SREE MADBHAGAVATAM
Skandhah :1
Chapter :2
1-2-2
Śrīla Sūta Gosvāmī said: Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto
that great sage [Śukadeva Gosvāmī]
who can enter the hearts of all. When he went away to take up the renounced
order of life [sannyāsa], leaving home without undergoing
reformation by the sacred thread or the ceremonies observed by the higher
castes, his father, Vyāsadeva, fearing separation from him, cried out, "O
my son!" Indeed, only the trees, which were absorbed in the same feelings
of separation, echoed in response to the begrieved father.
1.2.3
adhyātma-dīpam atititīrṣatāḿ tamo 'ndham
saḿsāriṇāḿ karuṇayāha purāṇa-guhyaḿ
Let me offer my respectful obeisances
unto him [Śuka], the spiritual master of all sages,
the son of Vyāsadeva, who, out of his great compassion for those gross
materialists who struggle to cross over the darkest regions of material
existence, spoke this most confidential supplement to the cream of Vedic
knowledge, after having personally assimilated it by experience.
1-2-4
naraḿ caiva narottamam
Before reciting this Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which is the very means of
conquest, one should offer respectful obeisances unto the Personality of
Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, unto Nara-nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi, the supermost human being, unto mother Sarasvatī, the goddess of learning, and unto Śrīla Vyāsadeva, the author.
1.2.5
yenātmā suprasīdati
O sages, I have been justly
questioned by you. Your questions are worthy because they relate to Lord Kṛṣṇa and so are of relevance to the world's
welfare. Only questions of this sort are capable of completely satisfying the
self.
1.2.6
yato bhaktir adhokṣaje
ahaituky apratihatā
yayātmā suprasīdati
The supreme occupation [dharma] for all humanity is that by which men
can attain to loving devotional service unto the transcendent Lord. Such
devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted to completely satisfy
the self.
1-2-7
janayaty āśu vairāgyaḿ
By rendering devotional service unto
the Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, one immediately acquires causeless
knowledge and detachment from the world.
1.2.8
The occupational activities a man
performs according to his own position are only so much useless labor if they
do not provoke attraction for the message of the Personality of Godhead.
1.2.9
nārtho 'rthāyopakalpate
nārthasya dharmaikāntasya
All occupational engagements are
certainly meant for ultimate liberation. They should never be performed for
material gain. Furthermore, according to sages, one who is engaged in the
ultimate occupational service should never use material gain to cultivate sense
gratification.
1.2.10
kāmasya nendriya-prītir
nārtho yaś ceha karmabhiḥ
Life's desires should never be
directed toward sense gratification. One should desire only a healthy life, or
self-preservation, since a human being is meant for inquiry about the Absolute
Truth. Nothing else should be the goal of one's works.
1.2.11
brahmeti paramātmeti
Learned transcendentalists who know
the Absolute Truth call this nondual substance Brahman, Paramātmā or Bhagavān
1.2.12
tac chraddadhānā munayo
paśyanty ātmani cātmānaḿ
The seriously inquisitive student or
sage, well equipped with knowledge and detachment, realizes that Absolute Truth
by rendering devotional service in terms of what he has heard from the Vedānta-śruti.
1.2.13
O best among the twice-born, it is
therefore concluded that the highest perfection one can achieve by discharging
the duties prescribed for one's own occupation according to caste divisions and orders of life is to please
the Personality of Godhead.
1.2.14
śrotavyaḥ kīrtitavyaś ca
(14) Therefore one should with a one-pointed
mind constantly hear about, glorify, remember and worship the Supreme Lord, the
protector of the devotees.
1.2.15
(15)
Who would not attend to this message of intelligentlyremembering the Lord which
gives one the sword for cutting through the bonds of materially motivated labor
[karma]?
1.2.16
(16)
One who listens with care and attention in respect of Vâsudeva, will find
affinity with the message through the devotional service rendered to pure
devotees, oh learned ones, and be purified from all vice.
