SB 1.8.4 (1964)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT No. 4
Santwayamasa munibhir hatabandhum sucharpitan Bhutesu kalasya gatim darsayan na pratikriam.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS
Santayamasa—pacified, Munibhir—along with the munis present there, Hatabandhun—those who lost their friends and relatives, Sucharpitan—all shocked and affected, Bhutesu—unto the living beings, Kalasya—of the supreme law of the Almighty, Gatim—reactions, Darsayan—demonstrated, Na—no, Pratikriam—remedial measures.
TRANSLATION
Lord Sri Krishna along with the munis began to pacify the shocked and affected persons demonstrating the stringent laws of the Almighty and its reaction on the living beings.
PURPORT
The stringent laws of nature under the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead cannot be altered by any living entity. The living entities are eternally under the subjugation of the Almighty Lord. The Lord makes all the laws and order and these laws and orders are generally called Dharma or religiosity. Nobody can create any religious formula. Bonafide religion is to abide by the orders of the Lord. The Lord's order is clearly declared in the Bhagwat Geeta that everyone may follow Him only or His orders and that will make all happy both materially and spiritually. So long we are in the material world it is our duty to follow the orders of the Lord and if by the Grace of the Lord we are liberated from the clutches of the material world, then in our liberated stage also we can render transcendental loving service unto the Lord. In our material stage we can neither see ourselves nor the Lord for want of spiritual vision. But when we are liberated from the material affection and are situated in our original spiritual form certainly we can see both ourselves as well as the Lord face to face. Mukti means to be reinstated in the original spiritual status after giving up material conception of life. Therefore, human life is specifically meant for qualifying ourselves for this spiritual liberty. Unfortunately under the influence of illusory material energy we accept this spot-life for a few years only as our permanent existence and thus become illusioned in the matter of possessing so-called country, home, land, children, wife, community, wealth etc. which are false representations created by Maya (illusion). And under the dictation of Maya only we fight with one another for protecting these false possessions. By cultivating spiritual knowledge, when we can realise that we have nothing to do with all these material paraphernalia, at once we become free from the material attachment. And this clearance of the misgivings of material existence at once takes place by association of the Lord's devotees only who are able to inject the transcendental sound into the depth of the bewildered heart and thus make him practically liberated from all lamentation and illusion. That is the summary of pacifying measures for the affected persons by the reaction of stringent material laws, exhibited in the forms of birth, death, old age and diseases insoluble factors of material existence. The victims of war namely the family members of the Kurus were lamenting over the problems of death and the Lord pacified them on the basis of knowledge.