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    Srimad BhagavatamFirst Time In The world

    In EnglishVersesV.I.G.Menon

    Canto2

    The Cosmic ManifestationChapter 4:The Process of Creation

    Chapter 4

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    Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 2.Chapter 4

    Obeisances to Lord Krishna the Godhead !

    Chapter 4:The Process of Creation

    SB 2.4.1

    "Suta Said, Realizing what Suka said about soul- realizationdid he, son of Uttara, sat in Lord Krishnas deep Meditation

    SB 2.4.2

    Thus , in relation to his body,he thus gave up his deep-rooted and constant possessiveness,in his undisputed kingdom, his wife, his son, his treasury and all his relatives and friends

    SB 2.4.3-4

    That great soul inquired of this exactly the way you are asking me, oh great sages.Foreseeing death, he renounced his fruitive activity according to the three principles

    For self-realization by renouncing all of his ritual, material and sense-driven actsand surrendering fully and thus firmly fixing his mind on ,Sri Hari, Lord of Lords

    SB 2.4.5

    Parikshit said: 'What you said is perfectly right, oh learnt one; untainted, having full holdon knowledge and make the darkness of mind disappear by your discourses on the Lord.

    SB 2.4.6

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    My obeisances again to the Munificent Lord who relieves the distress

    of devotees, and end completely the further sufferings of divine seekers

    in various stages of salvation ,granting them specific goals of progress

    SB 2.4.13

    Again my obeisances to Him who frees the truthful onesfrom the distressing controversies of untruth- followers ,to Him in the form of pure goodness, granting blessings

    sought by those in the highest stage of liberated bliss

    SB 2.4.14

    Unto the great scion of the Yadu dynasty, again my obeisanceswho, keeping far from mundane wrangling, vanquishes the faithlessI bow to Him who is of the same greatness in enjoying the opulences

    as in enjoying the sky in His own abode vaikuntha of the heavens.

    SB 2.4.15

    Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the all-auspicious

    Lord Sri Krishna about whom glorification, remembrances,

    audience, prayers, hearing and worship can at once cleansethe effects of all sins of the performer,whatever his life-status.

    SB 2.4.16.

    Luminaries who surrender at His lotus feet, giving up all attachmentsto existence, present or future, realize without difficulty the progressin their heart and the soul towards a liberated spiritual existence.Unto that renowned all-auspiciousness,again n again, my obeisances !

    SB 2.4.17.

    The great sages, the great performers of charity, the most distinguished ever,

    the great thinkers, the great mantra chanters and the strict followers will neverattain tangible goals when they are not dedicated to Him; I offer my obeisancesagain n again to Him ,the Absolute, about whom to hear itself is so auspicious.

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    SB 2.4.18.

    The people of old Bharata , huna, of Northern Europe ,Yavana of Greece

    and the Turks khasa adavaha ,the Mongolian province and more , at onceget purified when they take to the shelter at His Lotus feet as the Lords devotees

    Him, the powerful Lord Vishnu reigning the world I offer my respectful obeisances.

    SB 2.4.19.

    He is the personification of the Vedas and the soul and Lord of the self-realized ones, ,May the Supreme Lord, He who is held in awe by those who in their transcendence

    are free from all pretension and , Lord S'iva and others always pour on me their grace.

    SB 2.4.20.

    May He, the Lord of all the devotees, owner of all opulence, the director of all sacrifices,

    the leader of all living entities, the master of the intelligent ones, the ruler of all the worlds,the supreme head of this universe and the destination and solace among the Yadu kings

    of the Satvatas, the Andhakas and the Vrishnis, Our Protector for ever!Be merciful with us !.

    SB 2.4.21

    It is said that thinking each moment of His Lotus feet and as absorbed in it thus,when one follows the rituals , when it purifies and when true knowledge results

    lighting the ultimate reality of the soul ,and making , as described by the scholars,Him to their liking. Oh Mukunda, my Lord, may Your grace be with me always.

    SB 2.4.22

    May He who strengthened the Lord of creation Brahma with imageof Self in his heart and about his origin and who from the primal ageinspired the Goddess of Learning appearing from Brahmas visage

    may He , the Teacher of Teachers, be pleased to relieve lifes umbrage .

    SB 2.4.23

    He who lies down within the material creation and empowers all these bodiesmade of the l elements while He as the Purusha ,the original person, causes

    all to be subjected to the modes of nature with her sixteen consciousness types,as in elements of earth, water, fire, air, ether, the five organs of action n sensesmay that Supreme Lord give strength ,purity and holiness to all my statements.

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    SB 2.4.24

    My obeisances unto him, the great expansion of Vasudevawho is the compiler of the Vedic literatures ,as Vyasadeva

    from whose lotus lips his adherents drank the nectar of veda.

    SB 2.4.25

    The first created being Brahma, my dear king, did impart,on the request of Narada, from inside Vyasas mind, adept

    the Vedic knowledge as it was spoken from the Lords heart "

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