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[[Category:Sunitha - wife of King Anga|1]]
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" class="section" sec_index="1" parent="compilation" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2>
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<div id="SB_Canto_4" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 4"><h3>SB Canto 4</h3>
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<div id="SB41318_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="562" link="SB 4.13.18" link_text="SB 4.13.18">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.13.18|SB 4.13.18, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The wife of Aṅga, Sunīthā, gave birth to a son named Vena, who was very crooked. The saintly King Aṅga was very disappointed with Vena's bad character, and he left home and kingdom and went out to the forest.</p>
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<div id="SB41339_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="582" link="SB 4.13.39" link_text="SB 4.13.39">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.13.39|SB 4.13.39, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">That boy was born partially in the dynasty of irreligion. His grandfather was death personified, and the boy grew up as his follower; he became a greatly irreligious person.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>The child's mother, Sunīthā, was the daughter of death personified. Generally the daughter receives the qualifications of her father, and the son acquires those of the mother. So, according to the axiomatic truth that things equal to the same thing are equal to one another, the child born of King Aṅga became the follower of his maternal grandfather. According to smṛti-śāstra, a child generally follows the principles of his maternal uncle's house. Narāṇāṁ mātula-karma means that a child generally follows the qualities of his maternal family. If the maternal family is very corrupt or sinful, the child, even though born of a good father, becomes a victim of the maternal family. According to Vedic civilization, therefore, before the marriage takes place an account is taken of both the boy's and girl's families. If according to astrological calculation the combination is perfect, then marriage takes place. Sometimes, however, there is a mistake, and family life becomes frustrating.</p>
<p>It appears that King Aṅga did not get a very good wife in Sunīthā because she was the daughter of death personified. Sometimes the Lord arranges an unfortunate wife for His devotee so that gradually, due to family circumstances, the devotee becomes detached from his wife and home and makes progress in devotional life. It appears that by the arrangement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, King Aṅga, although a pious devotee, got an unfortunate wife like Sunīthā and later on a bad child like Vena. But the result was that he got complete freedom from the entanglement of family life and left home to go back to Godhead.</p>
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<div id="SB4142_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="594" link="SB 4.14.2" link_text="SB 4.14.2">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.14.2|SB 4.14.2, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The great sages then called for the Queen Mother, Sunīthā, and with her permission they installed Vena on the throne as master of the world. All the ministers, however, disagreed with this.</p>
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<div id="SB41410_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="602" link="SB 4.14.10" link_text="SB 4.14.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.14.10|SB 4.14.10, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The sages began to think within themselves: Because he was born from the womb of Sunīthā, King Vena is by nature very mischievous. Supporting this mischievous king is exactly like maintaining a snake with milk. Now he has become a source of all difficulties.</p>
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<div id="SB41435_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="626" link="SB 4.14.35" link_text="SB 4.14.35">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.14.35|SB 4.14.35, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">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).</p>
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<div id="SB41442_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="632" link="SB 4.14.42" link_text="SB 4.14.42">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.14.42|SB 4.14.42, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The sages decided that the descendants of the family of the saintly King Aṅga should not be stopped, for in this family the semen was very powerful and the children were prone to become devotees of the Lord.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>The purity of hereditary succession is called amogha-vīrya. The pious seminal succession in the twice-born families of the brāhmaṇas and kṣatriyas especially, as well as in the families of vaiśyas also, must be kept very pure by the observation of the purificatory processes beginning with garbhādhāna-saṁskāra, which is observed before conceiving a child. Unless this purificatory process is strictly observed, especially by the brāhmaṇas, the family descendants become impure, and gradually sinful activities become visible in the family. Mahārāja Aṅga was very pure because of the purification of semen in the family of Mahārāja Dhruva. However, his semen became contaminated in association with his wife, Sunīthā, who happened to be the daughter of death personified. Because of this polluted semen, King Vena was produced. This was a catastrophe in the family of Dhruva Mahārāja. All the saintly persons and sages considered this point, and they decided to take action in this matter, as described in the following verses.</p>
