Category:Bhagavatam Verses Spoken by Bharata Maharaja - Vaniquotes
- Bharata Mahārāja is the 87th top speaker of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam with 15 verses at Vanisource. He speaks only in the 5th canto (15 verses).
Theme Analysis
- The Trap of False Compassion: Despite being a highly advanced transcendentalist who gave up his entire kingdom, Mahārāja Bharata fell victim to illusion by rationalizing his growing material attachment to a motherless deer as a spiritual duty and an act of necessary compassion.
- The Madness of Material Affection: As his attachment deepened, the great King's spiritual intelligence was completely stolen away. When the deer went missing, he fell into agonizing anxiety, speaking like a madman to the animal's footprints and pleading with the moon for its safety.
- The Strict Laws of Nature: Because his mind was entirely absorbed in the deer at the time of his death, the strict laws of karma forced this highly elevated yogī to take his next birth in the body of an animal, demonstrating the extreme danger of material affection.
- Lamentation and Remembrance: Even in the body of a deer, Bharata retained the memories of his past life due to his immense spiritual assets. He deeply lamented his foolishness, recognizing how he had traded his real family and spiritual perfection for a fleeting attachment to an animal.
- Ultimate Redemption: True to the eternal nature of pure devotional service, Bharata's spiritual consciousness ultimately saved him. Quitting his deer body, he offered perfectly conscious, beautiful prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, ensuring his return to the spiritual path.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Illusion of Material Compassion and the Fall of Mahārāja Bharata.
Pages in category "Bhagavatam Verses Spoken by Bharata Maharaja - Vaniquotes"
The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
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- According to His desire, the Lord entered this universe as the Supersoul, & by virtue of His different potencies, He is maintaining all living entities desiring material enjoyment. Let me offer my obeisances unto the Lord, who is the giver of intelligence
- After perceiving the moonshine, Maharaja Bharata continued speaking like a crazy person. He said: The deer's son was so submissive and dear to me that due to its separation I am feeling separation from my own son
- Alas, is it possible that I shall again see this animal protected by the Lord and fearless of tigers and other animals? Shall I again see him wandering in the garden eating soft grass?
- Alas, the small deer, while playing with me and seeing me feigning meditation with closed eyes, would circumambulate me due to anger arising from love, and it would fearfully touch me with the points of its soft horns, which felt like drops of water
D
- Due to attachment for the deer, Maharaja Bharata lay down with it, walked about with it, bathed with it and even ate with it. Thus his heart became bound to the deer in affection
- Due to the burning fever of this separation, I am suffering as if inflamed by a forest fire. My heart, which is like the lily of the land, is now burning
- Due to the earth's severe penances, the footprints of this deer, which are small, beautiful, most auspicious and soft, are imprinted on the surface of this fortunate planet
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- Even though one is in the renounced order, one who is advanced certainly feels compassion for suffering living entities. One should certainly neglect his own personal interests, although they may be very important, to protect one who has surrendered
- Even though the deer is disturbing my spiritual life, I realize that a helpless person who has taken shelter cannot be neglected. That would be a great fault
I
- I (Bharata) became self-controlled and self-realized, and I engaged constantly in devotional service, hearing, thinking, chanting, worshiping and remembering the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vasudeva
- I (Bharata) was successful in my attempt, so much so that my mind was always absorbed in devotional service. However, due to my personal foolishness, my mind again became attached - this time to a deer
- I am quitting this body offering obeisances unto Him and hoping that I may perpetually engage in His transcendental loving service." Uttering this, Maharaja Bharata left his body
- I do not know, but the deer might have been eaten by a wolf or a dog or by the boars that flock together or the tiger who travels alone
- I should not be envious and think that for the deer my own welfare will be destroyed. I should certainly raise, protect, gratify and fondle it. When it has taken shelter with me, how can I neglect it?
- It does not know anyone but me, as I have become its father, mother, brother and relatives. This deer is thinking in this way, and it has full faith in me. It does not know anyone but me
S
- Seeing above his head the dark marks on the rising moon, which resembled a deer, Bharata said: Can it be that the moon, who is so kind to an unhappy man, might also be kind upon my deer, knowing that it has strayed from home and has become motherless?
- Seeing me so distressed, the moon is certainly splashing its shining nectar upon me - just as a friend throws water on another friend who has a high fever. In this way, the moon is bringing me happiness
- Seeing the footprints of the deer on the ground, Maharaja Bharata praised the footprints out of love, saying: O unfortunate Bharata, your austerities and penances are very insignificant compared to the penance and austerity undergone by this earth planet
T
- That deer is exactly like a prince. When will it return? When will it again display its personal activities, which are so pleasing? When will it again pacify a wounded heart like mine?
- That sun-god is now setting, yet the poor animal who trusted in me since its mother died has not returned
- The deer has put its faith in me, just as a good man who has a natural interest in good behavior forgets the misbehavior of a cunning friend and puts his faith in him. Although I have proved faithless, will this deer return and place its faith in me?
- The great King Maharaja Bharata began to think: Alas, this helpless young deer, by the force of time, an agent of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, has now lost its relatives and friends and has taken shelter of me
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is situated in pure goodness. He illuminates the entire universe and bestows all benedictions upon His devotees. The Lord has created this universe from His own spiritual potency
- This series of footprints show a person like me, who am bereaved due to loss of the deer, how the animal has passed through the forest and how I can regain my lost wealth
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- When I (Bharata) chastised the deer by pushing it away, it would immediately become fearful and sit down motionless, exactly like the son of a saintly person. Thus it would stop its play
- When I placed all the sacrificial ingredients on the kusa grass, the deer, when playing, would touch the grass with its teeth and thus pollute it
- When the sun rises, all auspicious things begin. Unfortunately, they have not begun for me. The sun-god is the Vedas personified, but I am bereft of all Vedic principles