"सुद्ध भक्तको गुणहरु " || HG Sahasranaam Das || ŚB 5.5.27 - 28

"The virtues of the pure devotee" || HG Sahasranaam Das || ŚB 5.5.27 - HG Sahasranaam Das - ISKCON (Official Music Video) HG Sahasranaam Das - ISKCON (Official Music Video) Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam CHAPTER FIVE Lord Ṛṣabhadeva’s Teachings to His Sons ŚB 5.5.27 of the interest of the mind and the mouth I’ve actually been able to get away with it. Without which man is greatly deluded One should not desire to be freed from the noose of death. 27 ॥ mano-vaco-dṛk-karaṇehitasya sākṣāt-kṛtaṁ me paribarhaṇaṁ is vinā pumān he is mahā-vimohāt kṛtānta-pāśān is vimoktum īśet Translation The true activity of the sense organs — mind, sight, words and all the knowledge-gathering and working senses — is to engage fully in My service. Unless his senses are thus engaged, a living entity cannot think of getting out of the great entanglement of material existence, which is exactly like Yamarāja’s stringent rope. Purport As stated in the Nārada-pañcarātra: sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁ tat-paratvena nirmalam hṛṣīkeṇa hṛṣīkeśa- sevanaṁ bhaktir ucyate This is the conclusion of devotion. All the time, Lord Ṛṣabhadeva has been stressing devotional service, and now He is concluding by saying that all the senses should be engaged in the Lord's service. There are five senses by which we gather knowledge and five senses with which we work. These ten senses and the mind should be fully engaged in the Lord’s service. Without engaging them in this way, one cannot get out of the clutches of māyā. ŚB 5.5.28 Sri Shuka said Thus disciplining his sons, whom he himself had taught, to discipline the world, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, His supreme friend, taught the Paramahansa Dharma characterized by devotion, knowledge and renunciation of the great sages who had ceased their actions King Purañjana, dressed in the sky like a madman, with his hair scattered, placed the sacrificial fire in his sacrificial fire and fled from the place known as Brahmāvarta. 28 ॥ śrī-śuka uvāca evam anuśāsyātmajān svayam anuśāsyātmajān api lokānuśāsanārthaṁ mahānubhāvaḥ parama-suhṛd bhagavān ṛṣabhāpadeśa upaśama-śīlānām uparata-karmaṇāṁ mahā-munīnāṁ bhakti-jñāna-vairāgya-lakṣaṇaṁ paramahaṁsya-dharmam upaśikṣamāṇaḥ sva-tanaya-śata-jyeṣṭhaṁ parama-bhāgavataṁ bhagavaj-jana-parāyaṇaṁ bharataṁ dharaṇi-pālanāyābhiṣicya svayaṁ bhavana evorvarita-śarīra-mātra-parigraha unmatta iva gagana-paridhānaḥ prakīrṇa-keśa ātmany aropitāhavanīyo brahmavartat pravavrāja. Translation Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus the great well-wisher of everyone, the Supreme Lord Ṛṣabhadeva, instructed His own sons. Although they were perfectly educated and cultured, He instructed them only to set an example of how a father should instruct his sons before retiring from family life. Sannyāsīs, who are no longer bound by fruitive activity and who have taken up devotional service after all their material desires have been vanquished, also learn by these instructions. Lord Ṛṣabhadeva instructed His one hundred sons, of whom the eldest, Bharata, was a very advanced devotee and a follower of Vaiṣṇavas. In order to rule the whole world, the Lord enthroned His eldest son on the royal throne. Thereafter, although still at home, Lord Ṛṣabhadeva lived like a madman, naked and with disheveled hair. Then the Lord took the sacrificial fire within Himself, and He left Brahmāvarta to tour the whole world. Purport Actually the instructions given to Lord Ṛṣabhadeva’s sons were not exactly meant for His sons because they were already educated and highly advanced in knowledge. Rather, these instructions were meant for sannyāsīs who intended to become advanced devotees. Sannyāsīs must abide by Lord Ṛṣabhadeva’s instructions while on the path of devotional service. Lord Haṣabhadeva retired from family life and lived like a naked madman even while still with His family.