Chitraketu offends (angers) Parvati-Devi

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SB 6.17.1: ?r?la ?ukadeva Gosv?m? said: After offering obeisances to

the direction from which Ananta, the Supreme Personality of Godhead,

had disappeared, Citraketu began traveling in outer space as the head

of the Vidy?dharas.

 

SB 6.17.2-3: Being praised by great sages and saints and by the

inhabitants of Siddhaloka and C?ran?aloka, Citraketu, the most powerful

mystic yog?, wandered about enjoying life for millions of years. With

bodily strength and senses free from deterioration, he traveled within

the valleys of Sumeru Mountain, which is the place of perfection for

various kinds of mystic power. In those valleys he enjoyed life with

the women of Vidy?dhara-loka by chanting the glories of the Supreme

Lord, Hari.

 

SB 6.17.4-5: One time while King Citraketu was traveling in outer space

on a brilliantly effulgent airplane given to him by Lord Vis?n?u, he

saw Lord ?iva, surrounded by Siddhas and C?ran?as. Lord ?iva was

sitting in an assembly of great saintly persons and embracing P?rvat?

on his lap with his arm. Citraketu laughed loudly and spoke, within the

hearing of P?rvat?.

 

SB 6.17.6: Citraketu said: Lord ?iva, the spiritual master of the

general populace, is the best of all living entities who have accepted

material bodies. He enunciates the system of religion. Yet how

wonderful it is that he is embracing his wife, P?rvat?, in the midst of

an assembly of great saintly persons.

 

SB 6.17.7: Lord ?iva, whose hair is matted on his head, has certainly

undergone great austerities and penances. Indeed, he is the president

in the assembly of strict followers of Vedic principles. Nonetheless,

he is seated with his wife on his lap in the midst of saintly persons

and is embracing her as if he were a shameless, ordinary human being.

 

SB 6.17.8: Ordinary conditioned persons generally embrace their wives

and enjoy their company in solitary places. How wonderful it is that

Lord Mah?deva, although a great master of austerity, is embracing his

wife openly in the midst of an assembly of great saints.

 

SB 6.17.9: ?r?la ?ukadeva Gosv?m? continued: My dear King, after

hearing Citraketu's statement, Lord ?iva, the most powerful

personality, whose knowledge is fathomless, simply smiled and remained

silent, and all the members of the assembly followed the lord by not

saying anything.

 

SB 6.17.10: Not knowing the prowess of Lord ?iva and P?rvat?, Citraketu

strongly criticized them. His statements were not at all pleasing, and

therefore the goddess P?rvat?, being very angry, spoke as follows to

Citraketu, who thought himself better than Lord ?iva in controlling the

senses.

 

SB 6.17.11: The goddess P?rvat? said: Alas, has this upstart now

received a post from which to punish shameless persons like us? Has he

been appointed ruler, carrier of the rod of punishment? Is he now the

only master of everything?

 

SB 6.17.12: Alas, Lord Brahm?, who has taken his birth from the lotus

flower, does not know the principles of religion, nor do the great

saints like Bhr?gu and N?rada, nor the four Kum?ras, headed by

Sanat-kum?ra. Manu and Kapila have also forgotten the religious

principles. I suppose it to be because of this that they have not tried

to stop Lord ?iva from behaving improperly.

 

SB 6.17.13: This Citraketu is the lowest of ks?atriyas, for he has

impudently overridden Brahm? and the other demigods by insulting Lord

?iva, upon whose lotus feet they always meditate. Lord ?iva is

personified religion and the spiritual master of the entire world, and

therefore Citraketu must be punished.

 

SB 6.17.14: This person is puffed up because of his achievements,

thinking, " I am the best. " He does not deserve to approach the shelter

of Lord Vis?n?u's lotus feet, which are worshiped by all saintly

persons, for he is impudent, thinking himself greatly important.

 

SB 6.17.15: O impudent one, my dear son, now take birth in a low,

sinful family of demons so that you will not commit such an offense

again toward exalted, saintly persons in this world.

 

SB 6.17.16: ?r? ?ukadeva Gosv?m? continued: My dear King Par?ks?it,

when Citraketu was cursed by P?rvat?, he descended from his airplane,

bowed before her with great humility and pleased her completely.

 

SB 6.17.17: Citraketu said: My dear mother, with my own hands folded

together I accept the curse upon me. I do not mind the curse, for

happiness and distress are given by the demigods as a result of one's

past deeds.

 

SB 6.17.18: Deluded by ignorance, the living entity wanders in the

forest of this material world, enjoying the happiness and distress

resulting from his past deeds, everywhere and at all times. [Therefore,

my dear mother, neither you nor I am to be blamed for this incident.]

 

SB 6.17.19: In this material world, neither the living entity himself

nor others [friends and enemies] are the cause of material happiness

and distress. But because of gross ignorance, the living entity thinks

that he and others are the cause.

 

SB 6.17.20: This material world resembles the waves of a constantly

flowing river. Therefore, what is a curse and what is a favor? What are

the heavenly planets, and what are the hellish planets? What is

actually happiness, and what is actually distress? Because the waves

flow constantly, none of them has an eternal effect.

 

SB 6.17.21: The Supreme Personality of Godhead is one. Unaffected by

the conditions of the material world, He creates all the conditioned

souls by His own personal potency. Because of being contaminated by the

material energy, the living entity is put into ignorance and thus into

different conditions of bondage. Sometimes, by knowledge, the living

entity is given liberation. In sattva-gun?a and rajo-gun?a, he is

subjected to happiness and distress.

 

SB 6.17.22: The Supreme Personality of Godhead is equally disposed

toward all living entities. Therefore no one is very dear to Him, and

no one is a great enemy for Him; no one is His friend, and no one is

His relative. Being unattached to the material world, He has no

affection for so-called happiness or hatred for so-called distress. The

two terms happiness and distress are relative. Since the Lord is always

happy, for Him there is no question of distress.

 

SB 6.17.23: Although the Supreme Lord is unattached to our happiness

and distress according to karma, and although no one is His enemy or

favorite, He creates pious and impious activities through the agency of

His material potency. Thus for the continuation of the materialistic

way of life He creates happiness and distress, good fortune and bad,

bondage and liberation, birth and death.

 

SB 6.17.24: O mother, you are now unnecessarily angry, but since all my

happiness and distress are destined by my past activities, I do not

plead to be excused or relieved from your curse. Although what I have

said is not wrong, please let whatever you think is wrong be pardoned.

 

SB 6.17.25: ?r? ?ukadeva Gosv?m? continued: O King Par?ks?it, subduer

of the enemy, after Citraketu satisfied Lord ?iva and his wife,

P?rvat?, he boarded his airplane and left as they looked on. When Lord

?iva and P?rvat? saw that Citraketu, although informed of the curse,

was unafraid, they smiled, being fully astonished by his behavior.

 

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