Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Class

SB 4.14.33 – 37

Dec 26, 2019

Ramananda Dasa

December 26, 2019
Text 33:
But for King Vena, who is simply inauspicious, who would blaspheme the Supreme Personality of Godhead, by whose mercy one is awarded all kinds of fortune and opulence?
Text 34:
The great sages, thus manifesting their covert anger, immediately decided to kill the King. King Vena was already as good as dead due to his blasphemy against the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Thus without using any weapons, the sages killed King Vena simply by high-sounding words.
Text 35:
After all the sages returned to their respective hermitages, the mother of King Vena, Sunīthā, became very much aggrieved because of her son’s death. She decided to preserve the dead body of her son by the application of certain ingredients and by chanting mantras [mantra-yogena].
Text 36:
Once upon a time, the same saintly persons, after taking their bath in the river Sarasvatī, began to perform their daily duties by offering oblations into the sacrificial fires. After this, sitting on the bank of the river, they began to talk about the transcendental person and His pastimes.
Text 37:
In those days there were various disturbances in the country that were creating a panic in society. Therefore all the sages began to talk amongst themselves: Since the King is dead and there is no protector in the world, misfortune may befall the people in general on account of rogues and thieves.

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Ramananda Dasa

Ramananda Dasa

Los Angeles, California

Ramananda dasa joined the Los Angeles temple in June 1974 at the age of 16; received first initiation from Srila Prabhupada in Chicago, June 1975; and received second initiation in Detroit July 1976. He has served as president of New Navadvipa Dhama, ISKCON Hawaii in years 1996, 2000, 2009. He has also served in ISKCON Seattle and ISKCON Philadelphia. Since 2009 he and his wife Yugala Rasa resides on the Big Island of Hawaii and serves as webmaster on various sites including e-sanga.org.  He also does vedic ceremonies such as the vivaha ceremony.  

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