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The Root of Devotional Service Çré Mohiné Ekadäsé Issue no:111 15th May 2019 THE ROOT OF DEVOTIONAL SERVICE PARVATI DEVI CURSES CHITRAKETU Srila Sukdeva Goswami HOW COULD CITRAKETU BE GUILTY OF OFFENDING LORD SHIVA ? IS PUNISHMENT A BENEDICTION Srila Vishvanatha Chakravarti Thakura FROM THE SUPREME LORD? His Divine Grace WHAT IS AN OFFENSE? A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura THE ROOT OF DEVOTIONAL SERVICE Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura Circulaton 28, 699 Issue no 111, Page — 2 nityaà bhägavata-sevayä sitting in an assembly of great saintly persons and embracing Parvati on his lap with his arm. Chitraketu laughed loudly and spoke, within the hearing of Parvati. Chitraketu said: Lord Shiva, the spiritual master of the general populace, is the best of all living entities who have accepted material bodies. He enunciates the system of religion. Yet how wonderful it is that he is embracing his wife, Parvati, in the midst of an assembly of great saintly persons. Lord Shiva, whose hair is matted on his head, has certainly undergone great austerities and penances. Indeed, he is the president in the assembly of strict followers of Vedic principles. Nonetheless, he is seated with his wife on his lap in the midst of saintly persons and is embracing her as if he were a shameless, common man. Ordinary conditioned persons generally embrace their wives and enjoy their company in solitary places. How wonderful it is that Lord Mahadeva, although a great master of austerity, is embracing his wife openly in the midst of an assembly of great saints. Srila Sukadeva Gosvami continued: My dear King, after hearing Chitraketu's statement, the exceptionally powerful Lord Shiva, whose knowledge is fathomless, simply smiled and remained silent. All the members of the assembly followed PARVATI DEVI CURSES CHITRAKETU the lead of Lord Shiva by remaining silent Srila Sukdeva Goswami and not saying anything. Not knowing the prowess of Lord Shiva and Parvati, Srila Sukadeva Gosvami said: After Chitraketu strongly criticized them. His offering obeisance to the direction from statements were not at all pleasing, and which Ananta, the Supreme Personality therefore the goddess Parvati, being very of Godhead, had disappeared, Chitraketu angry, spoke as follows to Chitraketu, began traveling in outer space as the head who apparently thought himself better of the Vidyadharas. Being praised by great than Lord Shiva in controlling the senses. sages and saints and by the inhabitants of The goddess Parvati said: Alas, has this Siddhaloka and Caranaloka, Chitraketu, up-start now received a post from which the most powerful mystic yogé, wandered to punish shameless persons like us? Has about enjoying life for millions of years. he been appointed ruler, carrier of the rod With bodily strength and sensory capacities of punishment? Is he now the only master free from deterioration, he travelled within of everything? Alas, Lord Brahma, who the valleys of Sumeru Mountain, which is has taken his birth from the lotus flower, the place of perfection for various kinds of now does not know the principles of mystic power. In those valleys he enjoyed religion, nor do the great saints like Bhrgu life with the women of Vidyadhara-loka by and Narada, nor the four Kumaras, headed chanting the glories of the Supreme Lord, by Sanat-kumara. Manu and Kapila have Hari. One time while King Chitraketu was also forgotten the religious principles. I traveling in outer space on a brilliantly suppose it to be because of this that they effulgent airplane given to him by Lord have not tried to stop Lord Shiva from Vishnu, he saw Lord Shiva, surrounded behaving improperly. by Siddhas and Caranas. Lord Shiva was This Chitraketu is the lowest of kshatriyas, Bhāgavata Mahāvidyālaya www.ibmedu.org nityaà bhägavata-sevayä Issue no 111, Page—3 for he has impudently overridden Brahma liberation. In sattva-guëa and rajo-guëa, and the other demigods by insulting Lord he is subjected to happiness and distress. Shiva, upon whose lotus feet they always The Supreme Personality of Godhead is meditate. Lord Shiva is personified religion equally disposed toward all living entities. and the spiritual master of the entire world, Therefore no one is very dear to Him, and and therefore Chitraketu must be punished. no one is a great enemy for Him; no one This person is puffed up because of his is His friend, and no one is His relative. achievements, thinking, "I am the greatest Being unattached to the material world, He of all." He does not deserve to approach has no affection for so-called happiness or the shelter of Lord Vishnu's lotus feet, hatred or so-called distress. The two terms which are worshiped by all saintly persons, happiness and distress are relative. Since for he is impudent, thinking himself overly the Lord is always happy, for Him there is important. O