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"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
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"canto": 7,
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"chapter": 14,
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"verse": 1,
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"reference": "SB 7.14.1",
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"devanagari": "श्रीयुधिष्ठिर उवाच\nगृहस्थ एतां पदवीं विधिना येन चांजसा\nयायाद्देवऋषे ब्रूहि मादृशो गृहमूढधीः",
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"transliteration": "śrī-yudhiṣṭhira uvāca\ngṛhastha etāṁ padavīṁ\nvidhinā yena cāñjasā\nyāyād deva-ṛṣe brūhi\nmādṛśo gṛha-mūḍha-dhīḥ",
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"synonyms": [
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{
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"word": "śrī-yudhiṣṭhiraḥ uvāca",
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"meanings": [
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"Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja said"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "gṛhasthaḥ",
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"meanings": [
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"a person living with his family"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "etām",
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"meanings": [
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"this (the process mentioned in the previous chapter)"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "padavīm",
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"meanings": [
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"position of liberation"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "vidhinā",
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"meanings": [
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"according to the instructions of Vedic scripture"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "yena",
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"meanings": [
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"by which"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "ca",
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"meanings": [
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"also"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "añjasā",
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"meanings": [
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"easily"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "yāyāt",
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"meanings": [
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"may get"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "deva-ṛṣe",
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"meanings": [
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"O great sage among the demigods"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "brūhi",
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"meanings": [
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"kindly explain"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "mādṛśaḥ",
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"meanings": [
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"such as me"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "gṛha-mūḍha-dhīḥ",
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"meanings": [
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"completely ignorant of the goal of life."
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]
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}
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],
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"translation": "<b>Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira inquired from Nārada Muni:</b><b> O my lord, O great sage, kindly explain how we who are staying at home without knowledge of the goal of life may also easily attain liberation, according to the instructions of the Vedas.</b>",
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"purport": [
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"In the previous chapters the great sage Nārada has explained how a <i>brahmacārī,</i> a <i>vānaprastha</i> and a <i>sannyāsī</i> should act. He first explained the dealings of a <i>brahmacārī, vānaprastha</i> and <i>sannyāsī</i> because these three <i>āśramas,</i> or statuses of life, are extremely important for fulfillment of the goal of life. One should note that in the <i>brahmacārī-āśrama, vānaprastha-āśrama</i> and <i>sannyāsa-āśrama</i> there is no scope for sex life, whereas sex is allowed in <i>gṛhastha</i> life under regulations. Nārada Muni, therefore, first described <i>brahmacarya, vānaprastha</i> and <i>sannyāsa</i> because he wanted to stress that sex is not at all necessary, although one who absolutely requires it is allowed to enter <i>gṛhastha</i> life, or household life, which is also regulated by the <i>śāstras</i> and <i>guru.</i> Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja could understand all this. Therefore, as a <i>gṛhastha,</i> he presented himself as <i>gṛha-mūḍha-dhīḥ,</i> one who is completely ignorant of the goal of life. A person who remains a householder in family life is certainly ignorant of life's goal; he is not very much advanced in intelligence. As soon as possible, one should give up his so-called comfortable life at home and prepare to undergo austerity, or <i>tapasya.</i> <i>Tapo divyaṁ putrakā.</i> According to the instructions given by Ṛṣabhadeva to His sons, we should not create a so-called comfortable situation, but must prepare to undergo austerity. This is how a human being should actually live to fulfill life's ultimate goal."
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]
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}
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{
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"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
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"canto": 7,
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"chapter": 14,
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"verse": 2,
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"reference": "SB 7.14.2",
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"devanagari": "श्रीनारद उवाच\nगृहेष्व् अवस्थितो राजन्क्रियाः कुर्वन्यथोचिताः\nवासुदेवार्पणं साक्षाद् उपासीत महामुनीन्",
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"transliteration": "śrī-nārada uvāca\ngṛheṣv avasthito rājan\nkriyāḥ kurvan yathocitāḥ\nvāsudevārpaṇaṁ sākṣād\nupāsīta mahā-munīn",
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"synonyms": [
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{
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"word": "śrī-nāradaḥ uvāca",
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"meanings": [
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"Śrī Nārada Muni replied"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "gṛheṣu",
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"meanings": [
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"at home"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "avasthitaḥ",
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"meanings": [
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"staying (a householder generally stays home with his wife and children)"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "rājan",
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"meanings": [
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"O King"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "kriyāḥ",
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"meanings": [
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"activities"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "kurvan",
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"meanings": [
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"performing"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "yathocitāḥ",
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"meanings": [
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"suitable (as instructed by the guru and śāstra)"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "vāsudeva",
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"meanings": [
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"unto Lord Vāsudeva"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "arpaṇam",
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"meanings": [
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"dedicating"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "sākṣāt",
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"meanings": [
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"directly"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "upāsīta",
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"meanings": [
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"should worship"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "mahā-munīn",
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"meanings": [
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"the great devotees."
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]
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}
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],
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"translation": "<b>Nārada Muni replied:</b><b> My dear King, those who stay at home as householders must act to earn their livelihood, and instead of trying to enjoy the results of their work themselves, they should offer these results to Kṛṣṇa, Vāsudeva. How to satisfy Vāsudeva in this life can be perfectly understood through the association of great devotees of the Lord.</b>",
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"purport": [
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"The format for <i>gṛhastha</i> life should be dedication to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (6.1) it is said:",
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"<i>anāśritaḥ karma-phalaṁ<br/> kāryaṁ karma karoti yaḥ<br/> sa sannyāsī ca yogī ca<br/> na niragnir na cākriyaḥ</i>",
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"\"One who is unattached to the fruits of his work and who works as he is obligated is in the renounced order of life, and he is the true mystic, not he who lights no fire and performs no work.\" Whether one acts as a <i>brahmacārī, gṛhastha, vānaprastha</i> or <i>sannyāsī,</i> he must act only for the satisfaction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva—Kṛṣṇa, the son of Vasudeva. This should be the principle for everyone's life. Nārada Muni has already described the principles of life for a <i>brahmacārī, vānaprastha</i> and <i>sannyāsī,</i> and now he is describing how a <i>gṛhastha</i> should live. The basic principle is to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead.",
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"The science of satisfying the Supreme Lord can be learned as described here: <i>sākṣād upāsīta mahā-munīn.</i> The word <i>mahā-munīn</i> refers to great saintly persons or devotees. Saintly persons are generally known as <i>munis,</i> or thoughtful philosophers concerned with transcendental subject matters, and <i>mahā-munīn</i> refers to those who have not only thoroughly studied the goal of life but who are actually engaged in satisfying the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva. These persons are known as devotees. Unless one associates with devotees, one cannot learn the science of <i>vāsudevārpaṇa,</i> or dedicating one's life to Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.",
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"In India the principles of this science were followed strictly. Even fifty years ago, I saw that in the villages of Bengal and the suburbs of Calcutta, people engaged in hearing <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> daily when all their activities ended, or at least in the evening before going to bed. Everyone would hear the <i>Bhāgavatam.</i> <i>Bhāgavata</i> classes were held in every village, and thus people had the advantage of hearing <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,</i> which describes everything about the aim of life—liberation or salvation. This will be clearly explained in the next verses."
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}
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{
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"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
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"canto": 7,
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"chapter": 14,
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"verse": 3,
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"reference": "SB 7.14.3-4",
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"devanagari": "शृण्वन्भगवतो ऽभीक्ष्णम् अवतारकथामृतम्\nश्रद्दधानो यथाकालम् उपशान्तजनावृतः\nसत्संगाच्छनकैः संगम् आत्मजायात्मजादिषु\nविमुंचेन्मुच्यमानेषु स्वयं स्वप्नवद् उत्थितः",
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"transliteration": "śṛṇvan bhagavato 'bhīkṣṇam\navatāra-kathāmṛtam\nśraddadhāno yathā-kālam\nupaśānta-janāvṛtaḥ\nsat-saṅgāc chanakaiḥ saṅgam\nātma-jāyātmajādiṣu\nvimuñcen mucyamāneṣu\nsvayaṁ svapnavad utthitaḥ",
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"synonyms": [
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{
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"word": "śṛṇvan",
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"meanings": [
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"hearing"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "bhagavataḥ",
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"meanings": [
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"of the Lord"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "abhīkṣṇam",
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"meanings": [
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"always"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "avatāra",
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"meanings": [
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"of the incarnations"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "kathā",
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"meanings": [
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"narrations"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "amṛtam",
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"meanings": [
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"the nectar"
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]
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},
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"word": "śraddadhānaḥ",
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"meanings": [
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"being very faithful in hearing about the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "yathā-kālam",
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"meanings": [
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"according to time (generally a gṛhastha can find time in the evening or in the afternoon)"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "upaśānta",
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"meanings": [
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"completely relieved of material activities"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "jana",
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"meanings": [
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"by persons"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "āvṛtaḥ",
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"meanings": [
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"being surrounded"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "sat-saṅgāt",
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"meanings": [
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"from such good association"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "śanakaiḥ",
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"meanings": [
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"gradually"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "saṅgam",
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"meanings": [
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"association"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "ātma",
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"meanings": [
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"in the body"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "jāyā",
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"meanings": [
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"wife"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "ātma-ja-ādiṣu",
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"meanings": [
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"as well as in children"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "vimuñcet",
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"meanings": [
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"one should get free from the attachment for such association"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "mucyamāneṣu",
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"meanings": [
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"being severed (from him)"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "svayam",
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"meanings": [
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"personally"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "svapna-vat",
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"meanings": [
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"like a dream"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "utthitaḥ",
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"meanings": [
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"awakened."
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]
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}
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],
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"translation": "<b>A gṛhastha must associate again and again with saintly persons, and with great respect he must hear the nectar of the activities of the Supreme Lord and His incarnations as these activities are described in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and other Purāṇas. Thus one should gradually become detached from affection for his wife and children, exactly like a man awakening from a dream.</b>",
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"purport": [
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"The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement has been established to give <i>gṛhasthas</i> all over the world an opportunity to hear <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> and <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> specifically. The process, as described in many ways, is one of hearing and chanting (<i>śṛṇvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṇaḥ puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ</i>). Everyone, especially the <i>gṛhasthas,</i> who are <i>mūḍha-dhī,</i> ignorant about the goal of life, should be given opportunities to hear about Kṛṣṇa. Simply by hearing, by attending lectures in the different centers of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, where topics of Kṛṣṇa from <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> and <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> are discussed, they will be purified of their sinful inclination for constant indulgence in illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication and gambling, which have all become prominent in modern days. Thus they can be raised to the status of light. <i>Puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ.</i> Simply by joining the <i>kīrtana</i>—Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare—and by hearing about Kṛṣṇa from <i>Bhagavad-gītā,</i> one must be purified, especially if he also takes <i>prasāda.</i> This is all going on in the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.",
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"Another specific description here is <i>śṛṇvan bhagavato 'bhīkṣṇam avatāra-kathāmṛtam.</i> It is not that because one has once finished <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> he should not hear it again. The word <i>abhīkṣṇam</i> is very important. We should hear again and again. There is no question of stopping: even if one has read these topics many times, he should go on reading again and again because <i>bhagavat-kathā,</i> the words spoken by Kṛṣṇa and spoken by Kṛṣṇa's devotees about Kṛṣṇa, are <i>amṛtam,</i> nectar. The more one drinks this <i>amṛtam,</i> the more he advances in his eternal life.",
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"The human form of life is meant for liberation, but unfortunately, due to the influence of Kali-yuga, every day the <i>gṛhasthas</i> are working hard like asses. Early in the morning they rise and travel even a hundred miles away to earn bread. Especially in the Western countries, I have seen that people awaken at five o'clock to go to offices and factories to earn their livelihood. People in Calcutta and Bombay also do this every day. They work very hard in the office or factory, and again they spend three or four hours in transportation returning home. Then they retire at ten o'clock and again rise early in the morning to go to their offices and factories. This kind of hard labor is described in the <i>śāstras</i> as the life of pigs and stool-eaters. <i>Nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛloke kaṣṭān kāmān arhate vid-bhujāṁ ye: </i>\"Of all living entities who have accepted material bodies in this world, one who has been awarded this human form should not work hard day and night simply for sense gratification, which is available even for dogs and hogs that eat stool.\" (<i>Bhāg.</i> 5.5.1) One must find some time for hearing <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> and <i>Bhagavad-gītā.</i> This is Vedic culture. One should work eight hours at the most to earn his livelihood, and either in the afternoon or in the evening a householder should associate with devotees to hear about the incarnations of Kṛṣṇa and His activities and thus be gradually liberated from the clutches of <i>māyā.</i> However, instead of finding time to hear about Kṛṣṇa, the householders, after working hard in offices and factories, find time to go to a restaurant or a club where instead of hearing about Kṛṣṇa and His activities they are very much pleased to hear about the political activities of demons and nondevotees and to enjoy sex, wine, women and meat and in this way waste their time. This is not <i>gṛhastha</i> life, but demoniac life. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, however, with its centers all over the world, gives such fallen and condemned persons an opportunity to hear about Kṛṣṇa.",
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"In a dream we form a society of friendship and love, and when we awaken we see that it has ceased to exist. Similarly, one's gross society, family and love are also a dream, and this dream will be over as soon as one dies. Therefore, whether one is dreaming in a subtle way or a gross way, these dreams are all false and temporary. One's real business is to understand that one is soul (<i>ahaṁ brahmāsmi</i>) and that his activities should therefore be different. Then one can be happy.",
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"<i>brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā<br/> na śocati na kāṅkṣati<br/> samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu<br/> mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām</i>",
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"\"One who is transcendentally situated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman and becomes fully joyful. He never laments nor desires to have anything; he is equally disposed toward all living entities. In that state he attains pure devotional service unto Me.\" (Bg. 18.54) One who is engaged in devotional service can very easily be liberated from the dream of materialistic life."
