Text 7] Birth of Emperor Pariksit 615

not satisfied because there is not sufficient food, shelter, defense and ob-
jects of sense gratification. This is called illusion. When the living being is
hungry for spiritual satisfaction, he is misrepresented by material hunger.
But the foolish leaders cannot see that even the people who are most
sumptuously materially satisfied are still hungry. And what is their hunger
and poverty? This hunger is actually for spiritual food, spiritual shelter.
spiritual defense and spiritual sense gratification. These can be obtained in
the association of the Supreme Spirit Lord Sri Krsna, and therefore one
who has them cannot be attracted by the so-called food, shelter, defense
and sense gratification of the material world, even if they are relished by
the denizens of the heavenly planets. Therefore, in the Bhagavad-gita it is
said by the Lord (Bg. 8.16) that even in the topmost planet of the universe,
namely the Brahmaloka, where the duration of life is multiplied by millions
of years by earth calculation, one cannot satisfy his hunger. Such hunger
can only by satisfied when the living being is situated in immortality, which
is attained in the spiritual sky far, far above the Brahmaloka, in the
association of Lord Mukunda, the Lord who awards His devotees the
transcendental pleasure of liberation.

TEXT 7

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zal GA AfIRTATAISATAATT II 0 II

matur garbha-gato virah
sa tada bhrgu-nandana

dadarsa purusam kajicid-
dahyamano’stra-tejasa

matuh— mother; garbha—womb; gatah—being situated there; virah—the
great fighter; sah—child Pariksit ; tada—at that time; bhrgu-nandana—O son
of Bhrgu; dadarga—could see; purusam—the Supreme Lord; kajicit—as
someone else; dahyamanah—suffering from being burned; astra—the
brahmastra; tejasa—temperature.

TRANSLATION

O son of Bhrgu [Saunaka], when the child Pariksit, the great fighter,
was in the womb of his mother Uttara and was suffering from the burning
heat of the brahmastra [thrown by Aésvatthama], he could observe the
Supreme Lord coming to him.
