The Mystic Power of Narada Muni
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Çré Kamada Ekadäsé Issue no:109 16th April 2019 THE MYSTIC POWER OF NARADA MUNI THE MYSTIC POWER OF NARADA MUNI Incompatible saìga Srila Sukadeva Goswami Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura PAST LIFE OF CHITRAKETUS SON IS THE LIVING ENTITY THE PURUÑA ? His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada THE CLUTCHES OF MAYA Srila Krishnadas Kaviraja Goswami Circulaton 28, 680 Issue no 108, Page — 2 nityaà bhägavata-sevayä THE MYSTIC POWER OF NARADA MUNI transferred to the possession of other Srila Sukadeva Goswami human being. As soon as the animal goes away, the former proprietor no longer Sri Sukadeva Goswami said: My dear has a sense of ownership. As long as the King Pariksit, the great sage Narada, by animal is in his possession he certainly his mystic power, brought the dead son has an affinity for it, but as soon as the before all the lamenting relatives and animal is sold, that affinity is lost. addressed him as follows.O living entity, Even though one living entity becomes all good fortune unto you. Just see your connected with another because of a father and mother. All your friends and relationship based on the perishable relatives are overwhelmed with grief body, the living entity himself is eternal. because of your passing away. You have Factually speaking, it is the body that is died untimely, and thus the balance of your born or lost, not the living entity. One lifetime remains. Therefore you may re- should not accept that the living entity enter your body and enjoy the remainder takes birth or dies. The living being of your life, surrounded by your friends actually has no real relationship with his and relatives. Accept the royal throne and so-called fathers and mothers. As long as all the opulence given by your father. he appears as the son of a certain father By the mystic power of Narada Muni, and mother because of his past fruitive the living entity re-entered his dead body activities, he has a connection with the for a short time and spoke in response to body given by that father and mother. Narada Muni’s request. He said: According Thus he falsely accepts himself as their to the results of my fruitive activities, I, the son and acts affectionately. After he dies, living being, transmigrate from one body however, the relationship is finished. to another, sometimes going to the species Under these circumstances, one should of the demigods, sometimes to the species not be foolishly obsessed with jubilation of lower animals, sometimes among the and lamentation. vegetables, and sometimes to the human The living entity is eternal and species. Therefore, in which birth were imperishable because in truth he has no these my mother and father? No one is beginning and no end. He never takes actually my mother and father. How can I birth or dies. He is the basic principle of all accept these two people here as my sole types of bodies, yet he does not belong to parents? the bodily category. The living being is so In this material world, which moves sublime that he is one in quality with the like a river whose currents carry away the Supreme Lord. Nonetheless, because he living entities, people become friends, is extremely small, he is prone to be put relatives and enemies in due course of into illusion by the external energy, and time. They also act neutrally, they mediate, thus he creates various bodies for himself they despise one another, and they act in according to his different desires. For this many other relationships. Nonetheless, living entity, no one is dear, nor is anyone despite these various transactions, no actually unfavourable. He makes no one is actually permanently related. distinction between that which is his own Just as gold and other commodities are and that which belongs to anyone else. He continually transferred from one place to is one without a second; in other words, another in due course of purchase and he is not affected by friends and enemies, sale, so the living entity, as a result of his well-wishers or mischief-mongers. He is fruitive activities, wanders throughout only an observer, a witness, of the different the entire universe, being injected into qualities exhibited by men. various bodies in different species of life The Supreme Lord, the creator of cause by one kind of father after another. A few and effect, does not accept the happiness living entities are born in the human form, and distress that result from fruitive and others are born as animals. Although actions. He is completely independent both are living entities, their relationships of having to accept a material body, and are impermanent. An animal may remain because He has no material body, He is in the custody of a human being for some