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SB 6.14.9: Sukadeva Gosvami said: O King, I shall speak to you the same

history I have heard from the mouths of Vyasadeva, Narada and Devala.

Please listen with attention.

 

SB 6.14.10: O King Pariksit, in the province of Surasena there was a

king named Citraketu. During his reign, the earth produced all the

necessities for life.

 

SB 6.14.11: This Citraketu had many wives, but although he was capable

of producing children, he did not receive a child from any of them. By

chance, all the wives were barren.

 

SB 6.14.12: Citraketu, the husband of these wives, was endowed with a

beautiful form, magnanimity and youth. He was born in a high family, he

had a complete education, and he was wealthy and opulent. Nevertheless,

in spite of being endowed with all these assets, he was full of anxiety

because he did not have a son.

 

SB 6.14.13: His queens all had beautiful faces and attractive eyes, yet

neither his opulence’s, his queens, nor the lands of which he was the

supreme proprietor were sources of happiness for him.

 

SB 6.14.14: Once upon a time, when the powerful sage named Angira was

traveling all over the universe without engagement, by his sweet will

he came to the palace of King Citraketu.

 

SB 6.14.15: Citraketu immediately stood up from his throne and offered

him worship. He offered drinking water and eatables and in this way

performed his duty as a host to a great guest. When the saint was

seated very comfortably, the King, restraining his mind and senses, sat

on the ground at the side of the saint’s feet.

 

SB 6.14.16: O King Pariksit, when Citraketu, bent low in humility, was

seated at the lotus feet of the great sage, the sage congratulated him

for his humility and hospitality. The sage addressed him in the

following words.

 

SB 6.14.17: The great sage Angira said: My dear King, I hope that your

body and mind and your royal associates and paraphernalia are well.

When the seven properties of material nature [the total material

energy, the ego and the five objects of sense gratification] are in

proper order, the living entity within the material elements is happy.

Without these seven elements one cannot exist. Similarly, a king is

always protected by seven elements — his instructor (guru), his

ministers, his kingdom, his fort, his treasury, his royal order and his

friends.

 

SB 6.14.18: O King, O lord of humanity, when a king directly depends

upon his associates and follows their instructions, he is happy.

Similarly, when his associates offer their gifts and activities to the

king and follow his orders, they are also happy.

 

SB 6.14.19: O King, are your wives, citizens, secretaries and servants

and the merchants who sell spices and oil under your control? Are you

also in full control of ministers, the inhabitants of your palace, your

provincial governors, your sons and your other dependents?

 

SB 6.14.20: If the king's mind is fully controlled, all his family

members and governmental officers are subordinate to him. His

provincial governors present taxes on time, without resistance, and

what to speak of lesser servants?

 

SB 6.14.21: O King Citraketu, I can observe that your mind is not

pleased. You seem not to have achieved your desired goal. Is this

because of you yourself, or has it been caused by others? Your pale

face reflects your deep anxiety.

 

SB 6.14.22: Sukadeva Gosvami said: O King Pariksit, although the great

sage Angira knew everything, he inquired from the King in this way.

Thus King Citraketu, desiring a son, bent low in great humility and

spoke to the great sage as follows.

 

SB 6.14.23: King Citraketu said: O great lord Angira, because of

austerity, knowledge and transcendental samadhi, you are freed from all

the reactions of sinful life. Therefore, as a perfect yogi, you can

understand everything external and internal regarding embodied,

conditioned souls like us.

 

SB 6.14.24: O great soul, you are aware of everything, yet you are

asking me why I am full of anxiety. Therefore, in response to your

order, let me disclose the cause.

 

SB 6.14.25: As a person aggrieved by hunger and thirst is not pleased

by the external gratification of flower garlands or sandalwood pulp, I

am not pleased with my empire, opulence or possessions, which are

desirable even for great demigods, because I have no son.

 

SB 6.14.26: Therefore, O great sage, please save me and my forefathers,

who are descending to the darkness of hell because I have no progeny.

