Slice of Srimad Bhagavatam - Chitraketu laments his dead son

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SB 6.15.17: A & #324;gir & #257; said: My dear King, when you desired to

have a son, I approached you. Indeed, I am the same A & #324;gir & #257;

Rishi who gave you this son. As for this rishi, he is the great sage

N & #257;rada, the direct son of Lord Brahm & #257;

 

SB 6.15.18-19: My dear King, you are an advanced devotee of the Supreme

Personality of Godhead. To be absorbed in lamentation for the loss of

something material is unsuitable for a person like you. Therefore we

have both come to relieve you from this false lamentation, which is due

to your being merged in the darkness of ignorance. For those who are

advanced in spiritual knowledge to be affected by material loss and

gain is not at all desirable.

 

SB 6.15.20: When I first came to your home, I could have given you the

supreme transcendental knowledge, but when I saw that your mind was

absorbed in material things, I gave you only a son, who caused you

jubilation and lamentation.

 

SB 6.15.21-23: My dear King, now you are actually experiencing the

misery of a person who has sons and daughters. O King, owner of the

state of & #346; & #363;rasena, one's wife, his house, the opulence of his

kingdom, and his various other opulences and objects of sense

perception are all the same in that they are temporary. One's kingdom,

military power, treasury, servants, ministers, friends and relatives

are all causes of fear, illusion, lamentation and distress. They are

like a gandharva-nagara, a nonexistent palace that one imagines to

exist in the forest. Because they are impermanent, they are no better

than illusions, dreams and mental concoctions.

 

SB 6.15.24: These visible objects like wife, children and property are

like dreams and mental concoctions. Actually what we see has no

permanent existence. It is sometimes seen and sometimes not. Only

because of our past actions do we create such mental concoctions, and

because of these concoctions, we perform further activities.

 

SB 6.15.25: The living entity in the bodily conception of life is

absorbed in the body, which is a combination of the physical elements,

the five senses for gathering knowledge, and the five senses of action,

along with the mind. Through the mind the living entity suffers three

kinds of tribulations — adhibhautika, adhidaivika and adhy & #257;tmika.

Therefore this body is a source of all miseries.

 

SB 6.15.26: Therefore, O King Citraketu, carefully consider the

position of the & #257;tm & #257;. In other words, try to understand who

you are — whether body, mind or soul. Consider where you have come

from, where you are going after giving up this body, and why you are

under the control of material lamentation. Try to understand your real

position in this way, and then you will be able to give up your

unnecessary attachment. You will also be able to give up the belief

that this material world, or anything not directly in touch with

service to Krishna, is eternal. Thus you will obtain peace.

 

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