing machine, this first axle is attached to a second axle, which is one-fourth as long [3,937,500 yojanas, or 31,500,000 miles]. The upper end of this second axle is attached to Dhruvaloka by a rope of wind.
SB 5.21.15Open verse →
रथनीडस्तु षट्त्रिंशल्लक्षयोजनायतस्तत्तुरीयभाग- विशालस्तावान् रविरथयुगो यत्र हयाश्छन्दो नामानः सप्तारुणयोजिता वहन्ति देवमादित्यम्
rathanīḍastu ṣaṭtriṃśallakṣayojanāyatastatturīyabhāga- viśālastāvān ravirathayugo yatra hayāśchando nāmānaḥ saptāruṇayojitā vahanti devamādityam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King, the carriage of the sun-god’s chariot is estimated to be 3,600,000 yojanas [28,800,000 miles] long and one-fourth as wide [900,000 yojanas, or 7,200,000 miles]. The chariot’s horses, which are named after Gāyatrī and other Vedic meters, are harnessed by Aruṇadeva to a yoke that is also 900,000 yojanas wide. This chariot continuously carries the sun-god.
SB 5.21.16Open verse →
पुरस्तात्सवितुररुणः पश्चाच्च नियुक्तः सौत्ये कर्मणि किलास्ते
purastātsavituraruṇaḥ paścācca niyuktaḥ sautye karmaṇi kilāste
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Although Aruṇadeva sits in front of the sun-god and is engaged in driving the chariot and controlling the horses, he looks backward toward the sun-god.
SB 5.21.17Open verse →
तथा वालिखिल्या ऋषयोङ्गुष्ठपर्वमात्राः षष्टिसहस्राणि पुरतः सूर्यं सूक्तवाकाय नियुक्ताः संस्तुवन्ति
tathā vālikhilyā ṛṣayoṅguṣṭhaparvamātrāḥ ṣaṣṭisahasrāṇi purataḥ sūryaṃ sūktavākāya niyuktāḥ saṃstuvanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
There are sixty thousand saintly persons named Vālikhilyas, each the size of a thumb, who are located in front of the sun-god and who offer him eloquent prayers of glorification.
SB 5.21.18Open verse →
तथान्ये च ऋषयो गन्धर्वाप्सरसो नागा ग्रामण्यो यातुधाना देवा इत्येकैकशो गणाः सप्तचतुर्दश मासि मासि भगवन्तं सूर्यमात्मानं नानानामानं पृथङ्नानानामानः पृथक्कर्मभिर्द्वन्द्वश उपासते
tathānye ca ṛṣayo gandharvāpsaraso nāgā grāmaṇyo yātudhānā devā ityekaikaśo gaṇāḥ saptacaturdaśa māsi māsi bhagavantaṃ sūryamātmānaṃ nānānāmānaṃ pṛthaṅnānānāmānaḥ pṛthakkarmabhirdvandvaśa upāsate
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Similarly, fourteen other saints, Gandharvas, Apsarās, Nāgas, Yakṣas, Rākṣasas and demigods, who are divided into groups of two, assume different names every month and continuously perform different ritualistic ceremonies to worship the Supreme Lord as the most powerful demigod Sūryadeva, who holds many names.
SB 5.21.19Open verse →
लक्षोत्तरं सार्धनवकोटियोजनपरिमण्डलं भूवलयस्य क्षणेन सगव्यूत्युत्तरं द्विसहस्रयोजनानि स भुङ्क्ते
lakṣottaraṃ sārdhanavakoṭiyojanaparimaṇḍalaṃ bhūvalayasya kṣaṇena sagavyūtyuttaraṃ dvisahasrayojanāni sa bhuṅkte
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King, in his orbit through Bhū-maṇḍala, the sun-god traverses a distance of 95,100,000 yojanas [760,800,000 miles] at the speed of 2,000 yojanas and two krośas [16,004 miles] in a moment.
SB 5.22.1Open verse →
राजोवाच । यदेतद्भगवत आदित्यस्य मेरुं ध्रुवं च प्रदक्षिणेन परिक्रामतो राशीनामभिमुखं प्रचलितं चाप्रदक्षिणं भगवतोपवर्णितममुष्य वयं कथमनुमिमीमहीति
rājovāca | yadetadbhagavata ādityasya meruṃ dhruvaṃ ca pradakṣiṇena parikrāmato rāśīnāmabhimukhaṃ pracalitaṃ cāpradakṣiṇaṃ bhagavatopavarṇitamamuṣya vayaṃ kathamanumimīmahīti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
King Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī: My dear lord, you have already affirmed the truth that the supremely powerful sun-god travels around Dhruvaloka with both Dhruvaloka and Mount Sumeru on his right. Yet at the same time the sun-god faces the signs of the zodiac and keeps Sumeru and Dhruvaloka on his left. How can we reasonably accept that the sun-god proceeds with Sumeru and Dhruvaloka on both his left and right simultaneously?
SB 5.22.2Open verse →
स होवाच । यथा कुलालचक्रेण भ्रमता सह भ्रमतां तदाश्रयाणां पिपीलिकादीनां गतिरन्यैव प्रदेशान्तरेष्वप्युपलभ्य- मानत्वादेवं नक्षत्रराशिभिरुपलक्षितेन कालचक्रेण ध्रुवं मेरुं च प्रदक्षिणेन परिधावता सह परिधावमानानां तदाश्रयाणां सूर्यादीनां ग्रहाणां गतिरन्यैव नक्षत्रान्तरे राश्यन्तरे चोपलभ्यमानत्वात्
sa hovāca | yathā kulālacakreṇa bhramatā saha bhramatāṃ tadāśrayāṇāṃ pipīlikādīnāṃ gatiranyaiva pradeśāntareṣvapyupalabhya- mānatvādevaṃ nakṣatrarāśibhirupalakṣitena kālacakreṇa dhruvaṃ meruṃ ca pradakṣiṇena paridhāvatā saha paridhāvamānānāṃ tadāśrayāṇāṃ sūryādīnāṃ grahāṇāṃ gatiranyaiva nakṣatrāntare rāśyantare copalabhyamānatvāt
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī clearly answered: When a potter’s wheel is moving and small ants located on that big wheel are moving with it, one can see that their motion is different from that of the wheel because they appear sometimes on one part of the wheel and sometimes on another. Similarly, the signs and constellations, with Sumeru and Dhruvaloka on their right, move with the wheel of time, and the antlike sun and other planets move with them. The sun and planets, however, are seen in different signs and constellations at different times. This indicates that their motion is different from that of the zodiac and the wheel of time itself.
SB 5.22.3Open verse →
स एष भगवानादिपुरुष एव साक्षान्नारायणो लोकानां स्वस्तय आत्मानं त्रयीमयं कर्मविशुद्धि- निमित्तं कविभिरपि च वेदेन विजिज्ञास्यमानो द्वादशधा विभज्य षट्सु वसन्तादिष्वृतुषु यथोपजोषमृतुगुणान् विदधाति
sa eṣa bhagavānādipuruṣa eva sākṣānnārāyaṇo lokānāṃ svastaya ātmānaṃ trayīmayaṃ karmaviśuddhi- nimittaṃ kavibhirapi ca vedena vijijñāsyamāno dvādaśadhā vibhajya ṣaṭsu vasantādiṣvṛtuṣu yathopajoṣamṛtuguṇān vidadhāti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The original cause of the cosmic manifestation is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa. When great saintly persons, fully aware of the Vedic knowledge, offered prayers to the Supreme Person, He descended to this material world in the form of the sun to benefit all the planets and purify fruitive activities. He divided Himself into twelve parts and created seasonal forms, beginning with spring. In this way He created the seasonal qualities, such as heat, cold and so on.
SB 5.22.4Open verse →
तमेतमिह पुरुषास्त्रय्या विद्यया वर्णाश्रमा- चारानुपथा उच्चावचैः कर्मभिराम्नातैर्योगवितानैश्च श्रद्धया यजन्तोऽञ्जसा श्रेयः समधिगच्छन्ति
tametamiha puruṣāstrayyā vidyayā varṇāśramā- cārānupathā uccāvacaiḥ karmabhirāmnātairyogavitānaiśca śraddhayā yajanto'ñjasā śreyaḥ samadhigacchanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
According to the system of four varṇas and four āśramas, people generally worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, who is situated as the sun-god. With great faith they worship the Supreme Personality as the Supersoul according to ritualistic ceremonies handed down in the three Vedas, such as agnihotra and similar higher and lower fruitive acts, and according to the process of mystic yoga. In this way they very easily attain the ultimate goal of life.
SB 5.22.5Open verse →
अथ स एष आत्मा लोकानां द्यावापृथिव्योरन्तरेण नभोवलयस्य कालचक्रगतो द्वादशमासान् भुङ्क्ते राशिसंज्ञान् संवत्सरावयवान् मासः पक्षद्वयं दिवा नक्तं चेति सपादर्क्षद्वयमुपदिशन्ति यावता षष्ठमंशं भुञ्जीत स वै ऋतुरित्युपदिश्यते संवत्सरावयवः
atha sa eṣa ātmā lokānāṃ dyāvāpṛthivyorantareṇa nabhovalayasya kālacakragato dvādaśamāsān bhuṅkte rāśisaṃjñān saṃvatsarāvayavān māsaḥ pakṣadvayaṃ divā naktaṃ ceti sapādarkṣadvayamupadiśanti yāvatā ṣaṣṭhamaṃśaṃ bhuñjīta sa vai ṛturityupadiśyate saṃvatsarāvayavaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The sun-god, who is Nārāyaṇa, or Viṣṇu, the soul of all the worlds, is situated in outer space between the upper and lower portions of the universe. Passing through twelve months on the wheel of time, the sun comes in touch with twelve different signs of the zodiac and assumes twelve different names according to those signs. The aggregate of those twelve months is called a saṁvatsara, or an entire year. According to lunar calculations, two fortnights — one of the waxing moon and the other of the waning — form one month. That same period is one day and night for the planet Pitṛloka. According to stellar calculations, a month equals two and one quarter constellations. When the sun travels for two months, a season passes, and therefore the seasonal changes are considered parts of the body of the year.
SB 5.22.6Open verse →
अथ च यावतार्धेन नभोवीथ्यां प्रचरति तं कालमयनमाचक्षते
atha ca yāvatārdhena nabhovīthyāṃ pracarati taṃ kālamayanamācakṣate
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Thus the time the sun takes to rotate through half of outer space is called an ayana, or its period of movement [in the north or in the south].
SB 5.22.7Open verse →
अथ च यावन्नभोमण्डलं सह द्यावापृथिव्यो- र्मण्डलाभ्यां कार्त्स्न्येन स ह भुञ्जीत तं कालं संवत्सरं परिवत्सरमिडावत्सरमनुवत्सरं वत्सरमिति भानोर्मान्द्यशैघ्र्यसमगतिभिः समामनन्ति
atha ca yāvannabhomaṇḍalaṃ saha dyāvāpṛthivyo- rmaṇḍalābhyāṃ kārtsnyena sa ha bhuñjīta taṃ kālaṃ saṃvatsaraṃ parivatsaramiḍāvatsaramanuvatsaraṃ vatsaramiti bhānormāndyaśaighryasamagatibhiḥ samāmananti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The sun-god has three speeds — slow, fast and moderate. The time he takes to travel entirely around the spheres of heaven, earth and space at these three speeds is referred to, by learned scholars, by the five names Saṁvatsara, Parivatsara, Iḍāvatsara, Anuvatsara and Vatsara.
SB 5.22.8Open verse →
एवं चन्द्रमा अर्कगभस्तिभ्य उपरिष्टाल्लक्षयोजनत उपलभ्यमानोऽर्कस्य संवत्सरभुक्तिं पक्षाभ्यां मासभुक्तिं सपादर्क्षाभ्यां दिनेनैव पक्षभुक्तिमग्रचारी द्रुततरगमनो भुङ्क्ते
evaṃ candramā arkagabhastibhya upariṣṭāllakṣayojanata upalabhyamāno'rkasya saṃvatsarabhuktiṃ pakṣābhyāṃ māsabhuktiṃ sapādarkṣābhyāṃ dinenaiva pakṣabhuktimagracārī drutataragamano bhuṅkte
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Above the rays of the sunshine by a distance of 100,000 yojanas [800,000 miles] is the moon, which travels at a speed faster than that of the sun. In two lunar fortnights the moon travels through the equivalent of a saṁvatsara of the sun, in two and a quarter days it passes through a month of the sun, and in one day it passes through a fortnight of the sun.
SB 5.22.9Open verse →
अथ चापूर्यमाणाभिश्च कलाभिरमराणां क्षीयमाणाभिश्च कलाभिः पितॄणामहोरात्राणि पूर्वपक्षापरपक्षाभ्यां वितन्वानः सर्वजीव- निवहप्राणो जीवश्चैकमेकं नक्षत्रं त्रिंशता मुहूर्तैर्भुङ्क्ते
atha cāpūryamāṇābhiśca kalābhiramarāṇāṃ kṣīyamāṇābhiśca kalābhiḥ pitṝṇāmahorātrāṇi pūrvapakṣāparapakṣābhyāṃ vitanvānaḥ sarvajīva- nivahaprāṇo jīvaścaikamekaṃ nakṣatraṃ triṃśatā muhūrtairbhuṅkte
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When the moon is waxing, the illuminating portions of it increase daily, thus creating day for the demigods and night for the pitās. When the moon is waning, however, it causes night for the demigods and day for the pitās. In this way the moon passes through each constellation of stars in thirty muhūrtas [an entire day]. The moon is the source of nectarean coolness that influences the growth of food grains, and therefore the moon-god is considered the life of all living entities. He is consequently called Jīva, the chief living being within the universe.
SB 5.22.10Open verse →
य एष षोडशकलः पुरुषो भगवान् मनोमयो- ऽन्नमयोऽमृतमयो देवपितृमनुष्यभूतपशुपक्षि- सरीसृपवीरुधां प्राणाप्यायनशीलत्वात्सर्वमय इति वर्णयन्ति
ya eṣa ṣoḍaśakalaḥ puruṣo bhagavān manomayo- 'nnamayo'mṛtamayo devapitṛmanuṣyabhūtapaśupakṣi- sarīsṛpavīrudhāṃ prāṇāpyāyanaśīlatvātsarvamaya iti varṇayanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Because the moon is full of all potentialities, it represents the influence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The moon is the predominating deity of everyone’s mind, and therefore the moon-god is called Manomaya. He is also called Annamaya because he gives potency to all herbs and plants, and he is called Amṛtamaya because he is the source of life for all living entities. The moon pleases the demigods, pitās, human beings, animals, birds, reptiles, trees, plants and all other living entities. Everyone is satisfied by the presence of the moon. Therefore the moon is also called Sarvamaya [all-pervading].
SB 5.22.11Open verse →
तत उपरिष्टात्त्रिलक्षयोजनतो नक्षत्राणि मेरुं दक्षिणेनैव कालायन ईश्वरयोजितानि सहाभिजिताष्टाविंशतिः
tata upariṣṭāttrilakṣayojanato nakṣatrāṇi meruṃ dakṣiṇenaiva kālāyana īśvarayojitāni sahābhijitāṣṭāviṃśatiḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
There are many stars located 200,000 yojanas [1,600,000 miles] above the moon. By the supreme will of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they are fixed to the wheel of time, and thus they rotate with Mount Sumeru on their right, their motion being different from that of the sun. There are twenty-eight important stars, headed by Abhijit.
SB 5.22.12Open verse →
तत उपरिष्टादुशना द्विलक्षयोजनत उपलभ्यते पुरतः पश्चात्सहैव वार्कस्य शैघ्र्यमान्द्यसाम्याभि- र्गतिभिरर्कवच्चरति लोकानां नित्यदानुकूल एव प्रायेण वर्षयंश्चारेणानुमीयते स वृष्टिविष्टम्भ- ग्रहोपशमनः
tata upariṣṭāduśanā dvilakṣayojanata upalabhyate purataḥ paścātsahaiva vārkasya śaighryamāndyasāmyābhi- rgatibhirarkavaccarati lokānāṃ nityadānukūla eva prāyeṇa varṣayaṃścāreṇānumīyate sa vṛṣṭiviṣṭambha- grahopaśamanaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Some 1,600,000 miles above this group of stars is the planet Venus, which moves at almost exactly the same pace as the sun according to swift, slow and moderate movements. Sometimes Venus moves behind the sun, sometimes in front of the sun and sometimes along with it. Venus nullifies the influence of planets that are obstacles to rainfall. Consequently its presence causes rainfall, and it is therefore considered very favorable for all living beings within this universe. This has been accepted by learned scholars.
