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Tena sambhrita eambhare dharmaputra yudhisthirah
Bajimedhais tribhir bheeto yajnai samayajad harim
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Tena—by that riches, Sambhrita—collected, Sambharo—ingredients, Dharmaputra—the pious king, Yudhtsthira—of the name, Bajimedhai—by horse-sacrifices, Tribhi—three times, Bheeto—being too much afraid after the battle of Kurukshetra, Yajnai—sacrifices, Samayajad—perfectly worshipped, Hari—the personality of Godhead.
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By that riches he could collect the ingredients of three sacrifices in which horses are offered and the pious king Maharaj Yudhisthira who was very much afraid after the battle of Kurukshetra thus pleased the Lord Hari Personality of Godhead.
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Maharaj Yudhisthir was the ideal and celebrated pious king of the world and still he was too much afraid after the execution of the battle of Kurukshetra on account of mass killing in the fight and that also only for installing him on the throne. He therefore, took all the responsibility of sins committed in the warfare. And to get rid of all such sins he desired to perform three sacrifices in which horses are offered in the alter. Such sacrifice is not only costly so as a King like Maharaj Yudhisthir had to collect the necessary heaps of gold left by Maharaj Marutta and the Brahmins, who were given in charity gold by the King Marutta. The learned Brahmins could not take away all the loads of gold given by Maharaj Marutta and therefore they left behind them the major portion of the gift. And Maharaj Marutta also did not recollect such heaps of gold given away in charity. Besides that all the golden plates and utensils which were used in the sacrifice were also thrown in the dustbins and all such heaps of gold remained unclaimed property for a long time till Maharaj Yudhisthir collected them for his own purposes. Lord Sri Krishna advised the brothers of Maharaj Yudhisthir to collect the unclaimed property because it belonged to the King. The more astonishing thing is that no subject of the state also collected such unclaimed gold for industrial enterprise or like that. This means that the state citizens were completely satisfied by all necessaries of life and therefore not inclined to accept unnecessary productive enterprises for sense gratification. Maharaj Yudhisthira also requisitioned the heaps of gold for performing sacrifices and for pleasing the Supreme Hari Personality of Godhead. Otherwise he had no desire to collect them for the State Treasury.
#$p#One should take lessons from the acts of Maharaj Yudhisthira how he was afraid of sins committed in the battlefield and therefore he wanted to satisfy the Supreme Authority. This means unintentional sins are also committed in our daily occupational discharge of duties and to counteract even such unintentional crimes, one must perform sacrifices as they are recommended in the revealed scriptures. The Lord says in the Bagwat Geeta (Yajnarthe Karmani anyatra Karma bandhana) one must perform sacrifices recommended in the scriptures in order to get rid from commitment of all unauthorised work or even unintentional crimes which we are apt to commit. By doing so one shall be freed from all kinds of sins. And those who do not do so but work on self-interest of sense-gratification,-shall have to undergo all tribulations accrued from committed sins. Therefore, the main purpose of performing sacrifices is to satisfy the Supreme Personality Hari. The process of performing sacrifices may be different in terms of different time, place and persons but the aim of such sacrifices is one and the same at all times and in all circumstances viz. satisfaction of the Supreme Lord Hari. That is the way of pious life and that is the way of peace and prosperity of the world at large. Maharaj Yudhisthir did all these as the ideal pious king in the world.
#$p#If Maharaj Yudhisthir were to be a sinner in his daily discharge of duties in the matter of royal administration of state affairs, wherein killing of man and the animals is a recognised art,—then we can just imagine what amount of sins are committed consciously or unconsciously by the untrained population of the Kaliyuga without any asset of performing sacrifices in the matter of pleasing the Supremc Lord. The Bhagwatam says therefore, that the prime duty of the human being is to satisfy the Supreme Lord by the performance of one's occupational duty. (see PP 119 Vol. I).
#$p#Let any man of any place or community, caste or creed,-be engaged in any sort of occupational duty but he must agree to perform sacrifices as it is recommended in the scriptures for the particular place, time and person. In the Vedic literatures it is recommended that in the Kaliyuga people must be engaged in the matter of glorifying the Lord by chanting the holy name of Krishna (Kirtanat eva krishnasya muktasanga param brajet) without any offence and by doing so one can be freed from all sins: and thus can attain the highest perfection of life by returning back to home, back to Godhead. We have already discussed this subject matter more than once in this great literature of SRIMAD BHAGWATAM at different places and specially in the introductory portion by sketching the life of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu,-and still we are repeating the same thing in this connection with a view to bring about peace and prosperity in the human society at large.
