Sunday, December 21, 2008

Qualities of Maharaj Parikshit, Haridasavarya...

Verse 1.4.10 and 11: These 2 verses are talking about the glory of Maharaj Parikshit. He was born in the Pandu family, he inherited the whole kingdom, the whole world. Usually when you become a devotee, automatically all the good qualities of this world and all the higher planets manifest in you.

Bhagavatam explains, one should become the devotee of Krishna (Krishna is the property of the impoverished), when you become His devotee, all the qualities that the demi-gods possess are inherited by you. As for non-devotees, where are the good qualities, it is none. They want something, some name, some fame, some fortune, there is no room for a non-devotee to have all these qualities.

Sometimes it may be difficult to deal with devotees than non-devotees. But in such circumstances too, it is better to deal with devotees since their heart is pure and they are in the correct path. Deal with non-devotees only till the place where you can preach to them.

There are 3 Haridasavarya (very very exalted pure devotees, very expert in serving other, very amazing serving attitude): Maharaj Parikshit, Maharaj Yudhistir and Giriraj Govardhan. They are expert in serving the devotees of Krishna.

Gopi's are considered the topmost of the devotees, but they are themselves praising Govardhan hill, he is the topmost haridasavarya.

Sometimes, humility, the devotees consider it as meek. But no, it is not so. Definition of Humility: By the mercy of Guru and Krishna, everything is happening, I am not the doer. But we work very hard for the service of Guru and Krishna.
This is Maharaj Parikshit's quality.

Maharaj Parikshit is a perfect devotee, a perfect ksatriya. When we hear Bhagavatam, we hear it in a mood to imbibe such qualities in us.

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