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 ======================================================================= ====================================================================== Wednesrday,  November 24,  2021. 6:00. AM. The Glory of God : A Summary of the Srimad Bhagavata Mahapuranam-3.6 Chapter 3 :  KAPILA’S INSTRUCTIONS TO DEVAHUTI - 6. ====================================================================== The king prostrated before Narayana and said, “Please withdraw this curse upon us. I made a mistake, and I accept that I am defeated by you.” Then Nara withdrew the astra, and the king and the army left. The very thought of these Maharishis is a purifying tapas for us, an uncontaminated perfection of tapas force. “Except for them, who is free from any kind of desires?” says Maharishi Kapila. This is incidental to the main subject. The main theme is concentration on the Mahapurusha, for which, first of all, we have to equip ourselves with the characteristic of feeling that we have had enough with everything in this

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesrday,  September 15,  2021. 7:00. AM. Chapter 3 :  KAPILA’S INSTRUCTIONS TO DEVAHUTI - 5. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So, in this great Person you find the world of your dear delight. All your delights are embedded there. All the honey that you can think of in every flower of the world, you will find there in that Universal flower of completeness. You will also find all your relatives there, if you want to see them. Your friends will be there; your treasure will be there; your property will be there; you yourself will be there. Can you imagine God in this fashion? “Difficult it is,” says Maharishi Kapila, because the mind’s attachment to lesser thin

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday,  August 7,  2021. 7:05. AM. Chapter 3 :  KAPILA’S INSTRUCTIONS TO DEVAHUTI -4. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, coming to the point of meditation on God as the Supreme Person, we have to see how we can visualise Him in our presence as a mighty inclusiveness—a Person standing before us in all glory and perfection. We require a little bit of imagination and the power of will to concentrate like this. We say that God created the world. The Bhagavata does not deny this fact that God created the world because the mind of the human individual cannot but accept that God created the world. We cannot violate our own sense of feeling. The Bhagavata does not expect us to violate our own feelings and

 . ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday,  June 10,  2021. 07:33. AM. Chapter 3 :  KAPILA’S INSTRUCTIONS TO DEVAHUTI -3. Post-3. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the case of an ordinary mortal, there is a distinction made between the functions of the head, heart, lungs, feet, hands, and so on, but in the case of the Mighty Person, such distinction is not made. Any part is as good as any other part. We cannot say that His feet are inferior to His head, as no such comparison is possible in the case of God’s Personality. His limbs are described for the purpose of meditation. Every part is capable of doing the function of any other part. This is how we have it in the Bhagavadgita and in the Veda.  Sarvataḥ pāni-pādam tat sarvato’kṣi-śiro-mukham, sarvataḥ śrutimal loke sarvam āvṛtya tiṣṭhati (B.G. 13.13) :  Every part of His body is eyes and ears, every part is mouth, every part is fe

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday,  May 10,  2021. 07:40. AM. Chapter 3 :  KAPILA’S INSTRUCTIONS TO DEVAHUTI -2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That is the reason why God as a Supreme Person is considered as magnificently beautiful. It is a great art presented before us, an attraction which satisfies not only the mind, the feeling and the heart, but even the sense organs which seek the perception of beautiful form. That is how Maharishi Kapila describes God as the Marvel of marvels. We also have this type of description in the vision of Narayana that was granted to Brahma, partly in the Second Book and in the early part of the Third Book of the Bhagavata. God is always considered as a divine protector, a parent—a father and mother. The feelings of satisfaction, affection, and aesthetic completion go together in our worship of God. This is the reason why in every religion God

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday,  April 17,  2021. 07:28. AM. Chapter 3 :  KAPILA’S INSTRUCTIONS TO DEVAHUTI -1. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the Third Book of the Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana we have an elaborate presentation of the instructions given by Maharishi Kapila to mother Devahuti. Everyone should read this wondrous conversation between Sage Kapila and Devahuti for the variety of themes dealt with in this connection. Among many other things which are very important from the point of view of a sadhaka, the emphasis that Rishi Kapila lays here is concentration on God as the Supreme Person. The concept of God as a Person is pre-eminent in all religions. We cannot but conceive God as a Great Person, Whose limbs have to be the objects of our concentration. The minute details of this process are described by Kapila in these chapters. In every religion, we will fin