Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.31

Krishna's Transcendental Body Beyond Material Conception, Misusing Human Life Means Accepting Lower Births

📅 November 18, 1976 📍 Vrindavan ⏱ 31 min
Misusing the precious human birth through sense gratification automatically binds one to lower animal bodies by nature's immutable law.
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Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] ati-sukumāra-kara-caraṇoraḥ-sthala-vipula-bāhv-aṁsa-gala-vadanādy-avayavavinyāsaḥ prakṛti-sundara-svabhāva-hāsa-sumukho nava-nalina-dalāyamāna-śiśira-tārāruṇāyata-nayana-ruciraḥ sadṛśa-subhaga-kapola-karṇa-kaṇṭha-nāso vigūḍha-smita-vadana-mahotsavena pura-vanitānāṁ manasi kusuma-śarāsanam upadadhānaḥ parāg-avalambamāna-kuṭila-jaṭila-kapiśa-keśa-bhūri-bhāro 'vadhūta-malina-nija-śarīreṇa graha-gṛhīta ivādrśyata [SB 5.5.31] [07:20] Translation: "Lord Ṛṣabhadeva's hands, feet and chest were very long.

His shoulders, face and limbs were all very delicate and symmetrically proportioned. His mouth was beautifully decorated with His natural smile, and He appeared all the more lovely with His reddish eyes spread wide like the petals of a newly grown lotus flower covered with dew in the early morning. The irises of His eyes were so pleasing that they removed all the troubles of everyone who saw Him. His forehead, ears, neck, nose and all His other features were very beautiful.

His gentle smile always made His face beautiful, so much so that He even attracted the hearts of married women. It was as though they had been pierced by the arrows of Cupid. About His head was an abundance of curly, matted brown hair. His hair was disheveled because His body was dirty and not taken care of.

He appeared as if He were haunted by a ghost." [break] Prabhupāda: So God's body... [break] ...is not material. Caitanya Mahāprabhu has said, prākṛta baliyā māne viṣṇu-kalevara aparadha āra nāhi ihāra upara. Anyone considering the body of Viṣṇu or Viṣṇu-tattva—Kṛṣṇa, Ṛṣabhadeva... They are not material body.

A further description will be there—even the stool and urine also transcendental. So we cannot conceive in our present stage what is the difference between prākṛta and aprākṛta. The description in the śāstras we have to accept. Just like practically Kṛṣṇa, when He was in the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra, He was great-grandfather. His grandchildren also had sons.

It is said that the whole family of Kṛṣṇa consisted of about one crore of living entities, Yadu-vaṁśa, very big family. So grandchildren, their children, their children, like that... But still, Kṛṣṇa was looking just like a boy of sixteen to twenty years. That is aprākṛta.

Advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam ādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣaṁ nava-yauvanaṁ ca [Bs 5.33]. This is the description. He is the oldest person because... Kṛṣṇa says, aham ādir hi devānām [Bg 10.2].

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