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I am created by him. Inspired by the Lord’s glance, I create what is already created by the Lord -- the witness, the soul situated in all beings.
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- Deeply attached to his body, children and wife, who are like an army giving protection, though they are false, he sees their destruction but does not see it.
- For persons fixed in jñāna, yoga and karma, gaining such a birth, with remembrance of Nārāyaṇa while rejecting the other processes, is the best.
- O descendent of the Kurus! But you have seven days remaining in your life. Make all necessary arrangements in this time for your destination after death.
- The body of the universal form is more solid than the solid. Within that form, the past, present and future of the universe, the products of the Lord, are seen.
- Pātala are his soles, Rasātala is his heels, Mahātala is his ankles and Talātala is his calves.
- O best of the Kurus! The clouds are his hair. Twilight is his clothing. Avaykta-prakṛti is his intelligence. The moon is his mind, the shelter of all change.
- They say that mahat-tattva is his citta. Rudra is his false ego. Horses, mules, camels and elephants are his nails. All animals are his hips.
- Meditating on the Puruṣa in the Heart
- He is decorated with valuable belt, rings, anklets, and bracelets. His attractive, smiling face is surrounded by spotless, glossy, curly black locks of hair.
- The unchanging Lord reviewed three times the Vedas completely with his intelligence, and determined that process which produces prema in the self.
- Auspiciousness arises for the worshippers of devatās if firm devotion for the Lord arises from association with devotees.
- aunaka said: Hearing the explanations, what else did the King, best of the Bharata lineage, ask the wise sage Śukadeva?
- O learned Sūta! You should tell that to us, who desire to hear. Topics which conclude in discussion of the Lord will certainly appear in the assembly of great devotees.
- Both by rising and by setting, the sun decreases the duration of life of everyone, except one who utilizes the time by discussing topics of the Supreme Lord.
- Do not the trees live long life? Do not the bellows breathe? Do not the village animals and animal-like men eat and mate?
- He completely gave up attachment to body, wife, sons, house, animals, wealth, friends, kingdom, which is constant and strong in others.
- O great devotees! The intelligent Parīkṣit, full of faith in hearing Kṛṣṇa’s activities, asked this question to Śukadeva which you have asked me.
- Sūta said: Being thus requested by the King to speak about the qualities of the Lord, Śukadeva, remembering the Lord of the senses, prepared to answer.
- I offer continual respects to the Lord with all auspicious qualities, whose glorification, remembrance, deity form, topics and worship immediately destroy the impurities of man.
- O King! Brahmā, filled with the Vedas, taught this knowledge, which the Lord had directly spoke to him, to Nārada who asked about it.
- Nārada said: O lord of lords! O creator of the living beings! O first born! You know that knowledge which reveals the truth about the ātmā and Paramātmā.
- Situated in your own energy like a spider creating his web, without fatigue, you protect the living beings within yourself, without being destroyed.
- Though you are like this, you performed great austerities. By this you bewilder us. You produce a doubt that there is some other Lord.
- O son! What you say about me is not untrue, because people, not knowing the difference between me and the Lord say that I have that power.
- I meditate on the Supreme Lord Vāsudeva, by whose insurmountable māyā people call me the guru of the universe.
- I am created by him. Inspired by the Lord’s glance, I create what is already created by the Lord -- the witness, the soul situated in all beings.
- Second Description of the Universal Form: Vibhūtis of the Lord
- From his body hairs arose all trees by which sacrifice is performed. From his hair and beard arose clouds and from his nails arose lightning, minerals and metals.
- brahma-nārada-saṁvādaḥ
- Parīkṣit’s Questions
- Please describe the various yugas, their durations, their dharmas, and the astonishing activities of the yugāvatāras of the Lord.
- O Brahmā! All auspiciousness to you! Please ask your desired benediction from me, who can award all benedictions. Endeavors in the process of bhakti end in seeing me.
- Brahmā said: O Supreme Lord! You, the controller of all beings, are situated in their intelligence. You know what all beings desire to do by unimpaired intelligence.
- Follow my instructions in detail, with extreme concentration. You will not be bewildered at any time during your lifetime and its subdivisions.
