59.\u2009\u2009K\u1e5a\u1e62\u1e46A GIVES SALVATION TO THE ENEMIES THAT HE KILLS<\/p>\n
Another name for salvation is apavarga. Apavarga is the opposite of pavarga, or the various miserable conditions of material existence. The word pa-varga indicates the combination of five Sanskrit letters: pa, pha, ba, bha and ma. These letters are the first letters of the words for five different conditions as described below. The first letter, pa, comes from the word par\u0101bhava, which means \u201cdefeat.\u201d In this material struggle for existence, we are simply meeting defeat. Actually, we have to conquer birth, death, disease and old age, and because there is no possibility of overcoming all these miserable conditions, due to the illusion of m\u0101y\u0101 we are simply meeting with par\u0101bhava, or defeat. The next letter, pha, is taken from the word phena. Phena is the foam which is found on the mouth when one is very tired (as is commonly observed with horses). The letter ba comes from the word bandha, or bondage. Bha is taken from the word bh\u012bti, or fearfulness. Ma is taken from the word m\u1e5bti, or death. So the word pavarga signifies our struggle for existence and our meeting with defeat, exhaustion, bondage, fearfulness and, at last, death. Apavarga means that which can nullify all of these material conditions. K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is said to be the giver of apavarga, the path of liberation.<\/p>\n
For the impersonalists and the enemies of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, liberation means merging into the Supreme. The demons and the impersonalists do not care for K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, but K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is so kind that He gives this liberation even to His enemies and to the impersonalists. There is the following statement in this connection: \u201cO Mur\u0101ri [K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a]! How wonderful it is that although the demons, who were always envious of the demigods, have failed to penetrate Your military phalanx, they have penetrated the region of mitra, the sun globe.\u201d The word mitra is used metaphorically. Mitra means \u201cthe sun globe,\u201d and mitra also means \u201cfriend.\u201d The demons who opposed K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a as enemies wanted to penetrate His military phalanx, but instead of doing this, they died in battle, and the result was that they penetrated the planet of Mitra, or the sun planet. In other words, they entered into the Brahman effulgence. The example of the sun planet is given here because the sun is ever-illuminating, like the spiritual sky, where there are innumerable illuminating Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dha planets. The enemies of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a were killed, and instead of penetrating K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s phalanx, they entered into the friendly atmosphere of the spiritual effulgence. That is the mercy of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, and therefore He is known as the deliverer of His enemies also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
59.\u2009\u2009K\u1e5a\u1e62\u1e46A GIVES SALVATION TO THE ENEMIES THAT HE KILLS Another name for salvation is apavarga. Apavarga is the opposite of pavarga, or the various miserable conditions of material existence. The word pa-varga indicates the combination of … 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-38143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-03 13:10:44","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\/38143","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=38143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}