Kindly do something so that I may have a son to deliver us from hellish

conditions.

 

SB 6.14.27: In response to the request of King Citraketu, the saint

Angira, who was born of Lord Brahma's mind, was very merciful toward

him. Because the sage was a greatly powerful personality, he performed

a sacrifice by offering oblations of sweet rice to Tvasta

 

SB 6.14.28: O Pariksit Maharaja, best of the Bharatas, the remnants of

the food offered in the yajna were given by the great sage Angira to

the first and most perfect among Citraketu's millions of queens, whose

name was Kritadyuti.

 

SB 6.14.29: Thereafter, the great sage told the King, " O great King,

now you will have a son who will be the cause of both jubilation and

lamentation. " The sage then left, without waiting for Citraketu's

response.

 

SB 6.14.30: As Devi, after receiving the semen of Lord Siva from Agni,

conceived a child named Skanda, Kritadyuti, having received semen from

Citraketu, became pregnant after eating remnants of food from the yajna

performed by Angira.

 

SB 6.14.31: After receiving semen from King Citraketu, the King of

Surasena, Queen Kritadyuti gradually developed in her pregnancy, O King

Pariksit, just as the moon develops during the bright fortnight.

 

SB 6.14.32: Thereafter, in due course of time, a son was born to the

King. Hearing news of this, all the inhabitants of the state of

Surasena were extremely pleased.

 

SB 6.14.33: King Citraketu was especially pleased. After purifying

himself by bathing and by decorating himself with ornaments, he engaged

learned Brahman Priests in offering benedictions to the child and

performing the birth ceremony.

 

SB 6.14.34: Unto the brahmanas who took part in the ritualistic

ceremony the King gave charity of gold, silver, garments, ornaments,

villages, horses and elephants, as well as sixty crores of cows.

 

SB 6.14.35: As a cloud indiscriminately pours water on the earth, the

beneficent King Citraketu, to increase the reputation, opulence and

longevity of his son, distributed like rainfall all desirable things to

everyone.

 

SB 6.14.36: When a poor man gets some money after great difficulty, his

affection for the money increases daily. Similarly, when King

Citraketu, after great difficulty, received a son, his affection for

the son increased day after day.

 

SB 6.14.37: The mother's attraction and attention to the son, like that

of the child's father, excessively increased. The other wives, seeing

Kritadyuti's son, were very much agitated, as if by high fevers, with a

desire to have sons.

 

SB 6.14.38: As King Citraketu fostered his son very carefully, his

affection for Queen Kritadyuti increased, but gradually he lost

affection for the other wives, who had no sons.

 

SB 6.14.39: The other queens were extremely unhappy due to their being

sonless. Because of the King's negligence toward them, they condemned

themselves in envy and lamented.

 

SB 6.14.40: A wife who has no sons is neglected at home by her husband

and dishonored by her co-wives exactly like a maidservant. Certainly

such a woman is condemned in every respect because of her sinful life.

 

SB 6.14.41: Even maidservants who are constantly engaged in rendering

service to the husband are honored by the husband, and thus they have

nothing for which to lament. Our position, however, is that we are

maidservants of the maidservant. Therefore we are most unfortunate.

 

SB 6.14.42: Sukadeva Gosvami continued: Being neglected by their

husband and seeing Kritadyuti's opulence in possessing a son,

Kritadyuti's co-wives always burned in envy, which became extremely

strong.

 

SB 6.14.43: As their envy increased, they lost their intelligence.

Being extremely hardhearted and unable to tolerate the King's neglect,

they finally administered poison to the son.

 

SB 6.14.44: Unaware of the poison administered by her co-wives, Queen

Kritadyuti walked within the house, thinking that her son was sleeping

deeply. She did not understand that he was dead.

