SB 4.3 Talks between Lord Siva and Sati

4.3. Talks between Lord Siva and Sati

 1-4: Dakña starts another sacrifice 

1. Why was Dakña’s neglect of Lord Siva in the sacrifice not fitting?
He was proud of his position and neglected Lord Siva and di not invite him in the sacrifice. He failed to see him as an exalted devotee of the Lord and a demigod , he saw him through the bodily conception of life as his son-in-law.
His neglect was not fitting as no sacrifice is complete unless all the demigods are invited and they give their blessings.

 5-14: Sati tries to convince Lord Çiva to go to the sacrifice with her

 2. What were the various arguments given by Saté to Lord Çiva to convince him to go to Dakña’s sacrifice? (BS p. 40)

1. She said she did not need invitation to go to her father's house for a sacrifice. 
2. She wanted to go and meet her mother, sisters,aunts, and relatives. She also wanted to decorate herself like her sisters and the wives of other demigods.
3. She wanted Lord Siva to show kindness to her and allow her to go for the sacrifice. 

 3. Explain the meaning of the words –
stré (9):cannot find this word in the text or purport
yoñit (11):one who is enjoyed, women
 abava (12):one who is never born

 15-25: Lord Çiva’s response 

4. Write the arguments given by Lord Siva to convince Sati that she shouldn’t go for Daksa’s sacrifice. Include VCT’s links (BS p. 41-42).


 5. Why did Dakña become angry with Lord Çiva in spite of all the six qualities? Explain based on 17P and 21P.

Quote 4.3.17 vidyä-tapo…

 6. WVT of 4.3.23 sattvaà viçuddhaà… and write the salient points from the purport about çuddhasattva, samädhi of a devotee and adhokñaja. 

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.

SB 4.1 Genealogical Table of daughters of Manu

1-7: Genealogical line of Äküti

1.  Enumerate the descendants of Äkuti. 
1. Yajna and Daksini.They are Lord Vishnu and Lakshmi , so even if they appeared as children of Akuti their eternal relationship cannot be changed.
2. They got married and had 12 sons who become demigods and were known as tusitas
3. Their names were Toṣa, Pratoṣa, Santoṣa, Bhadra, Śānti, Iḍaspati, Idhma, Kavi, Vibhu, Svahna, Sudeva and Rocana.
2.  WBN on:
1.  (i) Putrikä-dharma with an example,
1. A sonless person may offer his daughter to a man in marriage with the condition that the son born of the union would be returned to him as a son.
2.  Explain:
1.  Brahma-varcasvé - one who follows the brahminical principles and duties very rigidly
2.  brahma-bandhu (3P)- persons born in the family of brahmanas but who do not follow the rules and regulations of the brahminical order rigidly
3.  (iii) Ideal husband and wife (6P). 
1. compared to Laxmi and Narayan
2. Both are satisfied with each other - this results in good progeny and wealth

8-9: Office bearers during Sväyambhuva Manu’s reign

1. What are the 6 elements of a manvantara? Write their names for the Sväyambhuvamanvantara (BS p. 29).
1. Manu - Svayambhiva Manu
2. Manu putras - Uttanapada and Priyavrata
3. Devas- Tusitas
4. Suresvara( Indra) - Lord Yajna
5. Rsis - Marici and others
6. Amsavatara - Lord Yajna

 10-47: Genealogical line of Devahüti 

4. Explain the concept of sväàça and vibhinnäàça based on 15P.

1. Vibhinnamsa - part and parcel of the Lord but jiva tattva who can be in different modes
2. Svamsa: Part and parcel of the Lord but Vishnu Tattva

5. Write SP’s comments on Atri’s desire to have a son like the Supreme Lord (20P).

1. His desire was material becauae he wanted a child like the Suprme Personality of Godhead and not the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself as his child.
2. If he had the latter desire he would be considered as a pure devotee, but because he did not esire the Lord to be his child but get a son like the Lord his desire was material

 48-66: Genealogical line of Prasüti 

6. Summarize the devatäs’ prayers unto Naranäräyaëa Åñi along with salient points from the purports. Quote 4.1.57 so ’yaà sthiti…

1. They glorified the SPG who has appeared as Nara Narayana Rsi as the origin of all varieties of material nature.
2. Since the Lord was the cause of all causes and of the origin and dissolution of the material nature they prayed for His merciful glance on them.

