SB (1965) Eighteenth Chapter - Maharaj Parikshit Cursed By A Brahmin Boy
SB 1.18.1 (1965): Suta Goswami said, "Maharaj Parikshit, although he was struck by the weapon of the son of Drona in the womb of his mother, he could not be burnt by the mercy of the Personality of Godhead Sri Krishna who acts wonderfully."
SB 1.18.2 (1965): Further more Maharaj Parikshit was always consciously surrendered to the Personality of Godhead and therefore he was neither afraid of nor overwhelmed from the fear of the snake bird which was to bite him due to the violent passion of Brahmin boy.
SB 1.18.3 (1965): Further more after leaving aside all round association, the King gave himself up as a disciple of the son of Vyasa and thus he was able to understand the actual position of the Personality of Godhead and at least gave up his material body on the bank of the Ganges.
SB 1.18.4 (1965): It is so because those who have made their life's business to liue on the transcendental topics of the Personality of Godhead sung by the Vedic hymns and thus be constantly engaged in remembering the lotus feet of the Lord, do not have any chance of misconception even at the last moment of the end of life.
SB 1.18.5 (1965): So long as the most powerful great son of Abhimanyu remains the one emperor of the world there is no chance of flourishing by the personality of Kali.
SB 1.18.6 (1965): The very day and the very moment when the Personality of Godhead Lord Sri Krishna left aside this earth, on that very moment also the personality of Kali who is accelerating agent for all irreligious activities, became entered within the earth.
SB 1.18.7 (1965): Maharaj Parikshit was realist as the bees who are apt to accept the essence only. He knew it perfectly well that in this age of kali auspicious things produce good effects immediately while the opposite number acts when actually performed. So he was never envious unto the personality of Kali.
SB 1.18.8 (1965): Maharaj Parikshit thought within himself that the personality of Kali might be very powerful for the less intelligent class of men but those who are self controlled have nothing to be afraid of him. He is tiger-like powerful and careful for the uncareful foolish persons.
SB 1.18.9 (1965): Oh the sages, now I have almost described everything in the matter of narrations about Lord Krishna in connection with the history of the pious king Maharaj Parikshit, as you did ask from me.
SB 1.18.10 (1965): Those who are desirous of achieving complete perfection of life must submissively hear all topics in connection with the transcendental activities and qualities of the Personality of Godhead who acts wonderfully.
SB 1.18.11 (1965): The good sages said, oh you grave Suta Goswami! may you live for many years with eternal fame particularly because you are very nicely speaking about the activities of Lord Krishna the Personality of Godhead and they are just like nectarine for mortal beings like us.
SB 1.18.12 (1965): The sages said, "we have just begun performance of this fruitive activity namely sacrificial fire without any certainty of its result on account of many frailties in the action. Our body has blackened by the smoke but we are factually pleased by the nectarine, of the lotus feet of the Personality of Godhead Govinda, administered by you."
SB 1.18.13 (1965): The value of a moment's association with the devotee of the Lord cannot be compared even with the value of attainment of heavenly planets or becoming birthless (liberation from matter) and what to speak about wordly benediction in the shape of material prosperity of persons who are meant for death.
SB 1.18.14 (1965): The personality of Godhead Lord Krishna (Govinda) is the exclusive shelter for all the greatest of the living being and His transcendental attributes could not be measured even by the heads of mystic powers like Lord Shiva and Lord Brahma. Can anyone, who is expert in relishing mellow, be fully satisfied by hearing the topics of Him ?
SB 1.18.15 (1965): O Suta Goswami you are learned and a pure devotee of the Lord because the Personality of Godhead is chiefly your object of service. Therefore the pastimes of the Lord which is above all material conception, may kindly be described by you to us who are anxious to receive such messages.
SB 1.18.16 (1965): Oh Suta Goswami you please do describe that topics of the Lord by which Maharaj Parikshit fixed up in intelligence of liberation attained the lotus feet of the Lord shelter of Gaduda the king of the bird by hearing instruction vibrated by the son of Vyasa.
SB 1.18.17 (1965): Therefore you may narrate before us the narrations of the unlimited as they are purifying and supreme as they were spoken to Maharaj Parikshit full of Bhaktiyoga and very dear to the pure devotees.
SB 1.18.18 (1965): Oh, God, although we are born in the mixed caste still we are distinctly promoted in our birthright simply by serving and following the great who are advanced in knowledge. Even by connection with great souls in the matter of conversation, one can cleanse up disqualification of lower birth without any delay.
SB 1.18.19 (1965): What to say about those who under the direction of great devotees chant the holy name of the unlimited Who has unlimited potency? The Personality of Godhead being unlimited in potency and transcendental by attributes, is called the Ananta (unlimited).
SB 1.18.20 (1965): So far it is now ascertained that He (the Personality of Godhead) is unlimited and there is non equal with Him. As such nobody can completely say anything about Him. The reason is that great demigods even by prayers cannot attain the favor of goddess of fortune but the same goddess of fortune renders service unto the Lord although He is unwilling to have such service.
SB 1.18.21 (1965): Who can else be worth the name of the Supreme Lord except the Personality of Godhead Sri Krishna because Brahmaji collected the water emanating from the nails of His feet to award to Lord Shiva as worshipful welcome. The same water (the Ganges) is purifying the whole universe including the Lord Shiva.
SB 1.18.22 (1965): Self controlled persons who are attached to the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna all of a sudden give up the world of material attachment in relation with the gross body and subtle mind and go away to attain the highest perfection of renounced order of life in which non-violence and renunciation are sequential occupations.
SB 1.18.23 (1965): Oh the rishis who are as powerful as purity of the Sun, I shall try to describe before you all about the transcendental pastimes of Vishnu as far as my knowedge is concerned. As the birds do fly over the sky as far its capacity so also learned devotees also do describe about the Lord as far as their realisation.
