Bhagwat Session 7

Описание: Pls find below the Synopsis. It has been decided into;


-Some conversations


-Story 


-Revisit some definition


-Points to ponder 


Shrimad Bhagavata Mahapurana


Synopsis of the Seventh Session


Bhagavata Pratham Skanda (Book One)






Chapter 16 to 19 






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Parsiksit to Sukhdevji 






King Pariksit asks here the following two questions;






1. What should be done under all circumstances by a man who is under the verge of death? 


2. What should be done by man in general - What should a mortal do at all times and under all circumstances? 


  - What should they hear?


  - What should they repeat?


  - What should they keep in their mind?


  - What should they resort to?


  - What should they avoid?






It is these two questions that have been answered in length in the course of the eleven books of ‘Shrimad Bhagavata Mahapuran’.






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Shaunaka to Sutadevji 






Pray, narrate to us that most sacred wisdom imparted to Pariksit, which lays bare the truth in unambiguous terms.






Sutadevji to Shaunaka 






O Sages, that shine like the sun, what you have asked me in this assembly, I shall tell you according to my own light. Winged creatures sour according to their own capacity, so do the learned recount the pastime of the all pervading Lord according to their own understanding.






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Story






The story so goes, that Sage Sukhdevji was sitting and meditating on the Self, that infinite self that dwell alike in all. When Veda Vyasa approached him, seeing his son immersed in a state of bliss, he sat down beside him, and started singing the glories of God, he started describing him in words and eulogising his timeless tales. 






Hearing these, Sukhdevji opened his eyes, which were filled with tears divine ecstasy, and he said, why was I sitting and meditating on the divine without a form, when the same divine can be seen, touched, felt, with these mortal means. So beautiful is the Leela of the Lord. He requested his father to narrate the entire Shrimad Bhagavata Mahapurana to him, and started drinking the nectar like ‘Saakar’ Stories of that same beloved ‘Nirakar’ he was meditating on.






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Lets bring ourselves back to Namisharanya, where there is this Yagna being carried out by Shaunakji and Sutadev Goswami is sitting at the Vyasa Aasan. He has just completed telling us how the panadavas and Lord Krishna dropped their mortal forms, leaving the throne to Pariksit. 






Pariksit was a just ruler, under his rule the mother earth was taken care of, but slowly and steadily he realised that kaliyug was setting in. He went in a search to fight and conquer Kaliyug. In the process, the entire earth became a part of his just rule. 






One day on his way, he saw a very astonishing thing, he saw a White Bull and a Cow talking to each other, in fact, the cow was crying and the bull was struggling to balance itself on only one leg. In the middle of their conversation came a kingly looking man, who started hitting the bull and trying to break its only leg. The helpless bull and cow, were crying piteously. 






Pariksit could not take this torture, and he rushed to save the innocent animals. He rushed towards the man, and was about to kill it, when this man took refuge in Pariksit. On enquiring he found out that this man was no other than Kaliyug, and the Bull was no other than Dharma and the Cow was Mother earth. 






Kaliyug was on a mission to rob everyone of their own dharma, he was breaking the very foundation on which Dharma stands Tapas, Sochya, Daya and Satya. He had already broken the first three, and was not hellbent on breaking the one leg of satya as well. Seeing all this happening on her, mother earth was crying. Seeing the virtues vanish, and vices take charge, she vailed. 






Pariksit, though wanted to destroy kaliyug, but gave it a chance to live, outside his kingdom. However, there was no place where his kingdom did not exist. So Pariksit gave him 4 places within his kingdom to live in;


Gambling (falsehood)


Alcohol (Intoxication)


brothel houses (Passion)


Shambles (Cruelty)


Kaliyug revolted, saying none of these exist in your kingdom. To which, Pariksit gave him a fifth place;


Gold (Rajas)






Assuring Dharm and Mother Earth of their safely, he went aways to his palace. There, one day, he happened to go to the treasury and was seeing what all his ancestors had left, and he came across this grand crown and he put it on. This crown happened to belong to ‘Jarasandha’. He put on this crown, immediately kali came and sat on it. 






Pariksit, went out on a hunt alone, got lost on the way, thirsty, tired and broken, he reached a hut. Where Samika muni was meditating. He seeked hospitality, but when none was offered, in anger he put a dead snake around the Sage’s neck and walked away. When Shringi, the son of Samika saw this, he cursed Pariksit to b...