Celibacy - Yeyati's Renounciation part 2.

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Continiuation of Maharaj Yayati's Renunciation.

 

Full one thousand years have slipped by while I have been busy repeatedly

enjoying the pleasures of sense. And yet each time (I enjoy them ) my thirst

for them is renewed. (18) Therefore, giving up this (thirst for pleasure) and

(such as joy and sorrow) and free from egotism. (19)

Knowing both that is seen and heard of as unreal and foreseeing

transmigration and the degradation of his soul to follow from their thought

(etc.), he who neither thinks of nor enjoys them is the knower of his

self."(20)

Having spoken thus to his wife (Devayani) and returned Puru's youth to

him, Yayati received (back) his own old age (from him), all craving for

enjoyment having left him for good. (21) He appointed Druhyu as the ruler in

the south-eastern quarter, Yadu in the south, Turvasu in the west and Anu in

the north. (22) Having duly installed )on the throne) Puru, the worthiest,

(though the youngest, of all his sons) as the suzerain lord of the entire

globe and master of its wealth, and placing his elder brothers (yadu and

others) under his control, Yayati retired to the forest.(23)

He renounced in a moment the pleasures of the six senses (including the

mind), constantly enjoyed (by him) for very many years through their objects,

(even) as a bird leaves its nest when fledged. (24)

Having totally shaken off all attachment (to the body and whatever is

connected with it) and dissociated himself from his subtle body (a product

of the three gunas), by virtue of his self-realization in that forest, the

celebrated yayati attained absorption into the supreme Brahma, known by the

name of Vasudeva, which is free from the taint of Maya- a state which is

obtainable (only) through devotion to the Lord. (25)

Hearing the (aforesaid) parable, Devayani took it as a taunt to herself;

(nay) she thought it to be a joke uttered (by her husband) in the agony of

love subsisting between a husband and a wife. (26)

Realizing the association of near and dear ones, who are (all) subject to

the control of the Lord, as akin to the gathering of travellers in a place

where water is supplied to the passers-by, and as having been brought about

by the Lord's will (guided by their past Karma), Devayani (a scion of Bhrgu)

renounced attachment to everything, regarding all to be as unreal as a dream,

and focussing her mind on Sri Krsna, gave up her subtle body (attained

Liberation like her husband). (27-28)

Hail, hail to you, the all-tranquil and all-pervading Lord Vasudeva, the

Maker of this universe, the Indweller of all created beings. (29)

Thus ends the nineteenth discourse, in Book Nine of the great and

glorious Bhagavata-Purana, otherwise known

as the Paramahamsa-Samhita.

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Radhe Radhe Govinda, Govinda Radhe.

Radhe Radhe Govinda Radhe

Radhe Radhe Govinda Govinda Radhe.

Sri Krishnarpanamastu.