|
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],
|
||||
"verse_end": 4
|
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}
|
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|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 5,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.5",
|
||||
"devanagari": "यावदर्थम् उपासीनो देहे गेहे च पण्डितः\nविरक्तो रक्तवत्तत्र नृलोके नरतां न्यसेत्",
|
||||
"transliteration": "yāvad-artham upāsīno\ndehe gehe ca paṇḍitaḥ\nvirakto raktavat tatra\nnṛ-loke naratāṁ nyaset",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yāvat-artham",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"as much endeavor for one's livelihood as necessary"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "upāsīnaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"earning"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "dehe",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"in the body"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "gehe",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"in family matters"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ca",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"also"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "paṇḍitaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"one who is learned"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "viraktaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"not at all attached"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "rakta-vat",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"as if very much attached"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tatra",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"in this"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "nṛ-loke",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"human society"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "naratām",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the human form of life"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "nyaset",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"one should depict."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>While working to earn his livelihood as much as necessary to maintain body and soul together, one who is actually learned should live in human society unattached to family affairs, although externally appearing very much attached.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"This is the picture of ideal family life. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked Rāmānanda Rāya about the goal of life, Rāmānanda Rāya described it in different ways, according to the recommendations of the revealed scriptures, and finally Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya explained that one may stay in his own position, whether as a <i>brāhmaṇa,</i> a <i>śūdra,</i> a <i>sannyāsī</i> or whatever, but one must try to inquire about life's goal (<i>athāto brahma-jijñāsā</i>). This is the proper utilization of the human form of life. When one misuses the gift of the human form by unnecessarily indulging in the animal propensities of eating, sleeping, mating and defending and does not try to get out of the clutches of <i>māyā,</i> which subjects one to repeated birth, death, old age and disease, one is again punished by being forced to descend to the lower species and undergo evolution according to the laws of nature. <i>Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ.</i> Being completely under the grip of material nature, the living entity must evolve again from the lower species to the higher species until he at last returns to human life and gets the chance to be freed from the material clutches. A wise man, however, learns from the <i>śāstras</i> and <i>guru</i> that we living entities are all eternal but are put into troublesome conditions because of associating with different modes under the laws of material nature. He therefore concludes that in the human form of life he should not endeavor for unnecessary necessities, but should live a very simple life, just maintaining body and soul together. Certainly one requires some means of livelihood, and according to one's <i>varṇa</i> and <i>āśrama</i> this means of livelihood is prescribed in the <i>śāstras.</i> One should be satisfied with this. Therefore, instead of hankering for more and more money, a sincere devotee of the Lord tries to invent some ways to earn his livelihood, and when he does so Kṛṣṇa helps him. Earning one's livelihood, therefore, is not a problem. The real problem is how to get free from the bondage of birth, death and old age. Attaining this freedom, and not inventing unnecessary necessities, is the basic principle of Vedic civilization. One should be satisfied with whatever means of life comes automatically. The modern materialistic civilization is just the opposite of the ideal civilization. Every day the so-called leaders of modern society invent something contributing to a cumbersome way of life that implicates people more and more in the cycle of birth, death, old age and disease."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 6,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.6",
|
||||
"devanagari": "ज्ञातयः पितरौ पुत्रा भ्रातरः सुहृदो ऽपरे\nयद्वदन्ति यद् इच्छन्ति चानुमोदेत निर्ममः",
|
||||
"transliteration": "jñātayaḥ pitarau putrā\nbhrātaraḥ suhṛdo 'pare\nyad vadanti yad icchanti\ncānumodeta nirmamaḥ",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "jñātayaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"relatives, family members"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "pitarau",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the father and mother"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "putrāḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"children"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "bhrātaraḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"brothers"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "suhṛdaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"friends"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "apare",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"and others"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yat",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"whatever"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "vadanti",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"they suggest (in regard to one's means of livelihood)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yat",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"whatever"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "icchanti",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"they wish"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ca",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"and"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "anumodeta",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"he should agree"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "nirmamaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"but without taking them seriously."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>An intelligent man in human society should make his own program of activities very simple. If there are suggestions from his friends, children, parents, brothers or anyone else, he should externally agree, saying, \"Yes, that is all right,\" but internally he should be determined not to create a cumbersome life in which the purpose of life will not be fulfilled.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": []
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 7,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.7",
|
||||
"devanagari": "दिव्यं भौमं चान्तरीक्षं वित्तम् अच्युतनिर्मितम्\nतत्सर्वम् उपयुंजान एतत्कुर्यात्स्वतो बुधः",
|
||||
"transliteration": "divyaṁ bhaumaṁ cāntarīkṣaṁ\nvittam acyuta-nirmitam\ntat sarvam upayuñjāna\netat kuryāt svato budhaḥ",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "divyam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"easily obtained because of rainfall from the sky"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "bhaumam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"obtained from the mines and the sea"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ca",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"and"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "āntarīkṣam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"obtained by chance"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "vittam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"all property"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "acyuta-nirmitam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"created by the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tat",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"those things"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "sarvam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"all"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "upayuñjāna",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"utilizing (for all human society or all living beings)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "etat",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"this (maintaining body and soul together)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kuryāt",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"one must do"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "svataḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"obtained of itself, without extra endeavor"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "budhaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the intelligent person."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>The natural products created by the Supreme Personality of Godhead should be utilized to maintain the bodies and souls of all living entities. The necessities of life are of three types: those produced from the sky [from rainfall], from the earth [from the mines, the seas or the fields], and from the atmosphere [that which is obtained suddenly and unexpectedly].</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"We living entities in different forms are all children of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as confirmed by the Lord in <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (14.4):",
|
||||
"<i>sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya<br/> mūrtayaḥ sambhavanti yāḥ<br/> tāsāṁ brahma mahad-yonir<br/> ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā</i>",
|
||||
"\"It should be understood that all species of life, O son of Kuntī, are made possible by birth in this material nature, and that I am the seed-giving father.\" The Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa, is the father of all living entities in different species and forms. One who is intelligent can see that all living entities in the 8,400,000 bodily forms are part of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and are His sons. Everything within the material and spiritual worlds is the property of the Supreme Lord (<i>īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam</i>), and therefore everything has a relationship with Him. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī says in this regard:",
|
||||
"<i>prāpañcikatayā buddhyā<br/> hari-sambandhi-vastunaḥ<br/> mumukṣubhiḥ parityāgo<br/> vairāgyaṁ phalgu kathyate</i>",
|
||||
"\"One who rejects anything without knowledge of its relationship to Kṛṣṇa is incomplete in his renunciation.\" (<i>Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu</i> 1.2.256) Although Māyāvādī philosophers say that the material creation is false, actually it is not false; it is factual, but the idea that everything belongs to human society is false. Everything belongs to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for everything is created by Him. All living entities, being the Lord's sons, His eternal parts and parcels, have the right to use their father's property by nature's arrangement. As stated in the <i>Upaniṣads </i>[<i>Īśo 1</i>]<i>, tena tyaktena bhuñjīthā mā gṛdhaḥ kasya svid dhanam.</i> Everyone should be satisfied with the things allotted him by the Supreme Personality of Godhead; no one should encroach upon another's rights or property.",
|
||||
"In <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> it is said:",
|
||||
"<i>annād bhavanti bhūtāni<br/> parjanyād anna-sambhavaḥ<br/> yajñād bhavati parjanyo<br/> yajñaḥ karma-samudbhavaḥ</i>",
|
||||
"\"All living bodies subsist on food grains, which are produced from rains. Rains are produced by performance of <i>yajña</i> [sacrifice], and <i>yajña</i> is born of prescribed duties.\" (Bg. 3.14) When food grains are sufficiently produced, both animals and human beings can be nourished without difficulty for their maintenance. This is nature's arrangement. <i>Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇani guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ.</i> Everyone is acting under the influence of material nature, and only fools think they can improve upon what God has created. The householders are specifically responsible for seeing that the laws of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are maintained, without fighting between men, communities, societies or nations. Human society should properly utilize the gifts of God, especially the food grains that grow because of rain falling from the sky. As stated in <i>Bhagavad-gītā,</i> <i>yajñād bhavati parjanyaḥ.</i> So that rainfall will be regulated, humanity should perform <i>yajñas,</i> sacrifices. <i>Yajñas</i> were previously performed with offerings of oblations of ghee and food grains, but in this age, of course, this is no longer possible, for the production of ghee and food grains has diminished because of the sinful life of human society. However, people should take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa <i>mantra,</i> as recommended in the <i>śāstras</i> (<i>yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtana-prāyair yajanti hi sumedhasaḥ</i>). If people throughout the world take to the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement and chant the easy sound vibration of the transcendental name and fame of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, there will be no scarcity of rainfall; consequently food grains, fruits and flowers will be properly produced, and all the necessities of life will be easily obtained. <i>Gṛhasthas,</i> or householders, should take the responsibility for organizing such natural production. It is therefore said, <i>tasyaiva hetoḥ prayateta kovidaḥ.</i> An intelligent person should try to spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness through the chanting of the holy name of the Lord, and all the necessities of life will automatically follow."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 8,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.8",
|
||||
"devanagari": "यावद्भ्रियेत जठरं तावत्स्वत्वं हि देहिनाम्\nअधिकं यो ऽभिमन्येत स स्तेनो दण्डम् अर्हति",
|
||||
"transliteration": "yāvad bhriyeta jaṭharaṁ\ntāvat svatvaṁ hi dehinām\nadhikaṁ yo 'bhimanyeta\nsa steno daṇḍam arhati",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yāvat",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"as much as"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "bhriyeta",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"may be filled"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "jaṭharam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the stomach"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tāvat",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"that much"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "svatvam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"proprietorship"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "hi",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"indeed"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "dehinām",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"of the living entities"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "adhikam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"more than that"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"anyone who"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "abhimanyeta",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"may accept"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "saḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"he"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "stenaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"a thief"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "daṇḍam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"punishment"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "arhati",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"deserves."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>One may claim proprietorship to as much wealth as required to maintain body and soul together, but one who desires proprietorship over more than that must be considered a thief, and he deserves to be punished by the laws of nature.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"By God's favor we sometimes get large quantities of food grains or suddenly receive some contribution or unexpected profit in business. In this way we may get more money than needed. So, how should that be spent? There is no need to accumulate money in the bank merely to increase one's bank balance. Such a mentality is described in <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (16.13) as asuric, demoniac.",
|
||||
"<i>idam adya mayā labdham<br/> imaṁ prāpsye manoratham<br/> idam astīdam api me<br/> bhaviṣyati punar dhanam</i>",
|
||||
"\"The demoniac person thinks, 'So much wealth do I have today, and I will gain more according to my schemes. So much is mine now, and it will increase in the future, more and more.' \" The <i>asura</i> is concerned with how much wealth he has in the bank today and how it will increase tomorrow, but unrestricted accumulation of wealth is not permitted either by the <i>śāstra</i> or, in the modern age, by the government. Actually, if one has more than one requires for his necessities, the extra money should be spent for Kṛṣṇa. According to the Vedic civilization, it should all be given to the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, as ordered by the Lord Himself in <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (9.27):",
|
||||
"<i>yat karoṣi yad aśnāsi<br/> yaj juhoṣi dadāsi yat<br/> yat tapasyasi kaunteya<br/> tat kuruṣva mad-arpaṇam</i>",
|
||||
"\"O son of Kuntī, all that you do, all that you eat, all that you offer and give away, as well as all austerities that you may perform, should be done as an offering unto Me.\" <i>Gṛhasthas</i> should spend extra money only for the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.",
|
||||
"The <i>gṛhasthas</i> should give contributions for constructing temples of the Supreme Lord and for preaching of <i>Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā,</i> or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, all over the world. <i>Śṛṇvan bhagavato'bhīkṣṇam avatāra-kathāmṛtam.</i> In the <i>śāstras</i>—the <i>Purāṇas</i> and other Vedic literatures—there are so many narrations describing the transcendental activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and everyone should hear them again and again. For example, even if we read the entire <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> every day, all eighteen chapters, in each reading we shall find a new explanation. That is the nature of transcendental literature. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement therefore affords one an opportunity to spend his extra earnings for the benefit of all human society by expanding Kṛṣṇa consciousness. In India especially we see hundreds and thousands of temples that were constructed by the wealthy men of society who did not want to be called thieves and be punished.",
|
||||