SB 5.22.13Open verse →
उशनसा बुधो व्याख्यातस्तत उपरिष्टाद्द्विलक्ष- योजनतो बुधः सोमसुत उपलभ्यमानःप्रायेण शुभकृद्यदार्काद्व्यतिरिच्येत तदातिवाताभ्रप्राया- नावृष्ट्यादि भयमाशंसते
uśanasā budho vyākhyātastata upariṣṭāddvilakṣa- yojanato budhaḥ somasuta upalabhyamānaḥprāyeṇa śubhakṛdyadārkādvyatiricyeta tadātivātābhraprāyā- nāvṛṣṭyādi bhayamāśaṃsate
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Mercury is described to be similar to Venus, in that it moves sometimes behind the sun, sometimes in front of the sun and sometimes along with it. It is 1,600,000 miles above Venus, or 7,200,000 miles above earth. Mercury, which is the son of the moon, is almost always very auspicious for the inhabitants of the universe, but when it does not move along with the sun, it forbodes cyclones, dust, irregular rainfall, and waterless clouds. In this way it creates fearful conditions due to inadequate or excessive rainfall.
SB 5.22.14Open verse →
अत ऊर्ध्वमङ्गारकोऽपि योजनलक्षद्वितय उपलभ्यमानस्त्रिभिस्त्रिभिः पक्षैरेकैकशो राशीन् द्वादशानुभुङ्क्ते यदि न वक्रेणाभिवर्तते प्रायेणाशुभग्रहोऽघशंसः
ata ūrdhvamaṅgārako'pi yojanalakṣadvitaya upalabhyamānastribhistribhiḥ pakṣairekaikaśo rāśīn dvādaśānubhuṅkte yadi na vakreṇābhivartate prāyeṇāśubhagraho'ghaśaṃsaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Situated 1,600,000 miles above Mercury, or 8,800,000 miles above earth, is the planet Mars. If this planet does not travel in a crooked way, it crosses through each sign of the zodiac in three fortnights and in this way travels through all twelve, one after another. It almost always creates unfavorable conditions in respect to rainfall and other influences.
SB 5.22.15Open verse →
तत उपरिष्टाद्द्विलक्षयोजनान्तरगतो भगवान् बृहस्पतिरेकैकस्मिन् राशौ परिवत्सरं परिवत्सरं चरति यदि न वक्रः स्यात्प्रायेणानुकूलो ब्राह्मणकुलस्य
tata upariṣṭāddvilakṣayojanāntaragato bhagavān bṛhaspatirekaikasmin rāśau parivatsaraṃ parivatsaraṃ carati yadi na vakraḥ syātprāyeṇānukūlo brāhmaṇakulasya
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Situated 1,600,000 miles above Mars, or 10,400,000 miles above earth, is the planet Jupiter, which travels through one sign of the zodiac within the period of a Parivatsara. If its movement is not curved, the planet Jupiter is very favorable to the brāhmaṇas of the universe.
SB 5.22.16Open verse →
तत उपरिष्टाद्योजनलक्षद्वयात्प्रतीयमानः शनैश्चर एकैकस्मिन् राशौ त्रिंशन्मासान् विलम्बमानः सर्वानेवानुपर्येति तावद्भि- रनुवत्सरैः प्रायेण हि सर्वेषामशान्तिकरः
tata upariṣṭādyojanalakṣadvayātpratīyamānaḥ śanaiścara ekaikasmin rāśau triṃśanmāsān vilambamānaḥ sarvānevānuparyeti tāvadbhi- ranuvatsaraiḥ prāyeṇa hi sarveṣāmaśāntikaraḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Situated 1,600,000 miles above Jupiter, or 12,000,000 miles above earth, is the planet Saturn, which passes through one sign of the zodiac in thirty months and covers the entire zodiac circle in thirty Anuvatsaras. This planet is always very inauspicious for the universal situation.
SB 5.22.17Open verse →
तत उत्तरस्मादृषय एकादशलक्षयोजनान्तर उपलभ्यन्ते य एव लोकानां शमनुभावयन्तो भगवतो विष्णोर्यत्परमं पदं प्रदक्षिणं प्रक्रमन्ति
tata uttarasmādṛṣaya ekādaśalakṣayojanāntara upalabhyante ya eva lokānāṃ śamanubhāvayanto bhagavato viṣṇoryatparamaṃ padaṃ pradakṣiṇaṃ prakramanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Situated 8,800,000 miles above Saturn, or 20,800,000 miles above earth, are the seven saintly sages, who are always thinking of the well-being of the inhabitants of the universe. They circumambulate the supreme abode of Lord Viṣṇu, known as Dhruvaloka, the polestar.
SB 5.23.1Open verse →
श्रीशुक उवाच । अथ तस्मात्परतस्त्रयोदशलक्षयोजनान्तरतो यत्तद्विष्णोः परमं पदमभिवदन्ति यत्र ह महा- भागवतो ध्रुव औत्तानपादिरग्निनेन्द्रेण प्रजापतिना कश्यपेन धर्मेण च समकालयुग्भिः सबहुमानं दक्षिणतः क्रियमाण इदानीमपि कल्पजीविना- माजीव्य उपास्ते तस्येहानुभाव उपवर्णितः
śrīśuka uvāca | atha tasmātparatastrayodaśalakṣayojanāntarato yattadviṣṇoḥ paramaṃ padamabhivadanti yatra ha mahā- bhāgavato dhruva auttānapādiragninendreṇa prajāpatinā kaśyapena dharmeṇa ca samakālayugbhiḥ sabahumānaṃ dakṣiṇataḥ kriyamāṇa idānīmapi kalpajīvinā- mājīvya upāste tasyehānubhāva upavarṇitaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, 1,300,000 yojanas [10,400,000 miles] above the planets of the seven sages is the place that learned scholars describe as the abode of Lord Viṣṇu. There the son of Mahārāja Uttānapāda, the great devotee Mahārāja Dhruva, still resides as the life source of all the living entities who live until the end of the creation. Agni, Indra, Prajāpati, Kaśyapa and Dharma all assemble there to offer him honor and respectful obeisances. They circumambulate him with their right sides toward him. I have already described the glorious activities of Mahārāja Dhruva [in the Fourth Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam].
SB 5.23.2Open verse →
स हि सर्वेषां ज्योतिर्गणानां ग्रहनक्षत्रादीना- मनिमिषेणाव्यक्तरंहसा भगवता कालेन भ्राम्यमाणानां स्थाणुरिवावष्टम्भ ईश्वरेण विहितः शश्वदवभासते
sa hi sarveṣāṃ jyotirgaṇānāṃ grahanakṣatrādīnā- manimiṣeṇāvyaktaraṃhasā bhagavatā kālena bhrāmyamāṇānāṃ sthāṇurivāvaṣṭambha īśvareṇa vihitaḥ śaśvadavabhāsate
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Established by the supreme will of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the polestar, which is the planet of Mahārāja Dhruva, constantly shines as the central pivot for all the stars and planets. The unsleeping, invisible, most powerful time factor causes these luminaries to revolve around the polestar without cessation.
SB 5.23.3Open verse →
यथा मेढीस्तम्भ आक्रमणपशवः संयोजिता- स्त्रिभिस्त्रिभिः सवनैर्यथास्थानं मण्डलानि चरन्त्येवं भगणा ग्रहादय एतस्मिन्नन्तर्बहिर्योगेन कालचक्र आयोजिता ध्रुवमेवावलम्ब्य वायुनोदीर्यमाणा आकल्पान्तं परिचङ्क्रमन्ति नभसि यथा मेघाः श्येनादयो वायुवशाः कर्मसारथयः परिवर्तन्ते एवं ज्योतिर्गणाः प्रकृतिपुरुषसंयोगानुगृहीताः कर्मनिर्मित- गतयो भुवि न पतन्ति
yathā meḍhīstambha ākramaṇapaśavaḥ saṃyojitā- stribhistribhiḥ savanairyathāsthānaṃ maṇḍalāni carantyevaṃ bhagaṇā grahādaya etasminnantarbahiryogena kālacakra āyojitā dhruvamevāvalambya vāyunodīryamāṇā ākalpāntaṃ paricaṅkramanti nabhasi yathā meghāḥ śyenādayo vāyuvaśāḥ karmasārathayaḥ parivartante evaṃ jyotirgaṇāḥ prakṛtipuruṣasaṃyogānugṛhītāḥ karmanirmita- gatayo bhuvi na patanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When bulls are yoked together and tied to a central post to thresh rice, they tread around that pivot without deviating from their proper positions — one bull being closest to the post, another in the middle, and a third on the outside. Similarly, all the planets and all the hundreds and thousands of stars revolve around the polestar, the planet of Mahārāja Dhruva, in their respective orbits, some higher and some lower. Fastened by the Supreme Personality of Godhead to the machine of material nature according to the results of their fruitive acts, they are driven around the polestar by the wind and will continue to be so until the end of creation. These planets float in the air within the vast sky, just as clouds with hundreds of tons of water float in the air or as the great śyena eagles, due to the results of past activities, fly high in the sky and have no chance of falling to the ground.
SB 5.23.4Open verse →
केचनैतज्ज्योतिरनीकं शिशुमारसंस्थानेन भगवतो वासुदेवस्य योगधारणायामनुवर्णयन्ति
kecanaitajjyotiranīkaṃ śiśumārasaṃsthānena bhagavato vāsudevasya yogadhāraṇāyāmanuvarṇayanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
This great machine, consisting of the stars and planets, resembles the form of a śiśumāra [dolphin] in the water. It is sometimes considered an incarnation of Kṛṣṇa, Vāsudeva. Great yogīs meditate upon Vāsudeva in this form because it is actually visible.
SB 5.23.5Open verse →
यस्य पुच्छाग्रेऽवाक्शिरसः कुण्डलीभूतदेहस्य ध्रुव उपकल्पितस्तस्य लाङ्गूले प्रजापतिरग्निरिन्द्रो धर्म इति पुच्छमूले धाता विधाता च कट्यां सप्तर्षयः तस्य दक्षिणावर्तकुण्डलीभूतशरीरस्य यान्युदगयनानि दक्षिणपार्श्वे तु नक्षत्राण्युप- कल्पयन्ति दक्षिणायनानि तु सव्ये यथा शिशुमारस्य कुण्डलाभोगसन्निवेशस्य पार्श्वयोरुभयोरप्यवयवाः समसङ्ख्या भवन्ति पृष्ठे त्वजवीथी आकाशगङ्गा चोदरतः
yasya pucchāgre'vākśirasaḥ kuṇḍalībhūtadehasya dhruva upakalpitastasya lāṅgūle prajāpatiragnirindro dharma iti pucchamūle dhātā vidhātā ca kaṭyāṃ saptarṣayaḥ tasya dakṣiṇāvartakuṇḍalībhūtaśarīrasya yānyudagayanāni dakṣiṇapārśve tu nakṣatrāṇyupa- kalpayanti dakṣiṇāyanāni tu savye yathā śiśumārasya kuṇḍalābhogasanniveśasya pārśvayorubhayorapyavayavāḥ samasaṅkhyā bhavanti pṛṣṭhe tvajavīthī ākāśagaṅgā codarataḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
This form of the śiśumāra has its head downward and its body coiled. On the end of its tail is the planet of Dhruva, on the body of its tail are the planets of the demigods Prajāpati, Agni, Indra and Dharma, and at the base of its tail are the planets of the demigods Dhātā and Vidhātā. Where the hips might be on the śiśumāra are the seven saintly sages like Vasiṣṭha and Aṅgirā. The coiled body of the Śiśumāra-cakra turns toward its right side, on which the fourteen constellations from Abhijit to Punarvasu are located. On its left side are the fourteen stars from Puṣyā to Uttarāṣāḍhā. Thus its body is balanced because its sides are occupied by an equal number of stars. On the back of the śiśumāra is the group of stars known as Ajavīthī, and on its abdomen is the Ganges that flows in the sky [the Milky Way].
SB 5.23.6Open verse →
पुनर्वसुपुष्यौ दक्षिणवामयोः श्रोण्योरार्द्राऽऽश्लेषे च दक्षिणवामयोः पश्चिमयोः पादयोरभिजि- दुत्तराषाढे दक्षिणवामयोर्नासिकयोर्यथासङ्ख्यं श्रवणपूर्वाषाढे दक्षिणवामयोर्लोचनयोर्धनिष्ठा मूलं च दक्षिणवामयोः कर्णयोर्मघादीन्यष्ट नक्षत्राणि दक्षिणायनानि वामपार्श्ववङ्क्रिषु युञ्जीत तथैव मृगशीर्षादीन्युदगयनानि दक्षिणपार्श्ववङ्क्रिषु प्रातिलोम्येन प्रयुञ्जीत शतभिषा ज्येष्ठे स्कन्धयोर्दक्षिणवामयोर्न्यसेत्
punarvasupuṣyau dakṣiṇavāmayoḥ śroṇyorārdrā''śleṣe ca dakṣiṇavāmayoḥ paścimayoḥ pādayorabhiji- duttarāṣāḍhe dakṣiṇavāmayornāsikayoryathāsaṅkhyaṃ śravaṇapūrvāṣāḍhe dakṣiṇavāmayorlocanayordhaniṣṭhā mūlaṃ ca dakṣiṇavāmayoḥ karṇayormaghādīnyaṣṭa nakṣatrāṇi dakṣiṇāyanāni vāmapārśvavaṅkriṣu yuñjīta tathaiva mṛgaśīrṣādīnyudagayanāni dakṣiṇapārśvavaṅkriṣu prātilomyena prayuñjīta śatabhiṣā jyeṣṭhe skandhayordakṣiṇavāmayornyaset
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
On the right and left sides of where the loins might be on the Śiśumāra-cakra are the stars named Punarvasu and Puṣyā. Ārdrā and Aśleṣā are on its right and left feet, Abhijit and Uttarāṣāḍhā are on its right and left nostrils, Śravaṇā and Pūrvāṣāḍhā are at its right and left eyes, and Dhaniṣṭhā and Mūlā are on its right and left ears. The eight stars from Maghā to Anurādhā, which mark the southern course, are on the ribs of the left of its body, and the eight stars from Mṛgaśīrṣā to Pūrvabhādra, which mark the northern course, are on the ribs on the right side. Śatabhiṣā and Jyeṣṭhā are on the right and left shoulders.
SB 5.23.7Open verse →
उत्तराहनावगस्तिरधराहनौ यमो मुखेषु चाङ्गारकः शनैश्चर उपस्थे बृहस्पतिः ककुदि वक्षस्यादित्यो हृदये नारायणो मनसि चन्द्रो नाभ्यामुशना स्तनयोरश्विनौ बुधः प्राणापानयो राहुर्गले केतवः सर्वाङ्गेषु रोमसु सर्वे तारागणाः
uttarāhanāvagastiradharāhanau yamo mukheṣu cāṅgārakaḥ śanaiścara upasthe bṛhaspatiḥ kakudi vakṣasyādityo hṛdaye nārāyaṇo manasi candro nābhyāmuśanā stanayoraśvinau budhaḥ prāṇāpānayo rāhurgale ketavaḥ sarvāṅgeṣu romasu sarve tārāgaṇāḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
On the upper chin of the śiśumāra is Agasti; on its lower chin, Yamarāja; on its mouth, Mars; on its genitals, Saturn; on the back of its neck, Jupiter; on its chest, the sun; and within the core of its heart, Nārāyaṇa. Within its mind is the moon; on its navel, Venus; and on its breasts, the Aśvinī-kumāras. Within its life air, which is known as prāṇāpāna, is Mercury, on its neck is Rāhu, all over its body are comets, and in its pores are the numerous stars.
