A Wonderful Story - part 2

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SB 7.2.28: In the state known as Usinara there was a celebrated King

named Suyajna. When the King was killed in battle by his enemies, his

kinsmen sat down around the dead body and began to lament the death of

their friend.

 

SB 7.2.29-31: His golden, bejeweled armor smashed, his ornaments and

garlands fallen from their places, his hair scattered and his eyes

lusterless, the slain King lay on the battlefield, his entire body

smeared with blood, his heart pierced by the arrows of the enemy. When

he died he had wanted to show his prowess, and thus he had bitten his

lips, and his teeth remained in that position. His beautiful lotuslike

face was now black and covered with dust from the battlefield. His

arms, with his sword and other weapons, were cut and broken. When the

queens of the King of U??nara saw their husband lying in that position,

they began crying, " O lord, now that you have been killed, we also have

been killed. " Repeating these words again and again, they fell down,

pounding their breasts, at the feet of the dead King.

 

SB 7.2.32: As the queens loudly cried, their tears glided down their

breasts, becoming reddened by kunkuma powder, and fell upon the lotus

feet of their husband. Their hair became disarrayed, their ornaments

fell, and in a way that evoked sympathy from the hearts of others, the

queens began lamenting their husband's death.

 

SB 7.2.33: O lord, you have now been removed by cruel providence to a

state beyond our sight. You had previously sustained the livelihood of

the inhabitants of Usinara, and thus they were happy, but your

condition now is the cause of their unhappiness.

 

SB 7.2.34: O King, O hero, you were a very grateful husband and the

most sincere friend of all of us. How shall we exist without you? O

hero, wherever you are going, please direct us there so that we may

follow in your footsteps and engage again in your service. Let us go

along with you!

 

SB 7.2.35: The time was appropriate for the body to be burned, but the

queens, not allowing it to be taken away, continued lamenting for the

dead body, which they kept on their laps. In the meantime, the sun

completed its movements for setting in the west.

 

SB 7.2.36: While the queens were lamenting for the dead body of the

King, their loud cries were heard even from the abode of Yamaraja.

Assuming the body of a young boy, Yamaraja personally approached the

relatives of the dead body and advised them as follows.

 

SB 7.2.37: Sri Yamaraja said: Alas, how amazing it is! These persons,

who are older than me, have full experience that hundreds and thousands

of living entities have taken birth and died. Thus they should

understand that they also are apt to die, yet still they are

bewildered. The conditioned soul comes from an unknown place and

returns after death to that same unknown place. There is no exception

to this rule, which is conducted by material nature. Knowing this, why

do they uselessly lament?

 

SB 7.2.38: It is wonderful that these elderly women do not have a

higher sense of life than we do. Indeed, we are most fortunate, for

although we are children and have been left to struggle in material

life, unprotected by father and mother, and although we are very weak,

we have not been vanquished or eaten by ferocious animals. Thus we have

a firm belief that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has given us

protection even in the womb of the mother, will protect us everywhere.

 

SB 7.2.39: The boy addressed the women: O weak women! Only by the will

of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is never diminished, is the

entire world created, maintained and again annihilated. This is the

verdict of the Vedic knowledge. This material creation, consisting of

the moving and nonmoving, is exactly like His plaything. Being the

Supreme Lord, He is completely competent to destroy and protect.

 

SB 7.2.40: Sometimes one loses his money on a public street, where

everyone can see it, and yet his money is protected by destiny and not

seen by others. Thus the man who lost it gets it back. On the other

hand, if the Lord does not give protection, even money maintained very

securely at home is lost. If the Supreme Lord gives one protection,

even though one has no protector and is in the jungle, one remains

alive, whereas a person well protected at home by relatives and others

sometimes dies, no one being able to protect him.

 

SB 7.2.41: Every conditioned soul receives a different type of body

according to his work, and when the engagement is finished the body is

finished. Although the spirit soul is situated in subtle and gross

material bodies in different forms of life, he is not bound by them,

for he is always understood to be completely different from the

manifested body.

 

SB 7.2.42: Just as a householder, although different from the identity

of his house, thinks his house to be identical with him, so the

conditioned soul, due to ignorance, accepts the body to be himself,

although the body is actually different from the soul. This body is

obtained through a combination of portions of earth, water and fire,

and when the earth, water and fire are transformed in the course of

time, the body is vanquished. The soul has nothing to do with this

creation and dissolution of the body.

 

SB 7.2.43: As fire, although situated in wood, is perceived to be

different from the wood, as air, although situated within the mouth and

nostrils, is perceived to be separate, and as the sky, although

all-pervading, never mixes with anything, so the living entity,

although now encaged within the material body, of which it is the

source, is separate from it.

 

SB 7.2.44: Yamaraja continued: O lamenters, you are all fools! The

person named Suyajna, for whom you lament, is still lying before you

and has not gone anywhere. Then what is the cause for your lamentation?

Previously he heard you and replied to you, but now, not finding him,

you are lamenting. This is contradictory behavior, for you have never

actually seen the person within the body who heard you and replied.

There is no need for your lamentation, for the body you have always

seen is lying here.

 

TBC... part 3

 

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---Dear. Please see part 3 is posted. That is all of that story. Happy New

Year!!! Y/s, Richard