CHAPTER FOUR
The Process of Creation
TEXT 1
ad Sara
Tak | TaRafTArnA: |
STIS af Bea ahaa: att PTT NN 2 UI
suta uvaca
valydasaker itt vacas
tattva-niscayam atmanah
upadharya matim krsne
auttareyah satim vyadhat
sutah uvaca—Siita Gosvami said; vaiyasakeh—of Sukadeva Gosvami; iti—
thus; vacah—speeches; tattva-niscayam—that which verifies the truth;
atmanah—in the self; upadharya—just having realized; matim—concentra-
tion of the mind; krsne—unto Lord Krsna; auttareyah—the son of Uttara;
satim—chaste; vyadhat—applied.
TRANSLATION
Sita Gosvami said: Maharaja Pariksit, the son of Uttara, after hearing
the speeches of Sukadeva Gosvami, which were all about the truth of the
self, applied his concentration faithfully upon Lord Krsna.
PURPORT
The word satim is very significant. This means existing and chaste. And
both imports are perfectly applicable in the case of Maharaja Partksit. The
whole Vedic adventure is to draw one’s attention entirely unto the lotus
feet of Lord Krsna without any diversion, as it is instructed in the
Bhagavad-gita (Bg. 15.15). Fortunately Maharaja Pariksit had already been
attracted to the Lord from the very beginning of his body, in the womb
of his mother. In the womb of his mother, he was struck by the brahmdstra
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