"This verse is very important. As stated here, one who accumulates more money than needed is a thief, and by the laws of nature he will be punished. One who acquires more money than necessary becomes desirous of enjoying material comforts more and more. Materialists are inventing so many artificial necessities, and those who have money, being allured by such artificial necessities, try to accumulate money to possess more and more. This is the idea of modern economic development. Everyone is engaged in earning money, and the money is kept in the bank, which then offers money to the public. In this cycle of activities, everyone is engaged in getting more and more money, and therefore the ideal goal of human life is being lost. Concisely, it may be said that everyone is a thief and is liable to be punished. Punishment by the laws of nature takes place in the cycle of birth and death. No one dies fully satisfied by the fulfillment of material desires, for that is not possible. Therefore at the time of one's death one is very sorry, being unable to fulfill his desires. By the laws of nature one is then offered another body to fulfill his unsatisfied desires, and upon taking birth again, accepting another material body, one voluntarily accepts the threefold miseries of life."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 9,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.9",
|
||||
"devanagari": "मृगोष्ट्रखरमर्काखु सरीसृप्खगमक्षिकाः\nआत्मनः पुत्रवत्पश्येत्तैर् एषाम् अन्तरं कियत्",
|
||||
"transliteration": "mṛgoṣṭra-khara-markākhu-\nsarīsṛp khaga-makṣikāḥ\nātmanaḥ putravat paśyet\ntair eṣām antaraṁ kiyat",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "mṛga",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"deer"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "uṣṭra",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"camels"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "khara",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"asses"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "marka",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"monkeys"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ākhu",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"mice"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "sarīsṛp",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"snakes"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "khaga",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"birds"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "makṣikāḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"flies"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ātmanaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"of one's self"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "putra-vat",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"like the sons"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "paśyet",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"one should see"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "taiḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"with those sons"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "eṣām",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"of these animals"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "antaram",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"difference"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kiyat",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"how little."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>One should treat animals such as deer, camels, asses, monkeys, mice, snakes, birds and flies exactly like one's own son. How little difference there actually is between children and these innocent animals.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"One who is in Kṛṣṇa consciousness understands that there is no difference between the animals and the innocent children in one's home. Even in ordinary life, it is our practical experience that a household dog or cat is regarded on the same level as one's children, without any envy. Like children, the unintelligent animals are also sons of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore a Kṛṣṇa conscious person, even though a householder, should not discriminate between children and poor animals. Unfortunately, modern society has devised many means for killing animals in different forms of life. For example, in the agricultural fields there may be many mice, flies and other creatures that disturb production, and sometimes they are killed by pesticides. In this verse, however, such killing is forbidden. Every living entity should be nourished by the food given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Human society should not consider itself the only enjoyer of all the properties of God; rather, men should understand that all the other animals also have a claim to God's property. In this verse even the snake is mentioned, indicating that a householder should not be envious even of a snake. If everyone is fully satisfied by eating food that is a gift from the Lord, why should there be envy between one living being and another? In modern days people are very much inclined toward communistic ideas of society, but we do not think that there can be any better communistic idea than that which is explained in this verse of <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.</i> Even in the communistic countries the poor animals are killed without consideration, although they also should have the right to take their allotted food with which to live."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 10,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.10",
|
||||
"devanagari": "त्रिवर्गं नातिकृच्छ्रेण भजेत गृहमेध्य् अपि\nयथादेशं यथाकालं यावद्दैवोपपादितम्",
|
||||
"transliteration": "tri-vargaṁ nātikṛcchreṇa\nbhajeta gṛha-medhy api\nyathā-deśaṁ yathā-kālaṁ\nyāvad-daivopapāditam",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tri-vargam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"three principles, namely religiosity, economic development and sense gratification"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "na",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"not"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ati-kṛcchreṇa",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"by very severe endeavor"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "bhajeta",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"should execute"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "gṛha-medhī",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"a person interested only in family life"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "api",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"although"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yathā-deśam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"according to the place"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yathā-kālam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"according to the time"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yāvat",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"as much as"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "daiva",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"by the grace of the Lord"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "upapāditam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"obtained."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>Even if one is a householder rather than a brahmacārī, a sannyāsī or a vānaprastha, one should not endeavor very hard for religiosity, economic development or satisfaction of the senses. Even in householder life, one should be satisfied to maintain body and soul together with whatever is available with minimum endeavor, according to place and time, by the grace of the Lord. One should not engage oneself in ugra-karma.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"In human life there are four principles to be fulfilled—<i>dharma, artha, kāma</i> and <i>mokṣa</i> (religion, economic development, sense gratification, and liberation). First one should be religious, observing various rules and regulations, and then one must earn some money for maintenance of his family and the satisfaction of his senses. The most important ceremony for sense gratification is marriage because sexual intercourse is one of the principal necessities of the material body. <i>Yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi-sukhaṁ hi tuccham.</i> Although sexual intercourse is not a very exalted requisite in life, both animals and men require some sense gratification because of material propensities. One should be satisfied with married life and not expend energy for extra sense gratification or sex life.",
|
||||
"As for economic development, the responsibility for this should be entrusted mainly to the <i>vaiśyas</i> and <i>gṛhasthas.</i> Human society should be divided into <i>varṇas</i> and <i>āśramas—brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra, brahmacarya, gṛhastha, vānaprastha</i> and <i>sannyāsa.</i> Economic development is necessary for <i>gṛhasthas.</i> <i>Brāhmaṇa gṛhasthas</i> should be satisfied with a life of <i>adhyayana, adhyāpana, yajana</i> and <i>yājana</i>—being learned scholars, teaching others to be scholars, learning how to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, and also teaching others how to worship Lord Viṣṇu, or even the demigods. A <i>brāhmaṇa</i> should do this without remuneration, but he is allowed to accept charity from a person whom he teaches how to be a human being. As for the <i>kṣatriyas,</i> they are supposed to be the kings of the land, and the land should be distributed to the <i>vaiśyas</i> for agricultural activities, cow protection and trade. <i>Śūdras</i> must work; sometimes they should engage in occupational duties as cloth manufacturers, weavers, blacksmiths, goldsmiths, brass-smiths, and so on, or else they should engage in hard labor to produce food grains.",
|
||||
"These are the different occupational duties by which men should earn their livelihood, and in this way human society should be simple. At the present moment, however, everyone is engaged in technological advancement, which is described in <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> as <i>ugra-karma</i>—extremely severe endeavor. This <i>ugra-karma</i> is the cause of agitation within the human mind. Men are engaging in many sinful activities and becoming degraded by opening slaughterhouses, breweries and cigarette factories, as well as nightclubs and other establishments for sense enjoyment. In this way they are spoiling their lives. In all of these activities, of course, householders are involved, and therefore it is advised here, with the use of the word <i>api,</i> that even though one is a householder, one should not engage himself in severe hardships. One's means of livelihood should be extremely simple. As for those who are not <i>gṛhasthas</i>—the <i>brahmacārīs, vānaprasthas</i> and <i>sannyāsīs</i>—they don't have to do anything but strive for advancement in spiritual life. This means that three fourths of the entire population should stop sense gratification and simply be engaged in the advancement of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Only one fourth of the population should be <i>gṛhastha,</i> and that should be according to laws of restricted sense gratification. The <i>gṛhasthas, vānaprasthas, brahmacārīs</i> and <i>sannyāsīs</i> should endeavor together with their total energy to become Kṛṣṇa conscious. This type of civilization is called <i>daiva-varṇāśrama.</i> One of the objectives of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is to establish this <i>daiva-varṇāśrama,</i> but not to encourage so-called <i>varṇāśrama</i> without scientifically organized endeavor by human society."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 11,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.11",
|
||||
"devanagari": "आश्वाघान्ते ऽवसायिभ्यः कामान्संविभजेद्यथा\nअप्य् एकाम् आत्मनो दारां नृणां स्वत्वग्रहो यतः",
|
||||
"transliteration": "āśvāghānte 'vasāyibhyaḥ\nkāmān saṁvibhajed yathā\napy ekām ātmano dārāṁ\nnṛṇāṁ svatva-graho yataḥ",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"even up to"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "śva",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the dog"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "agha",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"sinful animals or living entities"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ante avasāyibhyaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"unto the caṇḍālas, the lowest of men (dog-eaters and hog-eaters)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kāmān",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the necessities of life"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "saṁvibhajet",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"should divide"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yathā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"as much as (deserved)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "api",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"even"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ekām",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"one"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ātmanaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"own"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "dārām",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the wife"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "nṛṇām",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"of the people in general"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "svatva-grahaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the wife is accepted as being identical with one's self"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yataḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"because of which."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>Dogs, fallen persons and untouchables, including caṇḍālas [dog-eaters], should all be maintained with their proper necessities, which should be contributed by the householders. Even one's wife at home, with whom one is most intimately attached, should be offered for the reception of guests and people in general.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"Although in modern society the dog is accepted as part of one's household paraphernalia, in the Vedic system of household life the dog is untouchable; as mentioned here, a dog may be maintained with proper food, but it cannot be allowed to enter one's house, what to speak of the bedroom. Outcastes or untouchable <i>caṇḍālas</i> should also be provided with the necessities for life. The word used in this connection is <i>yathā,</i> which means \"as much as deserved.\" The outcastes should not be given money with which to indulge in more than they need, for otherwise they will misuse it. At the present moment, for example, low-class men are generally paid quite amply, but instead of using their money to cultivate knowledge and advance in life, such low-class men use their extra money for wine-drinking and similar sinful activities. As mentioned in <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (4.13), <i>cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ:</i> there must be four divisions of human society according to the work and qualities of men. Men with the lowest qualities cannot do any work that requires higher intelligence. However, although such a division of men must exist according to their quality and work, it is suggested herewith that everyone must have the necessities of life. The communists of the present day are in favor of supplying the necessities of life to everyone, but they consider only the human beings and not the lower animals. The <i>Bhāgavatam's</i> principles are so broad, however, that it recommends that the necessities of life be supplied to everyone, man or animal, regardless of good or bad qualities.",
|
||||
"The idea of giving even one's wife to the service of the public is that one's intimate relationship with his wife, or one's excessive attachment for his wife, by which one thinks his wife to be his better half or to be identical with himself, must gradually be given up. As formerly suggested, the idea of ownership, even of one's family, must be abandoned. The dream of material life is the cause of bondage in the cycle of birth and death, and therefore one should give up this dream. Consequently, in the human form of life one's attachment for his wife should be given up, as suggested herein."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 12,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.12",
|
||||
"devanagari": "जह्याद्यदर्थे स्वान्प्राणान्हन्याद्वा पितरं गुरुम्\nतस्यां स्वत्वं स्त्रियां जह्याद्यस्तेन ह्य् अजितो जितः",
|
||||
"transliteration": "jahyād yad-arthe svān prāṇān\nhanyād vā pitaraṁ gurum\ntasyāṁ svatvaṁ striyāṁ jahyād\nyas tena hy ajito jitaḥ",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "jahyāt",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"one may give up"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yat-arthe",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"for whom"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "svān",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"one's own"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "prāṇān",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"life"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "hanyāt",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"one may kill"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "vā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"or"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "pitaram",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the father"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "gurum",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the teacher or spiritual master"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tasyām",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"unto her"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "svatvam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"ownership"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "striyām",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"unto the wife"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "jahyāt",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"one must give up"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"one who (the Supreme Personality of Godhead)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tena",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"by him"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "hi",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"indeed"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ajitaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"cannot be conquered"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "jitaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"conquered."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>One so seriously considers one's wife to be his own that he sometimes kills himself for her or kills others, including even his parents or his spiritual master or teacher. Therefore if one can give up his attachment to such a wife, he conquers the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is never conquered by anyone.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"Every husband is too much attached to his wife. Therefore, to give up one's connection with his wife is extremely difficult, but if one can somehow or other give it up for the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then the Lord Himself, although not able to be conquered by anyone, comes very much under the control of the devotee. And if the Lord is pleased with a devotee, what is there that is unobtainable? Why should one not give up his affection for his wife and children and take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead? Where is the loss of anything material? Householder life means attachment for one's wife, whereas <i>sannyāsa</i> means detachment from one's wife and attachment to Kṛṣṇa."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 13,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.13",
|
||||
"devanagari": "कृमिविड्भस्मनिष्ठान्तं क्वेदं तुच्छं कलेवरम्\nक्व तदीयरतिर्भार्या क्वायम् आत्मा नभश्छदिः",
|
||||