SB 1.18.24-25 (1965): Once upon a time Maharaj Parikshit while engaged in hunting in the forest with arrows and bow firmly taken up became extremely fatigued, hungry and thirsty while following the stags. And in search after the reservoir of water he entered the hermitage of the well-known Samika Rishi and saw the sage was sitting all silent with closed eyes.
SB 1.18.26 (1965): The Muni's sense organs, air of breathing, mind and intelligence all were restrained from material activities and he got himself situated in the trance apart from the three (awakeness, dream and unconsciousness) having achieved transcendental position qualitatively equal with the Supreme Absolute.
SB 1.18.27 (1965): The sage in meditation was also seen covered by the skin of stag and elongated compressed hair. The King, however, being dried up by his palate asked him for water.
SB 1.18.28 (1965): The King having not received any formal welcome in the shape of seat, place, water, and sweet addresses, thought himself of being neglected and thus thinking in the mind he became angry in that way.
SB 1.18.29 (1965): Oh the Brahmins, thus unprecedently the King became counter angry and envious upon a Brahmin (the sage) circumstantially being pressed by too much hunger and thirst.
SB 1.18.30 (1965): The king thus being insulted while going out took up a lifeless snake by the front part of his bow and placed it on the shoulder of the sage in great anger and thus returned back to his palace.
SB 1.18.31 (1965): While going cut he began to contemplate and argue within himself whether the sage was actually in meditation by concentration of the senses and closed eyes or it was a false show of trance just to avoid reception of a lower Kshatriya.
SB 1.18.32 (1965): The sage had a son who was very much powerful as a Brahmin's son and was playing with boys who were all inexperienced. The sage's son heard about the distress of the father made by the king and thus he began to say then and there like this.
SB 1.18.33 (1965): Oh just look at the sins of the rulers who are verily brought up like the crows and watch dogs at the door, on the masters against the principle of servants.
SB 1.18.34 (1965): The descendants of the Kingly orders are definitly fixed up as the watch dogs and they must keep themselves at the door. On what ground such dogs can enter within the house and claim to dine with the master on the same plate ?
SB 1.18.35 (1965): On the departure of Lord Sri Krishna the Personality of Godhead and the Supreme Ruler of everyone, the upstarts have flourished separated from the protector and therefore I shall take up the matter to punish them just see my power.
SB 1.18.36 (1965): The son of the Rishi thus being overtaken by anger had his eyes redhot and while speaking to his playmates as above mentioned he touched the water of the river Koushik and discharged the thunderbolt of words as follows.
SB 1.18.37 (1965): The son of a Brahmin cursed the king like this "On the seventh day from to-day a snake bird will bite the wretched of the dynasty on account of his breaking the law of etiquette by doing enmity with my father.
SB 1.18.38 (1965): Thereafter when the boy returned in the hermitage, he saw his father wrapped by his body with a snake on shoulder and thus being too much aggrieved began to cry very loudly.
SB 1.18.39 (1965): Oh the brahmins, the Rishi who was born in the family of Angira Muni thus hearing his son crying gradually opened his eyes and saw a dead snake on his neck.
SB 1.18.40 (1965): He threw away the dead snake from his neck and asked his son why he was crying who might have done him any harm either and on hearing this the son explained to him that happened.
SB 1.18.41 (1965): The father Rishi after hearing from the son that the king was cursed although he is never to be condemned because he is the best of all human beings, did not congratulate his own son but on the contrary began to repent by saying alas what great sinful act was performed by him (his son) as he has had awarded heavy punishment for the insignificant offence.
SB 1.18.42 (1965): Oh my boy, you are completely immature intelligently and therefore you have no knowledge that the king who, is the best amongst the human beings, is as good as the Personality of Godhead and therefore he is never to be placed on equal footing with other common man. The citizens of the state do live in all prosperity being protected by him by his unsurpassable prowess.
SB 1.18.43 (1965): My dear boy the Lord Who carries the wheel of a chariot is represented by the monarchical regime and this being abolished the whole world becomes full of thieves who then and there vanquish the unprotected subjects like the scattered lambs at once.
SB 1.18.44 (1965): Thus on account of ending monarchical regime and thus people's wealth being plundered by the rogues and thieves, there will be now a great disruption of social anomalies between one another in the matter of killing, doing harm, stealing of animals and women and for all these we shall be responsible for the reaction of sins.
SB 1.18.45 (1965): At that time the people in general will be systematically vanquished from the progressive way of civilization in the matter of qualitative engagements of castes and the orders of society for good manners in terms of the Vedic injunctions of the human kind and thus they will be more attracted by economic development for sense gratification and unwanted population of the type of dogs and monkeys.
SB 1.18.46 (1965): The Emperor Parikshit is a pious king, he is highly celebrated, and directly the first grade devotee of the Personality of Godhead. He is a saint amongst the royal order and has performed many horse sacrifices. Such a king when he was tired and fatigued being stricken with hunger and thirst, did not at all deserved to be cursed.
SB 1.18.47 (1965): The Rishi prayed for his son to the all pervading Personality of Godhead for pardoning his immature boy with no intelligence who committed the great sin of cursing a person who was completely free from all sins and being subordinate deserved to be protected.
SB 1.18.48 (1965): The devotees of the Lord are so much forbearing that even they are defamed, cheated, cursed, disturbed by negligence or even they are killed they are never inclined to counter act such reverses.
SB 1.18.49 (1965): The sage thus regretted the sin committed by his own son and the insult which was done to him by the king was not very seriously taken by him.
SB 1.18.50 (1965): Generally the transcendentalists even though they are engaged by others in the duality of the material world, neither they are distressed nor they take pleasures in them on account of transcendentally engaged.