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SRIMAD-BHAGAVATAM Ch 13 Text 19

 

Dhrtaristra Quits Home

 

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TRANSLATION

This frightful situation cannot be remedied by any person in this

material world. My lord, it is the Supreme Personality of Gedhead as

eternal time [kala] that has approached us all.

PURPORT

There is no superior power which can check the cruel hands of death.

no one wants to die, however acute the source of bodily sufferings

may be Even in the days of so-called scientific advancement of

knowledge, there is no remedial measure either for old age or for

death. Old age is the notice of the arrival of death served by cruel

time, and no one can refuse to accept either summon calls or the

supreme judgment of eternal time. This is explained before

Dhrtarastra because he might ask Vidura to find out some remedial

measure for the imminent fearful situation, as he had ordered many

times before. Before ordering, however, Vidura informed Dhttarastra

that there was no remedial measure by anyone or from any source in

this material world. And because there is no such thing in the

material world, death is identical with the Supreme Per­sonality of

Godhead, as it is said by the Lord Himself in the Bhagavad-­gita

(10.34).

Death cannot be checked by anyone or from any source within this

material world. Hiranyakasipu wanted to be immortal and underwent a

severe type of penance by which the whole universe trembled, and

Brahma himself approached him to dissuade Hiranyakasipu from such a

severe type of penance. Hiranyakasipu asked Brahma to award him the

blessings of immortality, but Brahma said that he himself was subject

to death, even in the topmost planet, so how could he award him the

benediction of immortality? So there is death even in the topmost

planet of this universe, and what to speak of other planets, which

are far, far inferior in quality to Brahmaloka, the residing planet

of Brahmaloka. Wherever there is the influence of eternal time, there

is this set of tribulations, namely birth, disease, old age and

death, and all of them are invincible.

 

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