Pandavas United with Krishna at Home

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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.29 — April 21, 1973, Los Angeles 730421SB-LOS ANGELES [41:28 Minutes] SB-01.08.29_730421SB-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: [leads singing of Jaya rādhā-mādhava] [04:41] [prema-dhvāṇī prayers] [break] Hare Kṛṣṇa. Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.

[leads chanting of verse] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] na veda kaścid bhagavaṁś cikīrṣitaṁ tavehamānasya nṛṇāṁ viḍambanam na yasya kaścid dayito 'sti karhicid dveṣyaś ca yasmin viṣamā matir nṛṇām [SB 1.8.29] [man devotee is chanting verse]

Prabhupāda: Ladies. Ladies. All right, finish. Finish.

[man devotee finishes chanting; ladies chant] Very good. Next, word meaning. Pradyumna: na—does not; veda—know; kaścit—anyone; bhagavan—O Lord; cikīrṣitam—pastimes; tava—Your; īhamānasya—like the worldly men; nṛṇām—of the people in general; viḍambanam—misleading; na—never; yasya—His; kaścit—anyone; dayitaḥ—object of specific favor; asti—there is; karhicit—anywhere; dveṣyaḥ—object of envy; ca—and; yasmin—unto Him; viṣamā—partiality; matiḥ—conception; nṛṇām—of the people. [14:05] "O Lord, no one can understand Your transcendental pastimes, which appear to be human and so are misleading. You have no specific object of favor, nor do You have any object of envy.

People only imagine that You are partial." Prabhupāda: So the Lord says in the Bhagavad-gītā, paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām [Bg. 4.8]. So two purposes. When God incarnates, He has got two mission. One mission is paritrāṇāya sādhūnām, and vināśāya duṣ...

One mission is to deliver the faithful devotees, sādhu. Sādhu means saintly persons. The sādhu... I have explained several times. Sādhu means devotee.

Sādhu does not mean the worldly honesty or dishonesty, morality or immorality. It has nothing to do with material activities. It is simply spiritual, sādhu. But sometimes we derive, "sādhu," a person's material goodness, morality.

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