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<div id="SB42130_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="859" link="SB 4.21.30" link_text="SB 4.21.30">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.21.30|SB 4.21.30, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">According to them, dharma, or religious principles, are meant to establish an imaginary God to encourage one to become moral, honest and just so that the social orders may be maintained in peace and tranquillity. Furthermore, they say that actually there is no need to accept God for this purpose, for if one follows the principles of morality and honesty, that is sufficient. Similarly, if one makes nice plans and works very hard for economic development, automatically the result of economic development will come. Similarly, sense gratification also does not depend on the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for if one earns enough money by any process, one will have sufficient opportunity for sense gratification. Insofar as liberation is concerned, they say that there is no need to talk of liberation because after death everything is finished. Pṛthu Mahārāja, however, did not accept the authority of such atheists, headed by his father, who was the grandson of death personified. Generally, a daughter inherits the qualities of her father, and a son gets the qualities of his mother. Thus Mṛtyu's daughter, Sunīthā, got all the qualities of her father, and Vena inherited the qualities of his mother. A person who is always subjected to the rules and regulations of repeated birth and death cannot accommodate anything beyond materialistic ideas. Since King Vena was such a man, he did not believe in the existence of God. Modern civilization agrees with the principles of King Vena, but factually if we scrutinizingly study all the conditions of religion, economic development, sense gratification and liberation, we must accept the principles of the authority of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. According to Vedic literature, religion consists only of the codes of law given by God.</p>
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1972_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1972 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1972 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationIncludingDiscussiononSB41348toSB41411January181972Jaipur_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="1" link="Room Conversation Including Discussion on SB 4.13.48 to SB 4.14.11 -- January 18, 1972, Jaipur" link_text="Room Conversation Including Discussion on SB 4.13.48 to SB 4.14.11 -- January 18, 1972, Jaipur">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation Including Discussion on SB 4.13.48 to SB 4.14.11 -- January 18, 1972, Jaipur|Room Conversation Including Discussion on SB 4.13.48 to SB 4.14.11 -- January 18, 1972, Jaipur]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee: A monkey. No one is guarding.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Somebody must be there. So monkeys, they are now taking advantage, that these people have got some eatables. Therefore, Darwin's theory is from monkey. That's a fact. From the monkey, cow, and lion, the next birth is human life. So vimṛśya loka-vyasanaṁ kṛpaya ucuḥ sma satriṇaḥ, they began to discuss how to mitigate the troubles of the people. They began to discuss that aho ubhayataḥ prāptaṁ lokasya vyasanaṁ mahat. People, they are now disturbed both ways. One way, the king is a rascal. Another way is that taking advantage of the bad king, the thieves and rogues, they are also very powerful. So just see how the saintly persons became compassionate to the people that they are both ways. Actually at the present moment, people are disturbed by unnecessary taxes, at the same time bad elements. So without proper king, without nice state, everyone is unhappy. And that is going on nowadays. In the Kali-yuga, it will go on continual, and more and more people will be unhappy.</p>
:arājaka-bhayād eṣa
:kṛto rājātad-arhaṇaḥ
:tato 'py āsīd bhayaṁ tv adya
:kathaṁ syāt svasti dehinām
:([[Vanisource:SB 4.14.9|SB 4.14.9]])
<p>If people are disturbed in this way, both ways, from the state side and from the rogue side, then how they will live peacefully? Just like we sometimes say that if the politicians and the statesmen they are so irresponsible, fighting amongst themselves to capture the power, where is the time for them to think of people's welfare? They cannot. It is not possible. The same thing happened there. Tato api āsīd bhayaṁ tu adya kathaṁ syāt svasti dehinām. Svasti means peacefulness, dehinām, of the embodied living entities, dehinām.</p>
:aher iva payaḥ-poṣaḥ
:poṣakasyāpy anartha-bhṛt
:venaḥ prakṛtyaiva khalaḥ
:sunīthā-garbha-sambhavaḥ
:([[Vanisource:SB 4.14.10|SB 4.14.10]])
<p>Nirūpitaḥ prajā-pālaḥ sa jighāṁsati vai prajāḥ. So Vena, here it is mentioned, sunīthā-garbha-sambhavaḥ. His mother's name was Sunīthā. She was also daughter of a very bad king, and she inherited the father's quality. And the son also inherited the mother's quality. This is also true. The son inherits mother's quality, and the daughter inherits father's quality. So because the grandfather of Vena Maharaja was a bad man, his daughter means Sunīthā, the mother of Vena, she became bad. And naturally her son, Vena, she (he) became bad. The father was very nice, good king. But because the mother was not good, the son became bad. Here is the evidence. Sunīthā-garbha-sambhavaḥ. Sunīthā, his mother's name was Sunīthā. Because he was born in the womb of Sunīthā, a bad woman, therefore, he... Nirūpitaḥ prajā-pālaḥ sa jighāṁsati vai prajāḥ. He has been elected as the king to protect the citizens. Instead of protecting, he is disturbing.</p>
:nirūpitaḥ prajā-pālaḥ
:sa jighāṁsati vai prajāḥ
:tathāpi sāntvayemāmuṁ
:nāsmāṁs tat-pātakaṁ spṛśet
:([[Vanisource:SB 4.14.11|SB 4.14.11]])
<p>Now there is another saintly compassion, "Never mind he has done so much mischievous activities, this king, still it is our duty to go to him and give him good advice so that all these disturbances may be stopped and people will become happy." Just mark this point that formerly the government could not be irresponsible because the saintly person, they are always thinking welfare of the people in general. Mark this point.</p>
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