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samaḥ priyaḥ suhṛd brahman
CANTO 7
Chapter One
Impartiality of the Lord
|| 7.1.1 ||
śrī-rājovāca
samaḥ priyaḥ suhṛd brahman
bhūtānāṁ bhagavān svayam
indrasyārthe kathaṁ daityān
avadhīd viṣamo yathā
The King said: O brāhmaṇa! How did the Lord, the best friend of all beings, who is equal and affectionate to all beings, kill the demons for Indra as if partial?
Offering respects to guru and Kṛṣṇa, the ocean of mercy, I take shelter of Śrī-śukadeva, the eye of the universe, and master of the worlds. I offer myself and everything I possess to he who is the life of the gopīs, the controller, for service to his dear devotees
Two types of ūti, inclination, are described in the Seventh Canto: inauspicious, arising from of anger of the demons, auspicious, arising from the mercy of the devotees. This Canto also glorifies devotees of three types—śuddha-bhaktas, persons having bhakti mixed with jñāna or karma (karma-miśra-bhaktas, jñāna-miśra-bhaktas), and persons having jñāna mixed with a little bhakti. The inclinations of Hiraṇyakaśipu, which were inauspicious, were inborn. The cause was the ancient anger of the Kumāras. The inclination for pure bhakti of Prahlāda, his son, which was very auspicious, arose from accepting mercy from Nārada’s feet. That bhakti, which appears within the devotees, gave rise to the Lord’s mercy upon him and protected him from the king. That creeper of bhakti, growing in a great field composed of humility, respect and other qualities, is nourished by the devotee by watering it through hearing and chanting.
The topic of ten chapters is pure bhakti. Five chapters show how bhakti, attained through a guru of similar bhakti, is a minor element of karma or jñāna, or a major element with a mixture of karma or jñāna in order to attain one’s respectively. These processes gradually become the states of prema, śānta-bhakti and liberation. These are the topics of the chapters of the Seventh Canto.
In the First Chapter Śukadeva dispels doubt about partiality in Viṣṇu and briefly relates the story of the three births of Jaya and Vijaya
In the previous canto it was said that Diti, whose two sons had been killed by Viṣṇu, who was instigated by Indra, burned with anger inflamed by lamentation. (SB 6.18.23) Parīkṣit, as if not tolerating partiality of Viṣṇu in favoring Indra, but actually understanding the truth, desired to relish the nectar of the conclusion from the mouth of Śukadeva. Therefore he asks this question in three verses. If the Lord is equal, how can he show partiality? If he is affectionate to all beings, why is the Lord not affectionate to the demons? If he is the friend of all beings, why is he not friendly to the demons?
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