SB 5.4.14 to 5.5.5

1. Write the flow of the first 5 teachings of Lord Rsabhadev.
1. One should not waste the human form of life in sense gratification which is also available to the animals.Instead one should live a life of austerity and penance to attain pure devotional service. By this one's heart gets purified and one is situated in bliss much greater than what is possible by sense gratification
2. To attain relief from material bondage one must serve the advanced devotees - they are equipoised, see everyone equally and work for the benefit of everyone.But if we associate with people attached to women and sex then the path to hell is wide open
3. Always o things connected to Krishna. Avoid association with those who are attached to eating, sleeping , mating and defending. Also avoid attachment to home and family life without being indifferent to the execution of your grhastha ashram duties.
4. We should not involve ourselves in sense gratification as that will give us a new body. We want to stop the cycle of repeated birth and death because of our desire to enjoy sense gratification.
5. We must enquire about the spiritual values of life else we will be afflicted by material miseries. IF we do not our mind will remain impure and consciousness will be unclear.

1. Write Verse and Translation 5.5.1 näyaà deho… WBN on the importance of human life (1P).
1. Prabhu I copied the verse and translation
1. ṛṣabha uvāca
   nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛloke
   kaṣṭān kāmān arhate viḍ-bhujāṁ ye
   tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena sattvaṁ
   śuddhyed yasmād brahma-saukhyaṁ tv anantam
2. Lord Ṛṣabhadeva told His sons: My dear boys, of all the living entities who have accepted material bodies in this world, one who has been awarded this human form should not work hard day and night simply for sense gratification, which is available even for dogs and hogs that eat stool. One should engage in penance and austerity to attain the divine position of devotional service. By such activity, one’s heart is purified, and when one attains this position, he attains eternal, blissful life, which is transcendental to material happiness and which continues forever.
2. Brief note on the importance of human life:
1. Human life one is blessed with the intelligence to discriminate between matter and spirit unlike animals.
2. Therefore we must not waste our human form of life in activities of eating, sleeping, mating and defending, we must use our intelligence properly and cultivate higher spiritual values and live them.
3. One must avoid sense gratification for the further propagation of bodies and rather one must live a life if austerity and penance immersed in service to Krishna.
4. Austerities with a desire to please Krishna purifies the heart and makes it fertile to accept loving pure devotional service to Krishna
2. WVT 5.5.2. mahat seväm… Describe the path of liberation and the path of hellish life (2P).
1. Prabhu I copied the verse and translation
1. mahat-sevāṁ dvāram āhur vimuktes
2. tamo-dvāraṁ yoṣitāṁ saṅgi-saṅgam
3. mahāntas te sama-cittāḥ praśāntā
4. vimanyavaḥ suhṛdaḥ sādhavo ye

2. One can attain the path of liberation from material bondage only by rendering service to highly advanced spiritual personalities. These personalities are impersonalists and devotees. Whether one wants to merge into the Lord’s existence or wants to associate with the Personality of Godhead, one should render service to the mahātmās. For those who are not interested in such activities, who associate with people fond of women and sex, the path to hell is wide open. The mahātmās are equipoised. They do not see any difference between one living entity and another. They are very peaceful and are fully engaged in devotional service. They are devoid of anger, and they work for the benefit of everyone. They do not behave in any abominable way. Such people are known as mahātmās.
3. Brief note:
1. Path of liberation focusses on sat- the eternal, the spiritual, the Suprme Personality of Godhead and it can be achieved by associating with sadhus
2. Path of hellish life focusses on aasat, the temporary, the material, objects of sense gratification and it is surely achiveed by associating with those attacehd to bhoga and aisvarya.

Preaching: Compassion and Your Example

 SB 4.29.1b

If a living entity is developed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and is merciful to others, and if his spiritual knowledge of self-realization is perfect, he will immediately attain liberation from the bondage of material existence.

Purport:
In this verse the words dayā jīveṣu, meaning “mercy to other living entities,” indicate that a living entity must be merciful to other living entities if he wishes to make progress in self-realization. This means he must preach this knowledge after perfecting himself and understanding his own position as an eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa. Preaching this is showing real mercy to living entities. Other types of humanitarian work may be temporarily beneficial for the body, but because a living entity is spirit soul, ultimately one can show him real mercy only by revealing knowledge of his spiritual existence.

1. Preach to make advancement in self realization
2. But preach what?- Preach this knowledge after perfecting himself and understand his own eternal position as a servant of Krishna.
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Bhakti dissolves the subtle body of the living entity - aham tvam sarva papebhyo

SB 3.25.33

jarayaty āśu yā kośaṁ
nigīrṇam analo yathā

Word for word: 

jarayati — dissolves; āśu — quickly; yā — which; kośam — the subtle body; nigīrṇam — things eaten; analaḥ — fire; yathā — as.

Translation: 

Bhakti, devotional service, dissolves the subtle body of the living entity without separate effort, just as fire in the stomach digests all that we eat.

