SB 1.12.36

TEXT 36

TEXT

ततो राज्ञाभ्यनुज्ञातः कृष्णया सह बन्धुभिः ।
ययौ द्वारवतीं ब्रह्मन् सार्जुनो यदुभिर्वृतः ॥ ३६ ॥

tato rajnabhyanujnatah

krsnaya saha bandhubhih

yayau dvaravatim brahman

sarjuno yadubhir vrtah

tatah-thereafter; rajna-by the King; abhyanujnatah-being permitted; krsnaya-as well as by Draupadi; saha-along with; bandhubhih-other relatives; yayau-went to; dvaravatim-Dvaraka-dhama; brahman-O brahmanas; sa arjunah-along with Arjuna; yadubhih-by the members of the Yadu dynasty; vrtah-surrounded.

TRANSLATION

O Saunaka, thereafter the Lord, having bade farewell to King Yudhisthira, Draupadi, and other relatives, started for the city of Dvaraka, accompanied by Arjuna and other members of the Yadu dynasty.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the First Canto, Twelfth Chapter, of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled "Birth of Emperor Pariksit."

EXPLANATION OF THE COVER

1. The original spiritual planet, which resembles the whorl of a huge lotus flower, is called Goloka Vrndavana. It is the abode of Lord Krsna, the original Personality of Godhead.

2. This original planet Goloka throws off a spiritual ray of effulgence called brahmajyoti which is the ultimate goal of the impersonalists.

3. Within this unlimited brahmajyoti there are unlimited numbers of spiritual planets, as there are innumerable material planets within the sun rays of the material universes. These spiritual planets are dominated by plenary expansions of Lord Krsna, and the inhabitants there are ever liberated living beings. They are all four-handed. The Lord is known there as Narayana, and the planets are known as Vaikunthas.

4. Sometimes a spiritual cloud overtakes a corner of the spiritual sky of brahmajyoti, and the covered portion is called the mahat-tattva. The Lord then, by His portion as Maha-Visnu, lies down in the water within the mahat-tattva. The water is called the Causal Ocean (karana-jala).

5. As He sleeps within the Causal Ocean, innumerable universes are generated with His breathing. These floating universes are scattered all over the Causal Ocean. They stay during a breath of Maha-Visnu.

6. In each and every universal globe the same Maha-Visnu enters again as Garbhodakasayi Visnu and lies there on the Garbha Ocean on the serpentine Sesa incarnation. From His navel-abdomen sprouts a lotus stem, and on the lotus, Brahma the lord of the universe is born. Brahma creates all living beings of different shapes in terms of desire within the universe. He also creates the sun moon and other demi-gods.

7. The sun is situated almost in the center of each and every universe, and it distributes profuse light and heat all over the universe. There are millions and billions of suns in all the millions and billions of universes within the mahat-tattva. The suns and moons are required within the universes because they are dark by nature. The Vedas instruct us to go out of the dark universes and reach the glowing effulgence, the brahmajyoti.

8. The brahmajyoti is due to the illuminating Vaikuntha planets, which need no sun or moon or power of electricity.

Srimad-Bhagavatam helps us reach the supreme planet, Goloka Vrndavana. The door is open for everyone. Human life is meant for this particular aim, for it is the highest perfection.

His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada first met his spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Maharaja, in Calcutta in 1922. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta liked this educated young man and injected in him the idea of preaching the message of Srimad-Bhagavatam all over the world. At Allahabad in 1933 Srila Prabhupada became his formally initiated disciple, and in 1937, just days before his spiritual master's departure from this mortal world, he was specifically ordered to spread Krsna consciousness in the English language. Thus in 1944 Srila Prabhupada started Back to Godhead magazine, which is now circulated in six different languages throughout the world, and he also published, in English, the first three volumes of his Srimad-Bhagavatam.

In 1965, at the advanced age of 70, His Divine Grace sailed to the United States to fulfill his master's sacred mission, bringing with him only seven dollars, some books and a pair of hand cymbals. Shortly afterwards he began classes on Bhagavad-gita in a small storefront in New York City. Now, only six years later, Srila Prabhupada's International Society for Krishna Consciousness, with more than seventy centers in major cities throughout the world, has become an important institution of spiritual knowledge and culture, and SrilaPrabhupada's authoritative translations, commentaries and summary studies of Vedic literature have become standard textbooks of transcendental science.

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