||Srimad Bhagavath
Mahapuran||
||Om Namo Bhagavathe
Vasudevaya||
Chapter – 54 - Jada
Bharatha’s conversation with the King Raghugana -2
King Raghugana with folded
hands said “ Oh! Mahatma/liberated soul, kindly introduce you. You are not an ordinary soul, I have
committed a grave sin, I have ordered to carry my palanquin on your
shoulders. I am not scared of the Vajrayudha of Lord Indhra, I am not scared of
the trident of Lord Shiva, I am not scared of the noose of Lord Yama, I am
deeply concerned about my impolite comment on you. Therefore, kindly do not curse me. I am ignorant; I have spoken rudely about
a renounced soul. I have understood your
greatness, I shall repeatedly prostrate before you, kindly forgive me. Oh! Mahatma, I want to know about the
eternal truth. I have worn out of miseries and sorrows, I have lost peace
of mind and I was in search for Paramaguru Sage Kapila. Kindly help me to bring the serenity of
mind. I am wholeheartedly willing to
learn about the absolute truth/Paramarththa/highest of the philosophies. Oh!
Mahatma, the vessel that holds water and rice get cooked in the fire if we
assume body as a vessel, mind as water, and soul as rice, whatever going through
the body and mind should affect the soul.
How could you say that the soul remains untouched? Kindly narrate to me.”
Jadabharatha replied to
King Raghugana “ Oh! Rajan, the mind has a great influence on our body, while I
was carrying your palanquin I was not carrying you in my mind, or not disturbed by your rude comments. The
intellectuals separate the action/Vyavahara and knowledge of supreme self, you
need to understand how to separate them in your daily life. You have been in the Grihasthashrama for long
and taking pleasure in it without the knowledge of self, therefore you are bound by
the miseries and sorrows of the worldly matters. While in
Grihasthashrama you should have taken an effort to understand your duties and
responsibilities, and knowledge of self as well, as long as the mind immerses
in worldly matters, it gets detached from the knowledge of self. The mind which is absorbed in worldly matters
undergoes sixteen types of emotions such as ego, jealousy, pride, anxiety,
sorrow, greed, lust, desire, humiliation, anger, depression etc…. it does not allow the mind to
concentrate on the knowledge of self.
Oh! Rajan, understands the truth that the life is full of extreme
happiness and extreme sorrow, the intensity of the happiness and sorrows varies
according to the circumstances, it is full of delusion, therefore do not let
the happiness or sorrow embrace your mind that would create endless miseries
and sorrows to you. As long as you are
fastened with the worldly matters it will not let you experience the supreme
bliss. Oh! Rajan, I shall narrate you in
detail, our mind is like oil in the lamp, once the oil in the lamp emptied, the fire like tribulations goes off.
The mind never keeps idle, it is constantly in search of matter, and
therefore you have to educate your mind to focus in different matters which
could bring peace and serenity. The
Kshethrajja/the supreme Lord resides as a soul in living beings, he is supreme Purusha, who is eternal, he has neither
beginning nor end, he symbolizes supreme brilliance which removes the darkness
of ignorance. Oh! Rajan, he is supreme
Lord Narayana who resides as a soul in living beings are engulfed in illusion;
therefore we are incapable to realize his real nature. Therefore, focus your mind on Bhagavan Vasudeva who is Paresha to get relieved from
all the miseries and sorrows of the worldly existence.”