"transliteration": "kṛmi-viḍ-bhasma-niṣṭhāntaṁ\nkvedaṁ tucchaṁ kalevaram\nkva tadīya-ratir bhāryā\nkvāyam ātmā nabhaś-chadiḥ",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kṛmi",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"insects, germs"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "viṭ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"stool"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "bhasma",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"ashes"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "niṣṭha",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"attachment"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "antam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"at the end"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kva",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"what is"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "idam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"this (body)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tuccham",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"very insignificant"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kalevaram",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"material tabernacle"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kva",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"what is that"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tadīya-ratiḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"attraction for that body"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "bhāryā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"wife"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kva ayam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"what is the value of this body"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ātmā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the Supreme Soul"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "nabhaḥ-chadiḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"all-pervading like the sky."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>Through proper deliberation, one should give up attraction to his wife's body because that body will ultimately be transformed into small insects, stool or ashes. What is the value of this insignificant body? How much greater is the Supreme Being, who is all-pervading like the sky?</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"Here also, the same point is stressed: one should give up attachment for his wife—or, in other words, for sex life. If one is intelligent, he can think of his wife's body as nothing but a lump of matter that will ultimately be transformed into small insects, stool or ashes. In different societies there are different ways of dealing with the human body at the time of the funeral ceremony. In some societies the body is given to the vultures to be eaten, and therefore the body ultimately turns to vulture stool. Sometimes the body is merely abandoned, and in that case the body is consumed by small insects. In some societies the body is immediately burned after death, and thus it becomes ashes. In any case, if one intelligently considers the constitution of the body and the soul beyond it, what is the value of the body? <i>Antavanta ime dehā nityasyoktāḥ śarīriṇaḥ: </i>the body may perish at any moment, but the soul is eternal. If one gives up attachment for the body and increases his attachment for the spirit soul, his life is successful. It is merely a matter of deliberation."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 14,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.14",
|
||||
"devanagari": "सिद्धैर्यज्ञावशिष्टार्थैः कल्पयेद्वृत्तिम् आत्मनः\nशेषे स्वत्वं त्यजन्प्राज्ञः पदवीं महताम् इयात्",
|
||||
"transliteration": "siddhair yajñāvaśiṣṭārthaiḥ\nkalpayed vṛttim ātmanaḥ\nśeṣe svatvaṁ tyajan prājñaḥ\npadavīṁ mahatām iyāt",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "siddhaiḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"things obtained by the grace of the Lord"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yajñā-avaśiṣṭa-arthaiḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"things obtained after a sacrifice is offered to the Lord or after the recommended pañca-sūnā yajña is performed"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kalpayet",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"one should consider"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "vṛttim",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the means of livelihood"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ātmanaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"for the self"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "śeṣe",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"at the end"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "svatvam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"so-called proprietorship over one's wife, children, home, business and so on"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tyajan",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"giving up"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "prājñaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"those who are wise"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "padavīm",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the position"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "mahatām",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"of the great personalities who are fully satisfied in spiritual consciousness"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "iyāt",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"should achieve."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>An intelligent person should be satisfied with eating prasāda [food offered to the Lord] or with performing the five different kinds of yajña [pañca-sūnā]. By such activities, one can give up attachment for the body and so-called proprietorship with reference to the body. When one is able to do this, he is firmly fixed in the position of a mahātmā.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"Nature already has an arrangement to feed us. By the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, there is an arrangement for eatables for every living entity within the 8,400,000 forms of life. <i>Eko bahūnāṁ yo vidadhāti kāmān.</i> Every living entity has to eat something, and in fact the necessities for his life have already been provided by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Lord has provided food for both the elephant and the ant. All living beings are living at the cost of the Supreme Lord, and therefore one who is intelligent should not work very hard for material comforts. Rather, one should save his energy for advancing in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. All created things in the sky, in the air, on land and in the sea belong to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and every living being is provided with food. Therefore one should not be very much anxious about economic development and unnecessarily waste time and energy with the risk of falling down in the cycle of birth and death."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 15,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.15",
|
||||
"devanagari": "देवान् ऋषीन्नृभूतानि पिते᳙न् आत्मानम् अन्वहम्\nस्ववृत्त्यागतवित्तेन यजेत पुरुषं पृथक्",
|
||||
"transliteration": "devān ṛṣīn nṛ-bhūtāni\npitèn ātmānam anvaham\nsva-vṛttyāgata-vittena\nyajeta puruṣaṁ pṛthak",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "devān",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"unto the demigods"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ṛṣīn",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"unto the great sages"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "nṛ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"unto human society"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "bhūtāni",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"unto the living entities in general"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "pitèn",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"unto the forefathers"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ātmānam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"one's self or the Supreme Self"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "anvaham",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"daily"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "sva-vṛttyā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"by one's means of livelihood"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "āgata-vittena",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"money that automatically comes"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yajeta",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"one should worship"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "puruṣam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the person situated in everyone's heart"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "pṛthak",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"separately."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>Every day, one should worship the Supreme Being who is situated in everyone's heart, and on this basis one should separately worship the demigods, the saintly persons, ordinary human beings and living entities, one's forefathers and one's self. In this way one is able to worship the Supreme Being in the core of everyone's heart.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": []
|
||||
}
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 16,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.16",
|
||||
"devanagari": "यर्ह्य् आत्मनो ऽधिकाराद्याः सर्वाः स्युर्यज्ञसम्पदः\nवैतानिकेन विधिना अग्निहोत्रादिना यजेत्",
|
||||
"transliteration": "yarhy ātmano 'dhikārādyāḥ\nsarvāḥ syur yajña-sampadaḥ\nvaitānikena vidhinā\nagni-hotrādinā yajet",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yarhi",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"when"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ātmanaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"of one's self"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "adhikāra-ādyāḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"things possessed by him under full control"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "sarvāḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"everything"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "syuḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"becomes"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yajña-sampadaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"paraphernalia for performing yajña, or the means for pleasing the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "vaitānikena",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"with authorized books that direct the performance of yajña"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "vidhinā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"according to regulative principles"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "agni-hotra-ādinā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"by offering sacrifices to the fire, etc."
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yajet",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"one should worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>When one is enriched with wealth and knowledge which are under his full control and by means of which he can perform yajña or please the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one must perform sacrifices, offering oblations to the fire according to the directions of the śāstras. In this way one should worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"If a <i>gṛhastha,</i> or householder, is sufficiently educated in Vedic knowledge and has become sufficiently rich to offer worship to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he must perform <i>yajñas</i> as directed by the authorized scriptures. <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (<i>3.9</i>) clearly says, <i>yajñārthāt karmaṇo 'nyatra loko 'yaṁ karma-bandhanaḥ:</i> everyone may be engaged in his occupational duties, but the result of these duties should be offered for sacrifice to satisfy the Supreme Lord. If one is fortunate enough to possess transcendental knowledge as well as the money with which to perform sacrifices, one must do it according to the directions given in the <i>śāstras.</i> It is said in <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> (12.3.52):",
|
||||
"<i>kṛte yad dhyāyato viṣṇuṁ<br/> tretāyāṁ yajato makhaiḥ<br/> dvāpare paricaryāyāṁ<br/> kalau tad dhari-kīrtanāt</i>",
|
||||
"The entire Vedic civilization aims at satisfying the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This was possible in Satya-yuga by meditation upon the Supreme Lord within the core of one's heart and in Tretā-yuga by the performance of costly <i>yajñas.</i> The same goal could be achieved in Dvāpara-yuga by worship of the Lord in the temple, and in this age of Kali one can achieve the same goal by performing <i>saṅkīrtana-yajña.</i> Therefore one who has education and wealth must use them to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead by helping the <i>saṅkīrtana</i> movement that has already begun—the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. All educated and wealthy persons must join this movement, since money and education are meant for service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. If money and education are not engaged in the service of the Lord, these valuable assets must be engaged in the service of <i>māyā.</i> The education of so-called scientists, philosophers and poets is now engaged in the service of <i>māyā,</i> and the wealth of the rich is also engaged in <i>māyā's</i> service. The service of <i>māyā,</i> however, creates a chaotic condition in the world. Therefore the wealthy man and the educated man should sacrifice their knowledge and opulence by dedicating them for the satisfaction of the Supreme Lord and joining this <i>saṅkīrtana</i> movement (<i>yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtana-prāyair yajanti hi sumedhasaḥ</i>)."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 17,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.17",
|
||||
"devanagari": "न ह्य् अग्निमुखतो ऽयं वै भगवान्सर्वयज्ञभुक्\nइज्येत हविषा राजन्यथा विप्रमुखे हुतैः",
|
||||
"transliteration": "na hy agni-mukhato 'yaṁ vai\nbhagavān sarva-yajña-bhuk\nijyeta haviṣā rājan\nyathā vipra-mukhe hutaiḥ",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "na",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"not"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "hi",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"indeed"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "agni",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"fire"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "mukhataḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"from the mouth or the flames"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ayam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"this"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "vai",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"certainly"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "bhagavān",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "sarva-yajña-bhuk",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the enjoyer of the results of all kinds of sacrifices"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ijyeta",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"is worshiped"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "haviṣā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"by offering of clarified butter"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "rājan",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"O King"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yathā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"as much as"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "vipra-mukhe",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"through the mouth of a brāhmaṇa"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "hutaiḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"by offering him first-class food."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, is the enjoyer of sacrificial offerings. Yet although His Lordship eats the oblations offered in the fire, my dear King, He is still more satisfied when nice food made of grains and ghee is offered to Him through the mouths of qualified brāhmaṇas.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"As stated in <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (<i>3.9</i>), <i>yajñārthāt karmaṇo 'nyatra loko 'yaṁ karma-bandhanaḥ:</i> all fruitive activities should be performed for sacrifice, which should be directed toward pleasing Kṛṣṇa. As stated elsewhere in <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (5.29), <i>bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram:</i> He is the Supreme Lord and enjoyer of everything. However, although sacrifice may be offered to please Kṛṣṇa, He is more pleased when grains and ghee, instead of being offered in the fire, are prepared as <i>prasāda</i> and distributed, first to the <i>brāhmaṇas</i> and then to others. This system pleases Kṛṣṇa more than anything else. Furthermore, at the present time there is very little chance to offer sacrifices by pouring oblations of food grains and ghee into the fire. Especially in India, there is practically no ghee; for everything that should be done with ghee, people use a certain type of oil preparation. Oil, however, is never recommended for offering in a sacrificial fire. In Kali-yuga, the available quantity of food grains and ghee is gradually diminishing, and people are embarrassed that they cannot produce sufficient ghee and food grains. Under the circumstances, the <i>śāstras</i> enjoin, <i>yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtana-prāyair yajanti hi sumedhasaḥ: </i>in this age, those who are intellectual offer <i>yajña,</i> or perform sacrifices, through the <i>saṅkīrtana</i> movement. Everyone should join the <i>saṅkīrtana</i> movement, offering to the fire of this movement the oblations of his knowledge and riches. In our <i>saṅkīrtana</i> movement, or Hare Kṛṣṇa movement, we offer sumptuous <i>prasāda</i> to the Deity and later distribute the same <i>prasāda</i> to the <i>brāhmaṇas,</i> the Vaiṣṇavas and then to the people in general. Kṛṣṇa's <i>prasāda</i> is offered to the <i>brāhmaṇas</i> and Vaiṣṇavas, and the <i>prasāda</i> of the <i>brāhmaṇas</i> and Vaiṣṇavas is offered to the general populace. This kind of sacrifice—chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa <i>mantra</i> and distribution of <i>prasāda</i>—is the most perfect and bona fide way of offering sacrifice for the pleasure of Yajña, or Viṣṇu."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 18,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.18",
|
||||
"devanagari": "तस्माद्ब्राह्मणदेवेषु मर्त्यादिषु यथार्हतः\nतैस्तैः कामैर्यजस्वैनं क्षेत्रज्ञं ब्राह्मणान् अनु",
|
||||
"transliteration": "tasmād brāhmaṇa-deveṣu\nmartyādiṣu yathārhataḥ\ntais taiḥ kāmair yajasvainaṁ\nkṣetra-jñaṁ brāhmaṇān anu",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tasmāt",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"therefore"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "brāhmaṇa-deveṣu",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"through the brāhmaṇas and the demigods"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "martya-ādiṣu",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"through ordinary human beings and other living entities"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yathā-arhataḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"according to your ability"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "taiḥ taiḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"with all those"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kāmaiḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"various objects of enjoyment such as sumptuous food, flower garlands, sandalwood paste, etc."