SB 5.23.8Open verse →
एतदु हैव भगवतो विष्णोः सर्वदेवतामयं रूपमहरहः सन्ध्यायां प्रयतो वाग्यतो निरीक्षमाण उपतिष्ठेत नमो ज्योतिर्लोकाय कालायनायानिमिषां पतये महापुरुषाया- भिधीमहीति
etadu haiva bhagavato viṣṇoḥ sarvadevatāmayaṃ rūpamaharahaḥ sandhyāyāṃ prayato vāgyato nirīkṣamāṇa upatiṣṭheta namo jyotirlokāya kālāyanāyānimiṣāṃ pataye mahāpuruṣāyā- bhidhīmahīti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King, the body of the śiśumāra, as thus described, should be considered the external form of Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Morning, noon and evening, one should silently observe the form of the Lord as the Śiśumāra-cakra and worship Him with this mantra: “O Lord who have assumed the form of time! O resting place of all the planets moving in different orbits! O master of all demigods, O Supreme Person, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You and meditate upon You.”
SB 5.23.9Open verse →
ग्रहर्क्षतारामयमाधिदैविकं पापापहं मन्त्रकृतां त्रिकालम् । नमस्यतः स्मरतो वा त्रिकालं नश्येत तत्कालजमाशु पापम्
graharkṣatārāmayamādhidaivikaṃ pāpāpahaṃ mantrakṛtāṃ trikālam | namasyataḥ smarato vā trikālaṃ naśyeta tatkālajamāśu pāpam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The body of the Supreme Lord, Viṣṇu, which forms the Śiśumāra-cakra, is the resting place of all the demigods and all the stars and planets. One who chants this mantra to worship that Supreme Person three times a day — morning, noon and evening — will surely be freed from all sinful reactions. If one simply offers his obeisances to this form or remembers this form three times a day, all his recent sinful activities will be destroyed.
SB 5.24.1Open verse →
श्रीशुक उवाच । अधस्तात्सवितुर्योजनायुते स्वर्भानुर्नक्षत्रव- च्चरतीत्येके योऽसावमरत्वं ग्रहत्वं चालभत । भगवदनुकम्पया स्वयमसुरापसदः सैंहिकेयो ह्यतदर्हस्तस्य तात जन्मकर्माणि चोपरिष्टा- द्वक्ष्यामः
śrīśuka uvāca | adhastātsavituryojanāyute svarbhānurnakṣatrava- ccaratītyeke yo'sāvamaratvaṃ grahatvaṃ cālabhata | bhagavadanukampayā svayamasurāpasadaḥ saiṃhikeyo hyatadarhastasya tāta janmakarmāṇi copariṣṭā- dvakṣyāmaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, some historians, the speakers of the Purāṇas, say that 10,000 yojanas [80,000 miles] below the sun is the planet known as Rāhu, which moves like one of the stars. The presiding deity of that planet, who is the son of Siṁhikā, is the most abominable of all asuras, but although he is completely unfit to assume the position of a demigod or planetary deity, he has achieved that position by the grace of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Later I shall speak further about him.
SB 5.24.2Open verse →
यददस्तरणेर्मण्डलं प्रतपतस्तद्विस्तरतो योजना- युतमाचक्षते द्वादशसहस्रं सोमस्य त्रयोदशसहस्रं राहोर्यः पर्वणि तद्व्यवधानकृद्वैरानुबन्धः सूर्याचन्द्रमसावभिधावति
yadadastaraṇermaṇḍalaṃ pratapatastadvistarato yojanā- yutamācakṣate dvādaśasahasraṃ somasya trayodaśasahasraṃ rāhoryaḥ parvaṇi tadvyavadhānakṛdvairānubandhaḥ sūryācandramasāvabhidhāvati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The sun globe, which is a source of heat, extends for 10,000 yojanas [80,000 miles]. The moon extends for 20,000 yojanas [160,000 miles], and Rāhu extends for 30,000 yojanas [240,000 miles]. Formerly, when nectar was being distributed, Rāhu tried to create dissension between the sun and moon by interposing himself between them. Rāhu is inimical toward both the sun and the moon, and therefore he always tries to cover the sunshine and moonshine on the dark-moon day and full-moon night.
SB 5.24.3Open verse →
तन्निशम्योभयत्रापि भगवता रक्षणाय प्रयुक्तं सुदर्शनं नाम भागवतं दयितमस्त्रं तत्तेजसा दुर्विषहं मुहुः परिवर्तमानमभ्यवस्थितो मुहूर्त- मुद्विजमानश्चकितहृदय आरादेव निवर्तते तदुपरागमिति वदन्ति लोकाः
tanniśamyobhayatrāpi bhagavatā rakṣaṇāya prayuktaṃ sudarśanaṃ nāma bhāgavataṃ dayitamastraṃ tattejasā durviṣahaṃ muhuḥ parivartamānamabhyavasthito muhūrta- mudvijamānaścakitahṛdaya ārādeva nivartate taduparāgamiti vadanti lokāḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
After hearing from the sun and moon demigods about Rāhu’s attack, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, engages His disc, known as the Sudarśana cakra, to protect them. The Sudarśana cakra is the Lord’s most beloved devotee and is favored by the Lord. The intense heat of its effulgence, meant for killing non-Vaiṣṇavas, is unbearable to Rāhu, and he therefore flees in fear of it. During the time Rāhu disturbs the sun or moon, there occurs what people commonly know as an eclipse.
SB 5.24.4Open verse →
ततोऽधस्तात्सिद्धचारणविद्याधराणां सदनानि तावन्मात्र एव
tato'dhastātsiddhacāraṇavidyādharāṇāṃ sadanāni tāvanmātra eva
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Below Rāhu by 10,000 yojanas [80,000 miles] are the planets known as Siddhaloka, Cāraṇaloka and Vidyādhara-loka.
SB 5.24.5Open verse →
ततोऽधस्ताद्यक्षरक्षःपिशाचप्रेतभूतगणानां विहाराजिरमन्तरिक्षं यावद्वायुः प्रवाति यावन्मेघा उपलभ्यन्ते
tato'dhastādyakṣarakṣaḥpiśācapretabhūtagaṇānāṃ vihārājiramantarikṣaṃ yāvadvāyuḥ pravāti yāvanmeghā upalabhyante
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Beneath Vidyādhara-loka, Cāraṇaloka and Siddhaloka, in the sky called antarikṣa, are the places of enjoyment for the Yakṣas, Rākṣasas, Piśācas, ghosts and so on. Antarikṣa extends as far as the wind blows and the clouds float in the sky. Above this there is no more air.
SB 5.24.6Open verse →
ततोऽधस्ताच्छतयोजनान्तर इयं पृथिवी याव- द्धंसभासश्येनसुपर्णादयः पतत्त्रिप्रवरा उत्पतन्तीति
tato'dhastācchatayojanāntara iyaṃ pṛthivī yāva- ddhaṃsabhāsaśyenasuparṇādayaḥ patattripravarā utpatantīti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Below the abodes of the Yakṣas and Rākṣasas by a distance of 100 yojanas [800 miles] is the planet earth. Its upper limits extend as high as swans, hawks, eagles and similar large birds can fly.
SB 5.24.7Open verse →
उपवर्णितं भूमेर्यथा सन्निवेशावस्थानमवनेर- प्यधस्तात्सप्तभूविवरा एकैकशो योजनायुतान्तरेणा- यामविस्तारेणोपकॢप्ता अतलं वितलं सुतलं तलातलं महातलं रसातलं पातालमिति
upavarṇitaṃ bhūmeryathā sanniveśāvasthānamavanera- pyadhastātsaptabhūvivarā ekaikaśo yojanāyutāntareṇā- yāmavistāreṇopakḷptā atalaṃ vitalaṃ sutalaṃ talātalaṃ mahātalaṃ rasātalaṃ pātālamiti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King, beneath this earth are seven other planets, known as Atala, Vitala, Sutala, Talātala, Mahātala, Rasātala and Pātāla. I have already explained the situation of the planetary systems of earth. The width and length of the seven lower planetary systems are calculated to be exactly the same as those of earth.
SB 5.24.8Open verse →
एतेषु हि बिलस्वर्गेषु स्वर्गादप्यधिककामभोगै- श्वर्यानन्दभूतिविभूतिभिः सुसमृद्धभवनोद्याना- क्रीडाविहारेषु दैत्यदानवकाद्रवेया नित्यप्रमुदिता- नुरक्तकलत्रापत्यबन्धुसुहृदनुचरा गृहपतय ईश्वरादप्यप्रतिहतकामा मायाविनोदा निवसन्ति
eteṣu hi bilasvargeṣu svargādapyadhikakāmabhogai- śvaryānandabhūtivibhūtibhiḥ susamṛddhabhavanodyānā- krīḍāvihāreṣu daityadānavakādraveyā nityapramuditā- nuraktakalatrāpatyabandhusuhṛdanucarā gṛhapataya īśvarādapyapratihatakāmā māyāvinodā nivasanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In these seven planetary systems, which are also known as the subterranean heavens [bila-svarga], there are very beautiful houses, gardens and places of sense enjoyment, which are even more opulent than those in the higher planets because the demons have a very high standard of sensual pleasure, wealth and influence. Most of the residents of these planets, who are known as Daityas, Dānavas and Nāgas, live as householders. Their wives, children, friends and society are all fully engaged in illusory material happiness. The sense enjoyment of the demigods is sometimes disturbed, but the residents of these planets enjoy life without disturbances. Thus they are understood to be very attached to illusory happiness.
SB 5.24.9Open verse →
येषु महाराज मयेन मायाविना विनिर्मिताः पुरो नानामणिप्रवरप्रवेकविरचितविचित्रभवन- प्राकारगोपुरसभाचैत्यचत्वरायतनादिभि- र्नागासुरमिथुनपारावतशुकसारिकाऽऽकीर्णकृत्रिम- भूमिभिर्विवरेश्वरगृहोत्तमैः समलङ्कृताश्चकासति
yeṣu mahārāja mayena māyāvinā vinirmitāḥ puro nānāmaṇipravarapravekaviracitavicitrabhavana- prākāragopurasabhācaityacatvarāyatanādibhi- rnāgāsuramithunapārāvataśukasārikā''kīrṇakṛtrima- bhūmibhirvivareśvaragṛhottamaiḥ samalaṅkṛtāścakāsati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King, in the imitation heavens known as bila-svarga there is a great demon named Maya Dānava, who is an expert artist and architect. He has constructed many brilliantly decorated cities. There are many wonderful houses, walls, gates, assembly houses, temples, yards and temple compounds, as well as many hotels serving as residential quarters for foreigners. The houses for the leaders of these planets are constructed with the most valuable jewels, and they are always crowded with living entities known as Nāgas and Asuras, as well as many pigeons, parrots and similar birds. All in all, these imitation heavenly cities are most beautifully situated and attractively decorated.
SB 5.24.10Open verse →
उद्यानानि चातितरां मन इन्द्रियानन्दिभिः कुसुमफलस्तबकसुभगकिसलयावनतरुचिर- विटपविटपिनां लताङ्गालिङ्गितानां श्रीभिः समिथुनविविधविहङ्गमजलाशयानाममल- जलपूर्णानां झषकुलोल्लङ्घनक्षुभितनीरनीरज- कुमुदकुवलयकह्लारनीलोत्पललोहितशतपत्रादि वनेषु कृतनिकेतनानामेकविहाराकुलमधुर- विविधस्वनादिभिरिन्द्रियोत्सवैरमरलोकश्रिय- मतिशयितानि
udyānāni cātitarāṃ mana indriyānandibhiḥ kusumaphalastabakasubhagakisalayāvanatarucira- viṭapaviṭapināṃ latāṅgāliṅgitānāṃ śrībhiḥ samithunavividhavihaṅgamajalāśayānāmamala- jalapūrṇānāṃ jhaṣakulollaṅghanakṣubhitanīranīraja- kumudakuvalayakahlāranīlotpalalohitaśatapatrādi vaneṣu kṛtaniketanānāmekavihārākulamadhura- vividhasvanādibhirindriyotsavairamaralokaśriya- matiśayitāni
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The parks and gardens in the artificial heavens surpass in beauty those of the upper heavenly planets. The trees in those gardens, embraced by creepers, bend with a heavy burden of twigs with fruits and flowers, and therefore they appear extraordinarily beautiful. That beauty could attract anyone and make his mind fully blossom in the pleasure of sense gratification. There are many lakes and reservoirs with clear, transparent water, agitated by jumping fish and decorated with many flowers such as lilies, kuvalayas, kahlāras and blue and red lotuses. Pairs of cakravākas and many other water birds nest in the lakes and always enjoy in a happy mood, making sweet, pleasing vibrations that are very satisfying and conducive to enjoyment of the senses.
SB 5.24.11Open verse →
यत्र ह वाव न भयमहोरात्रादिभिः कालविभागैरुपलक्ष्यते
yatra ha vāva na bhayamahorātrādibhiḥ kālavibhāgairupalakṣyate
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Since there is no sunshine in those subterranean planets, time is not divided into days and nights, and consequently fear produced by time does not exist.
SB 5.24.12Open verse →
यत्र हि महाहिप्रवरशिरोमणयः सर्वं तमः प्रबाधन्ते
yatra hi mahāhipravaraśiromaṇayaḥ sarvaṃ tamaḥ prabādhante
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Many great serpents reside there with gems on their hoods, and the effulgence of these gems dissipates the darkness in all directions.
SB 5.24.13Open verse →
न वा एतेषु वसतां दिव्यौषधिरसरसायनान्नपान- स्नानादिभिराधयो व्याधयो वलीपलितजरादयश्च देहवैवर्ण्यदौर्गन्ध्यस्वेदक्लमग्लानिरिति वयोऽवस्थाश्च भवन्ति
na vā eteṣu vasatāṃ divyauṣadhirasarasāyanānnapāna- snānādibhirādhayo vyādhayo valīpalitajarādayaśca dehavaivarṇyadaurgandhyasvedaklamaglāniriti vayo'vasthāśca bhavanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Since the residents of these planets drink and bathe in juices and elixirs made from wonderful herbs, they are freed from all anxieties and physical diseases. They have no experience of grey hair, wrinkles or invalidity, their bodily lusters do not fade, their perspiration does not cause a bad smell, and they are not troubled by fatigue or by lack of energy or enthusiasm due to old age.
SB 5.24.14Open verse →
न हि तेषां कल्याणानां प्रभवति कुतश्चन मृत्युर्विना भगवत्तेजसश्चक्रापदेशात्
na hi teṣāṃ kalyāṇānāṃ prabhavati kutaścana mṛtyurvinā bhagavattejasaścakrāpadeśāt
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
They live very auspiciously and do not fear death from anything but death’s established time, which is the effulgence of the Sudarśana cakra of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
SB 5.24.15Open verse →
यस्मिन् प्रविष्टेऽसुरवधूनां प्रायः पुंसवनानि भयादेव स्रवन्ति पतन्ति च
yasmin praviṣṭe'suravadhūnāṃ prāyaḥ puṃsavanāni bhayādeva sravanti patanti ca
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When the Sudarśana disc enters those provinces, the pregnant wives of the demons all have miscarriages due to fear of its effulgence.
