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2024-04-26, 7:56 AM |
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Chapter 4: The Process of Creation
(1) Sûta said: "Just having realized what
S'ukadeva Gosvâmî thus said about the verification of the
reality of the soul, the chaste son of Uttarâ [Parîkchit]
concentrated upon Lord Krishna. (2)
He [thus meditating for a moment innerly] gave up his deep-rooted and
constant possessiveness in relation to his body, his wife, his son, his
treasury and all his
relatives and friends in his undisputed kingdom. (3-4)
The great soul in full faith inquired for the purpose of this exactly
the way you are asking me, oh great sages. Being informed of his death
he renounced his fruitive activity according to the three principles
[of
self-realization: renouncing religious acts, economic development and
sense gratification] and everything thereto and thus firmly fixed he
achieved the attraction for the love of the Supreme Lord
Vâsudeva. (5) The king
said:
'What you said is perfectly
right, oh learned one; being without contaminations you have the
knowledge of it all and make the darkness of ignorance gradually
disappear when you are speaking about the topics concerning the Lord. (6) Furthermore, I would like to learn how the
Supreme Lord by His personal energies creates this phenomenal world of
the universe that is so inconceivable for even the great masters of
meditation. (7) And please also tell
me
about the way the powerful one maintains His energies and winds
them up again, how He as the all-powerful Supreme Personality arrives
at His expansions, involves them and being involved Himself presents
them
and causes them to act [see also canto 1,
chapter 3]. (8) Even the highly learned in spite of their
endeavors for His sake, fall short, dear brahmin, in explaining the
wonderful, inconceivable acts of the Supreme Lord. (9) Even though He acts through His different
incarnations He
is the One and Supreme, whether He acts by the modes, is there
simultaneously in the material energy or is manifesting in many forms
consecutively. (10) Please
clear
up these questions asked by me, since you, being as good as the Supreme
Lord, are of the oral tradition with the Vedic literatures and also
of full realization in transcendence.' "
(11) Sûta said: "Upon thus being requested by
the king to describe the transcendental attributes of Lord
Hrishîkes'a [Krishna as the master of the senses] S'uka, in order
to reply properly, proceeded methodically.
(12) S'rî S'uka said: 'My obeisances to the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, who for the maintenance and also the
winding up of the complete whole of the material creation, by His
pastimes assumed the power of the three modes while residing within as
the One whose ways are inconceivable. (13)
Again my obeisances to Him who frees the truthful ones from the
distressing
controversies of those who follow untruth, unto Him who is the
form of pure goodness, granting all that is sought by those who are
situated in the status of the highest stage of spiritual perfection
[the paramahamsas]. (14)
Let me offer my obeisances
unto the great associate of the Yadu dynasty who, keeping far from
mundane wrangling, vanquishes the non-devotees. I bow down to Him who
is
of the same greatness of enjoying the opulences as in enjoying the sky
in His
own abode. (15) For Him of whom the glorification, remembrance,
audience,
prayers,
hearing and worship forthwith cleanses away the effects of the sins of everyone, unto Him of whom one speaks
as being the all-auspicious one, I
bring my due obeisances again and again. (16) The
bright ones
who by simply dedicating themselves to His lotus feet completely give up all
attachments to a present or future existence,
realize without difficulty the progress of the heart and the soul
towards a spiritual existence; unto that renown all-auspicious One my
obeisances again and again. (17) The great sages, the great performers of
charity, the ones most distinguished, the great thinkers, the great
mantra
chanters [reciters/singers] and the strict followers will never attain
to tangible results when they are not dedicated to Him. I
offer my obeisances again and again to Him about
whom to hear is so very auspicious.
(18)
The people of old Bharata, Europe, southern India, Greece, Pulkas'a [a
province], Âbhîra [part of old Sind], S'umbha [another
province], Turkey, Mongolia and more who are also addicted to
sin, at once get purified when
they
take to the shelter of the Lord's devotees. Him, the powerful Lord Vishnu I offer my respectful obeisances. (19) He
is
the soul
and Lord of the selfrealized ones, the personification of the Vedas,
the
religious literatures and austerity. May the Supreme Lord, He who is
held in awe by those who in their transcendence are free from all
pretension - the Unborn
One [Lord Brahmâ], Lord S'iva and others - always be graceful
with
me. (20)
May He, the
Supreme Lord and master of all the devotees, who is the owner of all
opulence, the director of all sacrifices, the leader of all
living entities, the master of the intelligent ones, the ruler of all
worlds, the supreme head of the planet earth and the destination
and first among the [Yadu] kings of the Sâtvatas, the
Andhakas and the Vrishnis, be merciful with me. (21)
It is said that thinking of His lotus feet and at each moment being
absorbed in it, when one follows the authorities, purifies and results
in the actual knowledge of the ultimate reality of the soul and
also that it makes the scholars describe Him to their liking. Oh
Mukunda, my Supreme Lord, may Your grace always be with me. (22) May He who strengthened the first one of creation [Lord
Brahmâ] with remembrance in his heart about Himself and his
origin and who [thus] from the
beginning inspired the
Goddess of Learning who appeared to have been created from
Brahmâ's mouth - may He, the
Teacher of Teachers, be pleased with me. (23)
He who lies down
within the material creation and empowers all these bodies made of the
material elements while He as the Purusha [the original person] causes
all to be subjected to
the modes of nature with her sixteen divisions [of consciousness, the
elements of earth, water, fire, air, ether, the five organs of action
and
the senses]; may that Supreme Lord give strength to my statements. (24)
My obeisances unto him, the
great expansion of Vâsudeva [viz. Vyâsadeva] who is the
compiler of the Vedic literatures
from whose lotus mouth his adherents drank the nectar of this
knowledge. (25)
The first created being [Brahmâ], my dear king, imparted, on the
request of Nârada,
from the inside the Vedic knowledge exactly as it was spoken by the
Lord in the heart.' "
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