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yajasva",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"you should worship"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "enam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"this"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kṣetra-jñam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"Supreme Lord situated in the hearts of all beings"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "brāhmaṇān",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the brāhmaṇas"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "anu",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"after."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>Therefore, my dear King, first offer prasāda unto the brāhmaṇas and the demigods, and after sumptuously feeding them you may distribute prasāda to other living entities according to your ability. In this way you will be able to worship all living entities—or, in other words, the supreme living entity within every living entity.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"To distribute <i>prasāda</i> to all living entities, the process is that we must first offer <i>prasāda</i> to the <i>brāhmaṇas</i> and the Vaiṣṇavas, for the demigods are represented by the <i>brāhmaṇas.</i> In this way the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated in everyone's heart, will be worshiped. This is the Vedic system of offering <i>prasāda.</i> Whenever there is a ceremony for distribution of <i>prasāda,</i> the <i>prasāda</i> is offered first to the <i>brāhmaṇas,</i> then to the children and old men, then to the women, and then to animals like dogs and other domestic animals. When it is said that Nārāyaṇa, the Supreme Being, is situated in everyone's heart, this does not mean that everyone has become Nārāyaṇa or that a particular poor man has become Nārāyaṇa. Such a conclusion is rejected herein."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 19,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.19",
|
||||
"devanagari": "कुर्याद् अपरपक्षीयं मासि प्रौष्ठपदे द्विजः\nश्राद्धं पित्रोर्यथावित्तं तद्बन्धूनां च वित्तवान्",
|
||||
"transliteration": "kuryād apara-pakṣīyaṁ\nmāsi prauṣṭha-pade dvijaḥ\nśrāddhaṁ pitror yathā-vittaṁ\ntad-bandhūnāṁ ca vittavān",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kuryāt",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"one should perform"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "apara-pakṣīyam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"during the fortnight of the dark moon"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "māsi",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"in the month of Āśvina (October-November)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "prauṣṭha-pade",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"in the month of Bhādra (August-September)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "dvijaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"twiceborn"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "śrāddham",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"oblations"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "pitroḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"unto the forefathers"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yathā-vittam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"according to one's means of income"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tat-bandhūnām ca",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"as well as relatives of forefathers"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "vitta-vān",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"one who is sufficiently rich."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>A brāhmaṇa who is sufficiently rich must offer oblations to the forefathers during the dark-moon fortnight in the latter part of the month of Bhādra. Similarly, he should offer oblations to the relatives of the forefathers during the mahālayā ceremonies in the month of Āśvina.*</b>",
|
||||
"purport": []
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 20,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.20-23",
|
||||
"devanagari": "अयने विषुवे कुर्याद्व्यतीपाते दिनक्षये\nचन्द्रादित्योपरागे च द्वादश्यां श्रवणेषु च\nतृतीयायां शुक्लपक्षे नवम्याम् अथ कार्तिके\nचतसृष्व् अप्य् अष्टकासु हेमन्ते शिशिरे तथा\nमाघे च सितसप्तम्यां मघाराकासमागमे\nराकया चानुमत्या च मासर्क्षाणि युतान्य् अपि\nद्वादश्याम् अनुराधा स्याच्छ्रवणस्तिस्र उत्तराः\nतिसृष्व् एकादशी वासु जन्मर्क्षश्रोणयोगयुक्",
|
||||
"transliteration": "ayane viṣuve kuryād\nvyatīpāte dina-kṣaye\ncandrādityoparāge ca\ndvādaśyāṁ śravaṇeṣu ca\ntṛtīyāyāṁ śukla-pakṣe\nnavamyām atha kārtike\ncatasṛṣv apy aṣṭakāsu\nhemante śiśire tathā\nmāghe ca sita-saptamyāṁ\nmaghā-rākā-samāgame\nrākayā cānumatyā ca\nmāsarkṣāṇi yutāny api\ndvādaśyām anurādhā syāc\nchravaṇas tisra uttarāḥ\ntisṛṣv ekādaśī vāsu\njanmarkṣa-śroṇa-yoga-yuk",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ayane",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"on the day when the sun begins to move north, or Makara-saṅkrānti, and on the day when the sun begins to move south, or Karkaṭa-saṅkrānti"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "viṣuve",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"on the Meṣa-saṅkrānti and on the Tulā-saṅkrānti"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kuryāt",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"one should perform"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "vyatīpāte",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"in the yoga named Vyatīpāta"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "dina-kṣaye",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"on that day in which three tithis are combined"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "candra-āditya-uparāge",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"at the time of the eclipse of either the moon or the sun"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ca",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"and also"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "dvādaśyām śravaṇeṣu",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"on the twelfth lunar day and in the nakṣatra named Śravaṇa"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ca",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"and"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tṛtīyāyām",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"on the Akṣaya-tṛtīyā day"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "śukla-pakṣe",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"in the bright fortnight of the month"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "navamyām",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"on the ninth lunar day"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "atha",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"also"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kārtike",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"in the month of Kārtika (October-November)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "catasṛṣu",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"on the four"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "api",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"also"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "aṣṭakāsu",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"on the Aṣṭakās"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "hemante",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"before the winter season"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "śiśire",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"in the winter season"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tathā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"and also"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "māghe",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"in the month of Māgha (January-February)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ca",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"and"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "sita-saptamyām",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"on the seventh lunar day of the bright fortnight"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "maghā-rākā-samāgame",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"in the conjunction of Maghā-nakṣatra and the full-moon day"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "rākayā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"with a day of the completely full moon"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ca",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"and"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "anumatyā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"with a full-moon day when the moon is slightly less than completely full"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ca",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"and"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "māsa-ṛkṣāṇi",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the nakṣatras that are the sources of the names of the various months"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yutāni",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"are conjoined"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "api",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"also"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "dvādaśyām",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"on the twelfth lunar day"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "anurādhā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the nakṣatra named Anurādhā"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "syāt",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"may occur"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "śravaṇaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the nakṣatra named Śravaṇa"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tisraḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the three (nakṣatras)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "uttarāḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the nakṣatras named Uttarā (Uttara-phalgunī, Uttarāṣāḍhā and Uttara-bhādrapadā)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tisṛṣu",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"on three"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ekādaśī",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the eleventh lunar day"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "vā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"or"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "āsu",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"on these"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "janma-ṛkṣa",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"of one's own janma-nakṣatra, or birth star"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "śroṇa",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"of Śravaṇa-nakṣatra"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yoga",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"by a conjunction"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yuk",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"having."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>One should perform the śrāddha ceremony on the Makara-saṅkrānti [the day when the sun begins to move north] or on the Karkaṭa-saṅkrānti [the day when the sun begins to move south]. One should also perform this ceremony on the Meṣa-saṅkrānti day and the Tulā-saṅkrānti day, in the yoga named Vyatīpāta, on that day in which three lunar tithis are conjoined, during an eclipse of either the moon or the sun, on the twelfth lunar day, and in the Śravaṇa-nakṣatra. One should perform this ceremony on the Akṣaya-tṛtīyā day, on the ninth lunar day of the bright fortnight of the month of Kārtika, on the four aṣṭakās in the winter season and cool season, on the seventh lunar day of the bright fortnight of the month of Māgha, during the conjunction of Maghā-nakṣatra and the full-moon day, and on the days when the moon is completely full, or not quite completely full, when these days are conjoined with the nakṣatras from which the names of certain months are derived. One should also perform the śrāddha ceremony on the twelfth lunar day when it is in conjunction with any of the nakṣatras named Anurādhā, Śravaṇa, Uttara-phalgunī, Uttarāṣāḍhā or Uttara-bhādrapadā. Again, one should perform this ceremony when the eleventh lunar day is in conjunction with either Uttara-phalgunī, Uttarāṣāḍhā or Uttara-bhādrapadā. Finally, one should perform this ceremony on days conjoined with one's own birth star [janma-nakṣatra] or with Śravaṇa-nakṣatra.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"The word <i>ayana</i> means \"path\" or \"going.\" The six months when the sun moves toward the north are called <i>uttarāyaṇa,</i> or the northern path, and the six months when it moves south are called <i>dakṣiṇāyana,</i> or the southern path. These are mentioned in <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (8.24-25). The first day when the sun begins to move north and enter the zodiacal sign of Capricorn is called Makara-saṅkrānti, and the first day when the sun begins to move south and enter the sign of Cancer is called Karkaṭa-saṅkrānti. On these two days of the year, one should perform the <i>śrāddha</i> ceremony.",
|
||||
"Viṣuva, or Viṣuva-saṅkrānti, means Meṣa-saṅkrānti, or the day on which the sun enters the sign Aries. Tulā-saṅkrānti is the day on which the sun enters the sign Libra. Both of these days occur only once within a year. The word <i>yoga</i> refers to a certain relationship between the sun and moon as they move in the sky. There are twenty-seven different degrees of <i>yoga,</i> of which the seventeenth is called Vyatīpāta. On the day when this occurs, one should perform the <i>śrāddha</i> ceremony. A <i>tithi,</i> or lunar day, consists of the distance between the longitude of the sun and that of the moon. Sometimes a <i>tithi</i> is less than twenty-four hours. When it starts after sunrise on a certain day and ends before the sunrise of the following day, the previous <i>tithi</i> and the following <i>tithi</i> both \"touch\" the twenty-four-hour day between the sunrises. This is called <i>tryaha-sparśa,</i> or a day touched by some portion of three <i>tithis.</i>",
|
||||
"Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī has given quotations from many <i>śāstras</i> stating that the <i>śrāddha</i> ceremony of oblations to the forefathers should not be performed on Ekādaśī <i>tithi.</i> When the <i>tithi</i> of the death anniversary falls on the Ekādaśī day, the <i>śrāddha</i> ceremony should be held not on Ekādaśī but on the next day, or <i>dvādaśī</i>. In the <i>Brahma-vaivarta Purāṇa</i> it is said:",
|
||||
"<i>ye kurvanti mahīpāla<br/> śrāddhaṁ caikādaśi-dine<br/> trayas te narakaṁ yānti<br/> dātā bhoktā ca prerakaḥ</i>",
|
||||
"If one performs the <i>śrāddha</i> ceremony of oblations to the forefathers on the Ekādaśī <i>tithi,</i> then the performer, the forefathers for whom the <i>śrāddha</i> is observed, and the <i>purohita,</i> or the family priest who encourages the ceremony, all go to hell."
|
||||
],
|
||||
"verse_end": 23
|
||||
}
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 24,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.24",
|
||||
"devanagari": "त एते श्रेयसः काला ने᳙णां श्रेयोविवर्धनाः\nकुर्यात्सर्वात्मनैतेषु श्रेयो ऽमोघं तदायुषः",
|
||||
"transliteration": "ta ete śreyasaḥ kālā\nnèṇāṁ śreyo-vivardhanāḥ\nkuryāt sarvātmanaiteṣu\nśreyo 'moghaṁ tad-āyuṣaḥ",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "te",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"therefore"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ete",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"all these (descriptions of astronomical calculations)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "śreyasaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"of auspiciousness"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kālāḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"times"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "nèṇām",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"for human beings"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "śreyaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"auspiciousness"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "vivardhanāḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"increase"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kuryāt",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"one should perform"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "sarva-ātmanā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"by other activities (not only the śrāddha ceremony)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "eteṣu",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"in these (seasons)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "śreyaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"(causing) auspiciousness"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "amogham",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"and success"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tat",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"of a human being"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "āyuṣaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"of the duration of life."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>All of these seasonal times are considered extremely auspicious for humanity. At such times, one should perform all auspicious activities, for by such activities a human being attains success in his short duration of life.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"When one comes to the human form of life through natural evolution, one must then take the responsibility for further progress. As stated in <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (9.25), <i>yānti deva-vratā devān:</i> one who worships the demigods can be promoted to their planets. <i>Yānti mad-yājino 'pi mām:</i> and if one practices devotional service to the Lord, he goes back home, back to Godhead. In the human form of life, therefore, one is meant to act auspiciously in order to return home, back to Godhead. Devotional service, however, does not depend on material conditions. <i>Ahaituky apratihatā.</i> Of course, for those who are engaged in fruitive activities on the material platform, the times and seasons mentioned above are extremely congenial."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 25,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.25",
|
||||
"devanagari": "एषु स्नानं जपो होमो व्रतं देवद्विजार्चनम्\nपितृदेवनृभूतेभ्यो यद्दत्तं तद्ध्य् अनश्वरम्",
|
||||
"transliteration": "eṣu snānaṁ japo homo\nvrataṁ deva-dvijārcanam\npitṛ-deva-nṛ-bhūtebhyo\nyad dattaṁ tad dhy anaśvaram",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "eṣu",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"in all these (seasonal times)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "snānam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"bathing in the Ganges, Yamunā or any other sacred places"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "japaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"chanting"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "homaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"performing fire sacrifices"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "vratam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"executing vows"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "deva",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the Supreme Lord"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "dvija-arcanam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"worshiping the brāhmaṇas or Vaiṣṇavas"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "pitṛ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"unto the forefathers"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "deva",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"demigods"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "nṛ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"human beings in general"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "bhūtebhyaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"and all other living entities"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yat",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"whatever"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "dattam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"offered"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tat",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"that"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "hi",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"indeed"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "anaśvaram",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"permanently beneficial."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>During these periods of seasonal change, if one bathes in the Ganges, in the Yamunā or in another sacred place, if one chants, offers fire sacrifices or executes vows, or if one worships the Supreme Lord, the brāhmaṇas, the forefathers, the demigods and the living entities in general, whatever he gives in charity yields a permanently beneficial result.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": []
|
||||
}
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 26,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.26",
|
||||
"devanagari": "संस्कारकालो जायाया अपत्यस्यात्मनस्तथा\nप्रेतसंस्था मृताहश्च कर्मण्य् अभ्युदये नृप",
|
||||
"transliteration": "saṁskāra-kālo jāyāyā\napatyasyātmanas tathā\npreta-saṁsthā mṛtāhaś ca\nkarmaṇy abhyudaye nṛpa",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "saṁskāra-kālaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"at the proper time indicated for Vedic reformatory performances"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "jāyāyāḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"for the wife"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "apatyasya",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"for the children"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ātmanaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"and one's own self"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tathā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"as well as"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "preta-saṁsthā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"funeral ceremonies"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "mṛta-ahaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"annual death ceremonies"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ca",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"and"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "karmaṇi",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"of fruitive activity"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "abhyudaye",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"for furtherance"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "nṛpa",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"O King."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>O King Yudhiṣṭhira, at the time prescribed for reformatory ritualistic ceremonies for one's self, one's wife or one's children, or during funeral ceremonies and annual death ceremonies, one must perform the auspicious ceremonies mentioned above in order to flourish in fruitive activities.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"The <i>Vedas</i> recommend many ritualistic ceremonies to be performed with one's wife, on the birthdays of one's children, or during funeral ceremonies, and there are also personal reformatory methods like initiation. These must be observed according to time and circumstances and the directions of the <i>śāstra.</i> <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> strongly recommends, <i>jñātvā śāstra-vidhānoktam:</i> everything must be performed as indicated in the <i>śāstras.</i> For Kali-yuga, the <i>śāstras</i> enjoin that <i>saṅkīrtana-yajña</i> be performed always: <i>kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ.</i> All the ritualistic ceremonies recommended in the <i>śāstras</i> must be preceded and followed by <i>saṅkīrtana.</i> This is the recommendation of Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 27,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.27-28",
|
||||
"devanagari": "अथ देशान्प्रवक्ष्यामि धर्मादिश्रेयआवहान्\nस वै पुण्यतमो देशः सत्पात्रं यत्र लभ्यते\nबिम्बं भगवतो यत्र सर्वम् एतच्चराचरम्\nयत्र ह ब्राह्मणकुलं तपोविद्यादयान्वितम्",
|
||||
"transliteration": "atha deśān pravakṣyāmi\ndharmādi-śreya-āvahān\nsa vai puṇyatamo deśaḥ\nsat-pātraṁ yatra labhyate\nbimbaṁ bhagavato yatra\nsarvam etac carācaram\nyatra ha brāhmaṇa-kulaṁ\ntapo-vidyā-dayānvitam",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "atha",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"thereafter"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "deśān",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"places"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "pravakṣyāmi",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"I shall describe"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "dharma-ādi",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"religious performances, etc."