SB 5.24.16Open verse →
अथातले मयपुत्रोऽसुरो बलो निवसति येन ह वा इह सृष्टाः षण्णवतिर्मायाः काश्चनाद्यापि मायाविनो धारयन्ति यस्य च जृम्भमाणस्य मुखतस्त्रयः स्त्रीगणा उदपद्यन्त स्वैरिण्यः कामिन्यः पुंश्चल्य इति या वै बिलायनं प्रविष्टं पुरुषं रसेन हाटकाख्येन साधयित्वा स्वविलासावलोकनानुरागस्मितसंलापोपगूहनादिभिः स्वैरं किल रमयन्ति यस्मिन्नुपयुक्ते पुरुष ईश्वरोऽहं सिद्धोऽहमित्ययुतमहागजबलमात्मानमभिमन्यमानः कत्थते मदान्ध इव
athātale mayaputro'suro balo nivasati yena ha vā iha sṛṣṭāḥ ṣaṇṇavatirmāyāḥ kāścanādyāpi māyāvino dhārayanti yasya ca jṛmbhamāṇasya mukhatastrayaḥ strīgaṇā udapadyanta svairiṇyaḥ kāminyaḥ puṃścalya iti yā vai bilāyanaṃ praviṣṭaṃ puruṣaṃ rasena hāṭakākhyena sādhayitvā svavilāsāvalokanānurāgasmitasaṃlāpopagūhanādibhiḥ svairaṃ kila ramayanti yasminnupayukte puruṣa īśvaro'haṃ siddho'hamityayutamahāgajabalamātmānamabhimanyamānaḥ katthate madāndha iva
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King, now I shall describe to you the lower planetary systems, one by one, beginning from Atala. In Atala there is a demon, the son of Maya Dānava named Bala, who created ninety-six kinds of mystic power. Some so-called yogīs and svāmīs take advantage of this mystic power to cheat people even today. Simply by yawning, the demon Bala created three kinds of women, known as svairiṇī, kāmiṇī and puṁścalī. The svairiṇīs like to marry men from their own group, the kāmiṇīs marry men from any group, and the puṁścalīs change husbands one after another. If a man enters the planet of Atala, these women immediately capture him and induce him to drink an intoxicating beverage made with a drug known as hāṭaka [cannabis indica]. This intoxicant endows the man with great sexual prowess, of which the women take advantage for enjoyment. A woman will enchant him with attractive glances, intimate words, smiles of love and then embraces. In this way she induces him to enjoy sex with her to her full satisfaction. Because of his increased sexual power, the man thinks himself stronger than ten thousand elephants and considers himself most perfect. Indeed, illusioned and intoxicated by false pride, he thinks himself God, ignoring impending death.
SB 5.24.17Open verse →
ततोऽधस्ताद्वितले हरो भगवान् हाटकेश्वरः स्वपार्षद- भूतगणावृतः प्रजापतिसर्गोपबृंहणाय भवो भवान्या सह मिथुनीभूत आस्ते यतः प्रवृत्ता सरित्प्रवरा हाटकी नाम भवयोर्वीर्येण यत्र चित्रभानुर्मातरिश्वना समिध्यमान ओजसा पिबति तन्निष्ठ्यूतं हाटकाख्यं सुवर्णं भूषणेना- सुरेन्द्रावरोधेषु पुरुषाः सह पुरुषीभिर्धारयन्ति
tato'dhastādvitale haro bhagavān hāṭakeśvaraḥ svapārṣada- bhūtagaṇāvṛtaḥ prajāpatisargopabṛṃhaṇāya bhavo bhavānyā saha mithunībhūta āste yataḥ pravṛttā saritpravarā hāṭakī nāma bhavayorvīryeṇa yatra citrabhānurmātariśvanā samidhyamāna ojasā pibati tanniṣṭhyūtaṃ hāṭakākhyaṃ suvarṇaṃ bhūṣaṇenā- surendrāvarodheṣu puruṣāḥ saha puruṣībhirdhārayanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The next planet below Atala is Vitala, wherein Lord Śiva, who is known as the master of gold mines, lives with his personal associates, the ghosts and similar living entities. Lord Śiva, as the progenitor, engages in sex with Bhavānī, the progenitress, to produce living entities, and from the mixture of their vital fluid the river named Hāṭakī is generated. When fire, being made to blaze by the wind, drinks of this river and then sizzles and spits it out, it produces gold called Hāṭaka. The demons who live on that planet with their wives decorate themselves with various ornaments made from that gold, and thus they live there very happily.
SB 5.24.18Open verse →
ततोऽधस्तात्सुतले उदारश्रवाः पुण्यश्लोको विरोचनात्मजो बलिर्भगवता महेन्द्रस्य प्रियं चिकीर्षमाणेनादितेर्लब्धकायो भूत्वा वटुवामनरूपेण पराक्षिप्तलोकत्रयो भगवदनुकम्पयैव पुनः प्रवेशित इन्द्रादिष्वविद्यमानया सुसमृद्धया श्रियाभिजुष्टः स्वधर्मेणाराधयंस्तमेव भगवन्तमाराधनीयमपगत- साध्वस आस्तेऽधुनापि
tato'dhastātsutale udāraśravāḥ puṇyaśloko virocanātmajo balirbhagavatā mahendrasya priyaṃ cikīrṣamāṇenāditerlabdhakāyo bhūtvā vaṭuvāmanarūpeṇa parākṣiptalokatrayo bhagavadanukampayaiva punaḥ praveśita indrādiṣvavidyamānayā susamṛddhayā śriyābhijuṣṭaḥ svadharmeṇārādhayaṃstameva bhagavantamārādhanīyamapagata- sādhvasa āste'dhunāpi
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Below the planet Vitala is another planet, known as Sutala, where the great son of Mahārāja Virocana, Bali Mahārāja, who is celebrated as the most pious king, resides even now. For the welfare of Indra, the King of heaven, Lord Viṣṇu appeared in the form of a dwarf brahmacārī as the son of Aditi and tricked Bali Mahārāja by begging for only three paces of land but taking all the three worlds. Being very pleased with Bali Mahārāja for giving all his possessions, the Lord returned his kingdom and made him richer than the opulent King Indra. Even now, Bali Mahārāja engages in devotional service by worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the planet of Sutala.
SB 5.24.19Open verse →
नो एवैतत्साक्षात्कारो भूमिदानस्य यत्तद्भगवत्यशेष- जीवनिकायानां जीवभूतात्मभूते परमात्मनि वासुदेवे तीर्थतमे पात्र उपपन्ने परया श्रद्धया परमादरसमाहित- मनसा सम्प्रतिपादितस्य साक्षादपवर्गद्वारस्य यद्बिलनिलयैश्वर्यम्
no evaitatsākṣātkāro bhūmidānasya yattadbhagavatyaśeṣa- jīvanikāyānāṃ jīvabhūtātmabhūte paramātmani vāsudeve tīrthatame pātra upapanne parayā śraddhayā paramādarasamāhita- manasā sampratipāditasya sākṣādapavargadvārasya yadbilanilayaiśvaryam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King, Bali Mahārāja donated all his possessions to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāmanadeva, but one should certainly not conclude that he achieved his great worldly opulence in bila-svarga as a result of his charitable disposition. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the source of life for all living entities, lives within everyone as the friendly Supersoul, and under His direction a living entity enjoys or suffers in the material world. Greatly appreciating the transcendental qualities of the Lord, Bali Mahārāja offered everything at His lotus feet. His purpose, however, was not to gain anything material, but to become a pure devotee. For a pure devotee, the door of liberation is automatically opened. One should not think that Bali Mahārāja was given so much material opulence merely because of his charity. When one becomes a pure devotee in love, he may also be blessed with a good material position by the will of the Supreme Lord. However, one should not mistakenly think that the material opulence of a devotee is the result of his devotional service. The real result of devotional service is the awakening of pure love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, which continues under all circumstances.
SB 5.24.20Open verse →
यस्य ह वाव क्षुतपतनप्रस्खलनादिषु विवशः सकृन्नामाभिगृणन् पुरुषः कर्मबन्धनमञ्जसा विधुनोति यस्य हैव प्रतिबाधनं मुमुक्षवो- ऽन्यथैवोपलभन्ते
yasya ha vāva kṣutapatanapraskhalanādiṣu vivaśaḥ sakṛnnāmābhigṛṇan puruṣaḥ karmabandhanamañjasā vidhunoti yasya haiva pratibādhanaṃ mumukṣavo- 'nyathaivopalabhante
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
If one who is embarrassed by hunger or who falls down or stumbles chants the holy name of the Lord even once, willingly or unwillingly, he is immediately freed from the reactions of his past deeds. Karmīs entangled in material activities face many difficulties in the practice of mystic yoga and other endeavors to achieve that same freedom.
SB 5.24.21Open verse →
तद्भक्तानामात्मवतां सर्वेषामात्मन्यात्मद आत्मतयैव
tadbhaktānāmātmavatāṃ sarveṣāmātmanyātmada ātmatayaiva
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated in everyone’s heart as the Supersoul, sells Himself to His devotees such as Nārada Muni. In other words, the Lord gives pure love to such devotees and gives Himself to those who love Him purely. Great, self-realized mystic yogīs such as the four Kumāras also derive great transcendental bliss from realizing the Supersoul within themselves.
SB 5.24.22Open verse →
न वै भगवान् नूनममुष्यानुजग्राह यदुत पुनरात्मा- नुस्मृतिमोषणं मायामयभोगैश्वर्यमेवातनुतेति
na vai bhagavān nūnamamuṣyānujagrāha yaduta punarātmā- nusmṛtimoṣaṇaṃ māyāmayabhogaiśvaryamevātanuteti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Supreme Personality of Godhead did not award His mercy to Bali Mahārāja by giving him material happiness and opulence, for these make one forget loving service to the Lord. The result of material opulence is that one can no longer absorb his mind in the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
SB 5.24.23Open verse →
यत्तद्भगवतानधिगतान्योपायेन याच्ञाच्छलेनापहृत स्वशरीरावशेषितलोकत्रयो वरुणपाशैश्च सम्प्रतिमुक्तो गिरिदर्यां चापविद्ध इति होवाच
yattadbhagavatānadhigatānyopāyena yācñācchalenāpahṛta svaśarīrāvaśeṣitalokatrayo varuṇapāśaiśca sampratimukto giridaryāṃ cāpaviddha iti hovāca
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When the Supreme Personality of Godhead could see no other means of taking everything away from Bali Mahārāja, He adopted the trick of begging from him and took away all the three worlds. Thus only his body was left, but the Lord was still not satisfied. He arrested Bali Mahārāja, bound him with the ropes of Varuṇa and threw him in a cave in a mountain. Nevertheless, although all his property was taken and he was thrown into a cave, Bali Mahārāja was such a great devotee that he spoke as follows.
SB 5.24.24Open verse →
नूनं बतायं भगवानर्थेषु न निष्णातो योऽसाविन्द्रो यस्य सचिवो मन्त्राय वृत एकान्ततो बृहस्पतिस्त- मतिहाय यमुपेन्द्रेणात्मानमयाचतात्मनश्चाशिषो नो एव तद्दास्यमतिगम्भीरवयसः कालस्य मन्वन्तरपरिवृत्तं कियल्लोकत्रयमिदम्
nūnaṃ batāyaṃ bhagavānartheṣu na niṣṇāto yo'sāvindro yasya sacivo mantrāya vṛta ekāntato bṛhaspatista- matihāya yamupendreṇātmānamayācatātmanaścāśiṣo no eva taddāsyamatigambhīravayasaḥ kālasya manvantaraparivṛttaṃ kiyallokatrayamidam
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Alas, how pitiable it is for Indra, the King of heaven, that although he is very learned and powerful and although he chose Bṛhaspati as his prime minister to instruct him, he is completely ignorant concerning spiritual advancement. Bṛhaspati is also unintelligent because he did not properly instruct his disciple Indra. Lord Vāmanadeva was standing at Indra’s door, but King Indra, instead of begging Him for an opportunity to render transcendental loving service, engaged Him in asking me for alms to gain the three worlds for his sense gratification. Sovereignty over the three worlds is very insignificant because whatever material opulence one may possess lasts only for an age of Manu, which is but a tiny fraction of endless time.
SB 5.24.25Open verse →
यस्यानुदास्यमेवास्मत्पितामहः किल वव्रे न तु स्वपित्र्यं यदुताकुतोभयं पदं दीयमानं भगवतः परमिति भगवतोपरते खलु स्वपितरि
yasyānudāsyamevāsmatpitāmahaḥ kila vavre na tu svapitryaṃ yadutākutobhayaṃ padaṃ dīyamānaṃ bhagavataḥ paramiti bhagavatoparate khalu svapitari
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Bali Mahārāja said: My grandfather Prahlāda Mahārāja is the only person who understood his own self-interest. Upon the death of Prahlāda’s father, Hiraṇyakaśipu, Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva wanted to offer Prahlāda his father’s kingdom and even wanted to grant him liberation from material bondage, but Prahlāda accepted neither. Liberation and material opulence, he thought, are obstacles to devotional service, and therefore such gifts from the Supreme Personality of Godhead are not His actual mercy. Consequently, instead of accepting the results of karma and jñāna, Prahlāda Mahārāja simply begged the Lord for engagement in the service of His servant.
SB 5.24.26Open verse →
तस्य महानुभावस्यानुपथममृजितकषायः को वास्मद्विधः परिहीणभगवदनुग्रह उपजिगमिषतीति
tasya mahānubhāvasyānupathamamṛjitakaṣāyaḥ ko vāsmadvidhaḥ parihīṇabhagavadanugraha upajigamiṣatīti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Bali Mahārāja said: Persons like us, who are still attached to material enjoyment, who are contaminated by the modes of material nature and who lack the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, cannot follow the supreme path of Prahlāda Mahārāja, the exalted devotee of the Lord.
SB 5.24.27Open verse →
तस्यानुचरितमुपरिष्टाद्विस्तरिष्यते यस्य भगवान् स्वय- मखिलजगद्गुरुर्नारायणो द्वारि गदापाणिरवतिष्ठते निज- जनानुकम्पितहृदयो येनाङ्गुष्ठेन पदा दशकन्धरो योजना- युतायुतं दिग्विजय उच्चाटितः
tasyānucaritamupariṣṭādvistariṣyate yasya bhagavān svaya- makhilajagadgururnārāyaṇo dvāri gadāpāṇiravatiṣṭhate nija- janānukampitahṛdayo yenāṅguṣṭhena padā daśakandharo yojanā- yutāyutaṃ digvijaya uccāṭitaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: My dear King, how shall I glorify the character of Bali Mahārāja? The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master of the three worlds, who is most compassionate to His own devotee, stands with club in hand at Bali Mahārāja’s door. When Rāvaṇa, the powerful demon, came to gain victory over Bali Mahārāja, Vāmanadeva kicked him a distance of eighty thousand miles with His big toe. I shall explain the character and activities of Bali Mahārāja later [in the Eighth Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam].
SB 5.24.28Open verse →
ततोऽधस्तात्तलातले मयो नाम दानवेन्द्रस्त्रिपुराधिपति- र्भगवता पुरारिणा त्रिलोकीशं चिकीर्षुणा निर्दग्धस्व- पुरत्रयः तत्प्रसादाल्लब्धपदो मायाविनामाचार्यो महादेवेन परिरक्षितो विगतसुदर्शनभयो महीयते
tato'dhastāttalātale mayo nāma dānavendrastripurādhipati- rbhagavatā purāriṇā trilokīśaṃ cikīrṣuṇā nirdagdhasva- puratrayaḥ tatprasādāllabdhapado māyāvināmācāryo mahādevena parirakṣito vigatasudarśanabhayo mahīyate
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Beneath the planet known as Sutala is another planet, called Talātala, which is ruled by the Dānava demon named Maya. Maya is known as the ācārya [master] of all the māyāvīs, who can invoke the powers of sorcery. For the benefit of the three worlds, Lord Śiva, who is known as Tripurāri, once set fire to the three kingdoms of Maya, but later, being pleased with him, he returned his kingdom. Since that time, Maya Dānava has been protected by Lord Śiva, and therefore he falsely thinks that he need not fear the Sudarśana cakra of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
SB 5.24.29Open verse →
ततोऽधस्तान्महातले काद्रवेयाणां सर्पाणां नैकशिरसां क्रोधवशो नाम गणः कुहकतक्षककालिय- सुषेणादिप्रधाना महाभोगवन्तः पतत्त्रिराजाधिपतेः पुरुषवाहादनवरतमुद्विजमानाः स्वकलत्रापत्यसुहृ- त्कुटुम्बसङ्गेन क्वचित्प्रमत्ता विहरन्ति
tato'dhastānmahātale kādraveyāṇāṃ sarpāṇāṃ naikaśirasāṃ krodhavaśo nāma gaṇaḥ kuhakatakṣakakāliya- suṣeṇādipradhānā mahābhogavantaḥ patattrirājādhipateḥ puruṣavāhādanavaratamudvijamānāḥ svakalatrāpatyasuhṛ- tkuṭumbasaṅgena kvacitpramattā viharanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The planetary system below Talātala is known as Mahātala. It is the abode of many-hooded snakes, descendants of Kadrū, who are always very angry. The great snakes who are prominent are Kuhaka, Takṣaka, Kāliya and Suṣeṇa. The snakes in Mahātala are always disturbed by fear of Garuḍa, the carrier of Lord Viṣṇu, but although they are full of anxiety, some of them nevertheless sport with their wives, children, friends and relatives.
