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Vidura Meets Maitreya Çré Pärçva Ekädaçé Issue no: 21 24th September 2015 Vidura meets Maitreya Features VIDURA’S EAGERNESS TO HEAR KÅÑËA-KAthÄ Srila Sukadeva Goswami TWO IMPORTANT KÅÑËA-KAthÄ'S His Divine Grace A .C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada KINDS OF HEARING Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur ÇRÉ KÅÑËA-KAthÄ-MÄHÄTMYA The GLORY OF The DESCRIPTION OF SRI KRISHNA Srila Rupa Goswami MAITREYA INSTRUCTS VIDURA Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur Issue no 21, Page — 2 nityaà bhägavata-sevayä Vidura requested Mitreya Åñi to kindly chant all those superhuman transcendental activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. VIDURA’S EAGERNESS TO HEAR KÅÑËA-KAthÄ such activities. Please, therefore, give us directions on Srila Sukadeva Goswami how one should live for real happiness. O my lord, great philanthropic souls travel on the earth on behalf Vidura, the best amongst the Kuru dynasty, who was of the Supreme Personality of Godhead to show perfect in devotional service to the Lord, thus reached compassion to the fallen souls who are averse to the the source of the celestial Ganges River [Hardwar], sense of subordination to the Lord. Therefore, O great where Maitreya, the great, fathomless learned sage sage, please give me instruction on the transcendental of the world, was seated. Vidura, who was perfect in devotional service of the Lord, so that He who is gentleness and satisfied in transcendence, inquired situated in the heart of everyone can be pleased to from him. impart, from within, knowledge of the Absolute Truth in terms of the ancient Vedic principles delivered only Vidura said: O great sage, everyone in this world to those who are purified by the process of devotional engages in fruitive activities to attain happiness, service. but one finds neither satiation nor the mitigation of O great sage, kindly narrate how the Supreme distress. On the contrary, one is only aggravated by Personality of Godhead, who is the independent, nityaà bhägavata-sevayä top right 3 Issue no 21, Page 3 desireless Lord of the three worlds and the controller presentations of philosophical speculation, theoretical of all energies, accepts incarnations and creates the ultimate goals of life, and different modes of ritual. O cosmic manifestation with perfectly arranged regulative Maitreya, O friend of the distressed, the glories of the principles for its maintenance. He lies down on His own Supreme Lord can alone do good for people all over heart spread in the form of the sky, and thus placing the the world. Therefore, just as bees collect honey from whole creation in that space, He expands Himself into flowers, kindly describe the essence of all topics-the many living entities, which are manifested as different topics of the Lord. species of life. He does not have to endeavor for His Kindly chant all those superhuman maintenance, because He is the master of all mystic transcendental activities of the Supreme controller, the powers and the proprietor of everything. Thus He is Personality of Godhead, who accepted incarnations distinct from the living entities. You may narrate also fully equipped with all potency for the full manifestation about the auspicious characteristics of the Lord in His and maintenance of the cosmic creation. different incarnations for the welfare of the twice-born, the cows and the demigods. Our minds are never satisfied completely, although we continuously hear of Sukadeva Goswami said: The great sage Maitreya His transcendental activities. Muni, after honoring Vidura very greatly, began to speak, at Vidura's request, for the greatest welfare of all The Supreme King of all kings has created people. different planets and places of habitation where living entities are situated in terms of the modes of nature and work, and He has created their different kings and Sri Maitreya said: O Vidura, all glory unto you. You rulers. O chief amongst the brähmaëas, please also have inquired from me of the greatest of all goodness, describe how Narayana, the creator of the universe and thus you have shown your mercy both to the world and the self-sufficient Lord, has differently created the and to me because your mind is always absorbed in natures, activities, forms, features and names of the thoughts of the transcendence. O Vidura, it is not at all different living creatures. O my lord, I have repeatedly wonderful that you have so accepted the Lord without heard about these higher and lower statuses of human deviation of thought, for you were born from the society from the mouth of Vyasadeva, and I am quite semen of Vyasadeva. I know that you are now Vidura satiated with all these lesser subject matters and their due to the cursing of Mandavya Muni and that formerly happiness. They have not satisfied me with the nectar you were King Yamaraja, the great controller of living of topics about Krishna. entities after their death. You were begotten by the son Who in human society can be satisfied