SB (1965) Fifteenth Chapter - The Pandavas Retire Timely
SB 1.15.1 (1965): Arjuna the celebrated friend of Lord Krishna became too much aggrieved on account of a strong feeling of separation from Krishna over and above his elder brother's various doubtful speculations
SB 1.15.2 (1965): Due to berievement Arjuna's mouth and the lotus-like heart had already become dried up and therefore he had lost all lusture of his body. Now remembering the Supreme Lord within himself, he could hardly utter any word for replying.
SB 1.15.3 (1965): With great difficulty he checked up his berievement smeared over the eyes full with tears and became too much distessed on account of Lord Krishna's being out of sight and increasingly feeling the affection for Him.
SB 1.15.4 (1965): Remembering about Lord Krishna about His well wishes, benefaction intimate family relations as also about His chariot driving etc he was breathing very heavily and overwhelmingly began to speak.
SB 1.15.5 (1965): Oh the King ! The Supreme Personality of Godhead Hari Who treated with me exactly like an intimate friend has left me alone and thus my astounding power, which were astonishing to the demigods also, is no more with me.
SB 1.15.6 (1965): (I am just left away by Him) Whose separation by a moment would render all the universes certainly as unfavorable void as it were these bodies would be called corpses only when the living force is away from them.
SB 1.15.7 (1965): By His merciful strength only I was able to vanquish the power of all the compact in lusty thought princes assembled at the palace of King Drupada on the occasion of selecting bridegroom and by equipping my bow and arrow I could pierce the fish target and thereby gained the hand of Droupadi.
SB 1.15.8 (1965): On account of His being nearby me, it was possible for me to conquer over the powerful King of heaven Indradeva along with his demigod associates with great dexterity and thus to give facility to the Fire God in the matter of devastating the Khandava forest. And by whose Grace only the demon of the name Maya was saved from the blazing Khandava and thus we could build up the wonderful architectural workmanship of our assembly house where all the princes who assembled during the performance of Rajsuya Yajna and all of them paid you tributes.
SB 1.15.9 (1965): Your respectable younger brother who possesses the strength of ten thousands of elephants killed, by His Grace only, Jarasandha whose feet was worshipped by many kings, these Kings were brought by him for being sacrificed in the Mahabhairava Yajna performed by Jarasandha but they were thus released and later on paid tributes to your majesty.
SB 1.15.10 (1965): It is only He who rendered loosened hair of all the wives of the miscreants who dared to open the cluster of hair of your queen which was dressed nicely being sanctificd in the great ceremony of Rajasuya sacrifice when she fell down at the feet of Lord Krishna with tears in her eyes.
SB 1.15.11 (1965): During our exile Durvasa Muni, who eats along with ten thousands of his disciples, put us into dangerously trouble under intrigue by our enemies. At that time He (Lord Krishna) simply by accepting the remnant of the particle of foodstuff, saved us. By His doing so the assembly of Munis while taking bath in the river water felt sumptuously fed besides all others in the three worlds.
SB 1.15.12 (1965): It is by His influence only that I was able to astonish the Personality of God Lord Shiva along with His wife the daughter of Mount Himalaya in fight and thus He became pleased with me and awarded His own weapon. Thus other demigods also delivered their respective weapons to me and what to speak more I was able to reach the heavely planets definitely by this present body and was allowed to the half elevated seat.
SB 1.15.13 (1965): When I stayed for some days as guest in the heavenly planets, at that time all the heavenly demigods along with King Indradeva took shelter of my arms marked with the Gandiba bow for the matter of killing the demon of the name Nivatakavach. Oh the king the descendant of Ajamidha, at the present moment I am bereft of the Supreme Personality of Godhead by whose infulence I was so much powerful.
SB 1.15.14 (1965): The military strength of the Kouravas was like a ocean in which there were many invincible existence and thus it was insurmountable. But still on account of His friendship I could cross over the same alone being seated on the chariot. And by His Grace only I was able to draw back (the cows) over and above this I collected by force many helmets of the kings that were bedecked with jewels all sources of brilliance.