 

SB 6.14.45: Thinking that her child had been sleeping for a long time,

Queen Kritadyuti, who was certainly very intelligent, ordered the

nurse, " My dear friend, please bring my son here. "

 

SB 6.14.46: When the maidservant approached the child, who was lying

down, she saw that his eyes were turned upward. There were no signs of

life, all his senses having stopped, and she could understand that the

child was dead. Seeing this, she immediately cried, " Now I am doomed, "

and fell to the ground.

 

SB 6.14.47: In great agitation, the maidservant struck her breast with

both hands and cried loudly in regretful words. Hearing her loud voice,

the Queen immediately came, and when she approached her son, she saw

that he was suddenly dead.

 

SB 6.14.48: In great lamentation, her hair and dress in disarray, the

Queen fell to the ground unconscious.

 

SB 6.14.49: O King Pariksit, hearing the loud crying, all the

inhabitants of the palace came, both men and women. Being equally

aggrieved, they also began to cry. The queens who had administered the

poison also cried pretentiously, knowing full well their offense.

 

SB 6.14.50-51: When King Citraketu heard of his son's death from

unknown causes, he became almost blind. Because of his great affection

for his son, his lamentation grew like a blazing fire, and as he went

to see the dead child, he kept slipping and falling on the ground.

Surrounded by his ministers and other officers and the learned

brahmanas present, the King approached and fell unconscious at the

child's feet, his hair and dress scattered. When the King, breathing

heavily, regained consciousness, his eyes were tearful, and he could

not speak.

 

SB 6.14.52: When the Queen saw her husband, King Citraketu, merged in

great lamentation and saw the dead child, who was the only son in the

family, she lamented in various ways. This increased the pain in the

cores of the hearts of all the inhabitants of the palace, the ministers

and all the Priests.

 

SB 6.14.53: The garland of flowers decorating the Queen's head fell,

and her hair scattered. Falling tears melted the collyrium on her eyes

and moistened her breasts, which were covered with kunkuma powder. As

she lamented the loss of her son, her loud crying resembled the sweet

sound of a bird.

 

SB 6.14.54: Alas, O Providence, O Creator, You are certainly

inexperienced in creation, for during the lifetime of a father You have

caused the death of his son, thus acting in opposition to Your creative

laws. If You are determined to contradict these laws, You are certainly

the enemy of living entities and are never merciful.

 

SB 6.14.55: My Lord, You may say that there is no law that a father

must die in the lifetime of his son and that a son must be born in the

lifetime of his father, since everyone lives and dies according to his

own fruitive activity. However, if fruitive activity is so strong that

birth and death depend upon it, there is no need of a controller, or

God. Again, if You say that a controller is needed because the material

energy does not have the power to act, one may answer that if the bonds

of affection You have created are disturbed by fruitive action, no one

will raise children with affection; instead, everyone will cruelly

neglect his children. Since You have cut the bonds of affection that

compel a parent to raise his child, You appear inexperienced and

unintelligent.

 

SB 6.14.56: My dear son, I am helpless and very much aggrieved. You

should not give up my company. Just look at your lamenting father. We

are helpless because without a son we shall have to suffer the distress

of going to the darkest hellish regions. You are the only hope by which

we can get out of these dark regions. Therefore I request you not to go

any further with the merciless Yama.

 

SB 6.14.57: My dear son, you have slept a long time. Now please get up.

Your playmates are calling you to play. Since you must be very hungry,

please get up and suck my breast and dissipate our lamentation.

 

SB 6.14.58: My dear son, I am certainly most unfortunate, for I can no

longer see your mild smiling. You have closed your eyes forever. I

therefore conclude that you have been taken from this planet to

another, from which you will not return. My dear son, I can no longer

hear your pleasing voice.

 

SB 6.14.59: Sukadeva Gosvami continued: Accompanied by his wife, who

was thus lamenting for her dead son, King Citraketu began crying loudly

with an open mouth, being greatly aggrieved.

 

SB 6.14.60: As the King and Queen lamented, all their male and female

followers joined them in crying. Because of the sudden accident, all

the citizens of the kingdom were almost unconscious.

