Text 21] Maharaja Rahigana Meets Jada Bharata 363

world? I am very attached to family life and worldly activities, and
I am blind to spiritual knowledge. Nonetheless, I am now present
before you and am seeking enlightenment from you. How can I ad-
vance in spiritual life?

PURPORT

Although Maharaja Rahigana was playing the part of a king, he had
been informed by Jada Bharata that he was not a king nor was Jada
Bharata deaf and dumb. Such designations were simply coverings of the
spirit soul. Everyone must come to this knowledge. As confirmed in
Bhagavad-gita (2.13): dehino ’smin yatha dehe. Everyone is encased
within the body. Since the body is never identical with the soul, the
bodily activities are simply illusory. In the association of such a sddhu as
Jada Bharata, Maharaja Rahiigana came to the awareness that his ac-
tivities as a royal authority were simply illusory phenomena. He
therefore agreed to receive knowledge from Jada Bharata, and that was
the beginning of his perfection. Tad-vijfidnartham sa gurum evabhigac-
chet. A person like Maharaja Rahigana, who was very inquisitive to
know the value of life and the spiritual science, must approach a per-
sonality like Jada Bharata. Tasméad gurum prapadyeta jijfidsuh sreya ut-
tamam (Bhag. 11.3.21). One must approach a guru like Jada Bharata, a
representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, to inquire about
the goal of human life.

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