- Ten Characteristics of a Purāṇa
- a-kathā refers to descriptions of the Lord’s avatāras and their devotees, filled with various stories.
- When the pure puruṣa, separating himself from the universe, remained outside, desiring a place to lie down in the universe, he created the pure waters of the Garbhodaka.
- The wise do not accept these two forms of the Lord described by me since they are composed of matter.
- The Lord has been described in many scriptures as the creator of the universe. Some pure devotees however do not see him only as the creator of the universe.
- Sūta said: I will explain to you what the great sage Śukadeva spoke in response to Parīkṣit when asked by Parīkṣit. Please listen.
- evam etat purā pṛṣṭo maitreyo bhagavān kila
- yad vā ayaṁ mantra-kṛd vo bhagavān akhileśvaraḥ
- yadā tu rājā sva-sutān asādhūn
- jagad-gurur yāni jagāda kṛṣṇaḥ
- sa eṣa doṣaḥ puruṣa-dviḍ āste
- ka enam atropajuhāva jihmaṁ
- sa nirgataḥ kaurava-puṇya-labdho
- kālena yāvad gatavān prabhāsam
- tatas tv ativrajya surāṣṭram ṛddhaṁ
- bhāmaḥ sa āste sukham aṅga śauriḥ
TRANSLATION
The Vedas are dependent on Nārāyaṇa. The devatās are the born from the limbs of Nārāyaṇa. The planets and sacrifices are dependent on Nārāyaṇa.
COMMENTARY
Nārāyaṇa is the cause (paraḥ) of these. This is proof of the Lord, and also indicates his qualities such as omniscience. This affirms the statement śāstra-yonitvāt. Everything is nārāyaṇa-paraḥ because everything is situated in Nārāyaṇa and dependent on Nārāyaṇa. This answers the questions about the shelter of the universe and dependence of the universe.
|| 2.5.16 ||
nārāyaṇa-paro yogo nārāyaṇa-paraṁ tapaḥ |
nārāyaṇa-paraṁ jñānaṁ nārāyaṇa-parā gatiḥ ||
TRANSLATION
Yoga is dependent on Nārāyaṇa. Austerity is dependent on Nārāyaṇa. Knowledge is dependent on Nārāyaṇa. Liberation is dependent on Nārāyaṇa.
COMMENTARY
Gatiḥ means liberation.
|| 2.5.17 ||
tasyāpi draṣṭur īśasya kūṭa-sthasyākhilātmanaḥ |
sṛjyaṁ sṛjāmi sṛṣṭo ’ham īkṣayaivābhicoditaḥ ||
TRANSLATION
I am created by him. Inspired by the Lord’s glance, I create what is already created by the Lord -- the witness, the soul situated in all beings.
COMMENTARY
Then what do you do? I create what he has already created. Do you do this by your own decision? No, I do it by his glance, by his direction (īkṣayā). It cannot be otherwise since he witnesses what I do (draṣṭuḥ) and controls it, and he is the soul (kūṭa-sthasya) within all beings. This indicates that he is the Lord and Brahmā is a jīva. Śruti says:
eko devaḥ sarva-bhūteṣu gūḍhaḥ
sarva-vyāpī sarva-bhūtāntarātmā |
karmādhyakṣaḥ sarva-bhūtādhivāsaḥ
sākṣī cetā kevalo nirguṇaś ca ||
He is the one Lord situated in all beings. He is all-pervading, dwelling within all beings as their soul. He is the controller of action, the abode of all beings, the witness, the consciousness, pure, without any trace of material qualities. Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.11
eṣa bhūtādhipatir eṣa lokeśvaro loka-pālaḥ
He is the Lord of all beings, the Lord of all planets and the protector of all planets. Bṛhad-āraṇyaka Upaniṣad 4.4.22
Because he is present in the intelligence of all entities, without distinction from Brahmā to the ant, and recognized as such, he is said to be kūtastha, uniformly situated.
|| 2.5.18 ||
sattvaṁ rajas tama iti nirguṇasya guṇās trayaḥ |
sthiti-sarga-nirodheṣu gṛhītā māyayā vibhoḥ[116] ||
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