Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 43

King Vena to the sages:

You are so much devoted to the devatas, but who are they? Indeed, your affection for these devatas is exactly like the affection of an unchaste woman who neglects her married life and gives all attention to her paramour.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 14 Verse 25

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 42

When the great sages consulted one another, they saw that the people were in a dangerous position from both directions. When a fire blazes on both ends of a log, the ants in the middle are in a very dangerous situation. Similarly, at that time the people in general were in a dangerous position due to an irresponsible king on one side and thieves and rogues on the other.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 14 Verse 8

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 41

When it was understood that the King had indifferently left home, all the citizens, priests, ministers, friends, and people in general were greatly aggrieved. They began to search for him all over the world, just as a less experienced mystic searches out the Supersoul within himself.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 13 Verse 48

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 40

Utkala (son of Dhruva maharaja) appeared to the less intelligent persons on the road to be foolish, blind, dumb, deaf and mad, although actually he was not so. He remained like fire covered with ashes, without blazing flames.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 13 Verse 10

Pearls of Wisdom - 105

A person who desires liberation from this material world should not fall under the control of anger because when bewildered by anger one becomes a source of dread for all others.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 11 Verse 32

Pearls of Wisdom - 104

The Absolute Truth, is never subject to the understanding of imperfect senses, nor is He subject to direct experience. He is the master of varieties of energies, like the full material energy, and no one can understand His plans or actions; therefore it should be concluded that although He is the original cause of all causes, no one can know Him by mental speculation.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 11 Verse 23

Pearls of Wisdom - 103

The differentiation among varieties of life and their suffering and enjoyment is explained by some to be the result of karma. Others say it is due to nature, others due to time, others due to fate, and still others say that it is due to desire.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 11 Verse 22

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy -39

Within the jurisdiction of the time element, everyone enjoys or suffers the result of his own karma. As, when the wind blows, small particles of dust fly in the air, so, according to one's particular karma, one suffers or enjoys material life.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 11 Verse 20

Pearls of Wisdom - 102

The Supreme Lord is ever existing, but in the form of time, He is the killer of everything. He has no beginning, although, He is the beginning of everything, nor He is ever exhaustible, although everything is exhausted in due course of time. The living entities are created through the agency of the father and killed through the agency of death, but He is perpetually free of birth and death.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 11 Verse 19

Pearls of Wisdom - 101

The Supreme Lord, by His inconceivable supreme energy, time, causes the interaction of the three modes of material nature, and thus varieties of energy become manifest. It appears that He is acting, but He is not the actor. He is killing, but He is not the killer. Thus it is understood that only by His inconceivable power is everything happening.

Srimad Bhagavatm - Canto 4 Chapter 11 Verse 18

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy -38

The Supreme Lord is the remote cause of the creation of this material cosmic manifestation. When He gives impetus, many other causes and effects are produced, and thus the whole universe moves, just as iron moves by the integrated force of a magnet.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 11 Verse 17

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy -37

Just as serpents agitated by Garuda rush towards Garuda with upraised hoods, all the Yaksha soldiers prepared to overcome Dhruva Maharaja with their upraised weapons.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 11 Verse 4

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy -36

Dhruva Maharaja's bow and arrows twanged and hissed, causing lamentation in the hearts of his enemies. He began to shoot incessant arrows, shattering all their different weapons, just as the blasting wind scatters the assembled clouds in the sky.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Capter 10 Verse 16

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 35

Dhruva Maharaja was completely covered by an incessant shower of weapons, just as a mountain is covered by incessant rainfall.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 10 Verse 13

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 34

Unto one who has transcendental qualities due to friendly behavior with the Supreme Lord, all living entities offer honor, just as water automatically flows down the nature.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 47

Pearls of Wisdom - 100

Maitreya Rishi to Vidura:
Persons like you, who are pure devotees of the lotus feet of Mukunda and who are always attached to the honey of His lotus feet, are always satisfied in serving at the lotus feet of the Lord. In any condition of life, such persons remain satisfied, and thus they never ask the Lord for material prosperity.

Srimad Bhagavatam: Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 36

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 33

Dhruva Maharaja:
Because of my state of complete foolishness and paucity of pious activities, although the Lord offered me His personal service, I wanted material name, fame and prosperity. My case is is just like that of the poor man who, when he satisfied a great emperor who wanted to give him anything he might ask, out of ignorance asked only a few broken grains of husked rice.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 35

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 32

Lord Vishnu to Dhruva:
I shall award you the planet called polestar, which will continue to exist even after the dissolution.All the luminaries in the sky circumambulate this planet, just as bulls tread around a central pole for the purpose of crushing grains.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 21

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 31

Dhruva Maharaja to Lord Vishnu:
To ignorant devotees like me, You are the causelessly merciful maintainer, just like a cow, who takes care of the newly born calf by supplying milk and giving it protection from attack.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 17

Pearls of Wisdom - 99

Dhruva Maharaja continued:
My Lord, O Supreme Lord, You are the supreme personified form of all benedictions. Therefore, for one who abides in Your devotional service with no other desire, worshiping Your lotus feet is better than becoming king and lording it over a kingdom. That is the benediction of worshiping Your lotus feet.

Srimad Bhagavatam: Canto - 4 Chapter 9 Verse 17

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Pearls of Wisdom - 98

Dhruva Maharaja continued:
My dear Lord, in Your impersonal manifsestation of Brahman there are always two opposing elements - knowledge and ignorance. Your multienergies are continually manifest, but the impersonal Brahman, which is undivided, original, changeless, unlimited and blissful, is the cause of of the material manifestation. Because You are the same impersonal Brahman, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 16

Pearls of Wisdom - 97

Dhruva Maharaja continued:
My Lord, by Your unbroken transcendental glance You are the supreme witness of all stages of intellectual activities. You are eternally liberated. Your existence is situated in pure goodness, and You are existent in Supersoul without change. You are the original Personality of Godhead, full with six opulences, and You are eternally the master of the three modes of material nature. Thus, You are always different from the ordinary living entities. As Lord Vishnu, You maintain all the affairs of the entire universe, and yet You stand aloof and are enjoyer of the results of all sacrifices.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 15

Pearls of Wisdom - 96

Dhruva Maharaja continued:
My dear Lord, O Supreme Unborn, I know that the different varieties of living entities, such as animals, trees, birds, reptiles, devatas and human beings, are spread throughout the universe, which is caused by the total material energy, and I know that they are sometimes manifest and sometimes unmanifest; but I have never experienced the Supreme form I behold as I see You now. Now all kinds of methods of theorizing have come to an end.

Srimad Bhagavatam: Canto 4 Chapter 9 Verse 13