The Meeting of Ananta And Hariisa

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Suta Gosvami said: After the paramahamsa had his meal and sat down comfortably, the brahmanas of Purusottama-ksetra asked him how I could regain my previous health and mental stability.

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The paramahamsa understood the brahmanas’ concern and so he looked at me and said: My dear Ananta, what are you doing here? Where are you wife, Carumati, and your five sons headed by Budha, as well as your house, wealth, and relatives? When did you come here, leaving them aside? Today is supposed to be the marriage of your eldest son, Budha.

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You reside on the south shore of the ocean and I saw you busily engaged in making arrangements for your son’s wedding today. The people of that place respect you very much. You had invited me to attend your son’s wedding today, but you left everything and came here. You seem to be confused about something.

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My dear sir, I saw you there as an elderly man, seventy years old. How have you now become a young man of thirty?

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I never saw in that place this wife that ь seated by your side. I don’t know how I have come to see you here.

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Are you really Ananta, or are you someone else? Am I the same sannyasl who met you, or am I someone else? My meeting you here seems mysterious.

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You are a householder who faithfully executes your occupational duties and I am a beggar in the renounced order of life. Therefore, my meeting you here seems incompatible, like л comersation between a child and a madman.

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Alas! All this was the pastime of supreme controller’s illusory energy, which bewilders everyone within the three worlds. It is very difficult to understand this by mere common sense. Unless one understands the Supreme Lord as being one without a second, one cannot understand the activities of maya.

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After speaking to me in this way, the paramahamsa turned and addressed the great sage, Markandeya, within the hearing of other great sages: О fortunate one, let me describe to you some events that w ill take place in the future. Please listen attentively.

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It has been said that the Lord’s illusory energy, maya, remains within the water of devastation that is situated within the abdomen of the Supreme Lord. This maya bewilders everyone. Just as a prostitute roams throughout the town, maya spreads her influence throughout the three worlds. Maud’s influence creates the ignorance that forces the conditioned souls to uselessly transmigrate from one body to another in this material world. Thus, maya is the cause of all material miseries.

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At the time of dissolution, the three worlds merge into the water of devastation. All directions, the time factor, and everything else become unmanifest. Thereafter, the Supreme Personality of Godhead once again desires to create and so immediately all the material ingredients become manifest.

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By His own will, the Supreme Lord first divides Himself into two – purusa and prakrti. In due course of time, the purusa manifests the mahat-tattva from prakrti. From the mahat-tattva, false ego is produced, and from false ego, the three modes of material nature. Brahma, Vishnu, and Mahesa are the predominating deities of the three modes of material nature. It is these three personalities that engage in the act of creation.

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In the beginning, five subtle material elements are created from false ego and from these five subtle elements, five gross material elements are produced. This creation is set in motion after the Supreme Lord glances over the material nature, maya.

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Thereafter, the demigods, demons, and human beings, as well as all other moving and non-moving entities, are created throughout the universe.

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All of these categories of conditioned souls are covered by the illusory energy of the Supreme Lord, and this causes them to become attached, thinking, “This body is me and everything in relation to this body is mine.” The conditioned souls are so foolish that they do not care to be delivered from the miserable material existence.

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Alas! How strong is mayal Being bewildered by maya, even the demigods, up to Brahma, are constantly wandering about withm the material world, like bulls tied with ropes through their noses, or birds kept in a cage.

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The great souls and sages who desire to CUJSSover the ocean of maya that induces the conditioned souls to enjoy material sense gratification, which is filled with formidable waves, and which consists of the three modes of material nature, are certainly glorious and celebrated as knowers of the truth.

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Saunaka Rishi said: What did the exalted sages, headed by Markandeya, Vasistha, and Vamadeva, say after hearing this wonderful talk? What did the kings who had been listening to Ananta say? Kindly narrate the future events that were referred to.

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After hearing these questions of Saunaka Risi, Romaharsana Suta praised him very highly and then described in detail the spiritual knowledge that destroys all lamentation and grief.

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Suta Gosvami said: When the kings respectfully requested Ananta to continue speaking, Ananta explained how one can overcome maya and control his senses by executing severe penance.

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Ananta said: Thereafter, I began to reside in a nearby forest and engage m the practice of penance, according to the prescribed rules and regulations. However, in spite of my efforts, I failed to regulate my mind and senses.

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Whenever I sat down in the forest to meditate upon the Supreme Lord, thoughts of my wife, children, and assets keep surfacing within my mind, greatly disturbing me.

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As soon as this would happen, my mind would become greatly disturbed and I would become filled with fear and lamentation. As a result, my meditation was broken.

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The mind can be controlled only when the senses are regulated. While thinking in this way, I resolved to conquer my senses.

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However, as soon as I attempted to control my senses, the predominating deities of the senses turned their attention upon me.

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The controlling deities of the ten senses personally appeared before me and said: Ananta, we are Dik, Vayu, Surya, Praceta, the Asvinl- kumaras, Agni, Indra, Upendra, and Mitra. Although we subtly reside within your body, we have now come before you. You should not cause us harm by your severe austerity.

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Simply by performing severe austerities, you will not receive any benefit, nor will your mind or senses be controlled. Rather, because of torturing us, you will suffer greatly.

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It is a fact that even blind, deaf, and deformed people go to live in the forest and yet they cannot resist thinking about material enjoyment.

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The material body is a house, the spirit soul is the owner of the house, intelligence is the owner’s wife, and the mind is a servant. We are also servants controlled by the wife of the house, in the form of intelligence.

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The conditioned souls are forced to enjoy the fruits of their activities. The mind is certainly the cause of bondage or liberation. According to the directions given by the illusory energy of the Lord of the universe, the mind takes a greedy person here and there throughout the material world.

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Therefore, if you desire to control your mind, you should engage it in the devotional service of Lord Hari with determination. All reactions to karma are exhausted by one’s engagement in the devotional service of Lord Hari. Thus it is concluded that devotional service is the best means for achieving liberation from material existence. The understanding that the living entities are simultaneously one with and different from the Supreme Lord should be cultivated. There is no doubt that devotional service to Lord Hari awards one transcendental bliss. Attachment to the gross and subtle bodies is destroyed by engagement m unalloyed devotional service.

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If you simply have the darsana of Lord Kalki, you will attain liberation from material bondage.

Having been instructed in this way by the controlling deities of the ten senses, I devotedly worshiped Lord Hari with a desire to see Lord Kalki, who dissipates the contamination of Kali. It is for this reason that I have come here.

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I was fortunate to see the form of the Supreme Lord, who has no material form. I touched the lorus feet of the Supreme Brahman, who has no material feet. I heard the words of the Lord of the universe, who never utters a material sound vibration.

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After saying this, Ananta offered his obeisance’s to the lotus-eyed Lord Kalki, the husband of Padmavati, and then departed in a joyful mood.

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After the kings heard the talks of the sage, Ananta, they also began to observe vows while foUowing the rules and regulations prescribed by the scriptures. Thus, like sages, they cleared their path to liberation by worshiping Lord Kalki and Padmavati.

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Shuka said: Anyone who hears this story of Ananta will be freed from the clutches of maya His darkness of ignorance will be dissipated and the material bondage cut to pieces, so that ultimately, he will attain liberation from material existence.

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The devotees of Lord Hari who are inclined to follow the principles of religion while at the same time desire to enjoy sense gratification in the ocean of material existence, should use the sharp sword of transcendental knowledge gained from this narration to cut to pieces the six principal enemies that reside within the body, headed by lust, after taking shelter in the fort of bhakti-yoga.

Thus ends the translation of the twelfth chapter of Shri Kalki Purana.

 

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

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