Purport: 

Bhakti is in a far higher position than mukti because a person’s endeavor to get liberation from the material encagement is automatically served in devotional service. The example is given here that the fire in the stomach can digest whatever we eat. If the digestive power is sufficient, then whatever we can eat will be digested by the fire in the stomach. Similarly, a devotee does not have to try separately to attain liberation. That very service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the process of his liberation because to engage oneself in the service of the Lord is to liberate oneself from material entanglement. Śrī Bilvamaṅgala Ṭhākura explained this position very nicely. He said, “If I have unflinching devotion unto the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord, then mukti, or liberation, serves me as my maidservant. Mukti, the maidservant, is always ready to do whatever I ask.”

Other Similar Purports:

From SB 4.29.70

No living entity is free from the cycle of birth and death unless he takes to Kṛṣṇa consciousness; therefore, in this verse, it is clearly stated (sattvaika-niṣṭhe) that when one is fully absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, in one stroke he is freed of past and future mental desires. Then, by the grace of the Supreme Lord, everything becomes simultaneously manifest within the mind. In this regard, Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura cites the example of mother Yaśodā’s seeing the whole cosmic manifestation within the mouth of Lord Kṛṣṇa. By the grace of Lord Kṛṣṇa, mother Yaśodā saw all the universes and planets within the mouth of Kṛṣṇa. Similarly, by the grace of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, a Kṛṣṇa conscious person can see all his dormant desires at one time and finish all his future transmigrations. This facility is especially given to the devotee to make his path clear for returning home, back to Godhead.

Why we see things not experienced in this life is explained herein. That which we see is the future expression of a gross body or is already stocked in our mental stockpile. Because a Kṛṣṇa conscious person does not have to accept a future gross body, his recorded desires are fulfilled in a dream. We therefore sometimes find things in a dream never experienced in our present life.

SB 4.29.71 Purport
Because of our ignorance of the spiritual body, of which we have no experience, we do not know of the activities of the spiritual body, and in ignorance we jump from one false platform to another. We act sometimes in relation to the gross body and sometimes in relation to the subtle body. If, by Kṛṣṇa’s grace, we act in our spiritual body, we can transcend both the gross and subtle bodies. In other words, we can gradually train ourselves to act in terms of the spiritual body. As stated in the Nārada-pañcarātra, hṛṣīkeṇa hṛṣīkeśa-sevanaṁ bhaktir ucyate: devotional service means engaging the spiritual body and spiritual senses in the service of the Lord. When we are engaged in such activities, the actions and reactions of the gross and subtle bodies cease.

SB 4.29.77 Purport
After the mind is completely absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one can enter the planet known as Goloka Vṛndāvana. To enter the association of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one has to understand Kṛṣṇa. The process of understanding Kṛṣṇa is devotional service. After understanding Kṛṣṇa as He is, one can become eligible to enter Kṛṣṇaloka and associate with Him. The mind is the cause of such an exalted position. The mind can also get one a body like those of dogs and hogs. To absorb the mind always in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is therefore the greatest perfection of human life.

Husband Wife Interactions must be centered around Lord Krishna else there will be attachment

From Srila Prabhupada's purport to SB 4.28.18 where Puranjana is about to die thinking about his wife
King Purañjana was anxiously thinking, “Alas, my wife is encumbered by so many children. When I pass from this body, how will she be able to maintain all these family members? Alas, she will be greatly harassed by thoughts of family maintenance.”

All these thoughts of one’s wife indicate that the King was overly engrossed with the thoughts of woman. Generally a chaste woman becomes a very obedient wife. This causes a husband to become attached to his wife, and consequently he thinks of his wife very much at the time of death. This is a very dangerous situation, as is evident from the life of King Purañjana. If one thinks of his wife instead of Kṛṣṇa at the time of death, he will certainly not return home, back to Godhead, but will be forced to accept the body of a woman and thus begin another chapter of material existence.

From Srila Prabhupada's purport to SB 4.28.19

King Purañjana then began to think of his past dealings with his wife. He recalled that his wife would not take her dinner until he had finished his, that she would not take her bath until he had finished his, and that she was always very much attached to him, so much so that if he would sometimes become angry and chastise her, she would simply remain silent and tolerate his misbehavior.

Purport: 

A wife is always supposed to be submissive to her husband. Submission, mild behavior and subservience are qualities in a wife which make a husband very thoughtful of her. For family life it is very good for a husband to be attached to his wife, but it is not very good for spiritual advancement. Thus Kṛṣṇa consciousness must be established in every home. If a husband and wife are very much attached to one another in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they will both benefit because Kṛṣṇa is the center of their existence. Otherwise, if the husband is too much attached to his wife, he becomes a woman in his next life. The woman, being overly attached to her husband, becomes a man in her next life. Of course, it is an advantage for a woman to become a man, but it is not at all advantageous for the man to become a woman.