Chapter 11:
Jada Bharata Instructs King
Rahûgana
(13-14) The knower of the field is [then] the
all-pervading, omnipresent, authentic person; the original one, who is
seen and heard of as existing by His own light; He who is never born,
who is the transcendental one, the One Nârâyana wherein all
beings rest, the Supreme Lord, the One Vâsudeva harbour of
consciousness; He who by His own potency in the soul exists as the
controller, of just as well the air as the nonmoving and moving
entities; He is the Supersoul of expansion that entered and thus
controls as the One of Fortune in the beyond who is the shelter and
knower of everyone in every field; He, the vital itself that appeared
in this material world [see also B.G 9: 10 & 15: 15].
Chapter 12:
The Conversation Between Mahârâja
Rahûgana and Jada Bharata
(11) The known in its
pure existence constitutes the ultimate goal as the Oneness without an
inside or an outside, as the Absolute Truth of the Supreme [Brahman],
the inner peace that in a higher sense is known as Bhagavân, the
Supreme Lord, who by the scholars is called Vâsudeva [the Soul of
God within, Vishnu, or Lord Krishna as the son of Vasudeva].
Chapter 13:
Further talks Between Mahârâja
Rahûgana and Jada Bharata
(8) Sometimes wandering
are the feet of someone who wants to climb the hills hurt by thorns and
small stones and is such a one
depressed with each step he makes; and sometimes gets a family person,
agitated with a hungry stomach, angry with his own family members.
Chapter 14: The
Material World as the Great Forest of Enjoyment
(1) The wise [S'ukadeva]
said: 'Those who think the body to be the real self, depart, in
particular reasoning to the modes of goodness and such, from the wrong
basis; sometimes they obtain the favorable, sometimes the unfavorable
and sometimes they have a mixture of both. On the basis of the six
gateways of their senses and the mind, they are faced with a never
ending process of transmigration that is characterized by the over and
over giving up of one body and the again accepting of a new one. On
that difficult path traversing the dense forest of material life it so
happens that of Vishnu, the Supreme Lord who is the controller, the
soul bound acting under the control of mâyâ, the illusory of
matter, in this exactly is like a merchant with an object of desire who
is after the money. With his body acting on behalf of the fruits, he
experiences the material world he has landed in as if it were a burial
place, since he up to that moment was of no success and of all kinds of
trouble out here in not gaining on the road of following the devoted,
the bumblebees, to the lotus feet of the Lord and His representatives
that would pacify the misery experienced.
(29) It so
happens that
of the Controller, the Supreme Lord Vishnu His cakra or disc of Time,
stretching from the first expansion of atoms to the duration of the
complete life of Brahmâ, one has to suffer the symptoms of its
cycling,
to which in due course, swiftly before one's eyes, without a blink, all
lives of the entities, from Brahmâ to the simplest blade of
grass, are
spent. Directly of Him, the Controller whose personal weapon is the
disc of Time, is one surely afraid at heart ['the lion']. Not caring
for the Supreme Lord, the Original Person of Sacrifice, accepts he what
misses any foundation as something worshipable, preoccupied as he is
with his self-made gods who are denied by the scriptures of
civilization and who are are like buzzards, vultures, herons and crows.
Chapter 15:
The Glories of the Descendants of King Pryavrata
(7) He, truthful in his duties, protected his
subjects maintaining them [poshana];
he made them happy in all respects [prînana]
treating them as his children [upalâlana],
sometimes chastising them as a king [anus'âsana].
He performed all the prescribed religious ceremonies for the Supreme
Lord, the great Personality and source of all beings, the Supreme
Brahman, in every respect. By his surrender, the many of his spiritual
qualities, and by his service to the lotus feet of the self-realized,
achieved he it to be of devotional service unto the Supreme Lord
because he, also in the purest consciousness being continuously
saturated within himself, personally had realized the cessation of all
identification with his material self. Despite of his awareness of his
exalted spiritual position he remained without any false prestige in
ruling this way the whole world strictly to the vedic principles.