SB 5.24.30Open verse →
ततोऽधस्ताद्रसातले दैतेया दानवाः पणयो नाम निवातकवचाः कालेया हिरण्यपुरवासिन इति विबुधप्रत्यनीका उत्पत्त्या महौजसो महासाहसिनो भगवतः सकललोकानुभावस्य हरेरेव तेजसा प्रतिहतबलावलेपा बिलेशया इव वसन्ति ये वै सरमयेन्द्रदूत्या वाग्भिर्मन्त्रवर्णाभिरिन्द्राद्बिभ्यति
tato'dhastādrasātale daiteyā dānavāḥ paṇayo nāma nivātakavacāḥ kāleyā hiraṇyapuravāsina iti vibudhapratyanīkā utpattyā mahaujaso mahāsāhasino bhagavataḥ sakalalokānubhāvasya harereva tejasā pratihatabalāvalepā bileśayā iva vasanti ye vai saramayendradūtyā vāgbhirmantravarṇābhirindrādbibhyati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Beneath Mahātala is the planetary system known as Rasātala, which is the abode of the demoniac sons of Diti and Danu. They are called Paṇis, Nivāta-kavacas, Kāleyas and Hiraṇya-puravāsīs [those living in Hiraṇya-pura]. They are all enemies of the demigods, and they reside in holes like snakes. From birth they are extremely powerful and cruel, and although they are proud of their strength, they are always defeated by the Sudarśana cakra of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who rules all the planetary systems. When a female messenger from Indra named Saramā chants a particular curse, the serpentine demons of Mahātala become very afraid of Indra.
SB 5.24.31Open verse →
ततोऽधस्तात्पाताले नागलोकपतयो वासुकिप्रमुखाः शङ्खकुलिकमहाशङ्खश्वेतधनञ्जयधृतराष्ट्रशङ्खचूड- कम्बलाश्वतरदेवदत्तादयो महाभोगिनो महामर्षा निवसन्ति येषामु ह वै पञ्चसप्तदशशतसहस्रशीर्षाणां फणासु विरचिता महामणयो रोचिष्णवः पातालविवर- तिमिरनिकरं स्वरोचिषा विधमन्ति
tato'dhastātpātāle nāgalokapatayo vāsukipramukhāḥ śaṅkhakulikamahāśaṅkhaśvetadhanañjayadhṛtarāṣṭraśaṅkhacūḍa- kambalāśvataradevadattādayo mahābhogino mahāmarṣā nivasanti yeṣāmu ha vai pañcasaptadaśaśatasahasraśīrṣāṇāṃ phaṇāsu viracitā mahāmaṇayo rociṣṇavaḥ pātālavivara- timiranikaraṃ svarociṣā vidhamanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Beneath Rasātala is another planetary system, known as Pātāla or Nāgaloka, where there are many demoniac serpents, the masters of Nāgaloka, such as Śaṅkha, Kulika, Mahāśaṅkha, Śveta, Dhanañjaya, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Śaṅkhacūḍa, Kambala, Aśvatara and Devadatta. The chief among them is Vāsuki. They are all extremely angry, and they have many, many hoods — some snakes five hoods, some seven, some ten, others a hundred and others a thousand. These hoods are bedecked with valuable gems, and the light emanating from the gems illuminates the entire planetary system of bila-svarga.
SB 5.25.1Open verse →
श्रीशुक उवाच । तस्य मूलदेशे त्रिंशद्योजनसहस्रान्तर आस्ते या वै कला भगवतस्तामसी समाख्यातानन्त इति सात्वतीया द्रष्टृदृश्ययोः सङ्कर्षणमहमित्यभिमान-लक्षणं यं सङ्कर्षणमित्याचक्षते
śrīśuka uvāca | tasya mūladeśe triṃśadyojanasahasrāntara āste yā vai kalā bhagavatastāmasī samākhyātānanta iti sātvatīyā draṣṭṛdṛśyayoḥ saṅkarṣaṇamahamityabhimāna-lakṣaṇaṃ yaṃ saṅkarṣaṇamityācakṣate
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said to Mahārāja Parīkṣit: My dear King, approximately 240,000 miles beneath the planet Pātāla lives another incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is the expansion of Lord Viṣṇu known as Lord Ananta or Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa. He is always in the transcendental position, but because He is worshiped by Lord Śiva, the deity of tamo-guṇa or darkness, He is sometimes called tāmasī. Lord Ananta is the predominating Deity of the material mode of ignorance as well as the false ego of all conditioned souls. When a conditioned living being thinks, “I am the enjoyer, and this world is meant to be enjoyed by me,” this conception of life is dictated to him by Saṅkarṣaṇa. Thus the mundane conditioned soul thinks himself the Supreme Lord.
SB 5.25.2Open verse →
यस्येदं क्षितिमण्डलं भगवतोऽनन्तमूर्तेः सहस्रशिरस एकस्मिन्नेव शीर्षणि ध्रियमाणं सिद्धार्थ इव लक्ष्यते
yasyedaṃ kṣitimaṇḍalaṃ bhagavato'nantamūrteḥ sahasraśirasa ekasminneva śīrṣaṇi dhriyamāṇaṃ siddhārtha iva lakṣyate
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: This great universe, situated on one of Lord Anantadeva’s thousands of hoods, appears just like a white mustard seed. It is infinitesimal compared to the hood of Lord Ananta.
SB 5.25.3Open verse →
यस्य ह वा इदं कालेनोपसञ्जिहीर्षतोऽमर्षविरचित- रुचिरभ्रमद्भ्रुवोरन्तरेण साङ्कर्षणो नाम रुद्र एकादश- व्यूहस्त्र्यक्षस्त्रिशिखं शूलमुत्तम्भयन्नुदतिष्ठत्
yasya ha vā idaṃ kālenopasañjihīrṣato'marṣaviracita- rucirabhramadbhruvorantareṇa sāṅkarṣaṇo nāma rudra ekādaśa- vyūhastryakṣastriśikhaṃ śūlamuttambhayannudatiṣṭhat
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
At the time of devastation, when Lord Anantadeva desires to destroy the entire creation, He becomes slightly angry. Then from between His two eyebrows appears three-eyed Rudra, carrying a trident. This Rudra, who is known as Sāṅkarṣaṇa, is the embodiment of the eleven Rudras, or incarnations of Lord Śiva. He appears in order to devastate the entire creation.
SB 5.25.4Open verse →
यस्याङ्घ्रिकमलयुगलारुणविशदनखमणिषण्ड- मण्डलेषु अहिपतयः सह सात्वतर्षभैरेकान्तभक्ति- योगेनावनमन्तः स्ववदनानि परिस्फुरत्कुण्डलप्रभा- मण्डितगण्डस्थलान्यतिमनोहराणि प्रमुदितमनसः खलु विलोकयन्ति
yasyāṅghrikamalayugalāruṇaviśadanakhamaṇiṣaṇḍa- maṇḍaleṣu ahipatayaḥ saha sātvatarṣabhairekāntabhakti- yogenāvanamantaḥ svavadanāni parisphuratkuṇḍalaprabhā- maṇḍitagaṇḍasthalānyatimanoharāṇi pramuditamanasaḥ khalu vilokayanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The pink, transparent toenails on the Lord’s lotus feet are exactly like valuable gems polished to a mirror finish. When the unalloyed devotees and the leaders of the snakes offer their obeisances to Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa with great devotion, they become very joyful upon seeing their own beautiful faces reflected in His toenails. Their cheeks are decorated with glittering earrings, and the beauty of their faces is extremely pleasing to see.
SB 5.25.5Open verse →
यस्यैव हि नागराजकुमार्य आशिष आशासाना- श्चार्वङ्गवलयविलसितविशदविपुलधवलसुभग- रुचिरभुजरजतस्तम्भेष्वगुरुचन्दनकुङ्कुमपङ्कानु- लेपेनावलिम्पमानास्तदभिमर्शनोन्मथितहृदय- मकरध्वजावेशरुचिरललितस्मितास्तदनुराग- मदमुदितमदविघूर्णितारुणकरुणावलोकनयन- वदनारविन्दं सव्रीडं किल विलोकयन्ति
yasyaiva hi nāgarājakumārya āśiṣa āśāsānā- ścārvaṅgavalayavilasitaviśadavipuladhavalasubhaga- rucirabhujarajatastambheṣvagurucandanakuṅkumapaṅkānu- lepenāvalimpamānāstadabhimarśanonmathitahṛdaya- makaradhvajāveśaruciralalitasmitāstadanurāga- madamuditamadavighūrṇitāruṇakaruṇāvalokanayana- vadanāravindaṃ savrīḍaṃ kila vilokayanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Lord Ananta’s arms are attractively long, beautifully decorated with bangles and completely spiritual. They are white, and so they appear like silver columns. When the beautiful princesses of the serpent kings, hoping for the Lord’s auspicious blessing, smear His arms with aguru pulp, sandalwood pulp and kuṅkuma, the touch of His limbs awakens lusty desires within them. Understanding their minds, the Lord looks at the princesses with a merciful smile, and they become bashful, realizing that He knows their desires. Then they smile beautifully and look upon the Lord’s lotus face, which is beautified by reddish eyes rolling slightly from intoxication and delighted by love for His devotees.
SB 5.25.6Open verse →
स एव भगवाननन्तोऽनन्तगुणार्णव आदिदेव उपसंहृतामर्षरोषवेगो लोकानां स्वस्तय आस्ते
sa eva bhagavānananto'nantaguṇārṇava ādideva upasaṃhṛtāmarṣaroṣavego lokānāṃ svastaya āste
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa is the ocean of unlimited spiritual qualities, and thus He is known as Anantadeva. He is nondifferent from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. For the welfare of all living entities within this material world, He resides in His abode, restraining His anger and intolerance.
SB 5.25.7Open verse →
ध्यायमानः सुरासुरोरगसिद्धगन्धर्वविद्याधर- मुनिगणैरनवरतमदमुदितविकृतविह्वललोचनः सुललितमुखरिकामृतेनाप्यायमानः स्वपार्षद- विबुधयूथपतीनपरिम्लानरागनवतुलसिकामोद- मध्वासवेन माद्यन् मधुकरव्रातमधुरगीतश्रियं वैजयन्तीं स्वां वनमालां नीलवासा एककुण्डलो हलककुदि कृतसुभगसुन्दरभुजो भगवान् माहेन्द्रो वारणेन्द्र इव काञ्चनीं कक्षामुदारलीलो बिभर्ति
dhyāyamānaḥ surāsuroragasiddhagandharvavidyādhara- munigaṇairanavaratamadamuditavikṛtavihvalalocanaḥ sulalitamukharikāmṛtenāpyāyamānaḥ svapārṣada- vibudhayūthapatīnaparimlānarāganavatulasikāmoda- madhvāsavena mādyan madhukaravrātamadhuragītaśriyaṃ vaijayantīṃ svāṃ vanamālāṃ nīlavāsā ekakuṇḍalo halakakudi kṛtasubhagasundarabhujo bhagavān māhendro vāraṇendra iva kāñcanīṃ kakṣāmudāralīlo bibharti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: The demigods, the demons, the Uragas [serpentine demigods], the Siddhas, the Gandharvas, the Vidyādharas and many highly elevated sages constantly offer prayers to the Lord. Because He is intoxicated, the Lord looks bewildered, and His eyes, appearing like flowers in full bloom, move to and fro. He pleases His personal associates, the heads of the demigods, by the sweet vibrations emanating from His mouth. Dressed in bluish garments and wearing a single earring, He holds a plow on His back with His two beautiful and well-constructed hands. Appearing as white as the heavenly King Indra, He wears a golden belt around His waist and a vaijayantī garland of ever-fresh tulasī blossoms around His neck. Bees intoxicated by the honeylike fragrance of the tulasī flowers hum very sweetly around the garland, which thus becomes more and more beautiful. In this way, the Lord enjoys His very magnanimous pastimes.
SB 5.25.8Open verse →
य एष एवमनुश्रुतो ध्यायमानो मुमुक्षूणामनादि- कालकर्मवासनाग्रथितमविद्यामयं हृदयग्रन्थिं सत्त्वरजस्तमोमयमन्तर्हृदयं गत आशु निर्भिनत्ति तस्यानुभावान् भगवान् स्वायम्भुवो नारदः सह तुम्बुरुणा सभायां ब्रह्मणः संश्लोकयामास
ya eṣa evamanuśruto dhyāyamāno mumukṣūṇāmanādi- kālakarmavāsanāgrathitamavidyāmayaṃ hṛdayagranthiṃ sattvarajastamomayamantarhṛdayaṃ gata āśu nirbhinatti tasyānubhāvān bhagavān svāyambhuvo nāradaḥ saha tumburuṇā sabhāyāṃ brahmaṇaḥ saṃślokayāmāsa
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
If persons who are very serious about being liberated from material life hear the glories of Anantadeva from the mouth of a spiritual master in the chain of disciplic succession, and if they always meditate upon Saṅkarṣaṇa, the Lord enters the cores of their hearts, vanquishes all the dirty contamination of the material modes of nature, and cuts to pieces the hard knot within the heart, which has been tied tightly since time immemorial by the desire to dominate material nature through fruitive activities. Nārada Muni, the son of Lord Brahmā, always glorifies Anantadeva in his father’s assembly. There he sings blissful verses of his own composition, accompanied by his stringed instrument [or a celestial singer] known as Tumburu.
SB 5.25.9Open verse →
उत्पत्तिस्थितिलयहेतवोऽस्य कल्पाः सत्त्वाद्याः प्रकृतिगुणा यदीक्षयाऽऽसन् । यद्रूपं ध्रुवमकृतं यदेकमात्मन् नानाधात्कथमु ह वेद तस्य वर्त्म
utpattisthitilayahetavo'sya kalpāḥ sattvādyāḥ prakṛtiguṇā yadīkṣayā''san | yadrūpaṃ dhruvamakṛtaṃ yadekamātman nānādhātkathamu ha veda tasya vartma
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
By His glance, the Supreme Personality of Godhead enables the modes of material nature to act as the causes of universal creation, maintenance and destruction. The Supreme Soul is unlimited and beginningless, and although He is one, He has manifested Himself in many forms. How can human society understand the ways of the Supreme?
SB 5.25.10Open verse →
मूर्तिं नः पुरुकृपया बभार सत्त्वं संशुद्धं सदसदिदं विभाति तत्र । यल्लीलां मृगपतिराददेऽनवद्या- मादातुं स्वजनमनांस्युदारवीर्यः
mūrtiṃ naḥ purukṛpayā babhāra sattvaṃ saṃśuddhaṃ sadasadidaṃ vibhāti tatra | yallīlāṃ mṛgapatirādade'navadyā- mādātuṃ svajanamanāṃsyudāravīryaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
This manifestation of subtle and gross matter exists within the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Out of causeless mercy toward His devotees, He exhibits various forms, which are all transcendental. The Supreme Lord is most liberal, and He possesses all mystic power. To conquer the minds of His devotees and give pleasure to their hearts, He appears in different incarnations and manifests many pastimes.
