Text 15] The Demigods Regain the Heavenly Planets 209

TRANSLATION

Sukracarya said: My Lord, You are the enjoyer and lawgiver in
all performances of sacrifice, and You are the yajiia-purusa, the
person to whom all sacrifices are offered. If one has fully satisfied
You, where is the chance of discrepancies or faults in his perfor-
mances of sacrifice?

PURPORT
In Bhagavad-gité (5.29) the Lord says, bhoktérarn yajfia-tapasam

sarva-loka-mahesvaram: the Lord, the supreme proprietor, is the actual
person to be satisfied by the performance of yajrias. The Visnu Purana

(3.8.9) says:

varndsramacaravata
purusena parah puman

visnur dradhyate pantha
nanyat tat-tosa-kdranam

All the Vedic ritualistic sacrifices are performed for the purpose of
satisfying Lord Visnu, the yajfia-purusa. The divisions of society—
brahmana,_ ksatriya, vaisya, Sstdra, brahmacarya,  grhastha,
vanaprastha and sannydsa—are all meant to satisfy the Supreme Lord,
Visnu. To act according to this principle of the varnasrama institution is
called varndsramacarana. In Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.2.13), Sita
Gosvami says:

atah pumbhir dvija-srestha
varndsrama-vibhagasah

svanusthitasya dharmasya
samsiddhir hari-tosanam

“‘O best among the twiceborn, it is therefore concluded that the highest
perfection one can achieve by discharging his prescribed duties accord-
ing to caste divisions and orders of life is to please the Personality of
Godhead.” Everything is meant to satisfy the Supreme Personality of
Godhead. Therefore, since Bali Maharaja had satisfied the Lord, he had
no faults, and Sukracdrya admitted that cursing him was not good.
