This verse illustrates the difference between kṣatriyas and innocent vaiśyas. By studying the political situation, Vasudeva could see what would happen, whereas Nanda Mahārāja, the king of the agriculturalists, could only guess that Vasudeva was a great saintly person and had developed mystic powers. Vasudeva actually had all mystic powers under his control; otherwise he could not have become the father of Kṛṣṇa. But in fact he foresaw the calamities in Vraja by studying Kaṁsa's political activities and thus warned Nanda Mahārāja to take precautions, although Nanda Mahārāja thought that Vasudeva had predicted this incident through wonderful mystic powers. By mystic powers gained through the practice of haṭha-yoga, one can study and understand the future.
By studying the political situation, Vasudeva could see what would happen, whereas Nanda Maharaja, the king of the agriculturalists, could only guess that Vasudeva was a great saintly person and had developed mystic powers
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"By studying the political situation, Vasudeva could see what would happen, whereas Nanda Mahārāja, the king of the agriculturalists, could only guess that Vasudeva was a great saintly person and had developed mystic powers"
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13
This verse (SB 10.6.32) illustrates the difference between kṣatriyas and innocent vaiśyas. By studying the political situation, Vasudeva could see what would happen, whereas Nanda Mahārāja, the king of the agriculturalists, could only guess that Vasudeva was a great saintly person and had developed mystic powers. Vasudeva actually had all mystic powers under his control; otherwise he could not have become the father of Kṛṣṇa.
Nanda Mahārāja and the other gopas exclaimed: My dear friends, you must know that Ānakadundubhi, Vasudeva, has become a great saint or a master of mystic power. Otherwise how could he have foreseen this calamity and predicted it to us?
- Study of a Devotee of God
- Political
- Situation
- Vasudeva (Krsna's father)
- Could
- See
- What
- Would
- Happen
- Whereas
- Nanda
- King Devotees of God
- Agriculture
- Only
- Guessing of a Devotee of God
- Great Saints - Devotees of God
- Saintly Devotees of God
- Saintly Persons - Devotees of God
- Development of a Devotee of God
- Mystic Power of a Devotee of God
- Srimad-Bhagavatam, Canto 10 Chapter 06 Purports - The Killing of the Demon Putana
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 10 Purports - Chapters 01 to 13
Page Title: | By studying the political situation, Vasudeva could see what would happen, whereas Nanda Maharaja, the king of the agriculturalists, could only guess that Vasudeva was a great saintly person and had developed mystic powers |
Compiler: | Nabakumar |
Created: | 2021-02-08, 08:42:14 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=1, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=0, Let=0 |
No. of Quotes: | 1 |