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Bg 01-16 LON 1973-07-16 Everybody Wants to Be Served
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ANNOUNCER: Next is a class on the
Bhagavad-gītā As It Is, 1st chapter,
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text number 16 through 19,
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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on July 16th, 1973, in London, England.
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PRADYUMNA: Translation: “King Yudhiṣṭhira,
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the son of Kuntī, blew his conchshell, the Anantavijaya,
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and Nakula and Sahadeva blew
the Sughoṣa and Maṇipuṣpaka.
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That great archer the King of
Kāśī, the great fighter Śikhaṇḍi,
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Dhṛṣṭadyumna, Virāṭa and the unconquerable Sātyaki,
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Drupada, the sons of Draupadī, and the others, O King,
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such as the son of Subhadrā, greatly armed,
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all blew their respective conchshells.”
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PRABHUPĀDA: So here Dhṛtarāṣṭra
is addressed as pṛthivī-pati.
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“The lord of the world.”
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Pṛthivī, pṛthivī means this planet.
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So five thousand years ago,
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from the statement it appears
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that the king of Hastināpura was
the emperor of the whole world.
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pṛthivī-pati One king, the whole planet was
being governed by one emperor or king,
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and different parts of the world, other kings,
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subordinate kings, as they are
named here, Drupada, then Virāṭa,
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Kāśya, in different parts of the
world they came and joined.
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And each and every one of them
possessed a different kind of bugle.
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śaṅkha So they declared that now we are ready to fight.
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And another significance of this verse is:
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That Yudhiṣṭhira is also described here as rājā.
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In the beginning Sañjaya informed
Dhṛtarāṣṭra that Duryodhana rājā.
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So actually the fight is between the two kings.
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One side Duryodhana, another side Yudhiṣṭhira.
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One may not misunderstand, therefore
particularly mentioned kuntī-putra,
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this rājā is Kuntī’s son.
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kuntī-putra Drupada, Mahārāja Drupada,
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the father of Draupadī, Draupadī was
gained by Arjuna in competition.
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Draupadī, the daughter of
Mahārāja Drupada is Draupadī.
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She is Draupadī.
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And her sons they are draupadeya.
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So the grandfather, the grandsons,
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all of them were present, because they were allies.
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Mahārāja Drupada happened to be
the father-in-law of the Pāṇḍavas.
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Draupadī accepted five husbands.
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When Draupadī was gained in the
competition, they were incognito.
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The Pāṇḍavas were incognito.
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They were banished for twelve
years, and after twelve years,
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one year they had to live incognito.
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Nobody would understand where they are living.
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So they took shelter at the house of Mahārāja Virāṭa.
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So Virāṭa, at that time this
Mahārāja Virāṭa’s daughter Uttarā,
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was trained by Arjuna for dancing.
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Arjuna was appointed as a dancing teacher
for the daughter of Mahārāja Virāṭa, Uttarā.
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So when it was discovered that
Arjuna was not a dancing teacher,
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he was the great hero, Mahārāja
Virāṭa wanted to offer his daughter,
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that you marry my daughter, because he was disclosed.
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So Arjuna said, “How can I marry this girl.
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I am her teacher.
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Therefore a teacher is to be considered
as father, so it is not possible.
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So if you like I can get this girl married
with my son Saubhadra, Subhadrā’s son.”
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Arjuna had another wife Subhadrā.
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That Subhadrā, you know, sister of Kṛṣṇa.
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Sister of Kṛṣṇa.
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So Subhadrā, Balarāma, elder
brother, Kṛṣṇa, younger brother.
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Kṛṣṇa wanted to hand over Subhadrā to Arjuna,
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and Balarāma wanted to hand
over Subhadrā to Duryodhana.
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So Kṛṣṇa could not say anything.
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The elder brother has decided.
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Therefore Kṛṣṇa advised Arjuna to kidnap Subhadrā.
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Just see how much Kṛṣṇa was affectionate to Arjuna
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that Arjuna liked also to marry Subhadrā,
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and Subhadrā also liked, but
the elder brother did not agree.
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So they made a plan that Arjuna kidnap Subhadrā.
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This kidnapping was allowed
among the kṣatriyas, and fight.
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That is kṣatriya marriage.
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Unless there is fight, that marriage is not complete.
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The red vermillion which we
apply, that is kṣatriya principle.
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After killing the opposite party, the blood
will be smeared over the hair of the bride.
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That is conquer, victory.
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So in every marriage… Kṛṣṇa had 16,108 wives,
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and each wife was married by
fighting, beginning from Rukmiṇī.
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Rukmiṇī also, the first wife of Kṛṣṇa,
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the first queen, when Kṛṣṇa became
king of Dvārakā, she was the first queen.
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So she was kidnapped by Arjuna.
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Rukmiṇī was settled up to be married with Śiśupāla.
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Śiśupāla also happened to be Kṛṣṇa’s cousin-brother,
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and Rukmiṇī did not like that she
would be handed over to Śiśupāla.
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She wanted to marry Kṛṣṇa.
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So she sent one letter to Kṛṣṇa that this is the position.
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“My brother Rukma: He has decided
to hand over to me to Śiśupāla,
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but I don’t like.
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So please arrange for kidnapping me.”
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A brāhmaṇa was sent to Kṛṣṇa.
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That is also another responsibility of kṣatriya.
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If a girl proposes, “I want to marry you,” a
kṣatriya cannot refuse, he cannot refuse.
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He must marry that girl, even at the risk of life.
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This is kṣatriya spirit.
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One rākṣasī, she wanted to marry Bhīma.
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So Bhīma refused, she was a rākṣasī.
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So she complained to Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira
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that I wanted to marry Bhīma but he has refused.
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And Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja
compelled Bhīma, “You must marry.
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Even though she is rākṣasī, you
are kṣatriya you cannot refuse.”
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This was the system, very nice system,
brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra.
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(ASIDE: Don’t work now. You should
hear. You cannot divert your attention.)
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So all these kings on the side of the Pāṇḍavas,
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they were relatives, so they joined.
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So when they blew their different types of conchshell,
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then the other side were trembled, “Oh,
they have gathered so much strength.”
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Because Duryodhana thought that for,
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continually for thirteen years Pāṇḍavas were banished,
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so they could not gather any good amount of soldiers.
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But when they saw
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that so many kings from different
parts of the world have joined them,
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so they became frightened.
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That is described in the next verse,
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Sa ghoṣo dhārtarāṣṭrāṇāṁ
hṛdayāni vyadārayat [Bg. 1.19].
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They are just like heart-broken: “What is this?
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They have gathered so much great, great fighters.”
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nabhaś ca pṛthivīṁ caiva tumulo ’bhyanunādayan
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You read this verse. [splice]
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Translation: “The blowing of these different
conchshells became uproarious, and thus,
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vibrating both in the sky and on the earth,
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it shattered the hearts of the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra.”
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So enemy… Enemy.
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When one enemy fights, the
other party, well-equipped, strong,
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so it breaks the heart of the enemy.
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That happened.
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So there is nothing to be especially…
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The breaking of the heart by
vibrating different types of conchshell
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from the side of the Pāṇḍavas,
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it broke the heart of the dhārtarāṣṭrāṇām.
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Dhṛtarāṣṭra, his sons, one hundred sons.
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So from Dhṛtarāṣṭra: Dhārtarāṣṭra.
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Dhārtarāṣṭrāṇāṁ hṛdayāni vyadārayat [Bg. 1.19].
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And it resounded both in the sky or on the surface.
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So I think that’s it.
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That’s all. [end]
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