Suta Praises Sukadeva's Transcendental Speech

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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.4.2 — June 26, 1972, Los Angeles 720626SB-LOS ANGELES [38:58 Minutes] SB-02.04.02_720626SB-LOS ANGELES Pradyumna: ...bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [leads chanting of verse] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat]

Prabhupāda: This, you can recite this, verse number two? Pradyumna: Two. [leads chanting of verse] ātma-jāyā-sutāgārapaśu-draviṇa-bandhuṣu rājye cāvikale nityaṁ virūḍhāṁ mamatāṁ jahau [SB 2.4.2] Prabhupāda: [devotees chant verse] Girls. [girl devotees chant] [05:24] That's all right.

So, virūḍhāṁ mamatām. Virūḍhām. Just like you have seen some big trees, standing for so many, many years, the root is firmly captured. You have seen, experienced.

The business is to stand up for ten thousand years, but the root is capturing the earth like anything, strong. This is called virūḍhām, attraction. Suppose when you have got sense, improved consciousness, human being, if one asks you to stand up here for one hour, it will be so troublesome. And even if you are forced to stand up for one hour, you'll feel so much uncomfortable.

But this tree, because it has not developed consciousness, it is standing up for ten thousands of years, and in open atmosphere, tolerating all kinds of excessive heat, rain, snowfall. But still, it is capturing. This is the difference between developed consciousness and undeveloped consciousness. A tree has also consciousness. Modern science, they have proved they have got consciousness.

Very much covered; almost dead. But it is not dead. There is consciousness. So the more you develop your consciousness, the more you become a freedom lover. Just like in the human society, there is fight for freedom.

But the animal society, they do not know what is freedom. Ours also, the so-called freedom. But still, we have got some consciousness that we fight for freedom. And they fight for eating.

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