always neutral. The living entities, being time, and then the same animal may be part and parcel of the Lord, possess His Bhāgavata Mahāvidyālaya www.ibmedu.org nityaà bhägavata-sevayä Issue no 108, Page—3 qualities in a minute quantity. Therefore therefore the reservoir of all knowledge. one should not be affected by lamentation. I offer my respectful obeisance unto You. Sri Sukadeva Goswami continued: When Revelling in Your own spiritual bliss, You the conditioned soul [jiva] in the form of are always transcendental to the waves of Maharaja Chitraketu’s son had spoken in material nature. Therefore, my Lord, this way and then left, Chitraketu and the I offer my respectful obeisance unto You. other relatives of the dead son were all Youe Lordship is the supreme controller astonished. Thus their shackles of false of the senses, and Your expansions of affection for the dead boy were cut. In this form are unlimited. You are the greatest, way, they gave up their lamentation. After and therefore I offer my respectful the relatives had discharged their duties by obeisance unto You. The words and mind performing the proper funeral ceremonies of the conditioned soul cannot approach and burning the dead child’s body, they the Supreme Personality of Godhead, gave up the affection that leads to illusion, for material names and forms are not lamentation, fear and pain. Such affection applicable to Him, who is entirely spiritual, is undoubtedly difficult to give up, but they beyond the conception of gross and subtle gave it up very easily. forms. The impersonal Brahman is another Queen Krtyadyuti’s co-wives, who had of His forms. May He, by His pleasure, poisoned the child, were very ashamed of protect all of us. their action, and they lost all bodily lustre. As pots made entirely of earth are While lamenting, O King, they remembered situated on earth after being created and the instructions of Angira and gave up their are later transformed into earth again when ambition to bear children. Following the directions of the brähmaëas, they went broken, this cosmic manifestation is caused to the bank of the Yamuna, where they by the Supreme Brahman, situated in the bathed and atoned for their sinful activities. Supreme Brahman, and later annihilated King Chitraketu, thus enlightened by the and merges with the same Supreme instructions of the brähmaëas Angira and Brahman. Therefore, since the Supreme Narada, became fully awake in spiritual Lord is the cause of Brahman, let us offer knowledge. As an elephant becomes free Him our respectful obeisance. from a muddy reservoir of water, King The Supreme Brahman emanates from Chitraketu came out of the dark well of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and family life. The King bathed in the water of expands like the sky. Although untouched the Yamuna, and according to prescribed by anything material, it exists within duties, he offered oblations of water to the and without. Nonetheless, the mind, forefathers and demigods. Very gravely intelligence, senses and living force can controlling his senses and mind, he then neither touch Him nor know Him. I offer offered his respects and obeisance to the unto Him my respectful obeisance. As iron sons of Lord Brahma [Angira and Narada]. has the power to burn when made red- Thereafter, being very much pleased with hot by the association of fire, so the body, Chitraketu, who was a self-controlled senses, living force, mind and intelligence, devotee and surrendered soul, Narada, although merely lumps of matter, can the most powerful sage, spoke to him the function when infused with a particle of following transcendental instructions. consciousness by the Supreme Personality [Narada gave Chitraketu the following of Godhead. As iron cannot burn unless mantra.] O Lord, O Supreme Personality of heated by fire, the bodily senses cannot act Godhead, who are addressed by the syllable unless favoured by the Supreme Brahman. oàkära (praëava), I offer my respectful O transcendental Lord, who are situated obeisance unto You. O Lord Vasudeva, I in the topmost planet of the spiritual world, meditate upon You. O Lord Pradyumna, Your two lotus feet are always massaged by Lord Aniruddha and Lord Sankarsana, a multitude of the best devotees with their I offer You my respectful obeisance. O lotus-bud like hands. You are the Supreme reservoir of spiritual potency, O supreme Personality of Godhead, complete with bliss, I offer my respectful obeisance unto all six plenitudes. You are the supreme You, who are self-sufficient and perfectly person mentioned in the Puruña-sükta peaceful. O ultimate truth, one without prayers. You are the most perfect, self- a second, You are realized as Brahman, realized master of all mystic power. Let me Paramatma and Bhagavan and are offer my respectful obeisance unto You.