CHAPTER FIFTEEN

The Saints Narada and Angira
Instruct King Citraketu

In this chapter, Angira Rsi, along with Narada, consoles Citraketu as far
as possible. Angira and Narada Rsi came to relieve the King from ex-
cessive lamentation by instructing him about the spiritual significance of
life.

The great saints Angira and Narada explained that the relationship be-
tween father and son is not factual; it is simply a representation of the il-
lusory energy. The relationship did not exist before, nor will it stay in
the future. By the arrangement of time, the relationship exists only in
the present. One should not lament for temporary relationships. The en-
tire cosmic manifestation is temporary; although not unreal, it is not fac-
tual. By the direction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, everything
created in the material world is transient. By a temporary arrangement, a
father begets a child, or a living entity becomes the child of a so-called
father. This temporary arrangement is made by the Supreme Lord.
Neither the father nor the son exists independently.

As the King listened to the great sages, he was relieved from his false
lamentation, and then he inquired about their identity. The great sages
presented who they were and instructed that all sufferings are due to the
bodily conception of life. When one understands his spiritual identity
and surrenders to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the supreme
spiritual person, one becomes actually happy. When one searches for
happiness in matter, one must certainly lament for bodily relationships.
Self-realization means spiritual realization of one’s relationship with
Krsna. Such realization ends one’s miserable material life.

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