DH\u012aRODDHATA<\/p>\n
A person who is very envious, proud, easily angered, restless and complacent is called dh\u012broddhata by learned scholars. Such qualities were visible in the character of Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, because when He was writing a letter to K\u0101layavana, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a addressed him as a sinful frog. In His letter K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a advised K\u0101layavana that he should immediately go and find some dark well for his residence because there was a black snake named K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a who was very eager to devour all such sinful frogs. K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a reminded K\u0101layavana that He could turn all the universes to ashes simply by looking at them.<\/p>\n
The above statement by K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a seems apparently to be of an envious nature, but according to different pastimes, places and times this quality is accepted as a great characteristic. K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s dh\u012broddhata qualities have been accepted as great because K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a uses them only to protect His devotees. In other words, even undesirable traits may also be used in the exchange of devotional service.<\/p>\n
Sometimes Bh\u012bma, the second brother of the P\u0101\u1e47\u1e0davas, is also described as dh\u012broddhata.<\/p>\n
Once, while fighting with a demon who was appearing as a deer, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a challenged him in this way: \u201cI have come before you as a great elephant named K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. You must leave the battlefield, accepting defeat, or else there is death awaiting you.\u201d This challenging spirit of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s is not contradictory to His sublime character; because He is the Supreme Being, everything is possible in His character.<\/p>\n
There is a nice statement in the K\u016brma Pur\u0101\u1e47a about these contradictory traits of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is stated there that the Supreme Person is neither very fat nor very thin; He is always transcendental to material qualities, and yet His bodily luster is blackish. His eyes are reddish, He is all-powerful, and He is equipped with all different kinds of opulences. Contradictory traits in K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s person are not at all surprising; one should not consider the characteristics of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, to be actually contradictory. One should try to understand the traits of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a from authorities and try to understand how these characteristics are employed by the supreme will of the Lord.<\/p>\n
In the Mah\u0101-var\u0101ha Pur\u0101\u1e47a it is confirmed that the transcendental bodies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His expansions are all existing eternally. Such bodies are never material; they are completely spiritual and full of knowledge. They are reservoirs of all transcendental qualities. In the Vi\u1e63\u1e47u-y\u0101mala-tantra there is a statement that because the Personality of Godhead and His expanded bodies are always full of knowledge, bliss and eternity, they are always free from the eighteen kinds of material contaminations \u2013 illusion, fatigue, errors, roughness, material lust, restlessness, pride, envy, violence, disgrace, exhaustion, untruth, anger, hankering, dependence, desire to lord over the universe, seeing duality and cheating.<\/p>\n
Regarding all of the above-mentioned statements, it is understood that the Mah\u0101-vi\u1e63\u1e47u is the source of all incarnations in the material world. But because of His greater, extraordinary opulence, we can understand that the son of Nanda Mah\u0101r\u0101ja is the source of the Mah\u0101-vi\u1e63\u1e47u also. This is confirmed in the Brahma-sa\u1e41hit\u0101, wherein it is stated, \u201cLet me offer my respectful obeisances unto Govinda, whose partial representation is the Mah\u0101-vi\u1e63\u1e47u.\u201d The gigantic form of the Mah\u0101-vi\u1e63\u1e47u is the source of generation for innumerable universes. Innumerable universes are coming out of His exhaling breath, and the same universes are going back in with His inhaling breath. This Mah\u0101-vi\u1e63\u1e47u is also a plenary portion of a portion of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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