Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto Four

SB 4.11-2-5

Aug 8, 2019

HH Hanumatpresaka Swami

August 8, 2019
SB 4.11.2 As soon as Dhruva Mahārāja joined the nārāyaṇāstra arrow to his bow, the illusion created by the Yakṣas was immediately vanquished, just as all material pains and pleasures are vanquished when one becomes fully cognizant of the self.
SB 4.11.3 Even as Dhruva Mahārāja fixed the weapon made by Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi onto his bow, arrows with golden shafts and feathers like the wings of a swan flew out from it. They entered the enemy soldiers with a great hissing sound, just as peacocks enter a forest with tumultuous crowing.
SB 4.11.4 Those sharp arrows dismayed the enemy soldiers, who became almost unconscious, but various Yakṣas on the battlefield, in a rage against Dhruva Mahārāja, somehow or other collected their weapons and attacked. Just as serpents agitated by Garuḍa rush towards Garuḍa with upraised hoods, all the Yakṣa soldiers prepared to overcome Dhruva Mahārāja with their upraised weapons.
SB 4.11.5 When Dhruva Mahārāja saw the Yakṣas coming forward, he immediately took his arrows and cut the enemies to pieces. Separating their arms, legs, heads and bellies from their bodies, he delivered the Yakṣas to the planetary system which is situated above the sun globe and which is attainable only by first-class brahmacārīs, who have never discharged their semen.

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Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Class

SB 4.11-2-5

Aug 8, 2019

About the speaker

HH Hanumatpresaka Swami

Founder and General Secretary of NIOS, the North American Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies

His Holiness Hanumatpresaka Swami is the founder and General Secretary of NIOS, the North American Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, and Visiting Professor with IECOO, the Institute for Oriental and Occidental Classical StudiesRicardo Palma UniversityLimaPeru. He is also a member of the faculty at Bhaktivedanta College, where he teaches on the subject of the text Bhaktirasamrita-sindhu. The Hindu Studies scholar Radhika Ramana Dasa is one of his illustrious disciples.

Hanumatpresaka Swami has developed a program of global lecturing. This has included work as Associate Director of the Bhaktivedanta Institute, which organized two “World Congresses for the Synthesis of Science and Religion,” Bombay, 1985, and Kolkatta, 1997. These included participation of Nobel Laureates such as George WaldCharles TownesSir John Eccles, Arch-Bishop Paulos Mar Gregorios (President of World Council of Churches), the Dalai Lama and many others. In March 1999 Hanumatpresaka Swami was the chief guest for the University of Calcutta‘s “National Seminar on Science and Technology in Ancient India.” In November 2004 and July 2005 he was principal speaker at the “National Conference on Psychotherapy,” Cesar Vallejo UniversityTujilloPeruWith San Marcos University, the oldest university in the Western Hemisphere, NIOS was a co-organizer for the “Bharatiya Sanskriti: A Festival of Classical Indian Culture.” The Festival was produced in Lima from 2005-2007. Sponsors and participants included many prominent universities, Ambassador of India to Peru and renowned scholars from four continents.

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