Canto 2 Chapter 3 Flashcards
- List five of the various demigods worshipped for material desires and the respective results of such worship. (2-9)
- What are the gains of worshipping the Supreme Personality of Godhead rather than the demigods? (9-12)
- Fulfillment of material enjoyment. (9)
- Award liberation (10 p)
- Merge into the supreme impersonal brahma-jyoti by bhakti-yoga.
- Achieving tévra-bhakti (only by the association of the devotees). (10)
- One who reaches the kingdom of God gets a permanent share in eternal life. (11)
- Attain the transcendental knowledge which cause self-satisfying due to its being free from
material attachment, and being transcendental it is approved by authorities. (12) - Attainment of transcendental knowledge, which causes detachment from all mundane
topics, for which a devotee has no taste at all. (12 p)
- List similarities and differences between Mahäräja Parékñit and Çukadeva Gosvämé. (15- 16)
Mahäräja Parékñit must have heard about the childhood pastimes of Lord Kåñëa at
Våndävana, for he used to imitate the pastimes with his young playmates. (15 p)
- Mahäräja Parékñit used to imitate the worship of the family Deity by elderly members.
Sukadeva Gosvāmi
Similarities
They are both unalloyed pure devotees of the lord
Born in Vaisnava family
fill in transcendental
Had the chance to know intimately the devotional service to Lord Krsna
Differences
Parikshit Engaged in Deity worship
Parikshit was a great king accustomed to royal families
Disciple
He is the proper listener to SB
Suka engaged in Hari Katha
Typical renouncer or the world
One was playing the part of the master
Proper speaker of SB
- List and explain five of the analogies that Çaunaka Åñi gives to condemn those who are averse to devotional service. (17-24)
Both by rising and by setting, the sun decreases the duration of life of everyone, except one
who utilizes the time by discussing topics of the all-good Personality of Godhead. (17)
Do the trees not live? Do the bellows of the blacksmith not breathe? All around us, do the
beasts not eat and discharge semen? (18)
Men who are like dogs, hogs, camels and asses praise those men who never listen to the
transcendental pastimes of Lord Çré Kåñëa, the deliverer from evils. (19)
One who has not listened to the messages about the prowess and marvelous acts of the
Personality of Godhead and has not sung or chanted loudly the worthy songs about the Lord
is to be considered to possess earholes like the holes of snakes and a tongue like the tongue
of a frog. (20)
The upper portion of the body, though crowned with a silk turban, is only a heavy burden if
not bowed down before the Personality of Godhead who can award mukti [freedom]. And the
hands, though decorated with glittering bangles, are like those of a dead man if not engaged
in the service of the Personality of Godhead Hari. (21)
The eyes which do not look at the symbolic representations of the Personality of Godhead
Viñëu [His forms, name, quality, etc.] are like those printed on the plumes of the peacock,
and the legs which do not move to the holy places [where the Lord is remembered] are
considered to be like tree trunks. (22)
The person who has not at any time received the dust of the feet of the Lord’s pure devotee
upon his head is certainly a dead body. And the person who has never experienced the aroma
of the tulasé leaves from the lotus feet of the Lord is also a dead body, although breathing.
(23)
Certainly that heart is steel-framed which, in spite of one’s chanting the holy name of the Lord
with concentration, does not change when ecstasy takes place, tears fill the eyes and the hairs
stand on end. (24)
