{"id":21889,"date":"2020-02-15T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=21889"},"modified":"2020-10-15T12:29:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T16:29:24","slug":"srimad-bhagavatam-2-5-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/srimad-bhagavatam-2-5-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.5.10"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u015aB 2.5.10<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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\u0928\u093e\u0928\u0943\u0924\u0902 \u0924\u0935 \u0924\u091a\u094d\u091a\u093e\u092a\u093f \u092f\u0925\u093e \u092e\u093e\u0902 \u092a\u094d\u0930\u092c\u094d\u0930\u0935\u0940\u0937\u093f \u092d\u094b: \u0964
\n\u0905\u0935\u093f\u091c\u094d\u091e\u093e\u092f \u092a\u0930\u0902 \u092e\u0924\u094d\u0924 \u090f\u0924\u093e\u0935\u0924\u094d\u0924\u094d\u0935\u0902 \u092f\u0924\u094b \u0939\u093f \u092e\u0947 \u0965 \u0967\u0966 \u0965<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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n\u0101n\u1e5bta\u1e41 tava tac c\u0101pi
\nyath\u0101 m\u0101\u1e41 prabrav\u012b\u1e63i bho\u1e25
\navij\u00f1\u0101ya para\u1e41 matta
\net\u0101vat tva\u1e41 yato hi me<\/i><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Synonyms<\/h2>\n
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na<\/em><\/a> \u2014 not; an\u1e5btam<\/em><\/a> \u2014 false; tava<\/em><\/a> \u2014 of yours; tat<\/em><\/a> \u2014 that; ca<\/em><\/a> \u2014 also; api<\/em><\/a> \u2014 as you have stated; yath\u0101<\/em><\/a> \u2014 in the matter of; m\u0101m<\/em><\/a>\u2014 of myself; prabrav\u012b\u1e63i<\/em><\/a> \u2014 as you describe; bho\u1e25<\/em><\/a> \u2014 O my son; avij\u00f1\u0101ya<\/em><\/a> \u2014 without knowing; param<\/em><\/a> \u2014 the Supreme; matta\u1e25<\/em><\/a> \u2014 beyond myself; et\u0101vat<\/em><\/a> \u2014 all that you have spoken; tvam<\/em><\/a> \u2014 yourself; yata\u1e25<\/em><\/a> \u2014 for the reason of; hi<\/em><\/a> \u2014 certainly; me<\/em><\/a> \u2014 about me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Translation<\/h2>\n
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Whatever you have spoken about me is not false because unless and until one is aware of the Personality of Godhead, who is the ultimate truth beyond me, one is sure to be illusioned by observing my powerful activities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Purport<\/h2>\n
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\u201cThe frog in the well\u201d logic illustrates that a frog residing in the atmosphere and boundary of a well cannot imagine the length and breadth of the gigantic ocean. Such a frog, when informed of the gigantic length and breadth of the ocean, first of all does not believe that there is such an ocean, and if someone assures him that factually there is such a thing, the frog then begins to measure it by imagination by means of pumping its belly as far as possible, with the result that the tiny abdomen of the frog bursts and the poor frog dies without any experience of the actual ocean. Similarly, the material scientists also want to challenge the inconceivable potency of the Lord by measuring Him with their froglike brains and their scientific achievements, but at the end they simply die unsuccessfully, like the frog.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sometimes a materially powerful man is accepted as God or the incarnation of God without any knowledge of the factual God. Such a material assessment may be gradually extended, and the attempt may reach to the highest limit of Brahm\u0101j\u012b, who is the topmost living being within the universe and has a duration of life unimaginable to the material scientist. As we get information from the most authentic book of knowledge, the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101<\/i> (8.17)<\/a>, Brahm\u0101j\u012b\u2019s one day and night is calculated to be some hundreds of thousands of years on our planet. This long duration of life may not be believed by \u201cthe frog in the well,\u201d but persons who have a realization of the truths mentioned in the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101<\/a><\/i> accept the existence of a great personality who creates the variegatedness of the complete universe. It is understood from the revealed scriptures that the Brahm\u0101j\u012b of this universe is younger than all the other Brahm\u0101s in charge of the many, many universes beyond this, but none of them can be equal to the Personality of Godhead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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N\u0101radaj\u012b is one of the liberated souls, and after his liberation he was known as N\u0101rada; otherwise, before his liberation, he was simply a son of a maidservant. The questions may be asked why N\u0101radaj\u012b was not aware of the Supreme Lord and why he misconceived Brahm\u0101j\u012b to be the Supreme Lord, although factually he was not. A liberated soul is never bewildered by such a mistaken idea, so why did N\u0101radaj\u012b ask all those questions just like an ordinary man with a poor fund of knowledge? There was such bewilderment in Arjuna also, although he is eternally the associate of the Lord. Such bewilderment in Arjuna or in N\u0101rada takes place by the will of the Lord so that other, nonliberated persons may realize the real truth and knowledge of the Lord. The doubt arising in the mind of N\u0101rada about Brahm\u0101j\u012b\u2019s becoming all-powerful is a lesson for the frogs in the well, that they may not be bewildered in misconceiving the identity of the Personality of Godhead (even by comparison to a personality like Brahm\u0101, so what to speak of ordinary men who falsely pose themselves as God or an incarnation of God). The Supreme Lord is always the Supreme, and as we have tried to establish many times in these purports, no living being, even up to the standard of Brahm\u0101, can claim to be one with the Lord. One should not be misled when people worship a great man as God after his death as a matter of hero worship. There were many kings like Lord R\u0101macandra, the King of Ayodhy\u0101, but none of them are mentioned as God in the revealed scriptures. To be a good king is not necessarily the qualification for being Lord R\u0101ma, but to be a great personality like K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is the qualification for being the Personality of Godhead. If we scrutinize the characters who took part in the Battle of Kuruk\u1e63etra, we may find that Mah\u0101r\u0101ja Yudhi\u1e63\u1e6dhira was no less a pious king than Lord R\u0101macandra, and by character study Mah\u0101r\u0101ja Yudhi\u1e63\u1e6dhira was a better moralist than Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a asked Mah\u0101r\u0101ja Yudhi\u1e63\u1e6dhira to lie, but Mah\u0101r\u0101ja Yudhi\u1e63\u1e6dhira protested. But that does not mean that Mah\u0101r\u0101ja Yudhi\u1e63\u1e6dhira could be equal to Lord R\u0101macandra or Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. The great authorities have estimated Mah\u0101r\u0101ja Yudhi\u1e63\u1e6dhira to be a pious man, but they have accepted Lord R\u0101ma or K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a as the Personality of Godhead. The Lord is therefore a different identity in all circumstances, and no idea of anthropomorphism can be applied to Him. The Lord is always the Lord, and a common living being can never be equal to Him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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