{"id":18657,"date":"2020-03-23T18:33:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T22:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=18657"},"modified":"2020-09-23T18:34:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T22:34:18","slug":"srimad-bhagavatam-1-13-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/srimad-bhagavatam-1-13-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.13.15"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u015aB 1.13.15<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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\u0905\u092c\u093f\u092d\u094d\u0930\u0926\u0930\u094d\u092f\u092e\u093e \u0926\u0923\u094d\u0921\u0902 \u092f\u0925\u093e\u0935\u0926\u0918\u0915\u093e\u0930\u093f\u0937\u0941 \u0964
\n\u092f\u093e\u0935\u0926\u094d\u0926\u0927\u093e\u0930 \u0936\u0942\u0926\u094d\u0930\u0924\u094d\u0935\u0902 \u0936\u093e\u092a\u093e\u0926\u094d\u0935\u0930\u094d\u0937\u0936\u0924\u0902 \u092f\u092e: \u0965 \u0967\u096b \u0965<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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abibhrad aryam\u0101 da\u1e47\u1e0da\u1e41
\nyath\u0101vad agha-k\u0101ri\u1e63u
\ny\u0101vad dadh\u0101ra \u015b\u016bdratva\u1e41
\n\u015b\u0101p\u0101d var\u1e63a-\u015bata\u1e41 yama\u1e25<\/i><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Synonyms<\/h2>\n
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abibhrat<\/em><\/a> \u2014 administered; aryam\u0101<\/em><\/a> \u2014 Aryam\u0101; da\u1e47\u1e0dam<\/em><\/a> \u2014 punishment; yath\u0101vat<\/em><\/a> \u2014 as it was suitable; agha<\/em><\/a>–k\u0101ri\u1e63u<\/em><\/a> \u2014 unto persons who had committed sins; y\u0101vat<\/em><\/a> \u2014 as long as; dadh\u0101ra<\/em><\/a> \u2014 accepted; \u015b\u016bdratvam<\/em><\/a> \u2014 the tabernacle of a \u015b\u016bdra<\/em>; \u015b\u0101p\u0101t<\/em><\/a> \u2014 as the result of a curse; var\u1e63a<\/em><\/a>–\u015batam<\/em><\/a> \u2014 for one hundred years; yama\u1e25<\/em><\/a> \u2014 Yamar\u0101ja.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Translation<\/h2>\n
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As long as Vidura played the part of a \u015b\u016bdra, being cursed by Ma\u1e47\u1e0d\u016bka Muni, Aryam\u0101 officiated at the post of Yamar\u0101ja to punish those who committed sinful acts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Purport<\/h2>\n
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Vidura, born in the womb of a \u015b\u016bdra<\/i> woman, was forbidden even to be a party of royal heritage along with his brothers Dh\u1e5btar\u0101\u1e63\u1e6dra and P\u0101\u1e47\u1e0du. Then how could he occupy the post of a preacher to instruct such learned kings and k\u1e63atriyas<\/i> as Dh\u1e5btar\u0101\u1e63\u1e6dra and Mah\u0101r\u0101ja Yudhi\u1e63\u1e6dhira? The first answer is that even though it is accepted that he was a \u015b\u016bdra<\/i> by birth, because he renounced the world for spiritual enlightenment by the authority of \u1e5a\u1e63i Maitreya and was thoroughly educated by him in transcendental knowledge, he was quite competent to occupy the post of an \u0101c\u0101rya,<\/i> or spiritual preceptor. According to \u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu, anyone who is conversant in the transcendental knowledge, or the science of Godhead, be he a br\u0101hma\u1e47a<\/i> or a \u015b\u016bdra,<\/i> a householder or a sanny\u0101s\u012b,<\/i> is eligible to become a spiritual master. Even in the ordinary moral codes (maintained by C\u0101\u1e47akya Pa\u1e47\u1e0dita, the great politician and moralist) there is no harm in taking lessons from a person who may be by birth less than a \u015b\u016bdra.