2024-10-19
Srimad Bhagavatam 03.01.05-06 - The road from blindness to insight (download mp3)
by Shubha Vilas Prabhu at ISKCON Chowpatty
SB 03.01.05
sūta uvāca
sa evam ṛṣi-varyo ’yaṁ
pṛṣṭo rājñā parīkṣitā
pratyāha taṁ subahu-vit
prītātmā śrūyatām iti
Translation:
Śrī Suta Gosvāmī said: The great sage Śukadeva Gosvāmī was highly experienced and was pleased with the King. Thus being questioned by the King, he said to him, “Please hear the topics attentively.”
SB 03.01.06
śrī-śuka uvāca
yadā tu rājā sva-sutān asādhūn
puṣṇan na dharmeṇa vinaṣṭa-dṛṣṭiḥ
bhrātur yaviṣṭhasya sutān vibandhūn
praveśya lākṣā-bhavane dadāha
Translation:
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: King Dhṛtarāṣṭra became blind under the influence of impious desires to nourish his dishonest sons, and thus he set fire to the lacquer house to burn his fatherless nephews, the Pāṇḍavas.
Purport:
Dhṛtarāṣṭra was blind from birth, but his blindness in committing impious activities to support his dishonest sons was a greater blindness than his physical lack of eyesight. The physical lack of sight does not bar one from spiritual progress. But when one is blind spiritually, even though physically fit, that blindness is dangerously detrimental to the progressive path of human life.
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