Chapter 11:
Jada Bharata Instructs King
Rahûgana
(13-14) The
knower of the
field is
[originally] the all-pervading, omnipresent,
authentic person, the Oldest One who is seen and heard of as existing
by His own light. He is never born, He is the transcendental
Nârâyana,
the Supreme Lord Vâsudeva. He is, just like the air present
within the
body, the one who by His
own potency exists in the soul as the controller of the moving and
unmoving living entities. He is the Supersoul of
expansion who has entered and thus is of control as the
Fortune One in the beyond. He is the one who is the shelter and knower
of everyone in every field. He is the vitality itself that appeared in
this material world [see also B.G.
9:
10 & 15:
15].
Chapter 12:
The Conversation Between Mahârâja
Rahûgana and Jada Bharata
(11) The higher knowing,
the intelligence in its pure existence that constitutes the ultimate
goal, is the Oneness without an inside or an outside, the Absolute
Truth of the Supreme [Brahman], the inner peace [of the meditator] that
in a higher [personal] sense is known as Bhagavân, the Supreme
Lord [of all opulence], who by the scholars is called Vâsudeva
[the Soul of God within, Vishnu, or Lord Krishna as the son of
Vasudeva].
Chapter 13:
Further talks Between Mahârâja
Rahûgana and Jada Bharata
(8) Sometimes wandering around his feet are hurt
by thorns and small stones when
he wants to climb the
hills which depresses him at
each step; and sometimes he as a family man is dispirited with a
hungry stomach, and gets angry with his own
family members.
Chapter 14: The
Material World as the Great Forest of Enjoyment
(1) The wise [S'ukadeva]
said: 'Those who take the body for the real self, being different with
the mode of goodness and such, consider matters from the wrong
perspective. Basing themselves on the six gateways of their senses and
their mind, they alternatively operating favorably, unfavorably or with
a mixed approach, have to deal with a never ending process of
transmigration through different series of physical frames they time
and again have to forsake and pick up again. In relation to Vishnu, the
Transcendental Personality who is the Lord, the bound soul who acting
under the control of mâyâ, the illusory of matter,
moves on the difficult path of the hard to cross forest of material
existence, is engaged like a merchant who wants to make money with
things desired by the people. He who engages his body for the sake of
the profit experiences the material world in which he landed as a
cemetery [a dead-end street for his self-realization] where he meets
with a lot of resistance for as long as he doesn't succeed to progress
in following the example of the bumblebees, the ones devoted to the
lotus feet of the Lord and His representatives, who put an end to the
trouble of reaching His jewel [His glory].
(29) It so
happens that because of the cakra of the Controller, the
Supreme Lord Vishnu His disc of Time, the influence of which stretches
from the first expansion of atoms to the duration of the complete life
of Brahmâ, one has to suffer the symptoms of its rotating, with
which in due course, swiftly before one's eyes, without a blink, all
lives of the entities, from Brahmâ to the simplest blade of
grass, are spent. Directly of Him, the Controller whose personal weapon
is the disc of Time, one is afraid at heart. Not caring about the
Supreme Lord, the Original Person of Sacrifice, one accepts as
worshipable that what misses any foundation, preoccupied as one is with
one's self-made gods who are like buzzards, vultures, herons and crows
and who are denied by the scriptures of our civilization.
Chapter 15:
The Glories of the Descendants of King Pryavrata
(7) In the performance of his duties he
protected his subjects by maintaining them [poshana], he made them
happy in all respects [prînana], treated them as his
children [upalâlana] and sometimes chastised them as a
king [anus'âsana]. He in every respect performed all the
prescribed religious ceremonies for the Supreme Lord, the great
Personality and source of all living beings who is the Supreme Brahman
[in person]. By his surrender, the many of his spiritual qualities and
by his service of the lotus feet of the self-realized ones, he managed
to be of devotional service unto the Supreme Lord, for he, who in the
purest consciousness continuously was absorbed in the soul, had
personally realized the cessation of all identification with his
material self. Despite of his awareness of his exalted spiritual
position he, remaining without any false pride [demonstrations of
power], ruled the entire world strictly according to the Vedic
principles.
