Speaker: HG Ravindra Svarupa Prabhu

July 13, 2014

SB 11.22.60 Śrī Uddhava said: O best of all speakers, please explain to me how I may properly understand this.
SB 11.22.61 O soul of the universe, the conditioning of one’s personality in material life is very strong, and therefore it is very difficult even for learned men to tolerate the offenses committed against them by ignorant people. Only Your devotees, who are fixed in Your loving service and who have achieved peace by residing at Your lotus feet, are able to tolerate such offenses.
SB 11.23.1 Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Lord Mukunda, the chief of the Dāśārhas, having thus been respectfully requested by the best of His devotees, Śrī Uddhava, first acknowledged the fitness of his servant’s statements. Then the Lord, whose glorious exploits are most worthy of being heard, began to reply to him.
SB 11.23.2 Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: O disciple of Bṛhaspati, there is virtually no saintly man in this world capable of resettling his own mind after it has been disturbed by the insulting words of uncivilized men.
SB 11.23.3 Sharp arrows which pierce one’s chest and reach the heart do not cause as much suffering as the arrows of harsh, insulting words that become lodged within the heart when spoken by uncivilized men.
SB 11.23.4 My dear Uddhava, in this regard a most pious story is told, and I shall now describe it to you. Please listen with careful attention.

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