A DESERT REQUIRES OCEANS OF WATER TO SATISFY IT,
…AND IF ONLY A DROP OF WATER IS SUPPLIED WHAT IS IT’S USE?
King Puranjana had unlimited desires for sense enjoyment; consequently he traveled all over the world to find a place where all his desires could be fulfilled. Unfortunately he found a feeling of insufficiency everywhere.
Śrīla Vidyāpati, a great Vaiṣṇava poet, has sung:
tātala saikate, vāri-bindu-sama,
suta-mita-ramaṇī-samāje
Material sense gratification, with society, friendship and love, is herein compared to a drop of water falling on a desert. A desert requires oceans of water to satisfy it, and if only a drop of water is supplied, what is its use?
Similarly, the living entity is part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who, as stated in the Vedānta-sūtra, is ānandamayo ’bhyāsāt, full of enjoyment. Being part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the living entity is also seeking complete enjoyment. However, complete enjoyment cannot be achieved separate from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In his wanderings in the different species of life, the living entity may taste some type of enjoyment in one body or another, but full enjoyment of the senses cannot be obtained in any material body.
Thus Puranjana, the living entity, wanders in different types of bodies, but everywhere meets frustration in his attempt to enjoy. In other words, the spiritual spark covered by matter cannot fully enjoy the senses in any circumstance in material life.
A deer may become absorbed in the musical sounds vibrated by the hunter, but the result is that it loses its life. Similarly, a fish is very expert in gratifying its tongue, but when it eats the bait offered by the fisherman, it loses its life. Even the elephant, who is so strong, is captured and loses its independence while satisfying its genitals with a female elephant.
In each and every species of life, the living entity gets a body to satisfy various senses, but he cannot enjoy all his senses at one time. In the human form of life he gets an opportunity to enjoy all his senses pervertedly, but the result is that he becomes so harassed in his attempted sense gratification that he ultimately becomes morose. As he tries to satisfy his senses more and more, he becomes more and more entangled.
Compiled from:
Fourth Canto, Twenty-fifth Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,entitled
“The Descriptions of the Characteristics of King Puranjana.” Text 12 –
by Mohini Devi
Quote:
In each and every species of life, the living entity gets a body to satisfy various senses, but he cannot enjoy all his senses at one time. In the human form of life he gets an opportunity to enjoy all his senses pervertedly, but the result is that he becomes so harassed in his attempted sense gratification that he ultimately becomes morose.
Words of a morose man
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The only little bit of independence we have is if one decides to use this gift for wanting to know about the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Than the soul will somehow be directed to the Lord’s Pure Devotees to get him out of this self inflicted mess. Krsna will send His instructions through His Pure Devotees to the souls, who agree to be directed by them and than there is light at the end of the tunnel. Up until that moment there is no independence and no use whining about how bad the world has become, how unjust this world is and how the people at the top profit from our pain and prioritise profits over the people.
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It’s just the way the materialistic systems are, Nanda Maharaja as a landholder of King Kaṃsa, also had to show His submission and pay his dues and taxes to the demoniac ruler. When Kaṃsa saw his plans foiled to get Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma killed in the wrestling match in Mathurā he ordered all the cowherd boys to be plundered and all their riches taken away. As for Nanda Mahārāja he ordered his arrest and wanted him killed, the same for Vasudeva and his own father Ugrasena.
Governments, Rulers, Kings and Tyrants always fear the opposition and the rising of the people which is inevitable as it is the nature of materialistic systems to be inadequate. This is why when the tables turn and the rulers sense their power is slipping through their fingers, every government/king will act like a cornered animal. Even a possum/opossum will show its teeth when cornered and will try to fight for its survival. Kaṃsa was so desperate that he resorted to infanticide when he heard that Kṛṣṇa was already born somewhere else and He fought tooth and nail until the end. The powerful King Kaṃsa, like today’s protagonists, also did not believe in any God and wanted to fill that slot.
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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.102
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Baltimore, July 7, 1976
We are not independent. Just like in the state, in your country, although you have observed the independence ceremony, but you are not independent. If you go… “Keep to the right,” you go to the left, immediately your independence finished. You’ll be punished. So this so-called independence is conditional. It is not absolute independence. If you want absolute independence then you have to go back home, back to Godhead. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. We are hankering after independence, but so long we remain in this material world, there is no question of independence. So intelligent man, when he inquires about, when he thinks over, that “I want independence from so many things, but I am not independent. I am forced to accept, then where is my independence?” When this question arises, then he is human being. Otherwise he’s as good as the cats and dogs. Because the cats and dogs, they cannot inquire. Just like an animal is being sent to the slaughterhouse, he cannot say “Why I am… What I have done? Why you are sending me to the slaughterhouse?” He cannot protest. Even he protests, nobody hears him. Nobody hears. He protests by crying, by screaming, but we have made our own theories: “This crying is nothing. It has no soul. We can kill.”