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "śreya",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"auspiciousness"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "āvahān",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"which can bring"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "saḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"that"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "vai",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"indeed"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "puṇya-tamaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the most sacred"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "deśaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"place"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "sat-pātram",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"a Vaiṣṇava"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yatra",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"wherein"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "labhyate",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"is available"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "bimbam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the Deity (in the temple)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "bhagavataḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"of the Supreme Personality of Godhead (who is the support)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yatra",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"where"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "sarvam etat",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"of this entire cosmic manifestation"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "cara-acaram",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"with all the moving and nonmoving living entities"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yatra",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"wherein"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ha",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"indeed"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "brāhmaṇa-kulam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"association with brāhmaṇas"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tapaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"austerities"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "vidyā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"education"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "dayā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"mercy"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "anvitam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"endowed with."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>Nārada Muni continued:</b><b> Now I shall describe the places where religious performances may be well executed. Any place where a Vaiṣṇava is available is an excellent place for all auspicious activities. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the support of this entire cosmic manifestation, with all its moving and nonmoving living entities, and the temple where the Deity of the Lord is installed is a most sacred place. Furthermore, places where learned brāhmaṇas observe Vedic principles by means of austerity, education and mercy are also most auspicious and sacred.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"In this verse it is indicated that a Vaiṣṇava temple where the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, is worshiped, and where Vaiṣṇavas are engaged in the service of the Lord, is the best sacred place for performing any religious ceremonies. At the present day, especially in big, big cities, people live in small apartments and are not able to establish a Deity or temple. Under the circumstances, therefore, the centers and temples being established by the expanding Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement are the best sacred places for performing religious ceremonies. Although people in general are no longer interested in religious ceremonies or Deity worship, the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement gives everyone the chance to advance in spiritual life by becoming Kṛṣṇa conscious."
|
||||
],
|
||||
"verse_end": 28
|
||||
}
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 29,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.29",
|
||||
"devanagari": "यत्र यत्र हरेर् अर्चा स देशः श्रेयसां पदम्\nयत्र गंगादयो नद्यः पुराणेषु च विश्रुताः",
|
||||
"transliteration": "yatra yatra harer arcā\nsa deśaḥ śreyasāṁ padam\nyatra gaṅgādayo nadyaḥ\npurāṇeṣu ca viśrutāḥ",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yatra yatra",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"wherever"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "hareḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "arcā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the Deity is worshiped"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "saḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"that"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "deśaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"place, country or neighborhood"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "śreyasām",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"of all auspiciousness"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "padam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the place"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yatra",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"wherever"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "gaṅgā-ādayaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"like the Ganges, Yamunā, Narmadā and Kāverī"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "nadyaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"sacred rivers"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "purāṇeṣu",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"in the Purāṇas (supplementary Vedic literature)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ca",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"also"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "viśrutāḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"are celebrated."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>Auspicious indeed are the places where there is a temple of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, in which He is duly worshiped, and also the places where there flow the celebrated sacred rivers mentioned in the Purāṇas, the supplementary Vedic literatures. Anything spiritual done there is certainly very effective.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"There are many atheists who oppose the worship of the Deity of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the temple. In this verse, however, it is authoritatively stated that any place where the Deity is worshiped is transcendental; it does not belong to the material world. It is also said that the forest is in the mode of goodness, and therefore those who want to cultivate spiritual life are advised to go to the forest (<i>vanaṁ gato yad dharim āśrayeta </i>[<i>Bhāg.</i> 7.5.5]). But one should not go to the forest simply to live like a monkey. Monkeys and other ferocious animals also live in the forest, but a person who goes to the forest for spiritual culture must accept the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as shelter (<i>vanaṁ gato yad dharim āśrayeta)</i>. One should not be satisfied simply to go to the forest; one must take shelter of the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In this age, therefore, since it is impossible to go to the forest for spiritual culture, one is recommended to live in the temple community as a devotee, regularly worship the Deity, follow the regulative principles and thus make the place like Vaikuṇṭha. The forest may be in goodness, the cities and villages in passion, and the brothels, hotels and restaurants in ignorance, but when one lives in the temple community he lives in Vaikuṇṭha. Therefore it is said here, <i>śreyasāṁ padam:</i> it is the best, most auspicious place.",
|
||||
"In many places throughout the world we are constructing communities to give shelter to devotees and worship the Deity in the temple. The Deity cannot be worshiped except by devotees. Temple worshipers who fail to give importance to the devotees are third class. They are <i>kaniṣṭha-adhikārīs</i> in the lower stage of spiritual life. As it is said in <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> (11.2.47):",
|
||||
"<i>arcāyām eva haraye<br/> pūjāṁ yaḥ śraddhayehate<br/> na tad-bhakteṣu cānyeṣu<br/> sa bhaktaḥ prākṛtaḥ smṛtaḥ</i>",
|
||||
"\"A person who is very faithfully engaged in the worship of the Deity in the temple but does not know how to behave toward devotees or people in general is called a <i>prākṛta-bhakta,</i> or <i>kaniṣṭha-adhikārī.</i>\" Therefore, in the temple there must be the Deity of the Lord, and the Lord should be worshiped by the devotees. This combination of the devotees and the Deity creates a first-class transcendental place.",
|
||||
"Aside from this, if a <i>gṛhastha</i> devotee worships the <i>śālagrāma-śilā,</i> or the form of the Deity at home, his home also becomes a very great place. It was therefore customary for members of the three higher classes—namely the <i>brāhmaṇas, kṣatriyas</i> and <i>vaiśyas</i>—to worship the <i>śālagrāma-śilā,</i> or a small Deity of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa or Sītā-Rāma in each and every home. This made everything auspicious. But now they have given up the Deity worship. Men have become modernized and are consequently indulging in all sorts of sinful activities, and therefore they are extremely unhappy.",
|
||||
"According to Vedic civilization, therefore, the holy places of pilgrimage are considered most sacred, and still there are hundreds and thousands of holy places like Jagannātha Purī, Vṛndāvana, Hardwar, Rāmeśvara, Prayāga and Mathurā. India is the place for worshiping or for cultivating spiritual life. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement invites everyone from all over the world, without discrimination as to caste or creed, to come to its centers and cultivate spiritual life perfectly."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,312 @@
|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 30,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.30-33",
|
||||
"devanagari": "सरांसि पुष्करादीनि क्षेत्राण्य् अर्हाश्रितान्य् उत\nकुरुक्षेत्रं गयशिरः प्रयागः पुलहाश्रमः\nनैमिषं फाल्गुनं सेतुः प्रभासो ऽथ कुशस्थली\nवाराणसी मधुपुरी पम्पा बिन्दुसरस्तथा\nनारायणाश्रमो नन्दा सीतारामाश्रमादयः\nसर्वे कुलाचला राजन्महेन्द्रमलयादयः\nएते पुण्यतमा देशा हरेर् अर्चाश्रिताश्च ये\nएतान्देशान्निषेवेत श्रेयस्कामो ह्य् अभीक्ष्णशः\nधर्मो ह्य् अत्रेहितः पुंसां सहस्राधिफलोदयः",
|
||||
"transliteration": "sarāṁsi puṣkarādīni\nkṣetrāṇy arhāśritāny uta\nkurukṣetraṁ gaya-śiraḥ\nprayāgaḥ pulahāśramaḥ\nnaimiṣaṁ phālgunaṁ setuḥ\nprabhāso 'tha kuśa-sthalī\nvārāṇasī madhu-purī\npampā bindu-saras tathā\nnārāyaṇāśramo nandā\nsītā-rāmāśramādayaḥ\nsarve kulācalā rājan\nmahendra-malayādayaḥ\nete puṇyatamā deśā\nharer arcāśritāś ca ye\netān deśān niṣeveta\nśreyas-kāmo hy abhīkṣṇaśaḥ\ndharmo hy atrehitaḥ puṁsāṁ\nsahasrādhi-phalodayaḥ",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "sarāṁsi",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"lakes"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "puṣkara-ādīni",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"such as Puṣkara"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kṣetrāṇi",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"sacred places (like Kurukṣetra, Gayākṣetra and Jagannātha Purī)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "arha",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"for worshipable, saintly persons"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "āśritāni",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"places of shelter"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "uta",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"celebrated"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kurukṣetram",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"a particular sacred place (dharma-kṣetra)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "gaya-śiraḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the place known as Gayā, where Gayāsura took shelter of the lotus feet of Lord Viṣṇu"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "prayāgaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"Allahabad, at the confluence of the two sacred rivers Ganges and Yamunā"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "pulaha-āśramaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the residence of Pulaha Muni"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "naimiṣam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the place known as Naimiṣāraṇya (near Lucknow)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "phālgunam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the place where the Phālgu River flows"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "setuḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"Setubandha, where Lord Rāmacandra constructed a bridge between India and Laṅkā"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "prabhāsaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"Prabhāsakṣetra"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "atha",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"as well as"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kuśa-sthalī",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"Dvāravatī, or Dvārakā"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "vārāṇasī",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"Benares"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "madhu-purī",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"Mathurā"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "pampā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"a place where there is a lake called Pampā"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "bindu-saraḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the place where Bindu-sarovara is situated"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tathā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"there"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "nārāyaṇa-āśramaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"known as Badarikāśrama"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "nandā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the place where the Nandā River flows"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "sītā-rāma",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"of Lord Rāmacandra and mother Sītā"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "āśrama-ādayaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"places of shelter like Citrakūṭa"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "sarve",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"all (such places)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kulācalāḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"hilly tracts of land"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "rājan",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"O King"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "mahendra",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"known as Mahendra"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "malaya-ādayaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"and others, like Malayācala"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ete",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"all of them"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "puṇya-tamāḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"extremely sacred"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "deśāḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"places"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "hareḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"of the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "arca-āśritāḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"places where the Deity of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa is worshiped (such as big American cities like New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and European cities like London and Paris, or wherever there are centers of Kṛṣṇa consciousness)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ca",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"as well as"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ye",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"those which"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "etān deśān",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"all these countries"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "niṣeveta",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"should worship or visit"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "śreyaḥ-kāmaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"one who desires auspiciousness"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "hi",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"indeed"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "abhīkṣṇaśaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"again and again"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "dharmaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"religious activities"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "hi",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"from which"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "atra",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"in these places"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "īhitaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"performed"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "puṁsām",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"of the persons"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "sahasra-adhi",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"more than a thousand times"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "phala-udayaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"effective."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>The sacred lakes like Puṣkara and places where saintly persons live, like Kurukṣetra, Gayā, Prayāga, Pulahāśrama, Naimiṣāraṇya, the banks of the Phālgu River, Setubandha, Prabhāsa, Dvārakā, Vārāṇasī, Mathurā, Pampā, Bindu-sarovara, Badarikāśrama [Nārāyaṇāśrama], the places where the Nandā River flows, the places where Lord Rāmacandra and mother Sītā took shelter, such as Citrakūṭa, and also the hilly tracts of land known as Mahendra and Malaya—all of these are to be considered most pious and sacred. Similarly, places outside India where there are centers of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement and where Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa Deities are worshiped must all be visited and worshiped by those who want to be spiritually advanced. One who intends to advance in spiritual life may visit all these places and perform ritualistic ceremonies to get results a thousand times better than the results of the same activities performed in any other place.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"In these verses and in verse twenty-nine, stress is given to one point: <i>harer arcāśritāś ca ye</i> or <i>harer arcā.</i> In other words, any place where the Deity of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is worshiped by devotees is most significant. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is giving the population of the entire world a chance to take advantage of Kṛṣṇa consciousness through the ISKCON centers, where one may perform Deity worship and chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa <i>mahā-mantra</i> and in this way obtain results with effectiveness increased a thousand times. This constitutes the best welfare activity for human society. This was Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's mission as it was predicted by Him in the <i>Caitanya-bhāgavata</i> (<i>Antya </i>4.126):",
|
||||
"<i>pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi-grāma<br/> sarvatra pracāra haibe mora nāma</i>",
|
||||
"Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement, with installed Deities, to spread to every village and town in the world, so that everyone in the world might take advantage of this movement and become all-auspicious in spiritual life. Without spiritual life, nothing is auspicious. <i>Moghāśā mogha-karmāṇo mogha-jñānā vicetasaḥ</i> (Bg.<i> </i>9.12). No one can become successful in fruitive activities or speculative knowledge without being Kṛṣṇa conscious. As recommended in the <i>śāstras,</i> everyone should be very eagerly interested in taking part in the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement and understanding the value of spiritual life."