without of Satyavati, Vyasadeva, in the kept wife of his brother. hearing sufficient talk of the Lord, whose lotus feet Your good self is one of the eternal associates of the are the sum total of all places of pilgrimage and who Supreme Personality of Godhead for whose sake the is worshiped by great sages and devotees? Such topics Lord, while going back to His abode, left instructions can cut off one's bondage to family affection simply by with me. I shall therefore describe to you the pastimes entering the holes of one's ears. Your friend the great by which the Personality of Godhead extends His sage Krishna-dvaipayana Vyasa has already described transcendental potency for the creation, maintenance the transcendental qualities of the Lord in his great and dissolution of the cosmic world as they occur one work the Mahäbhärata. But the whole idea is to draw after another. the attention of the mass of people to kåñëa-kathä — Çrémad-Bhägavatam (Bhägavata Puräëa) » Canto 3: The Status Quo [Bhagavad-gétä] through their strong affinity for hearing » Chapter 5: Vidura's Talks with Maitreya » Verses: 1-22. · mundane topics. For one who is anxious to engage constantly in hearing such topics, kåñëa-kathä gradually TWO IMPORTANT KÅÑËA-KAthÄ'S increases his indifference towards all other things. Such His Divine Grace constant remembrance of the lotus feet of Lord Krishna A .C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada by the devotee who has achieved transcendental bliss vanquishes all his miseries without delay. Because people are very much interested in hearing O sage, persons who because of their sinful social and historical presentations, Srila Vyasadeva activities are averse to the topics of transcendence has compiled many books such as the Puräëas and and thus ignorant of the purpose of the Mahäbhärata [Bhagavad-gétä] are pitied by the pitiable. I also pity Mahäbhärata. These books are reading matter for the them because I see how their duration of life is spoiled mass of people, and they were compiled with a view to by eternal time while they involve themselves in reviving their God consciousness, now forgotten in the conditional life of material existence. The real purpose Top Issue left 4 no 21, Page — 4 nityaà bhägavata-sevayä of such literatures is not so much to present topics of Bhägavatam. Bhagavad-gétä is kåñëa-kathä because historical references, but to revive the people's sense it is spoken by Krishna, whereas Çrémad-Bhägavatam of God consciousness. For example, Mahäbhärata is is kåñëa-kathä because it narrates about Krishna. the history of the Battle of Kurukshetra, and common Lord Chaitanya advised all His disciples to preach people read it because it is full of topics regarding the kåñëa-kathä all over the world without discrimination social, political and economic problems of human because the transcendental value of kåñëa-kathä can society. But factually the most important part of purify one and all from material contamination. Mahäbhärata is Bhagavad-gétä, which is automatically — Çrémad-Bhägavatam (Bhägavata Puräëa) » Canto 3: The Status taught to readers along with the historical narrations of Quo » Chapter 5: Vidura's Talks with Maitreya » Verse: 10, Purport by His the Battle of Kurukshetra. Divine Grace A .C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada · Vidura explained to Maitreya his position of being fully satiated with the knowledge of mundane KINDS OF HEARING social and political topics and having no more interest Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur in them. He was anxious to hear transcendental topics regarding Lord Sri Krishna. Because there were Vijaya-kumara: O master, I would like to know how insufficient topics directly concerning Krishna in the many stages there are between first hearing about the Puräëas, Mahäbhärata, etc., he was not satisfied and Lord and finally attaining the greatest good fortune. wanted to know more about Krishna. Kåñëa-kathä, or topics regarding Krishna, are transcendental, and there is no satiation in hearing such topics. Bhagavad- Goswami: There are five stages: 1. çravaëa-daçä gétä is important on account of its being kåñëa-kathä, (hearing), 2. varaëa-daçä (desiring), 3. smaraëa- or speeches delivered by Lord Krishna. The story of daçä (remembering), 4. bhäväpana-daçä (attaining the Battle of Kurukshetra may be interesting for the ecstasy), and 5. prema-sampatti-daçä (the greatest mass of people, but to a person like Vidura, who is good fortune of spiritual love). highly advanced in devotional service, only kåñëa- kathä and that which is dovetailed with kåñëa-kathä is Vijaya-kumara: Please describe çravaëa-daçä. interesting. Vidura wanted to hear of everything from Maitreya, and so he inquired from him, but he desired Goswami: When he attains faith in hearing about that all the topics be in relationship with Krishna. As Krishna (Kåñëa-kathä), a soul throws materialism fire is never satisfied in its consumption of firewood, (bahirmukha-daçä) far away.
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