Fwd: [granthraj] We Win when We All Win - Part 2

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From: Saikumar AR jayk...@hotmail.com [granthraj] <granthra...@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 11:20 PM
Subject: [granthraj] We Win when We All Win - Part 2
To: gran...@yahoogroups.com

 

Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Matajis,
Please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudev! 

This is in conclusion of the previous offering titled, "We Win when We All Win", wherein we were meditating on the importance of how important it is to help others and how welfare of others is bound up with welfare of all. Now we shall see further.   

In the Sixth canto of Srimad Bhagavatam we find that Indra, the King of heaven, killed Vishvarupa, and therefore Vishvarupa's father performed a yajna to kill Indra. When Vrtraasura appeared from that yajna, the demigods, in fear, sought shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and glorified Him. Being pleased with the demigods, the Supreme Personality of Godhead advised them to approach Dadhici to beg him for the bones of his own body. Dadhici would comply with the request of the demigods, and with the help of his bones Vrtraasura could be killed. Following the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the demigods approached Dadhici Muni and begged for his body. Dadhici Muni, just to hear from the demigods about the principles of religion, jokingly refused to relinquish his body, but for higher purposes he thereafter agreed to give it up, for after death the body is usually eaten by low animals like dogs and jackals and he spoke the following gem like verses for all of us to ponder over.

yo 'dhruvenaatmanaa naathaa / na dharmam na yashah pumaan
iheta bhuta-dayayaa / sa shocyah sthaavarair api

O demigods, one who has no compassion for humanity in its suffering and does not sacrifice his impermanent body for the higher causes of religious principles or eternal glory is certainly pitied even by the immovable beings. (SB 6.10.8)

etaavaan avyayo dharmah / punya-slokair upaasitah
yo bhuta-shoka-harshaabhyaam / aatmaa shocati hrshyati

If one is unhappy to see the distress of other living beings and happy to see their happiness, his religious principles are appreciated as imperishable by exalted persons who are considered pious and benevolent. (SB 6.10.9)

aho dainyam aho kashtam/ paarakyaih kshana-bhanguraih

yan nopakuryaad asvaarthair / martyah sva-jnaati-vigrahaih

This body, which is eatable by jackals and dogs after death, does not actually do any good for me, the spirit soul. It is usable only for a short time and may perish at any moment. The body and its possessions, its riches and relatives, must all be engaged for the benefit of others, or else they will be sources of tribulation and misery.(SB 6.10.10)

As our beloved Gurudev, HH Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj always insists, this Srimad Bhagavatam is the education our children have to be given so that they grow up with the right values.

Thank you very much.
Yours in service of Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudev,
Vaijayanti mala devi dasi,
Abu dhabi.

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Posted by: Saikumar AR <jayk...@hotmail.com>

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