#$p#The Lord has declared openly in the 'Bhagwat Geeta' how He becomes pleased with us and the same process is practically demonstrated in the life and preaching work of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. The perfect process of performing Yajnas or sacrifices for pleasing the Supreme Lord Hari (Peronality of Godhead who gets us free from all miseries of existence), is to follow the ways of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in this dark age of quarrel and dissensions.
#$p#Maharaj Yudhisthira had to collect heaps of gold for securing the ingredients of Horse-sacrifice Yajna in the days of sufficiency and we can hardly think of such performance of Yajnas in these days of insufficiency and complete scarcity of gold. At the present moment we have heaps of papers with promise of being converted into gold by economic development of modern civilisation and still there is no possibility of spending riches like Maharaj Yudhisthira either individually or collectively or by state patronisation. Just suitable, therefore, for the age, is the method recommended by Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in terms of the Shastra. Such method requires no expenditure at all and yet can award more benefit than what is derived from other expensive method of Yajna performances.
#$p#The Horse-saerifice Yajna or for the matter of Cow-sacrifice Yajnas performed by the Vedic regulations may not be misunderstood as the proces of killing the animals. On the contrary such animals offered for the Yajna were rejuvinated to a new span of life by the transcendental power of chanting the Vedic hyms, which if properly chanted, is different from what is understood by the common layman. The Vedamantras are all practical and the proof is rejuvination of the sacrificed animal.
#$p#There is no possiblity of such methodical chanting of the Vedic hymns by the socalled Brahmins or priests of the present age. The untrained descendants of the twice-born family are no more like their forefathers and as such they are counted amongst the Sudras or once-born man. The once-born man is unfit for chanting the Vedic hymns and therefore there is no practical utility of the original hymns without being harnessed by the authorised Personality in terms of the Vedic injunctions suitable for the age and the candidates.
#$p#And to save them all, Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu propounded the 'Samkritan' movement or Yajna for all practical purposes and the people of the present age are strongly recommended to follow the sure and recognised Path.
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#i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=tena&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#tena#/i# — with that wealth; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=sambhṛta&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#sambhṛta#/i# — collected; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=sambhāraḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#sambhāraḥ#/i# — ingredients; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=dharma&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#dharma-#a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=putraḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#putraḥ#/i# — the pious king; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=yudhiṣṭhiraḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#yudhiṣṭhiraḥ#/i# — Yudhiṣṭhira; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=vājimedhaiḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#vājimedhaiḥ#/i# — by horse sacrifices; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=tribhiḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#tribhiḥ#/i# — three times; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=bhītaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#bhītaḥ#/i# — being greatly afraid after the Battle of Kurukṣetra; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=yajñaiḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#yajñaiḥ#/i# — sacrifices; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=samayajat&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#samayajat#/i# — perfectly worshiped; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=harim&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#harim#/i# — the Personality of Godhead.
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By those riches, the King could procure the ingredients for three horse sacrifices. Thus the pious King Yudhiṣṭhira, who was very fearful after the Battle of Kurukṣetra, pleased Lord Hari, the Personality of Godhead.
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Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira was the ideal and celebrated pious King of the world, and still he was greatly afraid after the execution of the Battle of Kurukṣetra because of the mass killing in the fight, all of which was done only to install him on the throne. He therefore took all the responsibility for sins committed in the warfare, and to get rid of all these sins, he wanted to perform three sacrifices in which horses are offered at the altar. Such a sacrifice is very costly. Even Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira had to collect the necessary heaps of gold left by Mahārāja Marutta and the #i#brāhmaṇas#/i# who were given gold in charity by King Marutta. The learned #i#brāhmaṇas#/i# could not take away all the loads of gold given by Mahārāja Marutta, and therefore they left behind the major portion of the gift. And Mahārāja Marutta also did not again collect such heaps of gold given away in charity. Besides that, all the golden plates and utensils which were used in the sacrifice were also thrown in the dustbins, and all such heaps of gold remained unclaimed property for a long time, till Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira collected them for his own purposes. Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa advised the brothers of Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira to collect the unclaimed property because it belonged to the King. The more astonishing thing is that no subject of the state also collected such unclaimed gold for industrial enterprise or anything like that. This means that the state citizens were completely satisfied with all necessities of life and therefore not inclined to accept unnecessary productive enterprises for sense gratification. Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira also requisitioned the heaps of gold for performing sacrifices and for pleasing the Supreme Hari Personality of Godhead. Otherwise he had no desire to collect them for the state treasury.
