SB 1.15.25-26 (1965)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXTS No.'s 25, 26
- Jaloukasam jale yadbat mahanto'danti aniyasah
- Druvalan Valino rajan mahanto valino mitho
- Evam valisthair yadubhi mahadbhir itaram bibhuh
- Yadun yadubhir anyonyam bhubharam samjahara
ENGLISH SYNONYMS
Jaloukasam—of the acquatics, Jale—in the water, Yadbat—as it is, Mahanto—the larger one, Odanti—swallows, Aniyasah—smaller ones, Durvalan—the weak, Valino—the stronger, Rajan—oh the king, Mahanto—the strongest, Valino—lesser strong, Mitho—in duel, Evam—thus, Valisthair—by the strongest, Yadubhir—by the descendants of Yadu, Mahadbhir—one who has greater strength, Itaran—the common ones, Bibhuh—the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Yadun—all the Yadus, Yadubhir—by the Yadus, Anyonyam—between one another, Bhubharan—the burden of the world, Samjahara—has unloaded, Ha—in the past.
TRANSLATION
Oh the King! as it is in the ocean the stronger acquatic swallows up the weaker ones, the bigger one swallows up the smaller ones so also the Supreme Personality of Godhead has unloaded the burden on the earth by engaging the stronger Yadu for killing weaker and bigger Yadu in killing the smaller.
PURPORT
In the material world the law of struggle for existence and survival of the fittest work for the reason that in the material world there is disparity between the conditioned souls on account of everyone's desire to lord it over the material resources. This very mentality of lording it over the material nature is the root cause of conditioned life. And to give facility to such imitation sense of lordship the illusionary energy of the Lord has created a disparity between conditioned living beings by creating the stronger and the weaker in every species of life. The mentality of lording it over the material nature and the creation of the strong and the weak has naturally created a disparity and therefore the law of struggle for existence. In the spiritual world there is no such disparity neither there is such struggle for existence because everyone there exists eternally. There is no disparity because everyone wants to render service to the Supreme Lord and nobody wants to imitate the Lord in the matter of becoming the beneficiary. The Lord being the creator of everything including the living beings, factually He is the proprietor and enjoyer of everything that be but in the material world by the spell of Maya or illusion this sense of eternal relation with the Supreme Personality of Godhead is being forgotten by the living being and is conditioned under the law of struggle for existence and survival of the fittest.