parikshit maharaj inspiration

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After coming back to his place, Parikshit Maharaj contemplated on his behavior with
Shemekarasi. He expected and desired calamity upon himself for his insignificant mistake.
Okay, so here I wanted to derive, you know, some inspiration from the great devotee
Parikshit Maharaj.

Parikshit Maharaj, not only a eminent king, he is a great devotee of Lord. While he was
taking the birth from the womb of mother Uttara, so he faced a calamity. And that time, the
Lord Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself protect this personality.

So now, the Supreme Personality of Godhead protected him. So now, he sees him in the
womb of Uttara itself. Okay, so that kind of person.

So now, what to speak about him? He is obviously a great devotee, Parikshit Maharaj is not
a normal personality. So now, I want to derive some inspiration in which Parikshit Maharaj,
due to thirst, hunger, thirst, hunger, like you know, he approached Shemekarasi, but he was
in deep meditation about the Lord and he was not able to respond to him and that time he
put the dead snake around his neck. So now, Shemekarasi, like you know, did not open his
eyes, even though he put the dead snake around his neck.

Later, his son Shringi gave a curse to die in seven days by snake bird. So, Parikshit Maharaj
now, like you know, he is ready to accept the curse and he wants to renounce everything. In
this particular place, we need to draw some inspiration from Parikshit Maharaj.

Like, he gave a wonderful inspiration to each and every sadhaka currently existing in this
world. Ok, so let's derive from the canto number 1, chapter number 19 of Srimad
Bhagavatam. It is specifically, you know, derived, you know, lot of things which Parikshit
Maharaj has gone through and what we can derive out of his, you know, the action
whatever he took later.

So, here we go, reflecting upon his act, Parikshit Maharaj became distressed and thought,
you know, he performed a heinous act like an uncivilized man against a fordless and
powerful brahmana. See, the brahmanas are, you know, the intellectual class. They are in
guiding position.

They are in the position of, they are gurus in a varnashrama system. In a varnashrama
system, brahmana, kshatriya, vaishnava, shudra, these four categories will come. In the
category, brahmana is the topmost because he is an intellectual category.

Also, the practicing devotee, the pure devotee of the lord. So, when we offend the
brahmanas, especially the devotee of the lord, it is an offense. So, now, even though in this
particular scenario, ok, the kshatriya, you know, as a kshatriya, he has a right to ask
something from his praja, but still, ok, so, you know, he was ready to accept the curse and
even though he was capable to retract that, you know, the curse, but still, you know, he
accepted because he considers himself, himself a faulty person and like, you know, he did a
mistake and that is the great quality of the person someone can have that even though you
are not done any mistake and you are ready to accept, you know, that mistake, that shows
the great quality, great quality of the strength, great quality of the character it shows
actually, right? And now, accidental sin, this is accidental sin, sins committed by a devotee
are sincerely regretted and by the grace of the lord, all sins unwillingly committed by a
devotee are burnt in the fire of repentance.

Ok, when we expecting the desiring calamity, we must, you know, expect some calamity due
to our neglecting the injunction of the lord. We know, we now desire some calamity so that
we will not commit such an offense again, right? So, here what will happen, the brahmanas
wrath, you know, the Parishit Maharaj in this calamity, he is thinking, he is feeling very sad
about, sad about the incident whatever happened with the Samyak Rishi and he is like, you
know, himself like, you know, lamenting, let the fire of brahmanas wrath burn up my
kingdom, strength and wealth so that I never again do this sinful activities on the
brahmanas, devatas or cows. Blessings in disguise.

So now, while repenting, Parishit Maharaj received the news of the curse, he took it as a
good news as it would cause indifference towards worldly things. So, Parishit Maharaj came
back to his home and the curse was not yet delivered by Shringi Rishi, Shringi, the son of
Samyak Rishi, but, so after he came back to the home, when he was lamenting about, you
know, the brahmanas wrath, burn up my kingdom, strength and wealth, that time this
Shringi Rishi's curse came and he felt very happy, the Parishit Maharaj, he accepted that,
you know, the curse because, you know, the devotees of the Lord, you know, always think,
whenever some calamity comes, this is the plan of the Lord, whatever the plan of the Lord is
best for me, that is what devotee thinks. So, this curse, like, you know, he considered that
Lord himself given to him so that, you know, he can come back to Godhead and that is what
this great personality Parishit Maharaj, you know, started thinking.

