Shaping The Mind To Accept Reality

2010-01-27
Srimad Bhagavatam 8.11.09-12 - Shaping The Mind To Accept Reality (download mp3)
by Kaustubha Prabhu at ISKCON Chowpatty
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SB 8.11.9

na vayam manyamananam

atmanam tatra sadhanam

giro vah sadhu-socyanam

grhnimo marma-tadanah

Translation: 

You demigods think that your own selves are the cause of your attaining fame and victory. Because of your ignorance, saintly persons feel sorry for you. Therefore, although your words afflict the heart, we do not accept them.

SB 8.11.10

sri-suka uvaca

ity aksipya vibhum viro

naracair vira-mardanah

akarna-purnairahanad

aksepair aha tam punah

Translation: 

Sukadeva Gosvami said: After thus rebuking Indra, King of heaven, with sharp words, Bali Maharaja, who could subdue any other hero, drew back to his ear the arrows known as naracas and attacked Indra with these arrows. Then he again chastised Indra with strong words.

SB 8.11.11

evam nirakrto devo

vairina tathya-vadina

namrsyat tad-adhiksepam

totrahata iva dvipah

Translation: 

Since Maharaja Bali's rebukes were truthful, King Indra did not at all become sorry, just as an elephant beaten by its driver's rod does not become agitated.

SB 8.11.12

praharat kulisam tasma

amogham para-mardanah

sayano nyapatad bhumau

chinna-paksa ivacalah

Translation: 

When Indra, the defeater of enemies, released his infallible thunderbolt scepter at Bali Maharaja with a desire to kill him, Bali Maharaja indeed fell to the ground with his airplane, like a mountain with its wings cut off.

Purport: 

In many descriptions in Vedic literature it is found that mountains also fly in the sky with wings. When such mountains are dead, they fall to the ground, where they stay as very large dead bodies.