<\/i> This is one part of the answer. The other is that Vidura was not actually a \u015b\u016bdra.<\/i> He was to play the part of a so-called \u015b\u016bdra<\/i> for one hundred years, being cursed by Ma\u1e47\u1e0d\u016bka Muni. He was the incarnation of Yamar\u0101ja, one of the twelve mah\u0101janas,<\/i> on the level with such exalted personalities as Brahm\u0101, N\u0101rada, \u015aiva, Kapila, Bh\u012b\u1e63ma, Prahl\u0101da, etc. Being a mah\u0101jana,<\/i> it is the duty of Yamar\u0101ja to preach the cult of devotion to the people of the world, as N\u0101rada, Brahm\u0101, and other mah\u0101janas<\/i> do. But Yamar\u0101ja is always busy in his Plutonic kingdom punishing the doers of sinful acts. Yamar\u0101ja is deputed by the Lord to a particular planet, some hundreds of thousands of miles away from the planet of earth, to take away the corrupt souls after death and convict them in accordance with their respective sinful activities. Thus Yamar\u0101ja has very little time to take leave from his responsible office of punishing the wrongdoers. There are more wrongdoers than righteous men. Therefore Yamar\u0101ja has to do more work than other demigods who are also authorized agents of the Supreme Lord. But he wanted to preach the glories of the Lord, and therefore by the will of the Lord he was cursed by Ma\u1e47\u1e0d\u016bka Muni to come into the world in the incarnation of Vidura and work very hard as a great devotee. Such a devotee is neither a \u015b\u016bdra<\/i> nor a br\u0101hma\u1e47a.<\/i> He is transcendental to such divisions of mundane society, just as the Personality of Godhead assumes His incarnation as a hog, but He is neither a hog nor a Brahm\u0101. He is above all mundane creatures. The Lord and His different authorized devotees sometimes have to play the role of many lower creatures to claim the conditioned souls, but both the Lord and His pure devotees are always in the transcendental position. When Yamar\u0101ja thus incarnated himself as Vidura, his post was officiated by Aryam\u0101, one of the many sons of Ka\u015byapa and Aditi. The \u0100dityas are sons of Aditi, and there are twelve \u0100dityas. Aryam\u0101 is one of the twelve \u0100dityas, and therefore it was quite possible for him to take charge of the office of Yamar\u0101ja during his one hundred years\u2019 absence in the form of Vidura. The conclusion is that Vidura was never a \u015b\u016bdra,<\/i> but was greater than the purest type of br\u0101hma\u1e47a.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u015aB 1.13.15 \u0905\u092c\u093f\u092d\u094d\u0930\u0926\u0930\u094d\u092f\u092e\u093e \u0926\u0923\u094d\u0921\u0902 \u092f\u0925\u093e\u0935\u0926\u0918\u0915\u093e\u0930\u093f\u0937\u0941 \u0964 \u092f\u093e\u0935\u0926\u094d\u0926\u0927\u093e\u0930 \u0936\u0942\u0926\u094d\u0930\u0924\u094d\u0935\u0902 \u0936\u093e\u092a\u093e\u0926\u094d\u0935\u0930\u094d\u0937\u0936\u0924\u0902 \u092f\u092e: \u0965 \u0967\u096b \u0965 abibhrad aryam\u0101 da\u1e47\u1e0da\u1e41 yath\u0101vad agha-k\u0101ri\u1e63u y\u0101vad dadh\u0101ra \u015b\u016bdratva\u1e41 \u015b\u0101p\u0101d var\u1e63a-\u015bata\u1e41 yama\u1e25 Synonyms abibhrat \u2014 administered; aryam\u0101 \u2014 Aryam\u0101; da\u1e47\u1e0dam \u2014 punishment; yath\u0101vat \u2014 … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 08:07:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}