Category:Bhagavatam Verses Spoken by Angira Muni - Vaniquotes
- Aṅgirā Muni is the 58th top speaker of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam with 23 verses at Vanisource. He speaks only in the 6th canto (23 verses).
Theme Analysis
- The Temporary Nature of Royal Opulence: Aṅgirā Muni establishes that while a well-ordered state brings material peace, such opulence is ultimately temporary and cannot provide eternal satisfaction.
- The Illusion of Jubilation and Lamentation: Recognizing Citraketu's material absorption, the sage grants him a son, proving that material benedictions always carry the seeds of both joy and agonizing grief.
- The Phantasmagoria of Material Attachments: Aṅgirā Muni shatters the King's illusion by revealing that all visible objects—kingdom, family, and wealth—are merely temporary mental creations, like a nonexistent palace in the forest.
- The Source of Bodily Miseries: Aṅgirā Muni explains that the root of all suffering is the living entity's false identification with matter, as the mind acts as the very instrument of the soul's tribulation.
- Awakening to Transcendental Knowledge: Accompanied by Nārada Muni, Aṅgirā cuts through the King's grief, urging him to realize his true identity as an eternal spirit soul and achieve the supreme peace of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Aṅgirā Muni Speaks – Dispelling the Lamentation of King Citraketu.
Pages in category "Bhagavatam Verses Spoken by Angira Muni - Vaniquotes"
The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
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- A king is always protected by seven elements - his instructor (svami or guru), his ministers, his kingdom, his fort, his treasury, his royal order and his friends
- Angira said: My dear King, when you desired to have a son, I approached you. Indeed, I am the same Angira Rsi who gave you this son. As for this rsi, he is the great sage Narada, the direct son of Lord Brahma
- Are your wives, citizens, secretaries and servants and the merchants who sell spices and oil under your control? Are you also in full control of ministers, the inhabitants of your palace, your provincial governors, your sons and your other dependents?
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- O King Citraketu, I can observe that your mind is not pleased. You seem not to have achieved your desired goal. Is this because of you yourself, or has it been caused by others? Your pale face reflects your deep anxiety
- O King, O lord of humanity, when a king directly depends upon his associates and follows their instructions, he is happy. Similarly, when his associates offer their gifts and activities to the king and follow his orders, they are also happy
- O King, owner of the state of Surasena, one's wife, his house, the opulence of his kingdom, and his various other opulences and objects of sense perception are all the same in that they are temporary
- One's kingdom, military power, treasury, servants, ministers, friends and relatives are all causes of fear, illusion, lamentation and distress. They are like a gandharva-nagara, a nonexistent palace that one imagines to exist in the forest
- Only because of our past actions do we create such mental concoctions, and because of these concoctions, we perform further activities
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- The great sage Angira said: My dear King, I hope that your body and mind and your royal associates and paraphernalia are well
- The great sage told the King, "O great King, now you will have a son who will be the cause of both jubilation and lamentation." The sage then left, without waiting for Citraketu's response
- The living entity in the bodily conception of life is absorbed in the body, which is a combination of the physical elements, the five senses for gathering knowledge, and the five senses of action, along with the mind
- Therefore, O King Citraketu, carefully consider the position of the atma. In other words, try to understand who you are - whether body, mind or soul
- These visible objects like wife, children and property are like dreams and mental concoctions. Actually what we see has no permanent existence. It is sometimes seen and sometimes not
- Through the mind the living entity suffers three kinds of tribulations - adhibhautika, adhidaivika and adhyatmika. Therefore this body is a source of all miseries
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- We have both come to relieve you from this false lamentation, which is due to your being merged in the darkness of ignorance. For those who are advanced in spiritual knowledge to be affected by material loss and gain is not at all desirable
- When I first came to your home, I could have given you the supreme transcendental knowledge, but when I saw that your mind was absorbed in material things, I gave you only a son, who caused you jubilation and lamentation
- When the seven properties of material nature (the total material energy, the ego and the five objects of sense gratification) are in proper order, the living entity within the material elements is happy. Without these seven elements one cannot exist