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2024-03-28, 6:14 PM |
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Chapter
15: The
Sages Nârada
and Angirâ Instruct King Citraketu
(1) S'rî
S'uka
said:
'They [the
sages
Nârada and Angirâ] in order to give instruction in spiritual terms, spoke to
the king who like a dead man fallen at the
side of the corpse was so very much aggrieved. (2)
'Oh
best of kings, the person you are lamenting about, who is that actually
oh lord,
who has he been in his previous birth, who is he now and who will he be
hereafter? (3) Just
like grains of sand wash ashore and drift apart by the
force of the waves, the embodied souls are united and separated by time
[compare B.G. 2: 13]. (4) Just
as from
seeds sometimes grains grow and sometimes not grow,
the living entities, impelled by
the
material potency of the Supreme Lord, sometimes produce other living beings and sometimes not. (5) We, you and also the other creatures moving and not moving about here at the moment oh King, were not together before
this birth,
nor will we be together after we died, despite of our sharing the same
present. (6) The Ruler of All, as indifferent as a
[playing] boy, creates, maintains and destroys living beings through other living beings;
they
who
were
created
by
Him
do
not
exist
independent
of Him [compare B.G. 3:
27]. (7)
By the body
of the embodied soul
a
body
is created from another body, just as
indeed from one seed another seed is
generated. The [this
way
temporally] embodied [individual soul] is eternal, just as the
constituent elements of matter are [see B.G. 8:
17-22]. (8) To consider this
body separate
from its
indweller is,
just like separating the individual from the group, the product of an
age-long form of ignorance, such a separation is just like the
separation of souls - of the essence - an imaginary one.'
(9) S'rî S'uka said: 'King
Citraketu, consoled by what the twice-born ones thus told him, wiped
his shriveled face
with his hand and spoke. (10) The
honorable
king
said:
'The two of you who arrived here in
the dress of renunciates, are accomplished in spiritual knowledge and
the greatest of the greatest. (11) You as brahmins dear to the Lord [as Vaishnavas]
dressed up like
madmen wander the surface of the earth as you like in order to enlighten those
who, like me, are of a worldly intelligence. (12-15) Sanat-kumâra,
Nârada,
Ribhu, Angirâ, Devala, Asita,
Apântaratamâ [an early name of Vyâsadeva],
Mârkandeya and Gautama; Vasishthha, Bhagavân
Paras'urâma, Kapila, S'ukadeva, Durvâsâ,
Yâjñavalkya and Jâtukarna as also Aruni, Romas'a,
Cyavana, Dattâtreya, Âsuri, Patañjali, the sage
Dhaumya head of the Vedas and the wise Pañcas'ikha,
Hiranyanâbha, Kaus'alya, S'rutadeva and Ritadhvaja; all these and
other masters of perfection are the wandering spiritual educators. (16)
Therefore, let me be
enlightened by your torchlight
of spiritual knowledge oh masters, for I am but a foolish village dog
bereft of vision in the darkness.' [*]
(17) S'rî Angirâ said:
'I am [the same] Angirâ who granted you the son you wanted oh
King
and this son of Brahmâ here is the great sage Nârada in
person. (18-19) This because of your
grief about your son being merged in a difficult to overcome darkness
does not befit you. You are supposed to remember the
Supreme Personality. The two of us have arrived here visibly before
your eyes in order to support you oh King. You, as someone anchored
in Brahman and devoted to the Lord, we have to tell that you don't
deserve it to come down like this.
(20) The first time I came to your home, I
could have given you the spiritual knowledge of transcendence, but,
since you were absorbed in other matters, I could only give you a
son. (21-23) And now you undergo the
tribulation of someone with children, a nice wife, a
home, riches and various assets and luxuries. The objects of the
senses of concern to you, like a kingdom, opulence, land and
royalty, power and a treasury with servants, ministers and allies,
all belong to the temporality. All of this oh Ruler of
S'ûrasena, constitutes a lamentable illusion giving rise to fears
and
distress; these are figments concocted by the mind, preoccupations in
the form of castles in the air. (24) That what
you're so concerned about is without any substance, that what you meditate upon are fabrications
born from profit-minded actions. All these sorts of karmic engagements
originate from the mind. (25)
This body of the living entity consists of material
elements and senses of action and perception. These are declared to be
the cause of the various sufferings and pains of the living entity [see
also B.G 15: 7-11]. (26) Therefore be
careful with the things of the mind and consider
your real position, give up your belief in the duality as being
something permanent; take to the peaceful condition.'
(27) S'rî
Nârada said: 'Listen good and accept
from me this mantra containing
the secret of Vedic philosophy [see 8.16: 18-25] which, if you
concentrate on it for seven nights, will give you the
vision of the all-pervading Lord Sankarshana ['the One with the
plough';
see 5.25]. (28) All others [all the other men of God],
giving up on this illusion of duality and finding
shelter at His lotus feet oh King,
in
the
past
immediately
attained His unequaled and
unsurpassed glories. Likewise you
will soon
obtain the Transcendence.'
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