|
||||
],
|
||||
"verse_end": 33
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 34,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.34",
|
||||
"devanagari": "पात्रं त्व् अत्र निरुक्तं वै कविभिः पात्रवित्तमैः\nहरिर् एवैक उर्वीश यन्मयं वै चराचरम्",
|
||||
"transliteration": "pātraṁ tv atra niruktaṁ vai\nkavibhiḥ pātra-vittamaiḥ\nharir evaika urvīśa\nyan-mayaṁ vai carācaram",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "pātram",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the true person to whom charity must be given"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tu",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"but"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "atra",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"in the world"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "niruktam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"decided"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "vai",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"indeed"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kavibhiḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"by learned scholars"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "pātra-vittamaiḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"who are expert in finding the actual person to whom charity must be given"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "hariḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "eva",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"indeed"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ekaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"only one"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "urvī-īśa",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"O King of the earth"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yat-mayam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"in whom everything is resting"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "vai",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"from whom everything is coming"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "cara-acaram",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"all that is moving or nonmoving within this universe."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>O King of the earth, it has been decided by expert, learned scholars that only the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, in whom all that is moving or nonmoving within this universe is resting and from whom everything is coming, is the best person to whom everything must be given.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"Whenever we perform some religious act in terms of <i>dharma, artha, kāma</i> and <i>mokṣa,</i> we must perform it according to the time, place and person (<i>kāla, deśa, pātra</i>). Nārada Muni has already described the <i>deśa</i> (place) and <i>kāla</i> (time). The <i>kāla</i> has been described in verses twenty through twenty-four, beginning with the words <i>ayane viṣuve kuryād vyatīpāte dina-kṣaye.</i> And the places for giving charity or performing ritualistic ceremonies have been described in verses thirty through thirty-three, beginning with <i>sarāṁsi puṣkarādīni kṣetrāṇy arhāśritāny uta.</i> Now, to whom everything must be given is decided in this verse. <i>Harir evaika urvīśa yan-mayaṁ vai carācaram.</i> The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, is the root of everything, and therefore He is the best <i>pātra,</i> or person, to whom everything must be given. In <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (5.29) it is said:",
|
||||
"<i>bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ<br/> sarva-loka-maheśvaram<br/> suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ<br/> jñātvā māṁ śāntim ṛcchati</i>",
|
||||
"If one wants to enjoy real peace and prosperity, he should give everything to Kṛṣṇa, who is the real enjoyer, real friend and real proprietor. It is therefore said:",
|
||||
"<i>yathā taror mūla-niṣecanena<br/> tṛpyanti tat-skandha-bhujopaśākhāḥ<br/> prāṇopahārāc ca yathendriyāṇāṁ<br/> tathaiva sarvārhaṇam acyutejyā<br/> </i>(<i>Bhāg. 4.31.14</i>)",
|
||||
"By worshiping or satisfying Acyuta, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, one can satisfy everyone, just as one can water the branches, leaves and flowers of a tree simply by watering its root or as one satisfies all the senses of the body by giving food to the stomach. Therefore, a devotee simply offers everything to the Supreme Personality of Godhead to receive the best results of charity, religious performances, sense gratification and even liberation (<i>dharma, artha, kāma, mokṣa</i>)."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 35,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.35",
|
||||
"devanagari": "देवर्ष्यर्हत्सु वै सत्सु तत्र ब्रह्मात्मजादिषु\nराजन्यद् अग्रपूजायां मतः पात्रतयाच्युतः",
|
||||
"transliteration": "devarṣy-arhatsu vai satsu\ntatra brahmātmajādiṣu\nrājan yad agra-pūjāyāṁ\nmataḥ pātratayācyutaḥ",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "deva-ṛṣi",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"among the demigods and great saintly persons, including Nārada Muni"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "arhatsu",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the most venerable and worshipable personalities"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "vai",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"indeed"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "satsu",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the great devotees"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tatra",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"there (at the Rājasūya-yajña)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "brahma-ātma-jādiṣu",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"and the sons of Lord Brahmā (such as Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanat and Sanātana)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "rājan",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"O King"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yat",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"from whom"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "agra-pūjāyām",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the first to be worshiped"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "mataḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"decision"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "pātratayā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"selected as the best person to preside over the Rājasūya-yajña"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "acyutaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"Kṛṣṇa."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>O King Yudhiṣṭhira, the demigods, many great sages and saints including even the four sons of Lord Brahmā, and I myself were present at your Rājasūya sacrificial ceremony, but when there was a question of who should be the first person worshiped, everyone decided upon Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Person.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"This is a reference to the Rājasūya sacrifice performed by Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira. In that meeting there was a great turmoil over selecting the best person to be worshiped first. Everyone decided to worship Śrī Kṛṣṇa. The only protest came from Śiśupāla, and because of his vehement opposition he was killed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 36,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.36",
|
||||
"devanagari": "जीवराशिभिर् आकीर्ण अण्डकोशांघ्रिपो महान्\nतन्मूलत्वाद् अच्युतेज्या सर्वजीवात्मतर्पणम्",
|
||||
"transliteration": "jīva-rāśibhir ākīrṇa\naṇḍa-kośāṅghripo mahān\ntan-mūlatvād acyutejyā\nsarva-jīvātma-tarpaṇam",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "jīva-rāśibhiḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"by millions and millions of living entities"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ākīrṇaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"filled up or spread over"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "aṇḍa-kośa",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the whole universe"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "aṅghripaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"like a tree"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "mahān",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"very, very great"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tat-mūlatvāt",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"because of being the root of this tree"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "acyuta-ijyā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"worship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "sarva",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"of all"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "jīva-ātma",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"living entities"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tarpaṇam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"satisfaction."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>The entire universe, which is full of living entities, is like a tree whose root is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Acyuta [Kṛṣṇa]. Therefore simply by worshiping Lord Kṛṣṇa one can worship all living entities.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"In <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (10.8) the Lord says:",
|
||||
"<i>ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo<br/> mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate<br/> iti matvā bhajante māṁ<br/> budhā bhāva-samanvitāḥ</i>",
|
||||
"\"I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who perfectly know this engage in My devotional service and worship Me with all their hearts.\" People are very much anxious to give service to other living entities, especially to the poor, but although they have manufactured many ways to give such help, actually they are expert in killing the poor living entities. This sort of service or mercy is not recommended in the Vedic wisdom. As stated in a previous verse, it has been decided (<i>niruktam</i>) by expert saintly persons that Kṛṣṇa is the root of everything and that worshiping Kṛṣṇa is worshiping everyone, just as supplying water to the root of a tree means satisfying all of its branches and twigs.",
|
||||
"Another point is that this universe is full of living entities from top to bottom, on every planet (<i>jīva-rāśibhir ākīrṇaḥ</i>). Modern scientists and so-called scholars think that there are no living entities on planets other than this one. Recently they have said that they have gone to the moon but did not find any living entities there. But <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> and the other Vedic literatures do not agree with this foolish conception. There are living entities everywhere, not only one or two but <i>jīva-rāśibhiḥ</i>—many millions of living entities. Even on the sun there are living entities, although it is a firey planet. The chief living entity on the sun is called Vivasvān (<i>imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān aham avyayam</i>). All the different planets are filled with different types of living entities according to different living conditions. To suggest that only this planet is filled with living entities and that others are vacant is foolish. This betrays a lack of real knowledge."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 37,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.37",
|
||||
"devanagari": "पुराण्य् अनेन सृष्टानि नृतिर्यगृषिदेवताः\nशेते जीवेन रूपेण पुरेषु पुरुषो ह्य् असौ",
|
||||
"transliteration": "purāṇy anena sṛṣṭāni\nnṛ-tiryag-ṛṣi-devatāḥ\nśete jīvena rūpeṇa\npureṣu puruṣo hy asau",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "purāṇi",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"residential places or bodies"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "anena",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"by Him (the Supreme Personality of Godhead)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "sṛṣṭāni",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"among those creations"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "nṛ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"man"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tiryak",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"other than human beings (animals, birds, etc)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ṛṣi",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"saintly persons"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "devatāḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"and demigods"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "śete",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"lies down"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "jīvena",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"with the living entities"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "rūpeṇa",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"in the form of Paramātmā"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "pureṣu",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"within these residential places or bodies"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "puruṣaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the Supreme Lord"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "hi",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"indeed"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "asau",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"He (the Personality of Godhead)."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>The Supreme Personality of Godhead has created many residential places like the bodies of human beings, animals, birds, saints and demigods. In all of these innumerable bodily forms, the Lord resides with the living being as Paramātmā. Thus He is known as the puruṣāvatāra.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"In <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (<i>18.61</i>) it is said:",
|
||||
"<i>īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ<br/> hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati<br/> bhrāmayan sarva-bhūtāni<br/> yantrārūḍhāni māyayā</i>",
|
||||
"\"The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone's heart, O Arjuna, and is directing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine, made of the material energy.\" The living entity, who is part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, exists on the mercy of the Lord, who is always with him in any form of body. The living entity desires a particular type of material enjoyment, and thus the Lord supplies him with a body, which is like a machine. Just to keep him alive in that body, the Lord remains with him as the <i>puruṣa</i> (Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu). This is also confirmed in <i>Brahma-saṁhitā</i> (5.35):",
|
||||
"<i>eko 'py asau racayituṁ jagad-aṇḍa-koṭiṁ<br/> yac-chaktir asti jagad-aṇḍa-cayā yad-antaḥ<br/> aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-sthaṁ<br/> govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi</i>",
|
||||
"\"I worship the Personality of Godhead, Govinda, who enters the existence of every universe and every atom by one of His plenary portions and thus manifests His infinite energy throughout the material creation.\" The living entity, being part and parcel of the Lord, is known as <i>jīva.</i> The Supreme Lord <i>puruṣa</i> remains with the <i>jīva</i> to enable him to enjoy material facilities."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 38,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.38",
|
||||
"devanagari": "तेष्व् एव भगवान्राजंस्तारतम्येन वर्तते\nतस्मात्पात्रं हि पुरुषो यावान् आत्मा यथेयते",
|
||||
"transliteration": "teṣv eva bhagavān rājaṁs\ntāratamyena vartate\ntasmāt pātraṁ hi puruṣo\nyāvān ātmā yatheyate",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "teṣu",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"among the different types of bodies (demigod, human, animal, bird, etc.)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "eva",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"indeed"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "bhagavān",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His Paramātmā feature"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "rājan",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"O King"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tāratamyena",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"comparatively, more or less"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "vartate",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"is situated"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tasmāt",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"therefore"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "pātram",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the Supreme Person"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "hi",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"indeed"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "puruṣaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"Paramātmā"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yāvān",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"as far as"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "ātmā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the degree of understanding"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "yathā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"development of austerity and penance"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "īyate",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"is manifest."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>O King Yudhiṣṭhira, the Supersoul in every body gives intelligence to the individual soul according to his capacity for understanding. Therefore the Supersoul is the chief within the body. The Supersoul is manifested to the individual soul according to the individual's comparative development of knowledge, austerity, penance and so on.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"In <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (15.15) it is said, <i>mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanaṁ ca:</i> the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His localized aspect gives intelligence to the individual soul as far as he is able to grasp it. Therefore we find the individual soul in different high and low positions. A living entity with the body of a bird or beast cannot take instructions from the Supreme Soul as adequately as an advanced human being. Thus there are gradations of bodily forms. In human society, the perfect <i>brāhmaṇa</i> is supposed to be the most advanced in spiritual consciousness, and further advanced than the <i>brāhmaṇa</i> is the Vaiṣṇava. Therefore the best persons are the Vaiṣṇavas and Viṣṇu. When charity is to be given, one should take instruction from <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (17.20):",
|
||||
"<i>dātavyam iti yad dānaṁ<br/> dīyate 'nupakāriṇe<br/> deśe kāle ca pātre ca<br/> tad dānaṁ sāttvikaṁ smṛtam</i>",
|
||||
"\"That gift which is given out of duty, at the proper time and place, to a worthy person, and without expectation of return, is considered to be charity in the mode of goodness.\" One should give charity to the <i>brāhmaṇas</i> and Vaiṣṇavas, for thus the Supreme Personality of Godhead will be worshiped. In this connection, Śrīla Madhvācārya comments:",
