Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.25.42

Everything Works by Krishna's Supreme Authority (Mad-bhayat) – Wind Sun Rain Fire Death All Work Out of Fear of Krishna

📅 December 10, 1974 📍 Bombay ⏱ 35 min
All natural forces obey Krishna in fear, serving as instruments of His supreme will over creation.
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.42 — December 10, 1974, Bombay 741210SB-BOMBAY [35:13 Minutes] SB-03.25.42_741210SB-BOMBAY [poor recording] Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] mad-bhayād vāti vāto 'yaṁ sūryas tapati mad-bhayāt varṣatīndro dahaty agnir mṛtyuś carati mad-bhayāt [SB 3.25.42] [break] [01:05] "It is because of My supremacy that the wind blows, out of fear of Me; the sun shines out of fear of Me; the lord of the clouds, Indra, sends forth showers out of fear of Me.

The fire burns out of fear of Me, and death goes about taking its toll out of fear of Me." Prabhupāda: mad-bhayād vāti vāto 'yaṁ sūryas tapati mad-bhayāt varṣatīndro dahaty agnir mṛtyuś carati mad-bhayāt [SB 3.25.42] The ultimate, mṛtyuś carati mad-bhayāt. So bhaya, bhaya means fearfulness. Bhayaṁ dvitīyābhiniveśataḥ syāt [SB 11.2.37]. In the previous verse the Lord Kapiladeva said that "If anyone wants to get out of this fearful situation..." Bhayaṁ tīvraṁ nivartate. Ātmanaḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ bhayaṁ tīvraṁ nivartate.

We are always fearful. Material life is not very happy life because we are always fearful. That's a fact. Nobody can say, "No, I am not afraid of anything." That is false.

Everyone is afraid of something, everyone—bird, beast, human being, everyone, bhayaṁ dvitīyābhiniveśataḥ syāt—because we have got absorption in the second category of life. Second category means this bodily conception of life, dvitīya abhiniveśa. I am thinking at the present moment that "I am this body." Everyone is thinking. Therefore, when there is fear of destruction of this body, we become very much afraid, perplexed.

We have seen in Los Angeles: there was earthquake, and all the neighborhood, women especially, began to scream, fearful, "Now death is coming." So everyone is afraid. This is the material nature, āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithuna, four things, material wants: eating, sleeping, fearing and defending. So Kṛṣṇa said that if you want... Kapiladeva and Kṛṣṇa, the same.

Kṛṣṇa has many forms. Kapiladeva is one of the form, āveśāvatāra. There are many incarnation. Kṛṣṇa is the original Personality of Godhead.

In the Bhagavad-gī..., Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam there is a list of different avatāras, and the conclusion... Lord Buddha's also name is there. Kīkaṭeṣu bhaviṣyati, sura-dviṣām [SB 1.3.24]. So Lord Buddha's name is there, and Jayadeva has also given his poem Daśa-vidha, Daśāvatāra-stotra.

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