Text 19] Lord Vignu’s Appearance in the Sacrificial Arena 787

TRANSLATION

As King Indra was standing by, he became ashamed of his own activities
and fell down before King Prthu to touch his lotus feet. But Prthu Maha-
raja immediately embraced him in great ecstasy and gave up all his envy
against him because of his stealing the horse meant for the sacrifice.

PURPORT

There are many cases in which a person becomes an offender to the
lotus feet of a Vaisnava and later becomes repentant. Here also we find
that although the King of heaven, Indra, is so powerful that he accompa-
nied Lord Visnu, he felt himself a great offender for stealing Prthu Maha-
raja’s horse that was meant for sacrifice. An offender at the lotus feet
of a Vaisnava is never excused by the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
There are many instances illustrating this fact. Ambariga Maharaja was
offended by Durvasa Muni, a great sage and mystic yogi, and Durvasa also
had to fall down at the lotus feet of Ambariga Maharaja.

Indra decided to fall down at the lotus feet of King Prthu, but the King
was so magnanimous a Vaisnava that he did not want Maharaja Indra to
fall down at his feet. He immediately picked him up and embraced him,
and both of them forgot all the past incidents. Both King Indra and Maha-
raja Prthu were envious and angry with each other, but since both of them
were Vaisnavas, or servants of Lord Visnu, it was their duty to adjust the
cause of their envy. This is also a first-class example of cooperative behav-
ior between Vaisnavas. In the present days, however, because people are
not Vaisnavas, they fight perpetually among one another and are vanquished
without finishing the mission of human life. There is a great need to
propagate the Krsna consciousness movement in the world so that even
though sometimes people become angry and malicious towards one an-
other, because of their being Krsna conscious such rivalry, competition
and envy could be adjusted without difficulty.

TEXT 19

ama «aA TaATEaTET: |
ABM AIT BAIT: 112811

bhagavan atha visvdtma
prthunopahrtarhanah
