Srimad Bhagavatam Series- #7- Story of Puranjana & King Bharata
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Topics
- Explanation of Story of King Puranjana from Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 4 chapter 25-29.
- Once king Prachinabarhi did a yajna (fire sacrifice) still he had no peace and no knowledge of Bhagavata-tattva.
- Narada Rsi mercifully narrated the story of Puranjana to the King.
- Jiva (living entity) is compared with King Puranjana.
- There are two types of jivas: conditioned and liberated.
- Conditioned souls of two types: Bhagavata-unmukha (God oriented) & Bhagavata-vimukha (not God oriented).
- Puranjana had bodily attachment and was unsatisfied and searching for a partner ‘Puranjani’.
- Jiva-atma is ksetragya: relating this body with an example of a palace having nine gates.
- Jiva is Puranjana and mind/ ignorance is his partner ‘Puranjani’.
- 'Kalakanya' is Yamaraja's sister referred to as old age.
- No effect of ‘kala’ (time) on devotees like Narada.
- Getting married to a Vaisnava, listening to Harikatha is Lord's mercy.
- True meaning of Srimad Bhagavatam is to become detached from material things and become attached to Krsna.
- Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 5 chapter 7-13: Narration of Bharata Maharaja's life, how he got attracted to a deer after leaving his kingdom.
- Story of Jada-Bharata, Jada-Bharata's teachings to King Rahugana.
- To explain the situation of the conditioned soul, Srila Gurudeva gave one example of a man who is hanging onto the branches of a tree, with snakes below in the well, two rats cutting off the branches & honey dripping in his mouth.