 

SB 6.14.61: When the great sage Angira understood that the King was

almost dead in an ocean of lamentation, he went there with Sage Narada.

 

SB 6.15.1: Sukadeva Gosvami said: While King Citraketu, overcome by

lamentation, lay like a dead body at the side of the dead body of his

son, the two great sages Narada and Angira instructed him about

spiritual consciousness as follows.

 

SB 6.15.2: O King, what relationship does the dead body for which you

lament have with you, and what relationship do you have with him? You

may say that you are now related as father and son, but do you think

this relationship existed before? Does it truly exist now? Will it

continue in the future?

 

SB 6.15.3: O King, as small particles of sand sometimes come together

and are sometimes separated due to the force of the waves, the living

entities who have accepted material bodies sometimes come together and

are sometimes separated by the force of time.

 

SB 6.15.4: When seeds are sown in the ground, they sometimes grow into

plants and sometimes do not. Sometimes the ground is not fertile, and

the sowing of seeds is unproductive. Similarly, sometimes a prospective

father, being impelled by the potency of the Supreme Lord, can beget a

child, but sometimes conception does not take place. Therefore one

should not lament over the artificial relationship of parenthood, which

is ultimately controlled by the Supreme Lord.

 

SB 6.15.5: O King, both you and us — your advisers, wives and ministers

— as well as everything moving and not moving throughout the entire

cosmos at this time, are in a temporary situation. Before our birth

this situation did not exist, and after our death it will exist no

longer. Therefore our situation now is temporary, although it is not

false.

 

SB 6.15.6: The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master and

proprietor of everything, is certainly not interested in the temporary

cosmic manifestation. Nonetheless, just as a boy at the beach creates

something in which he is not interested, the Lord, keeping everything

under His control, causes creation, maintenance and annihilation. He

creates by engaging a father to beget a son, He maintains by engaging a

government or king to see to the public's welfare, and He annihilates

through agents for killing, such as snakes. The agents for creation,

maintenance and annihilation have no independent potency, but because

of the spell of the illusory energy, one thinks himself the creator,

maintainer and annihilator.

 

SB 6.15.7: As from one seed another seed is generated, O King, so from

one body [the body of the father], through another body [the body of

the mother], a third body is generated [the body of a son]. As the

elements of the material body are eternal, the living entity who

appears through these material elements is also eternal.

 

SB 6.15.8: Divisions of generalization and specification, such as

nationality and individuality, are the imaginations of persons who are

not advanced in knowledge.

 

SB 6.15.9: Sukadeva Gosvami continued: Thus enlightened by the

instructions of Narada and Angira, King Citraketu became hopeful with

knowledge. Wiping his shriveled face with his hand, the King began to

speak.

 

SB 6.15.10: King Citraketu said: You have both come here dressed like

liberated persons, just to cover your identities, but I see that of all

men, you are the most elevated in awareness. You know everything as it

is. Therefore you are the greatest of all great personalities.

 

SB 6.15.11: Brahmanas who are exalted to the position of Vaisnavas, the

most dear servants of Krishna, sometimes dress like madmen. Just to

benefit materialists like us, who are always attached to sense

gratification, and just to dissipate our ignorance, these Vaisnavas

wander on the surface of the globe according to their desire.

 

SB 6.15.12-15: O great souls, I have heard that among the great and

perfect persons wandering the surface of the earth to instruct

knowledge to people covered by ignorance are Sanat-kumara, Narada,

Ribhu, Angira, Devala, Asita, Vyasadeva, Markandeya, Gautama, Vasistha,

Bhagavan Parsurama, Kapila, Sukadeva, , etc who know the Vedas, You

must certainly be among them.

 

SB 6.15.16: Because you are great personalities, you can give me real

knowledge. I am as foolish as a village animal like a pig or dog

because I am merged in the darkness of ignorance. Therefore, please

ignite the torch of knowledge to save me.

