tāvad vibho tanu-bhṛtāṁ tvad-upekṣitānām
tāvad vibho tanu-bhṛtāṁ tvad-upekṣitānām
Mother and father are not the protection for their child. Medicine is not protection for sick person. A boat is not a remedy for a person drowning in the ocean. For those who do not accept you, the remedies accepted by suffering people in this world are not a shelter at all.
Without you, no remedy for suffering is successful. Mother and father are not protectors of a child, since one sees that a child suffers even if they protect him. Sometimes they even try to kill their children as in the case of Ajīgarta (who sold his son Śunaśepa as a human sacrifice). Medicine is no protection for sick person, since even persons who take medicine die. A boat is not a shelter for a person drowning in the ocean, for one sees the boat also sink. Thus suffering persons who by their desire do not recognize you do not obtain a solution to their problems by their remedies. Tāvat is only ornamental.
|| 7.9.20 ||
yasmin yato yarhi yena ca yasya yasmād
yasmai yathā yad uta yas tv aparaḥ paro vā
bhāvaḥ karoti vikaroti pṛthak svabhāvaḥ
sañcoditas tad akhilaṁ bhavataḥ svarūpam
Recent or ancient objects created or transformed by people with individual natures and those persons also are merely forms of you. The place in which the act is done, the indirect cause, the time of doing it, the immediate cause of doing it, the reason for doing it, the doer, for whom it is done, from whatever it is made, to whomever it is offered, whatever is produced, and in what manner it is produced—all of this is you alone.
When parents act as protectors, they are nothing but your form. Whatever recent persons or ancient persons like Brahmā perform, is your form (svarūpa), but in the form of your māyā-śakti, not your real svarūpa. The place of action, the cause, the time of action, the cause, the reason, the relationship with others involved, the source of the action, the recipient of the action, the performer of action, what is produced, as well as how he does it----- these define the action in detail. That person with individual guṇas like sattva (pṛthak-svabhāvaḥ) which arise from you who are without guṇas produces or transforms objects. But those persons and the objects themselves are all the form of the Lord.
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