impudent one, my dear son, no question of distress. now take birth in a low, sinful family of Although the Supreme Lord is unattached demons so that you will not commit such to our happiness and distress which comes an offense again toward exalted, saintly according to our previous karma. Although persons in this world. no one is His enemy or favourite, He creates Sri Sukadeva Gosvami continued: My pious and impious activities through the dear King Parikshit, when Chitraketu was agency of His material potency. Thus for cursed by Parvati, he descended from his the continuation of the materialistic way airplane, bowed before her with great of life He indirectly creates happiness and humility and pleased her completely. distress, good fortune and bad, bondage Chitraketu said: My dear mother, with and liberation, birth and death. O mother, my own hands folded together I accept you are now unnecessarily angry, but since the curse upon me. I do not mind the all my happiness and distress are destined curse, for happiness and distress are given by my past activities, I do not plead to by the demigods as a result of one's past deeds. Deluded by ignorance, the living be excused or relieved from your curse. entity wanders in the forest of this material Although what I have said is not wrong, world, enjoying the happiness and distress please let whatever you think is wrong be resulting from his past deeds, everywhere now pardoned. and at all times. [Therefore, my dear Sri Sukadeva Gosvami continued: O King mother, neither you nor I am to be blamed Parikshit, subduer of the enemy, after for this incident.] Chitraketu satisfied Lord Shiva and his In this material world, neither the living wife, Parvati, he boarded his airplane and entity himself nor others [his friends left as they looked on. When Lord Shiva and enemies] are the cause of material and Parvati saw that Chitraketu, although happiness and distress. But because of informed of the curse, was unafraid, they gross ignorance, the living entity thinks smiled, being fully astonished by his that he and others are the cause. behaviour. Thereafter, in the presence This material world resembles the waves of the great sage Narada, the demons, of a constantly flowing river. Therefore, the inhabitants of Siddhaloka, and his what is a curse and what is a favour? What personal associates, Lord Shiva, who is are the heavenly planets, and what are the most powerful, spoke to his wife, Parvati, hellish planets? What is actually happiness, while they all listened. and what is actually distress? Because the Lord Shiva said: My dear beautiful waves flow constantly, none of them has Parvati, have you seen the greatness of the an eternal effect. Vaisnavas? Being servants of the servants of The Supreme Personality of Godhead the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, is one. Unaffected by the conditions of they are great souls and are not interested in the material world, He creates all the any kind of material happiness. Devotees conditioned souls by His own personal solely engaged in the devotional service potency. Because of being contaminated of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, by the material energy, the living entity is Narayaëa, never fear any condition of life. put into ignorance and thus into different For them the heavenly planets, liberation conditions of bondage. Sometimes, by and the hellish planets are all the same, for knowledge, the living entity is given such devotees are interested only in the service of the Lord. Because of the actions www.ibmedu.org Bhāgavata Mahāvidyālaya Issue no 111, Page — 4 Top left 4 nityaà bhägavata-sevayä of the Supreme Lord's external energy, the wife of Lord Shiva], that same Chitraketu living entities are conditioned in contact accepted birth in a demoniac species of with material bodies. The dualities of life. Although still fully equipped with happiness and distress, birth and death, transcendental knowledge and practical curses and favors, are natural by-products application of that knowledge in life, he of this contact in the material world. appeared as a demon at the fire sacrifice As one mistakenly considers a flower performed by Tvasta, and thus he became garland to be a snake or experiences infamous as Vritrasura. happiness and distress in a dream, so, in My dear King Parikshit, you inquired the material world, by a lack of careful from me how Vritrasura, a great devotee, consideration, we differentiate between took birth in a demoniac family. Thus I happiness and distress, considering one have tried to explain to you everything good and the other bad. Persons engaged about this. Chitraketu was a great devotee in devotional service to Lord Vasudeva, [mahätmä]. If one hears this history of Krishna, have naturally perfect knowledge Chitraketu from a pure devotee, the and detachment from this material world.
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