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Maha-bhagavata means one who can see God in everything and everything in God

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement that, "People . . . you become devotees, bhāgavata, and you select one mahā-bhāgavata to be your ruler. Then you will be happy. Not only bhāgavata. Not of your caliber, but still further." There are bhāgavata . . . there are three kinds of devotees. Three kinds of devotees means neophyte, middle class and mahā-bhāgavata. Mahā-bhāgavata. Mahā-bhāgavata means one who can see God in everything and everything in God. That is mahā-bhāgavata.

When one understands this, that Kṛṣṇa is the source of both matter and life . . . so the devotees are not rascals. They are in full knowledge. Iti matvā, "When they are confident that Kṛṣṇa is the source of everything," iti matvā bhajante mām, "oh, they become My devotee." Iti matvā bhajante māṁ budhāḥ. Budha means highly elevated in knowledge, budha. Just like Lord Buddha, elevated knowledge. So budhāḥ. So how this knowledge can be gotten unless one is trained by dvija-varya-śikṣayā, first-class learned brahmiṇs? One has to learn from him, not from the rascals, fools, cats and dogs. No. That is not learning. Dvija-varya-śikṣayā.

So Parīkṣit Mahārāja, his first qualification is . . . not only Parīkṣit Mahārāja, but all the kings during the monarchy. Monarchy does not mean because he is the son of king, therefore he should be king. No. He should be fully trained up by the dvija-varya, by the best class of brahmiṇs. That is monarchy. So Parīkṣit Mahārāja . . . tataḥ . . . tataḥ means "thereafter." After his fathers—means pañca-pāṇḍava, his father and uncles—retired and left kingdom, entrusting everything to the grandchild . . . because their sons all died in the Battle of Kurukṣetra. Parīkṣit Mahārāja, only he was saved, because he was a posthumous child. After the death of his father in the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra, he was in the womb of his mother. He took birth, and these grandfathers took care of him. This is Parīkṣit Mahārāja's life. He did not see his father from birth. So these grandfathers . . . so grandfathers, they retired entrusted . . . the whole kingdom was entrusted to the grandchild, Mahārāja Parīkṣit. So he was trained up by the first-class brahmiṇ. Tataḥ parīkṣid dvija-varya-śikṣayā mahīṁ mahā-bhāgavataḥ śaśāsa ha.

Mahīm. Mahīm means this earthly planet. Up to Mahārāja Parīkṣit, five thousand years ago, the whole world was being ruled over by one king, one emperor. There were no so many nations or no so many presidents or . . . no. Simply one king. Mahīm, this world. Mahīm means the earthly planet. This is the history. From Mahā-bhāgavata, er, Mahābhārata we understand that, that the whole world was under one flag, these Pāṇḍavas. Now United Nation means three thousand flags, three thousand nations. So that is not democracy, or that is not good ruling.

The best ruling is monarchy, and monarch means he must be a perfectly trained-up person by the best brahmiṇs. That is perfect government. Not that this democracy, some rascals and fools they are voting another rascal and fool, and by hook and crook he comes to the post; he does not like to give it up, and makes things very miserable. This kind of government . . . now your Senate is proposing, "Let us pray to God how we can get good government." (laughter) They are coming down to again. But why not train? "Now you are going to pray to God, 'Please give us good government'." Why don't you elect a person mahā-bhāgavata? Mahā-bhāgavata.

That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement that, "People . . . you become devotees, bhāgavata, and you select one mahā-bhāgavata to be your ruler. Then you will be happy. Not only bhāgavata. Not of your caliber, but still further." There are bhāgavata . . . there are three kinds of devotees. Three kinds of devotees means neophyte, middle class and mahā-bhāgavata. Mahā-bhāgavata. Mahā-bhāgavata means one who can see God in everything and everything in God. That is mahā-bhāgavata. That is explained in Bhagavad-gītā, sarva-bhūteṣu yaḥ paśyati ātmā (Cāṇakya Paṇḍita): "He does not see anything except God. Everything in God, and God in everything." That is the qualification of mahā-bhāgavata. So just see how elevated was Mahārāja Parīkṣit, that he was mahā-bhāgavata. In another place, he has written . . . I forget that word. That is also mahā-bhāgavata.

Page Title:Maha-bhagavata means one who can see God in everything and everything in God
Compiler:SharmisthaK
Created:2022-09-02, 11:29:52
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