Text 11] The Supreme Character of Jada Bharata 319

TEXT 11

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yada tu parata dharam karma-vetanata ihamanah sva-bhratrbhir api
kedara-karmani niripitas tad api karoti kintu na samam visamam
nytinam adhikam iti veda kana-pinyaka-phali-karana-kulmasa-
sthalipurisadiny apy amrtavad abhyavaharati.

yadaé—when; tu—but; paratah—from others; aharam—food;
karma-vetanatah—in exchange for wages from working; ihamaénah—
looking for; sva-bhratrbhih api—even by his own stepbrothers; kedara-
karmani—in working in the field and adjusting the agricultural work;
niripitah—engaged; tat api—at that time also; karoti—he used to do:
kintu—but; na—not; samam—level; visamam—uneven; nyinam—
deficient; adhikam—more raised; iti—thus; veda—he knew; kana—
broken rice; pinydka—oil cakes; phali-karana—the chaff of rice:
kulmésa —worm-eaten grains; sthdli-purisa-adini—burned rice stuck to
the pot and so on; api—even; amrta-vat—like nectar; abhyavaharati—
used to eat.

TRANSLATION

Jada Bharata used to work only for food. His stepbrothers took
advantage of this and engaged him in agricultural field work in ex-
change for some food, but actually he did not know how to work
very well in the field. He did not know where to spread dirt or
where to make the ground level or uneven. His brothers used to
give him broken rice, oil cakes, the chaff of rice, worm-eaten
grains and burned grains that had stuck to the pot, but he gladly
accepted all this as if it were nectar. He did not hold any grudges
and ate all this very gladly.

PURPORT

The platform of paramaharnsa is described in Bhagavad-gita (2.15):
sama-duhkha-sukham dhiram so ’mrtatvaya kalpate. When one is
