||Srimad Bhagavath
Mahapuran||
||Om Namo Bhagavathe
Vasudevaya||
Chapter – 56 - Jada
Bharatha’s conversation with the King Raghugana -4
Jadabharatha replied “ Oh!
Rajan, listen to me carefully, the body is perishable, it is made of five
essential elements, all your limbs and possessions and palanquin are
created with these five elements, you are proud of yourself as King of Sindhu
Sauveera. You have disillusioned, appointed all these men to carry your Palanquin, thereby you have put them in physical
strain, and it won’t be considered as a wise deed.
If your mind is attached to your body and status, then you are a dull
person, you have not understood the Paramathma who resides as a soul in you. Your body and mind are inactive without the
soul. Oh! Rajan, turn all your attention
to know the ultimate truth, learn the
supreme knowledge of self, realize the supreme Lord as wisdom and knowledge,
its unblemished and pure, it is the ultimate truth which has no duality, it is all-pervading Bhramam, it is serene and has the nature of bliss, the
intellectuals call it ‘Vasudeva’. Oh! King Raghugana, change your excessive pride from the body to the supreme soul resides in subtle form. The practice of realization of the supreme soul does not
require extreme penances, or fire sacrifices, or Pithrupoojanam, or performing
the tasks in the family, or recitation of Vedic hymns, or worship of idols or
worship of Lord Surya. All that you need
to understand the presence of the Supreme Lord as a soul in living beings, before performing all
those above-said rituals which are part of the discipline, without this knowledge all those rituals performed will become unfruitful. The knowledge of self /supreme
Lord can be attained by the selfless service to liberated souls, saintly people, and
preceptor, listening to their teachings and sincerely follow them. Oh, Rajan, it is impossible to attain the supreme knowledge without their grace. Oh! Rajan, if you turn your
concentration and devotion to supreme Lord, it will eradicate all your miseries
and grief, practice your mind listening to the glorious myths of supreme Lord, it
will get attached with the glories of supreme Lord Vasudeva. I am teaching you all that I have experienced
in my previous births. I was Emperor
Bharatha in one of my previous births, I have sacrificed the throne and family, practiced intense penance
without the knowledge of supreme Lord, unfortunately, I have got attached to a deer in the wood, and
therefore I have to born with the body of deer.
Later, with the grace of the supreme Lord and piousness earned in my
previous births, I have attained the body of a human and born in the family of a
Brahmin, I have re-collected all about my previous births and understood my
foolishness. Immediately after birth, I
have taken a vow not to get attached to anything in the world, thus I have
started traveling all alone. Oh! Rajans,
free your mind from worldly matters, concentrate your mind in listening to the
glories of Lord Hari, contemplate upon him, and elevate your soul. There is no other way to get relieved from
miseries and sorrows of worldly existence.”
Jadabharatha narrates the
legend of wood/Bhavadavi to Raghugana.
Jadabaratha concluded “ Oh! Rajan, I have narrated the supreme knowledge
of Bhramam to you, all you have to do is sieve off all those darkness of
ignorance with the sharp sword of wisdom.”
King Raghugana prostrates
before Jadabharatha and said “Oh! Mahatma, I am fortunate with your
compassionate grace. I have thoroughly understood where I have made a mistake. I take this opportunity to serve your feet as
the grace of the supreme Lord. I shall
repeatedly prostrate before you. Oh!
Avadhootha, who is wandering like a child, youthful and intellectual, free from
all the worldly matters, Oh! Brahmin, who has supreme knowledge and knowledge
about highest philosophies, I shall
repeatedly prostrate before you.”