|
||||
"<i>brahmādi-sthāvarānteṣu<br/> na viśeṣo hareḥ kvacit<br/> vyakti-mātra-viśeṣeṇa<br/> tāratamyaṁ vadanti ca</i>",
|
||||
"Beginning from Brahmā down to the ant, everyone is conducted by the Supersoul (<i>īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati</i>). But because of a particular person's advancement in spiritual consciousness, he is considered to be important. Therefore, the <i>brāhmaṇa</i> Vaiṣṇava is important, and, above all, the Supersoul, the Personality of Godhead, is the most important personality."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 39,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.39",
|
||||
"devanagari": "दृष्ट्वा तेषां मिथो नृणाम् अवज्ञानात्मतां नृप\nत्रेतादिषु हरेर् अर्चा क्रियायै कविभिः कृता",
|
||||
"transliteration": "dṛṣṭvā teṣāṁ mitho nṛṇām\navajñānātmatāṁ nṛpa\ntretādiṣu harer arcā\nkriyāyai kavibhiḥ kṛtā",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "dṛṣṭvā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"after practically seeing"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "teṣām",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"among the brāhmaṇas and Vaiṣṇavas"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "mithaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"mutually"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "nṛṇām",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"of human society"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "avajñāna-ātmatām",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the mutually disrespectful behavior"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "nṛpa",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"O King"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tretā-ādiṣu",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"beginning from Tretā-yuga"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "hareḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"of the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "arcā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the Deity worship (in the temple)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kriyāyai",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"for the purpose of introducing the method of worship"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kavibhiḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"by learned persons"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kṛtā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"has been done."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>My dear King, when great sages and saintly persons saw mutually disrespectful dealings at the beginning of Tretā-yuga, Deity worship in the temple was introduced with all paraphernalia.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"As it is said in <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> (12.3.52):",
|
||||
"<i>kṛte yad dhyāyato viṣṇuṁ<br/> tretāyāṁ yajato makhaiḥ<br/> dvāpare paricaryāyāṁ<br/> kalau tad dhari-kīrtanāt</i>",
|
||||
"\"Whatever result one obtained in Satya-yuga by meditating on Viṣṇu, in Tretā-yuga by performing sacrifices and in Dvāpara-yuga by serving the Lord's lotus feet one can also obtain in Kali-yuga simply by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa <i>mahā-mantra.</i>\" In Satya-yuga, every person was spiritually advanced, and there was no envy between great personalities. Gradually, however, because of material contamination with the advance of the ages, disrespectful dealings appeared even among <i>brāhmaṇas</i> and Vaiṣṇavas. Actually, an advanced Vaiṣṇava is to be respected more than Viṣṇu. As stated in the <i>Padma Purāṇa, ārādhanānāṁ sarveṣāṁ viṣṇor ārādhanaṁ param:</i> of all kinds of worship, worship of Lord Viṣṇu is the best. <i>Tasmāt parataraṁ devi tadīyānāṁ samarcanam:</i> and recommended more than worship of Viṣṇu is worship of the Vaiṣṇava.",
|
||||
"Formerly, all activities were performed in connection with Viṣṇu, but after Satya-yuga there were symptoms of disrespectful dealings among Vaiṣṇavas. Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has said that a Vaiṣṇava is he who has helped others become Vaiṣṇavas. An example of one who has converted many others into Vaiṣṇavas is Nārada Muni. A powerful Vaiṣṇava who has converted others into Vaiṣṇavas is to be worshiped, but because of material contamination, sometimes such an exalted Vaiṣṇava is disrespected by other, minor Vaiṣṇavas. When great saintly persons saw this contamination, they introduced worship of the Deity in the temple. This began in Tretā-yuga and was especially prominent in Dvāpara-yuga (<i>dvāpare paricaryāyāṁ</i>). But in Kali-yuga, worship of the Deity is being neglected. Therefore chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa <i>mantra</i> is more powerful than Deity worship. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu set a practical example in that He did not establish any temples or Deities, but He profusely introduced the <i>saṅkīrtana</i> movement. Therefore Kṛṣṇa consciousness preachers should give more stress to the <i>saṅkīrtana</i> movement, especially by distributing transcendental literature more and more. This helps the <i>saṅkīrtana</i> movement. Whenever there is a possibility to worship the Deity, we may establish many centers, but generally we should give more stress to the distribution of transcendental literature, for this will be more effective in converting people to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.",
|
||||
"It is said in <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> (11.2.47):",
|
||||
"<i>arcāyām eva haraye<br/> pūjāṁ yaḥ śraddhayehate<br/> na tad-bhakteṣu cānyeṣu<br/> sa bhaktaḥ prākṛtaḥ smṛtaḥ</i>",
|
||||
"\"A person who is very faithfully engaged in the worship of the Deity in the temple but does not know how to behave toward devotees or people in general is called a <i>prākṛta-bhakta,</i> or <i>kaniṣṭha-adhikārī.</i>\" A <i>prākṛta</i> devotee, or neophyte devotee, is still on the material platform. He certainly engages in worshiping the Deity, but he cannot appreciate the activities of a pure devotee. It has actually been seen that even an authorized devotee who is engaged in the service of the Lord by preaching the mission of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is sometimes criticized by neophyte devotees. Such neophytes are described by Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura: <i>sarva-prāṇi-sammānanāsamarthānām avajñā spardhādimatāṁ tu bhagavat-pratimaiva pātram ity āha.</i> For those who cannot properly appreciate the activities of authorized devotees, Deity worship is the only way for spiritual advancement. In the <i>Caitanya-caritāmṛta</i> (<i>Antya</i> 7.11) it is clearly said, <i>kṛṣṇa-śakti vinā nahe tāra pravartana:</i> without being authorized by Kṛṣṇa, one cannot preach the holy name of the Lord throughout the entire world. Nevertheless, a devotee who does so is criticized by neophyte devotees, <i>kaniṣṭha-adhikārīs,</i> who are on the lower stages of devotional service. For them, Deity worship is strongly recommended."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 40,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.40",
|
||||
"devanagari": "ततो ऽर्चायां हरिं केचित्संश्रद्धाय सपर्यया\nउपासत उपास्तापि नार्थदा पुरुषद्विषाम्",
|
||||
"transliteration": "tato 'rcāyāṁ hariṁ kecit\nsaṁśraddhāya saparyayā\nupāsata upāstāpi\nnārthadā puruṣa-dviṣām",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tataḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"thereafter"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "arcāyām",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the Deity"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "harim",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"who is the Supreme Personality of Godhead (the form of the Lord being identical with the Lord)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kecit",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"someone"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "saṁśraddhāya",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"with great faith"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "saparyayā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"and with the required paraphernalia"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "upāsate",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"worships"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "upāstā api",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"although worshiping the Deity (with faith and regularity)"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "na",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"not"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "artha-dā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"beneficial"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "puruṣa-dviṣām",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"for those who are envious of Lord Viṣṇu and His devotees."
|
||||
]
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}
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],
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"translation": "<b>Sometimes a neophyte devotee offers all the paraphernalia for worshiping the Lord, and he factually worships the Lord as the Deity, but because he is envious of the authorized devotees of Lord Viṣṇu, the Lord is never satisfied with his devotional service.</b>",
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"purport": [
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"Deity worship is especially meant for purifying the neophyte devotees. Actually, however, preaching is more important. In <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (18.69) it is said, <i>na ca tasmān manuṣyeṣu kaścin me priya-kṛttamaḥ:</i> if one wants to be recognized by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he must preach the glories of the Lord. One who worships the Deity must therefore be extremely respectful to preachers; otherwise simply worshiping the Deity will keep one in the lower stage of devotion."
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]
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}
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{
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"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
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"canto": 7,
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"chapter": 14,
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"verse": 41,
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"reference": "SB 7.14.41",
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"devanagari": "पुरुषेष्व् अपि राजेन्द्र सुपात्रं ब्राह्मणं विदुः\nतपसा विद्यया तुष्ट्या धत्ते वेदं हरेस्तनुम्",
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"transliteration": "puruṣeṣv api rājendra\nsupātraṁ brāhmaṇaṁ viduḥ\ntapasā vidyayā tuṣṭyā\ndhatte vedaṁ hares tanum",
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"synonyms": [
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{
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"word": "puruṣeṣu",
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"meanings": [
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"among persons"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "api",
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"meanings": [
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"indeed"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "rāja-indra",
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"meanings": [
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"O best of kings"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "su-pātram",
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"meanings": [
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"the best person"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "brāhmaṇam",
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"meanings": [
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"the qualified brāhmaṇa"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "viduḥ",
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"meanings": [
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"one should know"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "tapasā",
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"meanings": [
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"due to austerity"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "vidyayā",
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"meanings": [
|
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"education"
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]
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},
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{
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"word": "tuṣṭyā",
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"meanings": [
|
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"and satisfaction"
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||||
]
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},
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{
|
||||
"word": "dhatte",
|
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"meanings": [
|
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"he assumes"
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]
|
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},
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{
|
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"word": "vedam",
|
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"meanings": [
|
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"the transcendental knowledge known as Veda"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"word": "hareḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
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"of the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
|
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]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tanum",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
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"body, or representation."
|
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]
|
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}
|
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],
|
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"translation": "<b>My dear King, of all persons a qualified brāhmaṇa must be accepted as the best within this material world because such a brāhmaṇa, by practicing austerity, Vedic studies and satisfaction, becomes the counterpart body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</b>",
|
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"purport": [
|
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"From the <i>Vedas</i> we learn that the Personality of Godhead is the Supreme Person. Every living entity is an individual person, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, is the Supreme Person. A <i>brāhmaṇa</i> who is well versed in Vedic knowledge and fully conversant with transcendental matters becomes a representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore one should worship such a <i>brāhmaṇa</i> or Vaiṣṇava. A Vaiṣṇava is superior to a <i>brāhmaṇa</i> because whereas a <i>brāhmaṇa</i> knows that he is Brahman, not matter, a Vaiṣṇava knows that he is not only Brahman but also an eternal servant of the Supreme Brahman. Therefore, worship of a Vaiṣṇava is superior to worship of the Deity in the temple. Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura says, <i>sākṣād dharitvena samasta-śāstraiḥ:</i> in all the scriptures the spiritual master, who is the best of the <i>brāhmaṇas,</i> the best of the Vaiṣṇavas, is considered to be as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This does not mean, however, that the Vaiṣṇava thinks himself God, for this is blasphemous. Although a <i>brāhmaṇa</i> or Vaiṣṇava is worshiped as being as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, such a devotee always remains a faithful servant of the Lord and never tries to enjoy the prestige that might accrue to him from being the Supreme Lord's representative."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
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|
||||
{
|
||||
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
|
||||
"canto": 7,
|
||||
"chapter": 14,
|
||||
"verse": 42,
|
||||
"reference": "SB 7.14.42",
|
||||
"devanagari": "नन्व् अस्य ब्राह्मणा राजन्कृष्णस्य जगदात्मनः\nपुनन्तः पादरजसा त्रिलोकीं दैवतं महत्",
|
||||
"transliteration": "nanv asya brāhmaṇā rājan\nkṛṣṇasya jagad-ātmanaḥ\npunantaḥ pāda-rajasā\ntri-lokīṁ daivataṁ mahat",
|
||||
"synonyms": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "nanu",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"but"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "asya",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"by Him"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "brāhmaṇāḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the qualified brāhmaṇas"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "rājan",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"O King"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "kṛṣṇasya",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"by Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "jagat-ātmanaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"who is the life and soul of the whole creation"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "punantaḥ",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"sanctifying"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "pāda-rajasā",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"by the dust of their lotus feet"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "tri-lokīm",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"the three worlds"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "daivatam",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"worshipable"
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"word": "mahat",
|
||||
"meanings": [
|
||||
"most exalted."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"translation": "<b>My dear King Yudhiṣṭhira, the brāhmaṇas, especially those engaged in preaching the glories of the Lord throughout the entire world, are recognized and worshiped by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the heart and soul of all creation. The brāhmaṇas, by their preaching, sanctify the three worlds with the dust of their lotus feet, and thus they are worshipable even for Kṛṣṇa.</b>",
|
||||
"purport": [
|
||||
"As admitted by Lord Kṛṣṇa in <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (18.69), <i>na ca tasmān manuṣyeṣu kaścin me priya-kṛttamaḥ.</i> The <i>brāhmaṇas</i> preach the cult of Kṛṣṇa consciousness all around the world, and therefore, although they worship Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Lord also recognizes them as worshipable. The relationship is reciprocal. The <i>brāhmaṇas</i> want to worship Kṛṣṇa, and similarly Kṛṣṇa wants to worship the <i>brāhmaṇas.</i> In conclusion, therefore, <i>brāhmaṇas</i> and Vaiṣṇavas who are engaged in preaching the glories of the Lord must be worshiped by religionists, philosophers and people in general. At the Rājasūya-yajña of Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, many hundreds and thousands of <i>brāhmaṇas</i> were present, yet Kṛṣṇa was selected to be worshiped first. Therefore, Kṛṣṇa is always the Supreme Person, but by His causeless mercy He recognizes the <i>brāhmaṇas</i> as dearmost to Him."
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
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