Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.25.2

No One Knows More Than the Supreme Lord Who Maintains All Living Entities – Take Shelter of Krishna's Lotus Feet and Have No Want

📅 November 2, 1974 📍 Bombay ⏱ 28 min
Take shelter of Krishna's lotus feet; all material necessities arrive naturally while pursuing Him.
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.2 — November 2, 1974, Bombay 741102SB-BOMBAY [27:49 Minutes] SB-03.25.02_741102SB-BOMBAY Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] na hy asya varṣmaṇaḥ puṁsāṁ varimṇaḥ sarva-yoginām viśrutau śruta-devasya bhūri tṛpyanti me 'savaḥ [SB 3.25.2] [break] [01:08] "Śaunaka continued: There is no one who knows more than the Supreme Lord Himself.

No one is more worshipable or more mature a yogī than He. He is therefore the master of the Vedas, and to hear about Him always is the actual pleasure of the senses." Prabhupāda: na hy asya varṣmaṇaḥ puṁsāṁ varimṇaḥ sarva-yoginām viśrutau śruta-devasya bhūri tṛpyanti me 'savaḥ [SB 3.25.2] So we have been discussing about the incarnation of Kapiladeva, Devahūti-putra Kapiladeva, the propounder of Sāṅkhya-yoga. So in the previous verse He has been explained as bhagavān ātma-māyayā. Bhagavān...

Bhaga means opulence, and vān means "one who possesses." Bhagavat-śabda. In Sanskrit, when the meaning is "one possesses," then these pratyayas are used, vat-pratyaya, mat-pratyaya. So the real word is bhagavat-śabda, and the first word is bhagavān. So bhaga means opulence.

So all the opulences are there in Bhagavān. It is said in the Vedas, nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām eko yo bahūnāṁ vidadhāti kāmān [Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13] What is that Bhagavān's opulences? This is: eko yo bahūnāṁ vidadhāti kāmān. Bhagavān, singular number, and nityo nityānām, and nityānām, plural number. So these jīvas, we, we are plural number.

Jīva-bhāgaḥ sa vijñeyaḥ sa anantyāya kalpate [Cc. Madhya 19.140]. How many jīvas are there, there is no limit. Nobody can count.

Ananta. Ananta means you cannot get the limit, that "So many millions or so many thousands." No. You cannot count. So all these jīvas, we, living entities, we are being maintained by that one.

This is the Vedic information. Eko bahūnāṁ yo vidadhāti kāmān. Just like we maintain our family. One man is earning, and he is maintaining his family, wife, children, servants, dependents, workers, so many.

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