Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 6 - Chapter 15

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 6 - Chapter 1 - Verse 1 Sanskrit: श्रीशुक उवाचऊचतुर्मृतकोपान्ते पतितं मृतकोपमम् ।शोकाभिभूतं राजानं बोधयन्तौ सदुक्तिभि: ॥ १ ॥ ITRANS: śrī-śuka uvācaūcatur mṛtakopāntepatitaṁ mṛtakopamamśokābhibhūtaṁ rājānaṁbodhayantau sad-uktibhiḥ Translation: Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: While King Citraketu, overcome by lamentation, lay like a dead body at the side of the dead body of his son, the two great sages Nārada and Aṅgirā instructed him about spiritual consciousness as follows. Purport:

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 6 - Chapter 1 - Verse 2 Sanskrit: कोऽयं स्यात्तव राजेन्द्र भवान् यमनुशोचति ।त्वं चास्य कतम: सृष्टौ पुरेदानीमत: परम् ॥ २ ॥ ITRANS: ko ’yaṁ syāt tava rājendrabhavān yam anuśocatitvaṁ cāsya katamaḥ sṛṣṭaupuredānīm ataḥ param Translation: O King, what relationship does the dead body for which you lament have with you, and what relationship do you have with him? You may say that you are now related as father and son, but do you think this relationship existed before?...

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 6 - Chapter 1 - Verse 3 Sanskrit: यथा प्रयान्ति संयान्ति स्रोतोवेगेन बालुका: ।संयुज्यन्ते वियुज्यन्ते तथा कालेन देहिन: ॥ ३ ॥ ITRANS: yathā prayānti saṁyāntisroto-vegena bālukāḥsaṁyujyante viyujyantetathā kālena dehinaḥ Translation: O King, as small particles of sand sometimes come together and are sometimes separated due to the force of the waves, the living entities who have accepted material bodies sometimes come together and are sometimes separated by the force of time....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 6 - Chapter 1 - Verse 4 Sanskrit: यथा धानासु वै धाना भवन्ति न भवन्ति च ।एवं भूतानि भूतेषु चोदितानीशमायया ॥ ४ ॥ ITRANS: yathā dhānāsu vai dhānābhavanti na bhavanti caevaṁ bhūtāni bhūteṣucoditānīśa-māyayā Translation: When seeds are sown in the ground, they sometimes grow into plants and sometimes do not. Sometimes the ground is not fertile, and the sowing of seeds is unproductive. Similarly, sometimes a prospective father, being impelled by the potency of the Supreme Lord, can beget a child, but sometimes conception does not take place....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 6 - Chapter 1 - Verse 5 Sanskrit: वयं च त्वं च ये चेमे तुल्यकालाश्चराचरा: ।जन्ममृत्योर्यथा पश्चात् प्राङ्‌नैवमधुनापि भो: ॥ ५ ॥ ITRANS: vayaṁ ca tvaṁ ca ye cemetulya-kālāś carācarāḥjanma-mṛtyor yathā paścātprāṅ naivam adhunāpi bhoḥ Translation: O King, both you and we — your advisers, wives and ministers — as well as everything moving and not moving throughout the entire cosmos at this time, are in a temporary situation....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 6 - Chapter 1 - Verse 6 Sanskrit: भूतैर्भूतानि भूतेश: सृजत्यवति हन्ति च ।आत्मसृष्टैरस्वतन्त्रैरनपेक्षोऽपि बालवत् ॥ ६ ॥ ITRANS: bhūtair bhūtāni bhūteśaḥsṛjaty avati hanti caātma-sṛṣṭair asvatantrairanapekṣo ’pi bālavat Translation: The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master and proprietor of everything, is certainly not interested in the temporary cosmic manifestation. Nonetheless, just as a boy at the beach creates something in which he is not interested, the Lord, keeping everything under His control, causes creation, maintenance and annihilation....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 6 - Chapter 1 - Verse 7 Sanskrit: देहेन देहिनो राजन् देहाद्देहोऽभिजायते ।बीजादेव यथा बीजं देह्यर्थ इव शाश्वत: ॥ ७ ॥ ITRANS: dehena dehino rājandehād deho ’bhijāyatebījād eva yathā bījaṁdehy artha iva śāśvataḥ Translation: As from one seed another seed is generated, O King, so from one body [the body of the father], through another body [the body of the mother], a third body is generated [the body of a son]....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 6 - Chapter 1 - Verse 8 Sanskrit: देहदेहिविभागोऽयमविवेककृत: पुरा ।जातिव्यक्तिविभागोऽयं यथा वस्तुनि कल्पित: ॥ ८ ॥ ITRANS: deha-dehi-vibhāgo ’yamaviveka-kṛtaḥ purājāti-vyakti-vibhāgo ’yaṁyathā vastuni kalpitaḥ Translation: Divisions of generalization and specification, such as nationality and individuality, are the imaginations of persons who are not advanced in knowledge. Purport: Actually there are two energies — material and spiritual. Both of them are ever-existing because they are emanations from the eternal truth, the Supreme Lord....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 6 - Chapter 1 - Verse 9 Sanskrit: श्रीशुक उवाचएवमाश्वासितो राजा चित्रकेतुर्द्विजोक्तिभि: ।विमृज्य पाणिना वक्त्रमाधिम्‍लानमभाषत ॥ ९ ॥ ITRANS: śrī-śuka uvācaevam āśvāsito rājācitraketur dvijoktibhiḥvimṛjya pāṇinā vaktramādhi-mlānam abhāṣata Translation: Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Thus enlightened by the instructions of Nārada and Aṅgirā, King Citraketu became hopeful with knowledge. Wiping his shriveled face with his hand, the King began to speak. Purport:

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 6 - Chapter 1 - Verse 10 Sanskrit: श्रीराजोवाचकौ युवां ज्ञानसम्पन्नौ महिष्ठौ च महीयसाम् ।अवधूतेन वेषेण गूढाविह समागतौ ॥ १० ॥ ITRANS: śrī-rājovācakau yuvāṁ jñāna-sampannaumahiṣṭhau ca mahīyasāmavadhūtena veṣeṇagūḍhāv iha samāgatau Translation: King Citraketu said: You have both come here dressed like avadhūtas, liberated persons, just to cover your identities, but I see that of all men, you are the most elevated in awareness. You know everything as it is....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 6 - Chapter 1 - Verse 11 Sanskrit: चरन्ति ह्यवनौ कामं ब्राह्मणा भगवत्प्रिया: ।माद‍ृशां ग्राम्यबुद्धीनां बोधायोन्मत्तलिङ्गिन: ॥ ११ ॥ ITRANS: caranti hy avanau kāmaṁbrāhmaṇā bhagavat-priyāḥmādṛśāṁ grāmya-buddhīnāṁbodhāyonmatta-liṅginaḥ Translation: Brāhmaṇas who are exalted to the position of Vaiṣṇavas, the most dear servants of Kṛṣṇa, sometimes dress like madmen. Just to benefit materialists like us, who are always attached to sense gratification, and just to dissipate our ignorance, these Vaiṣṇavas wander on the surface of the globe according to their desire....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 6 - Chapter 1 - Verse 16 Sanskrit: तस्माद्युवां ग्राम्यपशोर्मम मूढधिय: प्रभू ।अन्धे तमसि मग्नस्य ज्ञानदीप उदीर्यताम् ॥ १६ ॥ ITRANS: tasmād yuvāṁ grāmya-paśormama mūḍha-dhiyaḥ prabhūandhe tamasi magnasyajñāna-dīpa udīryatām Translation: Because you are great personalities, you can give me real knowledge. I am as foolish as a village animal like a pig or dog because I am merged in the darkness of ignorance. Therefore, please ignite the torch of knowledge to save me....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 6 - Chapter 1 - Verse 17 Sanskrit: श्रीअङ्गिरा उवाचअहं ते पुत्रकामस्य पुत्रदोऽस्म्यङ्गिरा नृप ।एष ब्रह्मसुत: साक्षान्नारदो भगवानृषि: ॥ १७ ॥ ITRANS: śrī-aṅgirā uvācaahaṁ te putra-kāmasyaputrado ’smy aṅgirā nṛpaeṣa brahma-sutaḥ sākṣānnārado bhagavān ṛṣiḥ Translation: Aṅgirā said: My dear King, when you desired to have a son, I approached you. Indeed, I am the same Aṅgirā Ṛṣi who gave you this son. As for this ṛṣi, he is the great sage Nārada, the direct son of Lord Brahmā....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 6 - Chapter 1 - Verse 20 Sanskrit: तदैव ते परं ज्ञानं ददामि गृहमागत: ।ज्ञात्वान्याभिनिवेशं ते पुत्रमेव ददाम्यहम् ॥ २० ॥ ITRANS: tadaiva te paraṁ jñānaṁdadāmi gṛham āgataḥjñātvānyābhiniveśaṁ teputram eva dadāmy aham Translation: When I first came to your home, I could have given you the supreme transcendental knowledge, but when I saw that your mind was absorbed in material things, I gave you only a son, who caused you jubilation and lamentation....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 6 - Chapter 1 - Verse 24 Sanskrit: द‍ृश्यमाना विनार्थेन न द‍ृश्यन्ते मनोभवा: ।कर्मभिर्ध्यायतो नानाकर्माणि मनसोऽभवन् ॥ २४ ॥ ITRANS: dṛśyamānā vinārthenana dṛśyante manobhavāḥkarmabhir dhyāyato nānā-karmāṇi manaso ’bhavan Translation: These visible objects like wife, children and property are like dreams and mental concoctions. Actually what we see has no permanent existence. It is sometimes seen and sometimes not. Only because of our past actions do we create such mental concoctions, and because of these concoctions, we perform further activities....