 

SB 6.15.17: Angira said: My dear King, when you desired to have a son,

I approached you. Indeed, I am the same Angira who gave you this son.

As for this Rishi, he is the great sage Narada, the direct son of Lord

Brahma

 

SB 6.15.18-19: My dear King, you are an advanced devotee of the Supreme

Personality of Godhead. To be absorbed in lamentation for the loss of

something material is unsuitable for a person like you. Therefore we

have both come to relieve you from this false lamentation, which is due

to your being merged in the darkness of ignorance. For those who are

advanced in spiritual knowledge to be affected by material loss and

gain is not at all desirable.

 

SB 6.15.20: When I first came to your home, I could have given you the

supreme transcendental knowledge, but when I saw that your mind was

absorbed in material things, I gave you only a son, who caused you

jubilation and lamentation.

 

SB 6.15.21-23: My dear King, now you are actually experiencing the

misery of a person who has sons and daughters. O King, owner of the

state of Surasena, one's wife, his house, the opulence of his kingdom,

and his various other opulence’s and objects of sense perception are

all the same in that they are temporary. One's kingdom, military power,

treasury, servants, ministers, friends and relatives are all causes of

fear, illusion, lamentation and distress. They are like a

gandharva-nagara, a nonexistent palace that one imagines to exist in

the forest. Because they are impermanent, they are no better than

illusions, dreams and mental concoctions.

 

SB 6.15.24: These visible objects like wife, children and property are

like dreams and mental concoctions. Actually what we see has no

permanent existence. It is sometimes seen and sometimes not. Only

because of our past actions do we create such mental concoctions, and

because of these concoctions, we perform further activities.

 

SB 6.15.25: The living entity in the bodily conception of life is

absorbed in the body, which is a combination of the physical elements,

the five senses for gathering knowledge, and the five senses of action,

along with the mind. Through the mind the living entity suffers three

kinds of tribulations — 1) caused by other living beings, 2) Caused by

nature, and 3) Caused by one’s body and mind. Therefore this body is a

source of all miseries.

 

SB 6.15.26: Therefore, O King Citraketu, carefully consider the

position of the SOUL. In other words, try to understand who you are —

whether body, mind or soul. Consider where you have come from, where

you are going after giving up this body, and why you are under the

control of material lamentation. Try to understand your real position

in this way, and then you will be able to give up your unnecessary

attachment. You will also be able to give up the belief that this

material world, or anything not directly in touch with service to God,

is eternal. Thus you will obtain peace.

 

SB 6.15.27: The great sage Narada continued: My dear King, attentively

receive from me a mantra, which is most auspicious. After accepting it

from me, in seven nights you will be able to see the Lord face to face.

 

SB 6.15.28: My dear King, in former days Lord Shiva and other demigods

took shelter of the lotus feet of God. Thus they immediately got free

from the illusion of duality and achieved unequaled and unsurpassed

glories in spiritual life. You will very soon attain that very same

position.

 

SB 6.16.1: Sukadeva Gosvami said: My dear King Pariksit, by his mystic

power the great sage Narada brought the dead son into the vision of all

the lamenting relatives and then spoke as follows.

 

SB 6.16.2: Narada Muni said: O living entity, all good fortune unto

you. Just see your father and mother. All your friends and relatives

are overwhelmed with grief because of your passing away.

 

SB 6.16.3: Because you died untimely, the balance of your lifetime

still remains. Therefore you may reenter your body and enjoy the

remainder of your life, surrounded by your friends and relatives.

Accept the royal throne and all the opulence’s given by your father.

 

SB 6.16.4: By the mystic power of Narada Muni, the living entity

reentered his dead body for a short time and spoke in reply to Narada

Muni's request. He said: According to the results of my fruitive

activities, I, the living being, transmigrate from one body to another,

sometimes going to the species of the demigods, sometimes to the

species of lower animals, sometimes among the vegetables, and sometimes

to the human species. Therefore, in which birth were these my mother

and father? No one is actually my mother and father. How can I accept

these two people as my parents?

