Obeisances all glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Here is more to keep in the heart.
So who’s property is it anyway?
Ys Hasti Gopala Dasa
“…one should not take benedictions one cannot enjoy peacefully”
SB7.4.2
TEXT 2
sri-brahmovaca
tateme durlabhah pumsam
yan vrnise varan mama
tathapi vitaramy anga
varan yadyapi durlabhan
SYNONYMS
sri-brahma uvaca—Lord Brahma said; tata—O dear son; ime—all these; durlabhah—very rarely obtained; pumsam—by men; yan—those which; vrnise—you ask; varan—benedictions; mama—from me; tathapi—still; vitarami—I shall deliver; anga—O Hiranyakasipu; varan—the benedictions; yadyapi—although; durlabhan—not generally available.
TRANSLATION
Lord Brahma said: O Hiranyakasipu, these benedictions for which you have asked are difficult to obtain for most men. Nonetheless, O my son, I shall grant you them although they are generally not available.
PURPORT
Material benedictions are not always exactly worthy of being called benedictions. If one possesses more and more, a benediction itself may become a curse, for just as achieving material opulence in this material world requires great strength and endeavor, maintaining it also requires great endeavor. Lord Brahma informed Hiranyakasipu that although he was ready to offer him whatever he had asked, the result of the benedictions would be very difficult for Hiranyakasipu to maintain. Nonetheless, since Brahma had promised, he wanted to grant all the benedictions asked. The word durlabhan indicates that one should not take benedictions one cannot enjoy peacefully.
pamho prabhus agtACBSP, thank you for this nice article, there is nothing better than daily associating with SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM and SRILA PRABHUPADA because they are BHAGAVATA PURUSA.
That’s why SRILA PRABHUPADA says, I live forever in my books. The Bhagavata person is not different from the teaching of the divine book, Bhagavatam.
LORD BRAHMA already knew that SRI NARASIMHA DEVA was going to defeat Hiranyakasipu.
Prabhupada: “At last, of course, KRSNA little chastised Brahma that, “You should not give such benediction in future. This is botheration for Me.” But still, KRSNA kept His servant’s promise intact.”
LORD BRAHMA regarding the property of SRI KRSNA knows very well that SRI KRSNA as Supreme owner is free to use HIS property as HE likes.
It took a little while for SRI BALARAMA to understand the lila of SRI KRSNA in Vrindavan when LORD BRAHMA stole the cows and the friends of SRI KRSNA. Even SRI BALARAMA can get bewildered by SRI KRSNA’s energy – then what to say about us minute living entities?
Therefore daily chanting during brahma muhurta, reading and good sat-sanga with prabhupadanugas is essential. Then one can taste these sublime lilas of SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM.
Thank’s eternally to our beloved acharya to give us this matchless gift of vedic culture!
agtACBSP and all the GAURA BHAKTA VRINDA ki jai
ys
a.c seva das
haribol