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Story 43 Visvamitra Muni
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PRABHUPĀDA: Now,
there is a story.
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There are many stories.
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One of them I am citing
is very interesting.
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Viśvāmitra Muni.
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Viśvāmitra Muni, he
was a great king,
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kṣatriya, but his priest, Vasiṣṭha
Muni, he had great spiritual power.
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So he renounced his kingdom.
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He wanted to advance.
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He was kingly, royal order, but still, he
wanted to advance in the spiritual orders.
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So he adopted yoga
process: meditation.
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That time it was possible
for adopting this process.
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Yoga process.
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So he was meditating in
such a way that the Indra,
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who was the king of heaven,
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he thought that “This man is
trying to occupy my post.”
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As there is competition… This is also…
Heaven means that is also material world.
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So this competition…
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No businessman wants and another
businessman [to] go ahead.
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He wants to cut down.
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Competition of price, quality.
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Similarly, that Indra, he thought that,
“This man is so strongly meditating,
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it may be that I may be deposed
and he come to my seat.”
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Then he arranged one of his society girls,
Menakā, to go there and allure this muni.
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So when Menakā approached that
ṛṣi, Viśvāmitra Ṛṣi, he was meditating.
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And simply by the
sound of her bangles,
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[he] could understand,
“There is some woman.”
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And as soon as he saw
there was heavenly,
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celestial beauty, he was captivated.
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Then there was a result, that…
Hmm… And… A Śakuntalā.
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Perhaps some of you may know.
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There is a book made
by Kālidāsa, Śakuntalā.
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This Śakuntalā is supposed to be
the most beautiful girl in the world,
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and she was born by this combination
of Viśvāmitra Muni and Menakā.
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So when this girl was born,
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then Viśvāmitra thought,
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“Oh, I was advancing
in my spiritual culture,
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and again I have been entrapped.”
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So he was going out.
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At the same time his wife Menakā
brought this girl before [him],
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and little child is always attractive.
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She showed that “Oh, you
have got such a nice girl. Huh?
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Such beautiful girl, and
you are going away?
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No, no, you should take care.”
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So there is a picture.
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Very nice; that is a
very famous picture.
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That Menakā is showing
Viśvāmitra Muni the girl,
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and the muni is like that,
“No more show me.”
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Yes, there is a picture.
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That is… Then he went away.
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So there are chances
of failure. [splice]
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Just like a great sage like Viśvāmitra Muni,
he also failed, failed for the time being.
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But Kṛṣṇa says that this failure is
not, I mean to say, unsuccessful.
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As we have sometimes the proverb,
that “Failure is the pillar of success,”
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so especially in the spiritual life,
this failure is not discouraging.
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This failure is not discouraging.
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So Kṛṣṇa says that “Even one fails
in completing his spiritual course,
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still, there is no loss on his part.”
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