Since there was no way to retract the curse, Samyak Rishi had sent the message through his
student named Gauramukha so that Parishit could prepare for death within a week. Parishit
could have gone to Samyak Rishi to beg his pardon, but he did not do so because the news
of the curse was conveyed to him very regretfully and he did not want to embarrass the
sage any further and two, he did not desire the negation of the curse. See, the great
devotees, they don't want to negotiate about any curse or anything.

Whatever the situation, whatever the calamities come in their life, they will accept it. They
consider this is the Lord's plan, as I earlier said and that is the great thing about Parishit
Maharaj. Here, Maharaj Parishit's conviction, he sat on the banks of Ganges, he left the
kingdom, he left the queens and, you know, he left his pet animals like, you know, horse and
elephants, everything and he left the entire kingdom.

So, he completely took the renunciation. Can you imagine, the great king with the great
appellance, he is ready to renounce everything in a moment. That itself shows that, you
know, the faith, the person who have about the Lord, that is not a normal thing, that is not a
normal thing because no one can have that much of faith about the Lord and it is not so
easy.

Only the great and purest devotees can have that much faith about the Lord and this
Parishit Maharaj had that great faith about this Lord and, you know, that really, like, you
know, helped him, like, you know, to think about taking the renunciation. So, he directly
went to the banks of the Ganges, you know, with a vow not to eat as he had previously
concluded that service to the Krishna's lotus feet was the highest goal, superseding all
others. It was, you know, here we wanted to understand, you know, some of the things.

Parishit, you know, gave himself up to the lotus feet of Lord Mukunda. Being freed of all
material association, he accepted the vows of sage. You know, as I earlier said, he left
everything and he accepted the vows of the, you know, the sage.

Here Maharaja Parishit submits himself to the assembled sages. Then Maharaja Parishit
accepted, you know, himself, like, you know, to the sages there. Lot of rishis and munis were
there and he asked Shukadeva Goswami, like, you know, to tell Srimad Bhagavatam because
he is about to departure, like, you know, he is about to, like, you know, leave his body in 7
days.

As per the rishis' curse, you know, that snake bird will, like, you know, bite him and, like, you
know, he will die. So, that curse was there and the sages actually came to meet Maharaja
Parishit because they could foresee that Srimad Bhagavatam would be spoken by
Shukadeva Goswami. All of them wanted to take the advantages of the great association.

Still here, in the last days, 7 days, nowadays people, once in 2022 or somewhere around,
like, you know, 20 or somewhere, I don't know, everybody was telling, you know, the earth
is going to end and now the people started doing lot of sense gratification, we are going to
die and we should, like, you know, do lot of sense gratification, we should enjoy, after
enjoying we should die and that enjoyment, like, you know, that will definitely lead those
people to the hell, right? But the Parishit Maharaj, the great devotee of the Lord, he never,
never ever want to do his sense gratification even after, you know, he got to know that, like,
you know, in 7 days he is going to, you know, leave his body. He took up, you know, he took
up the Srimad Bhagavatam, you know, learning about the Srimad Bhagavatam, hearing
about the Srimad Bhagavatam, you know, from the great personality Shukadeva Goswami.
That is the quality of great devotees.

They always hear, they always hear the Krishna Katha. Whatever the situation may come,
they always, like, you know, think about the Lord, even though in their life is going to end or
whatever the things are going to happen and they don't leave the Lord's lotus feet shelter,
ok? So, here Maharaja Parishit, you know, submits, like, you know, himself, like, you know,
and even though that situation, particular situation, you know, Maharaja Parishit, you know,
did a great thing. Thank you.
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