SB 5.25.11Open verse →
यन्नामश्रुतमनुकीर्तयेदकस्मा- दार्तो वा यदि पतितः प्रलम्भनाद्वा । हन्त्यंहः सपदि नृणामशेषमन्यं कं शेषाद्भगवत आश्रयेन्मुमुक्षुः
yannāmaśrutamanukīrtayedakasmā- dārto vā yadi patitaḥ pralambhanādvā | hantyaṃhaḥ sapadi nṛṇāmaśeṣamanyaṃ kaṃ śeṣādbhagavata āśrayenmumukṣuḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Even if he be distressed or degraded, any person who chants the holy name of the Lord, having heard it from a bona fide spiritual master, is immediately purified. Even if he chants the Lord’s name jokingly or by chance, he and anyone who hears him are freed from all sins. Therefore how can anyone seeking disentanglement from the material clutches avoid chanting the name of Lord Śeṣa? Of whom else should one take shelter?
SB 5.25.12Open verse →
मूर्धन्यर्पितमणुवत्सहस्रमूर्ध्नो भूगोलं सगिरिसरित्समुद्रसत्त्वम् । आनन्त्यादनिमितविक्रमस्य भूम्नः को वीर्याण्यधिगणयेत्सहस्रजिह्वः
mūrdhanyarpitamaṇuvatsahasramūrdhno bhūgolaṃ sagirisaritsamudrasattvam | ānantyādanimitavikramasya bhūmnaḥ ko vīryāṇyadhigaṇayetsahasrajihvaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Because the Lord is unlimited, no one can estimate His power. This entire universe, filled with its many great mountains, rivers, oceans, trees and living entities, is resting just like an atom on one of His many thousands of hoods. Is there anyone, even with thousands of tongues, who can describe His glories?
SB 5.25.13Open verse →
एवम्प्रभावो भगवाननन्तो दुरन्तवीर्योरुगुणानुभावः । मूले रसायाः स्थित आत्मतन्त्रो यो लीलया क्ष्मां स्थितये बिभर्ति
evamprabhāvo bhagavānananto durantavīryoruguṇānubhāvaḥ | mūle rasāyāḥ sthita ātmatantro yo līlayā kṣmāṃ sthitaye bibharti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
There is no end to the great and glorious qualities of that powerful Lord Anantadeva. Indeed, His prowess is unlimited. Though self-sufficient, He Himself is the support of everything. He resides beneath the lower planetary systems and easily sustains the entire universe.
SB 5.25.14Open verse →
एता ह्येवेह नृभिरुपगन्तव्या गतयो यथा कर्मविनिर्मिता यथोपदेशमनुवर्णिताः कामान् कामयमानैः
etā hyeveha nṛbhirupagantavyā gatayo yathā karmavinirmitā yathopadeśamanuvarṇitāḥ kāmān kāmayamānaiḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King, as I heard of it from my spiritual master, I have fully described to you the creation of this material world according to the fruitive activities and desires of the conditioned souls. Those conditioned souls, who are full of material desires, achieve various situations in different planetary systems, and in this way they live within this material creation.
SB 5.25.15Open verse →
एतावतीर्हि राजन् पुंसः प्रवृत्तिलक्षणस्य धर्मस्य विपाकगतय उच्चावचा विसदृशा यथाप्रश्नं व्याचख्ये किमन्यत्कथयाम इति
etāvatīrhi rājan puṃsaḥ pravṛttilakṣaṇasya dharmasya vipākagataya uccāvacā visadṛśā yathāpraśnaṃ vyācakhye kimanyatkathayāma iti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King, I have thus described how people generally act according to their different desires and, as a result, get different types of bodies in higher or lower planets. You inquired of these things from me, and I have explained to you whatever I have heard from authorities. What shall I speak of now?
SB 5.26.1Open verse →
राजोवाच । महर्ष एतद्वैचित्र्यं लोकस्य कथमिति
rājovāca | maharṣa etadvaicitryaṃ lokasya kathamiti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
King Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī: My dear sir, why are the living entities put into different material situations? Kindly explain this to me.
SB 5.26.2Open verse →
ऋषिरुवाच । त्रिगुणत्वात्कर्तुः श्रद्धया कर्मगतयः पृथग्विधाः सर्वा एव सर्वस्य तारतम्येन भवन्ति
ṛṣiruvāca | triguṇatvātkartuḥ śraddhayā karmagatayaḥ pṛthagvidhāḥ sarvā eva sarvasya tāratamyena bhavanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The great sage Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, in this material world there are three kinds of activities — those in the mode of goodness, the mode of passion and the mode of ignorance. Because all people are influenced by the three modes of material nature, the results of their activities are also divided into three. One who acts in the mode of goodness is religious and happy, one who acts in passion achieves mixed misery and happiness, and one who acts under the influence of ignorance is always unhappy and lives like an animal. Because of the varying degrees to which the living entities are influenced by the different modes of nature, their destinations are also of different varieties.
SB 5.26.3Open verse →
अथेदानीं प्रतिषिद्धलक्षणस्याधर्मस्य तथैव कर्तुः श्रद्धाया वैसादृश्यात्कर्मफलं विसदृशं भवति या ह्यनाद्यविद्यया कृतकामानां तत्परिणामलक्षणाः सृतयः सहस्रशः प्रवृत्तास्तासां प्राचुर्येणा- नुवर्णयिष्यामः
athedānīṃ pratiṣiddhalakṣaṇasyādharmasya tathaiva kartuḥ śraddhāyā vaisādṛśyātkarmaphalaṃ visadṛśaṃ bhavati yā hyanādyavidyayā kṛtakāmānāṃ tatpariṇāmalakṣaṇāḥ sṛtayaḥ sahasraśaḥ pravṛttāstāsāṃ prācuryeṇā- nuvarṇayiṣyāmaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Just as by executing various pious activities one achieves different positions in heavenly life, by acting impiously one achieves different positions in hellish life. Those who are activated by the material mode of ignorance engage in impious activities, and according to the extent of their ignorance, they are placed in different grades of hellish life. If one acts in the mode of ignorance because of madness, his resulting misery is the least severe. One who acts impiously but knows the distinction between pious and impious activities is placed in a hell of intermediate severity. And for one who acts impiously and ignorantly because of atheism, the resultant hellish life is the worst. Because of ignorance, every living entity has been carried by various desires into thousands of different hellish planets since time immemorial. I shall try to describe them as far as possible.
SB 5.26.4Open verse →
राजोवाच । नरका नाम भगवन् किं देशविशेषा अथवा बहिस्त्रिलोक्या आहोस्विदन्तराल इति
rājovāca | narakā nāma bhagavan kiṃ deśaviśeṣā athavā bahistrilokyā āhosvidantarāla iti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
King Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī: My dear lord, are the hellish regions outside the universe, within the covering of the universe, or in different places on this planet?
SB 5.26.5Open verse →
ऋषिरुवाच । अन्तराल एव त्रिजगत्यास्तु दिशि दक्षिणस्या- मधस्ताद्भूमेरुपरिष्टाच्च जलाद्यस्यामग्निष्वात्तादयः पितृगणा दिशि स्वानां गोत्राणां परमेण समाधिना सत्या एवाशिष आशासाना निवसन्ति
ṛṣiruvāca | antarāla eva trijagatyāstu diśi dakṣiṇasyā- madhastādbhūmerupariṣṭācca jalādyasyāmagniṣvāttādayaḥ pitṛgaṇā diśi svānāṃ gotrāṇāṃ parameṇa samādhinā satyā evāśiṣa āśāsānā nivasanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The great sage Śukadeva Gosvāmī answered: All the hellish planets are situated in the intermediate space between the three worlds and the Garbhodaka Ocean. They lie on the southern side of the universe, beneath Bhū-maṇḍala, and slightly above the water of the Garbhodaka Ocean. Pitṛloka is also located in this region between the Garbhodaka Ocean and the lower planetary systems. All the residents of Pitṛloka, headed by Agniṣvāttā, meditate in great samādhi on the Supreme Personality of Godhead and always wish their families well.
SB 5.26.6Open verse →
यत्र ह वाव भगवान् पितृराजो वैवस्वतः स्वविषयं प्रापितेषु स्वपुरुषैर्जन्तुषु सम्परेतेषु यथा कर्मावद्यं दोषमेवानुल्लङ्घितभगवच्छासनः सगणो दमं धारयति
yatra ha vāva bhagavān pitṛrājo vaivasvataḥ svaviṣayaṃ prāpiteṣu svapuruṣairjantuṣu sampareteṣu yathā karmāvadyaṃ doṣamevānullaṅghitabhagavacchāsanaḥ sagaṇo damaṃ dhārayati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The King of the pitās is Yamarāja, the very powerful son of the sun-god. He resides in Pitṛloka with his personal assistants and, while abiding by the rules and regulations set down by the Supreme Lord, has his agents, the Yamadūtas, bring all the sinful men to him immediately upon their death. After bringing them within his jurisdiction, he properly judges them according to their specific sinful activities and sends them to one of the many hellish planets for suitable punishments.
SB 5.26.7Open verse →
तत्र हैके नरकानेकविंशतिं गणयन्ति अथ तांस्ते राजन् नामरूपलक्षणतोऽनुक्रमिष्यामस्तामिस्रो- ऽन्धतामिस्रो रौरवो महारौरवः कुम्भीपाकः कालसूत्रमसिपत्रवनं सूकरमुखमन्धकूपः कृमिभोजनः सन्दंशस्तप्तसूर्मिर्वज्रकण्टक- शाल्मली वैतरणी पूयोदः प्राणरोधो विशसनं लालाभक्षः सारमेयादनमवीचिरयःपानमिति किञ्च क्षारकर्दमो रक्षोगणभोजनः शूलप्रोतो दन्दशूकोऽवटनिरोधनः पर्यावर्तनः सूचीमुखमि- त्यष्टाविंशतिर्नरका विविधयातनाभूमयः
tatra haike narakānekaviṃśatiṃ gaṇayanti atha tāṃste rājan nāmarūpalakṣaṇato'nukramiṣyāmastāmisro- 'ndhatāmisro rauravo mahārauravaḥ kumbhīpākaḥ kālasūtramasipatravanaṃ sūkaramukhamandhakūpaḥ kṛmibhojanaḥ sandaṃśastaptasūrmirvajrakaṇṭaka- śālmalī vaitaraṇī pūyodaḥ prāṇarodho viśasanaṃ lālābhakṣaḥ sārameyādanamavīcirayaḥpānamiti kiñca kṣārakardamo rakṣogaṇabhojanaḥ śūlaproto dandaśūko'vaṭanirodhanaḥ paryāvartanaḥ sūcīmukhami- tyaṣṭāviṃśatirnarakā vividhayātanābhūmayaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Some authorities say that there is a total of twenty-one hellish planets, and some say twenty-eight. My dear King, I shall outline all of them according to their names, forms and symptoms. The names of the different hells are as follows: Tāmisra, Andhatāmisra, Raurava, Mahāraurava, Kumbhīpāka, Kālasūtra, Asipatravana, Sūkaramukha, Andhakūpa, Kṛmibhojana, Sandaṁśa, Taptasūrmi, Vajrakaṇṭaka-śālmalī, Vaitaraṇī, Pūyoda, Prāṇarodha, Viśasana, Lālābhakṣa, Sārameyādana, Avīci, Ayaḥpāna, Kṣārakardama, Rakṣogaṇa-bhojana, Śūlaprota, Dandaśūka, Avaṭa-nirodhana, Paryāvartana and Sūcīmukha. All these planets are meant for punishing the living entities.
SB 5.26.8Open verse →
तत्र यस्तु परवित्तापत्यकलत्राण्यपहरति स हि कालपाशबद्धो यमपुरुषैरतिभयानकैस्तामिस्रे नरके बलान्निपात्यते अनशनानुदपानदण्ड- ताडनसन्तर्जनादिभिर्यातनाभिर्यात्यमानो जन्तुर्यत्र कश्मलमासादित एकदैव मूर्च्छामुपयाति तामिस्रप्राये
tatra yastu paravittāpatyakalatrāṇyapaharati sa hi kālapāśabaddho yamapuruṣairatibhayānakaistāmisre narake balānnipātyate anaśanānudapānadaṇḍa- tāḍanasantarjanādibhiryātanābhiryātyamāno janturyatra kaśmalamāsādita ekadaiva mūrcchāmupayāti tāmisraprāye
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King, a person who appropriates another’s legitimate wife, children or money is arrested at the time of death by the fierce Yamadūtas, who bind him with the rope of time and forcibly throw him into the hellish planet known as Tāmisra. On this very dark planet, the sinful man is chastised by the Yamadūtas, who beat and rebuke him. He is starved, and he is given no water to drink. Thus the wrathful assistants of Yamarāja cause him severe suffering, and sometimes he faints from their chastisement.
SB 5.26.9Open verse →
एवमेवान्धतामिस्रे यस्तु वञ्चयित्वा पुरुषं दारादी- नुपयुङ्क्ते यत्र शरीरी निपात्यमानो यातनास्थो वेदनया नष्टमतिर्नष्टदृष्टिश्च भवति यथा वनस्पति- र्वृश्च्यमानमूलस्तस्मादन्धतामिस्रं तमुपदिशन्ति
evamevāndhatāmisre yastu vañcayitvā puruṣaṃ dārādī- nupayuṅkte yatra śarīrī nipātyamāno yātanāstho vedanayā naṣṭamatirnaṣṭadṛṣṭiśca bhavati yathā vanaspati- rvṛścyamānamūlastasmādandhatāmisraṃ tamupadiśanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The destination of a person who slyly cheats another man and enjoys his wife and children is the hell known as Andhatāmisra. There his condition is exactly like that of a tree being chopped at its roots. Even before reaching Andhatāmisra, the sinful living being is subjected to various extreme miseries. These afflictions are so severe that he loses his intelligence and sight. It is for this reason that learned sages call this hell Andhatāmisra.
SB 5.26.10Open verse →
यस्त्विह वा एतदहमिति ममेदमिति भूतद्रोहेण केवलं स्वकुटुम्बमेवानुदिनं प्रपुष्णाति स तदिह विहाय स्वयमेव तदशुभेन रौरवे निपतति
yastviha vā etadahamiti mamedamiti bhūtadroheṇa kevalaṃ svakuṭumbamevānudinaṃ prapuṣṇāti sa tadiha vihāya svayameva tadaśubhena raurave nipatati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
A person who accepts his body as his self works very hard day and night for money to maintain his own body and the bodies of his wife and children. While working to maintain himself and his family, he may commit violence against other living entities. Such a person is forced to give up his body and his family at the time of death, when he suffers the reaction for his envy of other creatures by being thrown into the hell called Raurava.
SB 5.26.11Open verse →
ये त्विह यथैवामुना विहिंसिता जन्तवः परत्र यमयातनामुपगतं त एव रुरवो भूत्वा तथा तमेव विहिंसन्ति तस्माद्रौरवमित्याहू रुरुरिति सर्पादतिक्रूरसत्त्वस्यापदेशः
ye tviha yathaivāmunā vihiṃsitā jantavaḥ paratra yamayātanāmupagataṃ ta eva ruravo bhūtvā tathā tameva vihiṃsanti tasmādrauravamityāhū rururiti sarpādatikrūrasattvasyāpadeśaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In this life, an envious person commits violent acts against many living entities. Therefore after his death, when he is taken to hell by Yamarāja, those living entities who were hurt by him appear as animals called rurus to inflict very severe pain upon him. Learned scholars call this hell Raurava. Not generally seen in this world, the ruru is more envious than a snake.
SB 5.26.12Open verse →
एवमेव महारौरवो यत्र निपतितं पुरुषं क्रव्यादा नाम रुरवस्तं क्रव्येण घातयन्ति यः केवलं देहम्भरः
evameva mahārauravo yatra nipatitaṃ puruṣaṃ kravyādā nāma ruravastaṃ kravyeṇa ghātayanti yaḥ kevalaṃ dehambharaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Punishment in the hell called Mahāraurava is compulsory for a person who maintains his own body by hurting others. In this hell, ruru animals known as kravyāda torment him and eat his flesh.