#$p#One should take lessons from the acts of Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira. He was afraid of sins committed on the battlefield, and therefore he wanted to satisfy the supreme authority. This indicates that unintentional sins are also committed in our daily occupational discharge of duties, and to counteract even such unintentional crimes, one must perform sacrifices as they are recommended in the revealed scriptures. The Lord says in #i#Bhagavad-gītā#/i# (#i#yajñārthāt karmaṇo 'nyatra loko 'yaṁ karma-bandhanaḥ#/i# (BG 3.9)) that one must perform sacrifices recommended in the scriptures in order to get rid of commitments of all unauthorized work, or even unintentional crimes which we are apt to commit. By doing so, one shall be freed from all kinds of sins. And those who do not do so but work for self-interest or sense gratification have to undergo all tribulations accrued from committed sins. Therefore, the main purpose of performing sacrifices is to satisfy the Supreme Personality Hari. The process of performing sacrifices may be different in terms of different times, places and persons, but the aim of such sacrifices is one and the same at all times and in all circumstances, viz. , satisfaction of the Supreme Lord Hari. That is the way of pious life, and that is the way of peace and prosperity in the world at large. Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira did all these as the ideal pious king in the world.
#$p#If Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira is a sinner in his daily discharge of duties, in royal administration of state affairs, wherein killing of man and animals is a recognized art, then we can just imagine the amount of sins committed consciously or unconsciously by the untrained population of the Kali-yuga who have no way to perform sacrifice to please the Supreme Lord. The #i#Bhāgavatam#/i# says, therefore, that the prime duty of the human being is to satisfy the Supreme Lord by the performance of one's occupational duty (SB 1.2.13).
#$p#Let any man of any place or community, caste or creed be engaged in any sort of occupational duty, but he must agree to perform sacrifices as it is recommended in the scriptures for the particular place, time and person. In the Vedic literatures it is recommended that in Kali-yuga people engage in glorifying the Lord by chanting the holy name of Kṛṣṇa (#i#kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet#/i# (SB 3.31.1)) without offense. By doing so one can be freed from all sins and thus can attain the highest perfection of life by returning home, back to Godhead. We have already discussed this more than once in this great literature in different places, especially in the introductory portion by sketching the life of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and still we are repeating the same with a view to bring about peace and prosperity in society.
#$p#The Lord has declared openly in #i#Bhagavad-gītā#/i# how He becomes pleased with us, and the same process is practically demonstrated in the life and preaching work of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. The perfect process of performing #i#yajñas#/i#, or sacrifice, to please the Supreme Lord Hari (the Personality of Godhead, who gets us free from all miseries of existence) is to follow the ways of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu in this dark age of quarrel and dissension.
#$p#Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira had to collect heaps of gold to secure the paraphernalia for the horse sacrifice #i#yajñas#/i# in days of sufficiency, so we can hardly think of such performance of #i#yajñas#/i# in these days of insufficiency and complete scarcity of gold. At the present moment we have heaps of papers and promises of their being converted into gold by economic development of modern civilization, and still there is no possibility of spending riches like Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, either individually or collectively or by state patronization. Just suitable, therefore, for the age, is the method recommended by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu in terms of the #i#śāstra#/i#. Such a method requires no expenditure at all and yet can award more benefit than other expensive methods of #i#yajña#/i# performances.
#$p#The horse sacrifice #i#yajña#/i# or cow sacrifice #i#yajña#/i# performed by the Vedic regulations shouldn't be misunderstood as a process of killing animals. On the contrary, animals offered for the #i#yajña#/i# were rejuvenated to a new span of life by the transcendental power of chanting the Vedic hymns, which, if properly chanted, are different from what is understood by the common layman. The #i#Veda-mantras#/i# are all practical, and the proof is rejuvenation of the sacrificed animal.
#$p#There is no possibility of such methodical chanting of the Vedic hymns by the so-called #i#brāhmaṇas#/i# or priests of the present age. The untrained descendants of the twice-born families are no more like their forefathers, and thus they are counted amongst the #i#śūdras#/i#, or once-born men. The once-born man is unfit to chant the Vedic hymns, and therefore there is no practical utility of chanting the original hymns.
#$p#And to save them all, Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu propounded the #i#saṅkīrtana#/i# movement or #i#yajña#/i# for all practical purposes, and the people of the present age are strongly recommended to follow this sure and recognized path.
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