 

SB 6.16.5: In this material world, which advances like a river that

carries away the living entity, all people become friends, relatives

and enemies in due course of time. They also act neutrally, they

mediate, they despise one another, and they act in many other

relationships. Nonetheless, despite these various transactions, no one

is permanently related.

 

SB 6.16.6: Just as gold and other commodities are continually

transferred from one place to another in due course of purchase and

sale, so the living entity, as a result of his fruitive activities,

wanders throughout the entire universe, being injected into various

bodies in different species of life by one kind of father after

another.

 

SB 6.16.7: A few living entities are born in the human species, and

others are born as animals. Although both are living entities, their

relationships are impermanent. An animal may remain in the custody of a

human being for some time, and then the same animal may be transferred

to the possession of other human beings. As soon as the animal goes

away, the former proprietor no longer has a sense of ownership. As long

as the animal is in his possession he certainly has an affinity for it,

but as soon as the animal is sold, the affinity is lost.

 

SB 6.16.8: Even though one living entity becomes connected with another

because of a relationship based on bodies that are perishable, the

living entity is eternal. Actually it is the body that is born or lost,

not the living entity. One should not accept that the living entity

takes birth or dies. The living being actually has no relationship with

so-called fathers and mothers. As long as he appears as the son of a

certain father and mother as a result of his past fruitive activities,

he has a connection with the body given by that father and mother. Thus

he falsely accepts himself as their son and acts affectionately. After

he dies, however, the relationship is finished. Under these

circumstances, one should not be falsely involved with jubilation and

lamentation.

 

SB 6.16.9: The living entity is eternal and imperishable because he

actually has no beginning and no end. He never takes birth or dies. He

is the basic principle of all types of bodies, yet he does not belong

to the bodily category. The living being is so sublime that he is equal

in quality to the Supreme Lord. Nonetheless, because he is extremely

small, he is prone to be illusioned by the external energy, and thus he

creates various bodies for himself according to his different desires.

 

SB 6.16.10: For this living entity, no one is dear, nor is anyone

unfavorable. He makes no distinction between that which is his own and

that which belongs to anyone else. He is one without a second; in other

words, he is not affected by friends and enemies, well-wishers or

mischief-mongers. He is only an observer, a witness, of the different

qualities of men.

 

SB 6.16.11: The Supreme Lord, the creator of cause and effect, does not

accept the happiness and distress that result from fruitive actions. He

is completely independent of having to accept a material body, and

because He has no material body, He is always neutral. The living

entities, being part and parcel of the Lord, possess His qualities in a

minute quantity. Therefore one should not be affected by lamentation.

 

SB 6.16.12: Sukadeva Gosvami continued: When the conditioned soul in

the form of King Citraketu's son had spoken in this way and then left,

Citraketu and the other relatives of the dead son were all astonished.

Thus they cut off the shackles of their affection, which was due to

their relationship with him, and gave up their lamentation.

 

SB 6.16.13: After the relatives had discharged their duties by

performing the proper funeral ceremonies and burning the dead child's

body, they gave up the affection that leads to illusion, lamentation,

fear and pain. Such affection is undoubtedly difficult to give up, but

they gave it up very easily.

 

SB 6.16.14: Queen Krityadyuti's co-wives, who had poisoned the child,

were very much ashamed, and they lost all their bodily luster. While

lamenting, O King, they remembered the instructions of Angira and gave

up their ambition to bear children. Following the directions of the

brahmanas, they went to the bank of the Yamuna, where they bathed and

atoned for their sinful activities.

 

SB 6.16.15: Thus enlightened by the instructions of the saints, Angira

and Narada, King Citraketu became fully aware of spiritual knowledge.

As an elephant becomes free from a muddy reservoir of water, King

Citraketu came out of the dark well of family life.

 

 

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