SB 5.26.13Open verse →
यस्त्विह वा उग्रः पशून् पक्षिणो वा प्राणत उपरन्धयति तमपकरुणं पुरुषादैरपि विगर्हितममुत्र यमानुचराः कुम्भीपाके तप्ततैले उपरन्धयन्ति
yastviha vā ugraḥ paśūn pakṣiṇo vā prāṇata uparandhayati tamapakaruṇaṃ puruṣādairapi vigarhitamamutra yamānucarāḥ kumbhīpāke taptataile uparandhayanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
For the maintenance of their bodies and the satisfaction of their tongues, cruel persons cook poor animals and birds alive. Such persons are condemned even by man-eaters. In their next lives they are carried by the Yamadūtas to the hell known as Kumbhīpāka, where they are cooked in boiling oil.
SB 5.26.14Open verse →
यस्त्विह पितृविप्रब्रह्मध्रुक् स कालसूत्रसंज्ञके नरके अयुतयोजनपरिमण्डले ताम्रमये तप्तखले उपर्यधस्तादग्न्यर्काभ्यामतितप्यमानेऽभिनिवेशितः क्षुत्पिपासाभ्यां च दह्यमानान्तर्बहिःशरीर आस्ते शेते चेष्टतेऽवतिष्ठति परिधावति च यावन्ति पशुरोमाणि तावद्वर्षसहस्राणि
yastviha pitṛviprabrahmadhruk sa kālasūtrasaṃjñake narake ayutayojanaparimaṇḍale tāmramaye taptakhale uparyadhastādagnyarkābhyāmatitapyamāne'bhiniveśitaḥ kṣutpipāsābhyāṃ ca dahyamānāntarbahiḥśarīra āste śete ceṣṭate'vatiṣṭhati paridhāvati ca yāvanti paśuromāṇi tāvadvarṣasahasrāṇi
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The killer of a brāhmaṇa is put into the hell known as Kālasūtra, which has a circumference of eighty thousand miles and which is made entirely of copper. Heated from below by fire and from above by the scorching sun, the copper surface of this planet is extremely hot. Thus the murderer of a brāhmaṇa suffers from being burned both internally and externally. Internally he is burning with hunger and thirst, and externally he is burning from the scorching heat of the sun and the fire beneath the copper surface. Therefore he sometimes lies down, sometimes sits, sometimes stands up and sometimes runs here and there. He must suffer in this way for as many thousands of years as there are hairs on the body of an animal.
SB 5.26.15Open verse →
यस्त्विह वै निजवेदपथादनापद्यपगतः पाखण्डं चोपगतस्तमसिपत्रवनं प्रवेश्य कशया प्रहरन्ति तत्र हासावितस्ततो धावमान उभयतो धारै- स्तालवनासिपत्रैश्छिद्यमानसर्वाङ्गो हा हतो- ऽस्मीति परमया वेदनया मूर्च्छितः पदे पदे निपतति स्वधर्महा पाखण्डानुगतं फलं भुङ्क्ते
yastviha vai nijavedapathādanāpadyapagataḥ pākhaṇḍaṃ copagatastamasipatravanaṃ praveśya kaśayā praharanti tatra hāsāvitastato dhāvamāna ubhayato dhārai- stālavanāsipatraiśchidyamānasarvāṅgo hā hato- 'smīti paramayā vedanayā mūrcchitaḥ pade pade nipatati svadharmahā pākhaṇḍānugataṃ phalaṃ bhuṅkte
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
If a person deviates from the path of the Vedas in the absence of an emergency, the servants of Yamarāja put him into the hell called Asi-patravana, where they beat him with whips. When he runs hither and thither, fleeing from the extreme pain, on all sides he runs into palm trees with leaves like sharpened swords. Thus injured all over his body and fainting at every step, he cries out, “Oh, what shall I do now! How shall I be saved!” This is how one suffers who deviates from the accepted religious principles.
SB 5.26.16Open verse →
यस्त्विह वै राजा राजपुरुषो वा अदण्ड्ये दण्डं प्रणयति ब्राह्मणे वा शरीरदण्डं स पापीयान् नरकेऽमुत्र सूकरमुखे निपतति तत्रातिबलै- र्विनिष्पिष्यमाणावयवो यथैवेहेक्षुखण्ड आर्तस्वरेण स्वनयन् क्वचिन्मूर्च्छितः कश्मलमुपगतो यथैवेहादृष्टदोषा उपरुद्धाः
yastviha vai rājā rājapuruṣo vā adaṇḍye daṇḍaṃ praṇayati brāhmaṇe vā śarīradaṇḍaṃ sa pāpīyān narake'mutra sūkaramukhe nipatati tatrātibalai- rviniṣpiṣyamāṇāvayavo yathaivehekṣukhaṇḍa ārtasvareṇa svanayan kvacinmūrcchitaḥ kaśmalamupagato yathaivehādṛṣṭadoṣā uparuddhāḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In his next life, a sinful king or governmental representative who punishes an innocent person, or who inflicts corporal punishment upon a brāhmaṇa, is taken by the Yamadūtas to the hell named Sūkaramukha, where the most powerful assistants of Yamarāja crush him exactly as one crushes sugarcane to squeeze out the juice. The sinful living entity cries very pitiably and faints, just like an innocent man undergoing punishments. This is the result of punishing a faultless person.
SB 5.26.17Open verse →
यस्त्विह वै भूतानामीश्वरोपकल्पितवृत्तीना- मविविक्तपरव्यथानां स्वयं पुरुषोपकल्पित- वृत्तिर्विविक्तपरव्यथो व्यथामाचरति स परत्रान्धकूपे तदभिद्रोहेण निपतति तत्र हासौ तैर्जन्तुभिः पशुमृगपक्षिसरीसृपैर्मशकयूका- मत्कुणमक्षिकादिभिर्ये के चाभिद्रुग्धास्तैः सर्वतोऽभिद्रुह्यमाणस्तमसि विहतनिद्रानिर्वृति- रलब्धावस्थानः परिक्रामति यथा कुशरीरे जीवः
yastviha vai bhūtānāmīśvaropakalpitavṛttīnā- maviviktaparavyathānāṃ svayaṃ puruṣopakalpita- vṛttirviviktaparavyatho vyathāmācarati sa paratrāndhakūpe tadabhidroheṇa nipatati tatra hāsau tairjantubhiḥ paśumṛgapakṣisarīsṛpairmaśakayūkā- matkuṇamakṣikādibhirye ke cābhidrugdhāstaiḥ sarvato'bhidruhyamāṇastamasi vihatanidrānirvṛti- ralabdhāvasthānaḥ parikrāmati yathā kuśarīre jīvaḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
By the arrangement of the Supreme Lord, low-grade living beings like bugs and mosquitoes suck the blood of human beings and other animals. Such insignificant creatures are unaware that their bites are painful to the human being. However, first-class human beings — brāhmaṇas, kṣatriyas and vaiśyas — are developed in consciousness, and therefore they know how painful it is to be killed. A human being endowed with knowledge certainly commits sin if he kills or torments insignificant creatures, who have no discrimination. The Supreme Lord punishes such a man by putting him into the hell known as Andhakūpa, where he is attacked by all the birds and beasts, reptiles, mosquitoes, lice, worms, flies, and any other creatures he tormented during his life. They attack him from all sides, robbing him of the pleasure of sleep. Unable to rest, he constantly wanders about in the darkness. Thus in Andhakūpa his suffering is just like that of a creature in the lower species.
SB 5.26.18Open verse →
यस्त्विह वा असंविभज्याश्नाति यत्किञ्चनो- पनतमनिर्मितपञ्चयज्ञो वायससंस्तुतः स परत्र कृमिभोजने नरकाधमे निपतति तत्र शतसहस्रयोजने कृमिकुण्डे कृमिभूतः स्वयं कृमिभिरेव भक्ष्यमाणः कृमिभोजनो यावत्त- दप्रत्ताप्रहूतादोऽनिर्वेशमात्मानं यातयते
yastviha vā asaṃvibhajyāśnāti yatkiñcano- panatamanirmitapañcayajño vāyasasaṃstutaḥ sa paratra kṛmibhojane narakādhame nipatati tatra śatasahasrayojane kṛmikuṇḍe kṛmibhūtaḥ svayaṃ kṛmibhireva bhakṣyamāṇaḥ kṛmibhojano yāvatta- daprattāprahūtādo'nirveśamātmānaṃ yātayate
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
A person is considered no better than a crow if after receiving some food, he does not divide it among guests, old men and children, but simply eats it himself, or if he eats it without performing the five kinds of sacrifice. After death he is put into the most abominable hell, known as Kṛmibhojana. In that hell is a lake 100,000 yojanas [800,000 miles] wide and filled with worms. He becomes a worm in that lake and feeds on the other worms there, who also feed on him. Unless he atones for his actions before his death, such a sinful man remains in the hellish lake of Kṛmibhojana for as many years as there are yojanas in the width of the lake.
SB 5.26.19Open verse →
यस्त्विह वै स्तेयेन बलाद्वा हिरण्यरत्नादीनि ब्राह्मणस्य वापहरत्यन्यस्य वानापदि पुरुष- स्तममुत्र राजन् यमपुरुषा अयस्मयैरग्निपिण्डैः सन्दंशैस्त्वचि निष्कुषन्ति
yastviha vai steyena balādvā hiraṇyaratnādīni brāhmaṇasya vāpaharatyanyasya vānāpadi puruṣa- stamamutra rājan yamapuruṣā ayasmayairagnipiṇḍaiḥ sandaṃśaistvaci niṣkuṣanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King, a person who in the absence of an emergency robs a brāhmaṇa — or, indeed, anyone else — of his gems and gold is put into a hell known as Sandaṁśa. There his skin is torn and separated by red-hot iron balls and tongs. In this way, his entire body is cut to pieces.
SB 5.26.20Open verse →
यस्त्विह वा अगम्यां स्त्रियमगम्यं वा पुरुषं योषिदभिगच्छति तावमुत्र कशया ताडयन्त- स्तिग्मया सूर्म्या लोहमय्या पुरुषमालिङ्गयन्ति स्त्रियं च पुरुषरूपया सूर्म्या
yastviha vā agamyāṃ striyamagamyaṃ vā puruṣaṃ yoṣidabhigacchati tāvamutra kaśayā tāḍayanta- stigmayā sūrmyā lohamayyā puruṣamāliṅgayanti striyaṃ ca puruṣarūpayā sūrmyā
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
A man or woman who indulges in sexual intercourse with an unworthy member of the opposite sex is punished after death by the assistants of Yamarāja in the hell known as Taptasūrmi. There such men and women are beaten with whips. The man is forced to embrace a red-hot iron form of a woman, and the woman is forced to embrace a similar form of a man. Such is the punishment for illicit sex.
SB 5.26.21Open verse →
यस्त्विह वै सर्वाभिगमस्तममुत्र निरये वर्तमानं वज्रकण्टकशाल्मलीमारोप्य निष्कर्षन्ति
yastviha vai sarvābhigamastamamutra niraye vartamānaṃ vajrakaṇṭakaśālmalīmāropya niṣkarṣanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
A person who indulges in sex indiscriminately — even with animals — is taken after death to the hell known as Vajrakaṇṭaka-śālmalī. In this hell there is a silk-cotton tree full of thorns as strong as thunderbolts. The agents of Yamarāja hang the sinful man on that tree and pull him down forcibly so that the thorns very severely tear his body.
SB 5.26.22Open verse →
ये त्विह वै राजन्या राजपुरुषा वा अपाखण्डा धर्मसेतून् भिन्दन्ति ते सम्परेत्य वैतरण्यां निपतन्ति भिन्नमर्यादास्तस्यां निरयपरिखा- भूतायां नद्यां यादोगणैरितस्ततो भक्ष्यमाणा आत्मना न वियुज्यमानाश्चासुभिरुह्यमानाः स्वाघेन कर्मपाकमनुस्मरन्तो विण्मूत्रपूयशोणित- केशनखास्थिमेदोमांसवसावाहिन्यामुपतप्यन्ते
ye tviha vai rājanyā rājapuruṣā vā apākhaṇḍā dharmasetūn bhindanti te samparetya vaitaraṇyāṃ nipatanti bhinnamaryādāstasyāṃ nirayaparikhā- bhūtāyāṃ nadyāṃ yādogaṇairitastato bhakṣyamāṇā ātmanā na viyujyamānāścāsubhiruhyamānāḥ svāghena karmapākamanusmaranto viṇmūtrapūyaśoṇita- keśanakhāsthimedomāṃsavasāvāhinyāmupatapyante
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
A person who is born into a responsible family — such as a kṣatriya, a member of royalty or a government servant — but who neglects to execute his prescribed duties according to religious principles, and who thus becomes degraded, falls down at the time of death into the river of hell known as Vaitaraṇī. This river, which is a moat surrounding hell, is full of ferocious aquatic animals. When a sinful man is thrown into the river Vaitaraṇī, the aquatic animals there immediately begin to eat him, but because of his extremely sinful life, he does not leave his body. He constantly remembers his sinful activities and suffers terribly in that river, which is full of stool, urine, pus, blood, hair, nails, bones, marrow, flesh and fat.
SB 5.26.23Open verse →
ये त्विह वै वृषलीपतयो नष्टशौचाचारनियमा- स्त्यक्तलज्जाः पशुचर्यां चरन्ति ते चापि प्रेत्य पूयविण्मूत्रश्लेष्ममलापूर्णार्णवे निपतन्ति तदेवातिबीभत्सितमश्नन्ति
ye tviha vai vṛṣalīpatayo naṣṭaśaucācāraniyamā- styaktalajjāḥ paśucaryāṃ caranti te cāpi pretya pūyaviṇmūtraśleṣmamalāpūrṇārṇave nipatanti tadevātibībhatsitamaśnanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The shameless husbands of lowborn śūdra women live exactly like animals, and therefore they have no good behavior, cleanliness or regulated life. After death, such persons are thrown into the hell called Pūyoda, where they are put into an ocean filled with pus, stool, urine, mucus, saliva and similar things. Śūdras who could not improve themselves fall into that ocean and are forced to eat those disgusting things.
SB 5.26.24Open verse →
ये त्विह वै श्वगर्दभपतयो ब्राह्मणादयो मृगया- विहारा अतीर्थे च मृगान् निघ्नन्ति तानपि सम्परेतान् लक्ष्यभूतान् यमपुरुषा इषुभिर्विध्यन्ति
ye tviha vai śvagardabhapatayo brāhmaṇādayo mṛgayā- vihārā atīrthe ca mṛgān nighnanti tānapi samparetān lakṣyabhūtān yamapuruṣā iṣubhirvidhyanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
If in this life a man of the higher classes [brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya and vaiśya] is very fond of taking his pet dogs, mules or asses into the forest to hunt and kill animals unnecessarily, he is placed after death into the hell known as Prāṇarodha. There the assistants of Yamarāja make him their targets and pierce him with arrows.
SB 5.26.25Open verse →
ये त्विह वै दाम्भिका दम्भयज्ञेषु पशून् विशसन्ति तानमुष्मिन् लोके वैशसे नरके पतितान् निरयपतयो यातयित्वा विशसन्ति
ye tviha vai dāmbhikā dambhayajñeṣu paśūn viśasanti tānamuṣmin loke vaiśase narake patitān nirayapatayo yātayitvā viśasanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
A person who in this life is proud of his eminent position, and who heedlessly sacrifices animals simply for material prestige, is put into the hell called Viśasana after death. There the assistants of Yamarāja kill him after giving him unlimited pain.
SB 5.26.26Open verse →
यस्त्विह वै सवर्णां भार्यां द्विजो रेतः पाययति काममोहितस्तं पापकृतममुत्र रेतःकुल्यायां पातयित्वा रेतः सम्पाययन्ति
yastviha vai savarṇāṃ bhāryāṃ dvijo retaḥ pāyayati kāmamohitastaṃ pāpakṛtamamutra retaḥkulyāyāṃ pātayitvā retaḥ sampāyayanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
If a foolish member of the twice-born classes [brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya and vaiśya] forces his wife to drink his semen out of a lusty desire to keep her under control, he is put after death into the hell known as Lālābhakṣa. There he is thrown into a flowing river of semen, which he is forced to drink.
