Srimad Bhagavatam 10.16.36-38 - Meditating on Krsna dancing on our tongue (download mp3), (download flv) & (download mp4)
by Krishna Abhishek Prabhu at ISKCON Chowpatty
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SB 10.16.36
kasyanubhavo ’sya na deva vidmahe
tavanghri-renu-sparasadhikarah
yad-vañchaya srir lalanacarat tapo
vihaya kaman su-ciram dhrta-vrata
Translation:
O Lord, we do not know how the serpent Kaliya has attained this great opportunity of being touched by the dust of Your lotus feet. For this end, the goddess of fortune performed austerities for centuries, giving up all other desires and observing austere vows.
SB 10.16.37
na naka-prstham na ca sarva-bhaumam
na paramesthyam na rasadhipatyam
na yoga-siddhir apunar-bhavam va
vañchanti yat-pada-rajah-prapannah
Translation:
Those who have attained the dust of Your lotus feet never hanker for the kingship of heaven, limitless sovereignty, the position of Brahma or rulership over the earth. They are not interested even in the perfections of yoga or in liberation itself.
SB 10.16.38
tad esa nathapa durapam anyais
tamo-janih krodha-vaso ’py ahisah
samsara-cakre bhramatah saririno
yad-icchatah syad vibhavah samaksah
Translation:
O Lord, although this Kaliya, the king of the serpents, has taken birth in the mode of ignorance and is controlled by anger, he has achieved that which is difficult for others to achieve. Embodied souls, who are full of desires and are thus wandering in the cycle of birth and death, can have all benedictions manifested before their eyes simply by receiving the dust of Your lotus feet.
Purport:
It is very rare for a conditioned soul to free himself from the contamination of illusion and thus become established in perfect consciousness of the Absolute Truth. And yet this benediction was achieved by the serpent Kaliya because the Lord personally danced upon the serpent’s hoods with His lotus feet. Although we conditioned souls may not receive the mercy of having the Lord dance on our head, we can receive the dust of the lotus feet of the Absolute through the Lord’s representative, the bona fide spiritual master, and thus go back home, back to Godhead, forever freed from the misery and ignorance of the mundane universe.
