ISKM Vedic Lectures

ŚB 5.11.1

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.

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BG 18.66

Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear.

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CC Ādi 17.227-230 : The Passing of Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura’s son.

CC Ādi 17.231-232 : The Lord's benediction upon the meat-eating tailor.

CC Ādi 17.233-240 : Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura and his ecstatic conversation with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

CC Ādi 17.241-242 : The Dramatization of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes.

CC Ādi 17.243-246 : The Mercy of the Lord on the wife of the Brāhmaṇa.

CC Ādi 17.247-258 : The foolish students misunderstand the Lord's pastimes.

CC Ādi 17.259-267 : The Lord's decision to take Sannyāsa.

CC Ādi 17.268-273 : The Arrival of Keśava Bhāratī and the Lord's acceptance of Sannyāsa.

CC Ādi 17.274 : The End of the Lord's ādi-līlā.

CC Ādi 17.275-276 : The Internal reasons for the Lord's Appearance as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

CC Ādi, Chapter 17: https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/adi/17/

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ŚB 5.10.22-23

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. 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.

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BG 10.12-13

Arjuna said: You are the Supreme Brahman, the ultimate, the supreme abode and purifier, the Absolute Truth and the eternal divine person. You are the primal God, transcendental and original, and You are the unborn and all-pervading beauty. All the great sages such as Nārada, Asita, Devala, and Vyāsa proclaim this of You, and now You Yourself are declaring it to me.

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ŚB 5.10.21

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.

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BG 4.34

Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth.

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ŚB 5.10.19

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?

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BG 10.11

Out of compassion for them, I, dwelling in their hearts, destroy with the shining lamp of knowledge the darkness born of ignorance.

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