1.2.17
hṛdy antaḥ stho hy abhadrāṇi
(17) Those who developed this hearing of
Krishna His own words will find virtue listening and singing and will certainly
in their hearts see their desire to enjoy purified by the benefactor of the
truthful.
1.2.18
naṣṭa-prāyeṣv abhadreṣu
bhaktir bhavati naiṣṭhikī
(18)
By regular attention to that fortune [of the book and the devotee] as good as
all the inauspicious will lose its hold, and thus serving the Supreme Lord with
transcendental prayers irrevocably loving service will come into being.
1.2.19
ceta etair anāviddhaḿ
(19) At that time the consciousness not being
spoiled by the effects of passion and ignorance such as lust, greed and
whatever else, will be fixed in goodness and find happiness.
1.2.20
(20) The mind, in contact with the devotional
service of the Lord thus cleared, becomes, liberated because of the
association, then effective in the knowledge of wisdom regarding the Fortunate
One.
1.2.21
dṛṣṭa evātmanīśvare
(21) Seeing the [true] self that way as being
the master for sure will cut the knots in the heart to pieces, put an end to
all doubts and terminate the chain of materially motivated actions [karma].
1.2.22
kurvanty ātma-prasādanīm
(22) Therefore all transcendentalists have
always delighted in the service of Lord Krishna - it enlivens the soul.
1.2.23
(23) The ultimate benefit of the
Transcendental Personality, that is associated with the material qualities of
nature of goodness, passion and ignorance as also with the maintainer Vishnu,
the creator Brahmâ and the destroyer S'iva, is of course for the human being
found in the form of the quality of goodness [Vishnu].
1.2.24
pārthivād dāruṇo dhūmas
tasmād agnis trayīmayaḥ
(24) The way we have the firewood from
sacrifices stemming from the earth producing smoke set afire, so we also have
passion stemming from ignorance leading to the goodness from which the
essential nature is realized.
1.2.25
bhejire munayo 'thāgre
(25) Whoever follows these sages who previously this way rendered service to the transcendental Lord above these three modes of nature, deserves the same benefit.
1.2.26
(26) For that reason they who desire
liberation reject the less attractive forms of the demigods, and are sure to
worship, without any envy, the many forms of the all-blissfull Lord Vishnu
[Nârâyana].
1.2.27
rajas-tamaḥ-prakṛtayaḥ
śriyaiśvarya-prajepsavaḥ
(27)
Those who are ignorant and of passion, desire wealth, power and progeny,
clinging to forefathers and other beings of cosmic control with a likewise
character.
1.2.28-29
vāsudeva-paro dharmo
(28-29) But Vâsudeva is the object of knowledge, the
purpose of the sacrifices and the yoga, the controller of all material
activity, and the supreme knowledge, austerity, quality, religion and goal of
life.
1.2.30
sa evedaḿ sasarjāgre
guṇamayāguṇo vibhuḥ
(30)
From the beginning of the manifestation He, by His internal potency, has been
the cause and effect of all forms and the transcendental Absolute of the modes
of nature.
1.2.31
(31)
Although He, manifesting by the modes, having entered them, appears to be
affected by the modes, He is the full manifestation of all wisdom.
1.2.32
yathā hy avahito vahnir
(32) He, as the Supersoul, pervades all living
beings as the source of creation like fire does in wood and shines forth as
different living entities, at the same time being the Absolute Person.
1.2.33
asau guṇamayair bhāvair
bhūta-sūkṣmendriyātmabhiḥ
sva-nirmiteṣu
nirviṣṭo
(33) That Supersoul, created the subtle senses
influenced by the modes of nature by entering the living beings in His own
creation, causing them to enjoy those modes.
1.2.34
līlāvatārānurato
deva-tiryań-narādiṣu
(34)
Thus He maintains all in the mode of goodness, being incarnated Himself in the
performance of His pastimes mastering all worlds of divine, human and
animalistic beings."
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