SB 4.2 Daksha curses Lord Siva

1-3: How could Daksa hate Siva?

 1. What are the qualities of Lord Siva? Give Sanskrit words.

1. caraacara guru — spiritual master of the whole world (both animate and inanimate);
2.  nirvairam — without enmity
3.  santa-vigraham — having a peaceful personality
4. atma aramam — satisfied in himself;

 4-19: Daksa insults and curses Lord Çiva

2. How did Daksa insult and curse Lord Siva? How are his blasphemous words an indirect praise to Lord Siva? (BS p. 36)

Verse	Sanskrit	Blasphemy	Indirect praise of Lord Siva
10	nirapatrapah	Shameless	Maintains the shelterless
	stabdha	Proud	-
	yaso-gana	Destroyed the fame of loka-palas, polluted the path of gentle manners	By his own fame, Lord Siva derides the fame of others
11	sadhuvat	Pretending to be an honest person, he accepted my daughter's hand and thus accepted himself as subordinate	Lord Siva understands my bad behavior and so he did not stand up to welcome me. He also understood the qualities in my daughter , equal to Savitri
12	markata-locana	This monkey-eyed person has married my fawn eyed daughter , but now he has failed to respect me even with sweet words	Siva mercifully grants the desires of monkey-like materialists, unfortunately I have not properly respected him
13	lupta-kriyaya	Does not perform rituals	He doesn't neeed to perform rituals
	asucaye	Impure	No one is cleaner than him
	manine	proud	He is not proud(amanine)
	bhinna-setave	Violates code of conduct	He does not break rules(abhinna setave)
	sudrayeva	Though not desiring I gave my daughter to this unqualified man(like teaching vedas to a sudra)	I being unqualified, did not want to give my daughter, but I gave her(like a sudra who teaches vedas)
14-15	unmatta-vat	Like a madman, sometimes laughs sometimes cries	He is mad with prema for the Lord
	citta-bhasma krta-snanah	Smears crematorium ashes, ornaments with garlands of skulls and bones	This is his pastime. According to other puranas, smearing ashes on the body is an activity of exalted vaishnavas
	asivah, mattah, siva-apadesah	The most mad and inauspicious creature, Siva in name only	By him eveen a worst place ( apadesa) becomes auspicious. No one is more auspicious than him ( asivah)
	matta - jana, priyah patih	Dear to crazy beings who are in tama guna also their leader	He mercifully accepts even the most ignorant and gradually raises them to spiritual consciousness
16	nasta-sauca	Unclean	He purifies even the impure
	unmada-natha	Lord of the ghosts	He is merciful even to the mad
	duhrde	Has impure heart	His mind is merciful even to the sinful

3. WBN on Anger and its effects (19-20P).
Because of anger Daksa forgot his position and he acted in an unpardonable way towards Lord Siva.
Lord Siva's followers affected by Daksa's anger and cursing towards Lord Siva also got angry and then the unending entanglement of cursing and counter-cursing started and thus many offenses were committed against great personalities by great personalities.

Thus when one forgets his constitutional position and gets covered by illusion there is a great potential one gets angry when their lust is not satisfied. It results in vaishnava apradha which is a major setback to our spiritual lives.

On the other hand Lord Siva did not get affected by Daksa's cursing and remained peaceful.

20-35: Cursing and counter-cursing continues
 4. Summarize Nandi’s curses to Dakña and his followers.Quote 4.2.22 grhesu kuta…

• Nandi was angered by the cursing of his master Lord Siva by Daksha. So he countercursed as follows:
• He said anyone who supports Daksha and neglects Lord Siva is unintelligent. Because of duality they will be bereft of transcendental knowledge
• He said those people are leading a pretentious householder life and are thus attracted to karma kanda rituals prescribed in the vedas
• He cursed Daksa to have a goat head since he had forgotten his spiritual identity as part and parcel of Krishna and was attached to sex life.
• He cursed Daksa and his followers to remain in repeated birth and death with attachment to fruitive activities
• Cursed them to lose discrimination and perform austerities etc only for maintaining he body and eat without discrimination and not have a spiritual goal.

5. Summarize Bhrgu’s curses to Lord Siva’s followers.

• He cursed the folowers of Lord Siva to 
• become atheists
• be attracted to Mayavada philosophy
• addicted to wine, women and flesh
• take shelter of rules that help in cheating religion

 6. WBN on:
 (i) Brähmaëas in Kali-yuga (26P)

• They will not be interested in understanding the SPG
• Do not follow occupational duties of Brahmanas but do not allow others also to occupy those posts
• Do not discriminate between what is to be eaten and not eaten and live only to maintain their bodies

 (ii) Siva’s tolerance (33P).
Lord Siva did not get affected by the cursing and countercursing.
He was sad to see the fight between them and their lack of interest in spiritual life.
He did not see anyone as lower or higher and thus he left to stop the cursing between Nandi and Bhrgu.