CHAPTER ELEVEN

Jada Bharata Instructs King Rahigana

In this chapter the bréhmana Jada Bharata instructs Maharaja Rahigana
in detail. He tells the King: “‘You are not very experienced, yet you pose
yourself as a learned person because you are very proud of your
knowledge. Actually a person who is on the transcendental platform does
not care for social behavior that sacrifices spiritual advancement. Social
behavior comes within the jurisdiction of karma-kanda, material benefit.
No one can spiritually advance by such activities. The conditioned soul is
always overpowered by the modes of material nature, and consequently
he is simply concerned with material benefits and auspicious and in-
auspicious material things. In other words, the mind, which is the leader
of the senses, is absorbed in material activities life after life. Thus he
continuously gets different types of bodies and suffers miserable material
conditions. On the basis of mental concoction. social behavior has been
formulated. If one’s mind is absorbed in these activities. he certainly
remains conditioned within the material world. According to different
opinions, there are eleven or twelve mental activities. which can be
transformed into hundreds and thousands. A person who is not Krsna
conscious is subjected to all these mental concoctions and is thus
governed by the material energy. The living entity who is free from
mental concoctions attains the platform of pure spirit soul. devoid of
material contamination. There are two types of living entities—jivatma
and paramatma, the individual soul and the Supreme Soul. That
Supreme Soul in His ultimate realization is Lord Vasudeva. Krsna. He
enters into everyone's heart and controls the living entity in his different
activities. He is therefore the supreme shelter of all living entities. One
can understand the Supreme Soul and one’s position in relationship with
Him when one is completely freed from the unwanted association of or-
dinary men. In this way one can become fit to cross the ocean of nes-
cience. The cause of conditional life is attachment to the external energy.
One has to conquer these mental concoctions: unless one does so. he will

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