SB 5.26.27Open verse →
ये त्विह वै दस्यवोऽग्निदा गरदा ग्रामान् सार्थान् वा विलुम्पन्ति राजानो राजभटा वा तांश्चापि हि परेत्य यमदूता वज्रदंष्ट्राः श्वानः सप्तशतानि विंशतिश्च सरभसं खादन्ति
ye tviha vai dasyavo'gnidā garadā grāmān sārthān vā vilumpanti rājāno rājabhaṭā vā tāṃścāpi hi paretya yamadūtā vajradaṃṣṭrāḥ śvānaḥ saptaśatāni viṃśatiśca sarabhasaṃ khādanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In this world, some persons are professional plunderers who set fire to others’ houses or administer poison to them. Also, members of the royalty or government officials sometimes plunder mercantile men by forcing them to pay income tax and by other methods. After death such demons are put into the hell known as Sārameyādana. On that planet there are 720 dogs with teeth as strong as thunderbolts. Under the orders of the agents of Yamarāja, these dogs voraciously devour such sinful people.
SB 5.26.28Open verse →
यस्त्विह वा अनृतं वदति साक्ष्ये द्रव्यविनिमये दाने वा कथञ्चित्स वै प्रेत्य नरकेऽवीचिमत्यधःशिरा निरवकाशे योजनशतोच्छ्रायाद्गिरिमूर्ध्नः सम्पात्यते यत्र जलमिव स्थलमश्मपृष्ठमवभासते तदवीचिम- त्तिलशो विशीर्यमाणशरीरो न म्रियमाणः पुनरारोपितो निपतति
yastviha vā anṛtaṃ vadati sākṣye dravyavinimaye dāne vā kathañcitsa vai pretya narake'vīcimatyadhaḥśirā niravakāśe yojanaśatocchrāyādgirimūrdhnaḥ sampātyate yatra jalamiva sthalamaśmapṛṣṭhamavabhāsate tadavīcima- ttilaśo viśīryamāṇaśarīro na mriyamāṇaḥ punarāropito nipatati
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
A person who in this life bears false witness or lies while transacting business or giving charity is severely punished after death by the agents of Yamarāja. Such a sinful man is taken to the top of a mountain eight hundred miles high and thrown headfirst into the hell known as Avīcimat. This hell has no shelter and is made of strong stone resembling the waves of water. There is no water there, however, and thus it is called Avīcimat [waterless]. Although the sinful man is repeatedly thrown from the mountain and his body broken to tiny pieces, he still does not die but continuously suffers chastisement.
SB 5.26.29Open verse →
यस्त्विह वै विप्रो राजन्यो वैश्यो वा सोमपीथस्तत्कलत्रं वा सुरां व्रतस्थोऽपि वा पिबति प्रमादतस्तेषां निरयं नीतानामुरसि पदाऽऽक्रम्यास्ये वह्निना द्रवमाणं कार्ष्णायसं निषिञ्चन्ति
yastviha vai vipro rājanyo vaiśyo vā somapīthastatkalatraṃ vā surāṃ vratastho'pi vā pibati pramādatasteṣāṃ nirayaṃ nītānāmurasi padā''kramyāsye vahninā dravamāṇaṃ kārṣṇāyasaṃ niṣiñcanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Any brāhmaṇa or brāhmaṇa’s wife who drinks liquor is taken by the agents of Yamarāja to the hell known as Ayaḥpāna. This hell also awaits any kṣatriya, vaiśya, or person under a vow who in illusion drinks soma-rasa. In Ayaḥpāna the agents of Yamarāja stand on their chests and pour hot melted iron into their mouths.
SB 5.26.30Open verse →
अथ च यस्त्विह वा आत्मसम्भावनेन स्वयमधमो जन्मतपोविद्याचारवर्णाश्रमवतो वरीयसो न बहुमन्येत स मृतक एव मृत्वा क्षारकर्दमे निरये- ऽवाक्शिरा निपातितो दुरन्ता यातना ह्यश्नुते
atha ca yastviha vā ātmasambhāvanena svayamadhamo janmatapovidyācāravarṇāśramavato varīyaso na bahumanyeta sa mṛtaka eva mṛtvā kṣārakardame niraye- 'vākśirā nipātito durantā yātanā hyaśnute
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
A lowborn and abominable person who in this life becomes falsely proud, thinking “I am great,” and who thus fails to show proper respect to one more elevated than he by birth, austerity, education, behavior, caste or spiritual order, is like a dead man even in this lifetime, and after death he is thrown headfirst into the hell known as Kṣārakardama. There he must suffer great tribulation at the hands of the agents of Yamarāja.
SB 5.26.31Open verse →
ये त्विह वै पुरुषाः पुरुषमेधेन यजन्ते याश्च स्त्रियो नृपशून् खादन्ति तांश्च ते पशव इव निहता यमसदने यातयन्तो रक्षोगणाः सौनिका इव स्वधितिनावदाया- सृक् पिबन्ति नृत्यन्ति च गायन्ति च हृष्यमाणा यथेह पुरुषादाः
ye tviha vai puruṣāḥ puruṣamedhena yajante yāśca striyo nṛpaśūn khādanti tāṃśca te paśava iva nihatā yamasadane yātayanto rakṣogaṇāḥ saunikā iva svadhitināvadāyā- sṛk pibanti nṛtyanti ca gāyanti ca hṛṣyamāṇā yatheha puruṣādāḥ
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
There are men and women in this world who sacrifice human beings to Bhairava or Bhadra Kālī and then eat their victims’ flesh. Those who perform such sacrifices are taken after death to the abode of Yamarāja, where their victims, having taken the form of Rākṣasas, cut them to pieces with sharpened swords. Just as in this world the man-eaters drank their victims’ blood, dancing and singing in jubilation, their victims now enjoy drinking the blood of the sacrificers and celebrating in the same way.
SB 5.26.32Open verse →
ये त्विह वा अनागसोऽरण्ये ग्रामे वा वैश्रम्भकैरुपसृता- नुपविश्रम्भय्य जिजीविषून् शूलसूत्रादिषूपप्रोतान् क्रीडनकतया यातयन्ति तेऽपि च प्रेत्य यमयातनासु शूलादिषु प्रोतात्मानः क्षुत्तृड्भ्यां चाभिहताः कङ्कवटादिभि- श्चेतस्ततस्तिग्मतुण्डैराहन्यमाना आत्मशमलं स्मरन्ति
ye tviha vā anāgaso'raṇye grāme vā vaiśrambhakairupasṛtā- nupaviśrambhayya jijīviṣūn śūlasūtrādiṣūpaprotān krīḍanakatayā yātayanti te'pi ca pretya yamayātanāsu śūlādiṣu protātmānaḥ kṣuttṛḍbhyāṃ cābhihatāḥ kaṅkavaṭādibhi- ścetastatastigmatuṇḍairāhanyamānā ātmaśamalaṃ smaranti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In this life some people give shelter to animals and birds that come to them for protection in the village or forest, and after making them believe that they will be protected, such people pierce them with lances or threads and play with them like toys, giving them great pain. After death such people are brought by the assistants of Yamarāja to the hell known as Śūlaprota, where their bodies are pierced with sharp, needlelike lances. They suffer from hunger and thirst, and sharp-beaked birds such as vultures and herons come at them from all sides to tear at their bodies. Tortured and suffering, they can then remember the sinful activities they committed in the past.
SB 5.26.33Open verse →
ये त्विह वै भूतान्युद्वेजयन्ति नरा उल्बणस्वभावा यथा दन्दशूकास्तेऽपि प्रेत्य नरके दन्दशूकाख्ये निपतन्ति यत्र नृप दन्दशूकाः पञ्चमुखाः सप्तमुखा उपसृत्य ग्रसन्ति यथा बिलेशयान्
ye tviha vai bhūtānyudvejayanti narā ulbaṇasvabhāvā yathā dandaśūkāste'pi pretya narake dandaśūkākhye nipatanti yatra nṛpa dandaśūkāḥ pañcamukhāḥ saptamukhā upasṛtya grasanti yathā bileśayān
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Those who in this life are like envious serpents, always angry and giving pain to other living entities, fall after death into the hell known as Dandaśūka. My dear King, in this hell there are serpents with five or seven hoods. These serpents eat such sinful persons just as snakes eat mice.
SB 5.26.34Open verse →
ये त्विह वा अन्धावटकुसूलगुहादिषु भूतानि निरुन्धन्ति तथामुत्र तेष्वेवोपवेश्य सगरेण वह्निना धूमेन निरुन्धन्ति
ye tviha vā andhāvaṭakusūlaguhādiṣu bhūtāni nirundhanti tathāmutra teṣvevopaveśya sagareṇa vahninā dhūmena nirundhanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Those who in this life confine other living entities in dark wells, granaries or mountain caves are put after death into the hell known as Avaṭa-nirodhana. There they themselves are pushed into dark wells, where poisonous fumes and smoke suffocate them and they suffer very severely.
SB 5.26.35Open verse →
यस्त्विह वा अतिथीनभ्यागतान् वा गृहपतिरसकृ- दुपगतमन्युर्दिधक्षुरिव पापेन चक्षुषा निरीक्षते तस्य चापि निरये पापदृष्टेरक्षिणी वज्रतुण्डा गृध्राः कङ्ककाकवटादयः प्रसह्योरुबलादुत्पाटयन्ति
yastviha vā atithīnabhyāgatān vā gṛhapatirasakṛ- dupagatamanyurdidhakṣuriva pāpena cakṣuṣā nirīkṣate tasya cāpi niraye pāpadṛṣṭerakṣiṇī vajratuṇḍā gṛdhrāḥ kaṅkakākavaṭādayaḥ prasahyorubalādutpāṭayanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
A householder who receives guests or visitors with cruel glances, as if to burn them to ashes, is put into the hell called Paryāvartana, where he is gazed at by hard-eyed vultures, herons, crows and similar birds, which suddenly swoop down and pluck out his eyes with great force.
SB 5.26.36Open verse →
यस्त्विह वा आढ्याभिमतिरहङ्कृतिस्तिर्यक्प्रेक्षणः सर्वतोऽभिविशङ्की अर्थव्ययनाशचिन्तया परिशुष्यमाणहृदयवदनो निर्वृतिमनवगतो ग्रह इवार्थमभिरक्षति स चापि प्रेत्य तदुत्पादनोत्कर्षण संरक्षणशमलग्रहः सूचीमुखे नरके निपतति यत्र ह वित्तग्रहं पापपुरुषं धर्मराजपुरुषा वायका इव सर्वतोऽङ्गेषु सूत्रैः परिवयन्ति
yastviha vā āḍhyābhimatirahaṅkṛtistiryakprekṣaṇaḥ sarvato'bhiviśaṅkī arthavyayanāśacintayā pariśuṣyamāṇahṛdayavadano nirvṛtimanavagato graha ivārthamabhirakṣati sa cāpi pretya tadutpādanotkarṣaṇa saṃrakṣaṇaśamalagrahaḥ sūcīmukhe narake nipatati yatra ha vittagrahaṃ pāpapuruṣaṃ dharmarājapuruṣā vāyakā iva sarvato'ṅgeṣu sūtraiḥ parivayanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
One who in this world or this life is very proud of his wealth always thinks, “I am so rich. Who can equal me?” His vision is twisted, and he is always afraid that someone will take his wealth. Indeed, he even suspects his superiors. His face and heart dry up at the thought of losing his wealth, and therefore he always looks like a wretched fiend. He is not in any way able to obtain actual happiness, and he does not know what it is to be free from anxiety. Because of the sinful things he does to earn money, augment his wealth and protect it, he is put into the hell called Sūcīmukha, where the officials of Yamarāja punish him by stitching thread through his entire body like weavers manufacturing cloth.
SB 5.26.37Open verse →
एवंविधा नरका यमालये सन्ति शतशः सहस्रशस्तेषु सर्वेषु च सर्व एवाधर्मवर्तिनो ये केचिदिहोदिता अनुदिताश्चावनिपते पर्यायेण विशन्ति तथैव धर्मानुवर्तिन इतरत्र इह तु पुनर्भवे त उभयशेषाभ्यां निविशन्ति
evaṃvidhā narakā yamālaye santi śataśaḥ sahasraśasteṣu sarveṣu ca sarva evādharmavartino ye kecidihoditā anuditāścāvanipate paryāyeṇa viśanti tathaiva dharmānuvartina itaratra iha tu punarbhave ta ubhayaśeṣābhyāṃ niviśanti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King Parīkṣit, in the province of Yamarāja there are hundreds and thousands of hellish planets. The impious people I have mentioned — and also those I have not mentioned — must all enter these various planets according to the degree of their impiety. Those who are pious, however, enter other planetary systems, namely the planets of the demigods. Nevertheless, both the pious and impious are again brought to earth after the results of their pious or impious acts are exhausted.
SB 5.26.38Open verse →
निवृत्तिलक्षणमार्ग आदावेव व्याख्यातः एतावानेवा- ण्डकोशो यश्चतुर्दशधा पुराणेषु विकल्पित उपगीयते यत्तद्भगवतो नारायणस्य साक्षान्महापुरुषस्य स्थविष्ठं रूपमात्ममायागुणमयमनुवर्णितमादृतः पठति शृणोति श्रावयति स उपगेयं भगवतः परमात्मनोऽग्राह्यमपि श्रद्धाभक्तिविशुद्धबुद्धिर्वेद
nivṛttilakṣaṇamārga ādāveva vyākhyātaḥ etāvānevā- ṇḍakośo yaścaturdaśadhā purāṇeṣu vikalpita upagīyate yattadbhagavato nārāyaṇasya sākṣānmahāpuruṣasya sthaviṣṭhaṃ rūpamātmamāyāguṇamayamanuvarṇitamādṛtaḥ paṭhati śṛṇoti śrāvayati sa upageyaṃ bhagavataḥ paramātmano'grāhyamapi śraddhābhaktiviśuddhabuddhirveda
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In the beginning [the second and third cantos of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam] I have already described how one can progress on the path of liberation. In the Purāṇas the vast universal existence, which is like an egg divided into fourteen parts, is described. This vast form is considered the external body of the Lord, created by His energy and qualities. It is generally called the virāṭ-rūpa. If one reads the description of this external form of the Lord with great faith, or if one hears about it or explains it to others to propagate bhāgavata-dharma, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, his faith and devotion in spiritual consciousness, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, will gradually increase. Although developing this consciousness is very difficult, by this process one can purify himself and gradually come to an awareness of the Supreme Absolute Truth.
SB 5.26.39Open verse →
श्रुत्वा स्थूलं तथा सूक्ष्मं रूपं भगवतो यतिः । स्थूले निर्जितमात्मानं शनैः सूक्ष्मं धिया नयेदिति
śrutvā sthūlaṃ tathā sūkṣmaṃ rūpaṃ bhagavato yatiḥ | sthūle nirjitamātmānaṃ śanaiḥ sūkṣmaṃ dhiyā nayediti
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
One who is interested in liberation, who accepts the path of liberation and is not attracted to the path of conditional life, is called yati, or a devotee. Such a person should first control his mind by thinking of the virāṭ-rūpa, the gigantic universal form of the Lord, and then gradually think of the spiritual form of Kṛṣṇa [sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha] after hearing of both forms. Thus one’s mind is fixed in samādhi. By devotional service one can then realize the spiritual form of the Lord, which is the destination of devotees. Thus his life becomes successful.
SB 5.26.40Open verse →
भूद्वीपवर्षसरिदद्रिनभःसमुद्र- पातालदिङ्नरकभागणलोकसंस्था । गीता मया तव नृपाद्भुतमीश्वरस्य स्थूलं वपुः सकलजीवनिकायधाम
bhūdvīpavarṣasaridadrinabhaḥsamudra- pātāladiṅnarakabhāgaṇalokasaṃsthā | gītā mayā tava nṛpādbhutamīśvarasya sthūlaṃ vapuḥ sakalajīvanikāyadhāma
Meaning · English — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My dear King, I have now described for you this planet earth, other planetary systems, and their lands [varṣas], rivers and mountains. I have also described the sky, the oceans, the lower planetary systems, the directions, the hellish planetary systems and the stars. These constitute the virāṭ-rūpa, the gigantic material form of the Lord, on which all living entities repose. Thus I have explained the wonderful expanse of the external body of the Lord.