SB 1.15.15 (1965): It is He only Who withdrew everyone's duration of life, speculative power and strength of enthusiasm in the battlefield of the great military phalanx made by the Kouravas headed by Bhisma, Karana, Drona, Salya etc. Their arrangement was nice and more than enough but He (Lord Sri Krishna) while going forward, did all these.
SB 1.15.16 (1965): Great generals like Bhisma, Drona, Karna, Bhurisrava, Susarma, Salya, Jaidratha, Bahlika, etc all applied their invincible weapons upon me. But by His (Lord Krishna's) grace they could not even touch my hair just as Prahlad Maharaj the supreme devotee of Lord Nrisinghadeva was the least affected by the weapons used by the demons upon him.
SB 1.15.17 (1965): It is by His mercy only that my enemies were unmindful to kill me at a time when I got down from my chariot to bore water for my thirsty horses and it was due to my ill estimation of my Supreme Lord that I dared to engage Him as my chariot driver although He is worshipped and offered services by the best men for attaining salvation.
SB 1.15.18 (1965): Oh the King ! His conversation in jokes which He talked very frankly and was so pleasing and beautifully decorated with smiles and His note of addresses unto me as "oh the son of Pritha, oh friend, oh the son of Kuru dynasty" and all such hearty dealings are now being remembered by me and thus I am overwhelmed.
SB 1.15.19 (1965): Generally both of us used to live together in the matter of sleeping, sitting, loitering and at the time of advertising oneself for acts of chivalry. Sometimes if there was any irregularity I used to reproach Him by saying "my friend you are very truthful." Even in those hours of minimising His value, the Supreme Soul as He is, He used to tolerate all those utterings of mine excusing me exactly like a true friend does to a true friend or the father does to his son.
SB 1.15.20 (1965): Oh the emperor! thus I have been separated by my such friend, wellwisher, the dearmost Supreme Personality of Godhead and therefore my heart appears to be void of everything. In His absence I have been defeated by a number of infidel cowherdsmen while I was guarding the bodies of all the wives of Krishna.
SB 1.15.21 (1965): I have got the very same Gandiba bow, the same arrows the same chariot drawn by the same horses and I use them as the same Arjuna whom all the kings offered their due respects. And in the absence of Lord Krishna all of them have become null and void in a moment's notice. It is exactly like offering clarified butter on the ashes, accumulating money by magic wand and sowing seeds in the barren land.
SB 1.15.22-23 (1965): Oh the king! as you have enquired from me about our friends and relatives in the city of Dwarka, I may inform you that all of them were cursed by the Brahmins and as a result of that all of them became intoxicated by drinking wine made of purified rice and fought between one another with sticks and blows unrecognised by themselves. Except four or five all of them are now dead and gone.
SB 1.15.24 (1965): In fact these are all under the supreme will of the Lord Personality of Godhead that sometimes people kill one another as also protect one another at another time.
SB 1.15.25-26 (1965): Oh the King! as it is in the ocean the stronger acquatic swallows up the weaker ones, the bigger one swallows up the smaller ones so also the Supreme Personality of Godhead has unloaded the burden on the earth by engaging the stronger Yadu for killing weaker and bigger Yadu in killing the smaller.
SB 1.15.27 (1965): Now I am being attracted by the instructions which were imparted to me by the Personality of Godhead because they are always impregnated with instruction for relief to the burning heart of all in all circumstances of space and time.
SB 1.15.28 (1965): Suta Goswami said, "Thus being deeply absorbed in thinking of the instructions of the Lord in great intimacy of friendship and of His Lotus feet Arjuna's mind became pacified and free from all contamination of material tinges."
SB 1.15.29 (1965): Arjuna's constant remembrances of the lotus feet of Lord Sri Krishna expanded his devotion with great velocity and as a result of this all trashes of his conception became subsided.
SB 1.15.30 (1965): On account of the Lord's pastimes and activities thereof and the sense of separation from the Lord it so appeared that Arjuna forgot the instructions left by the Personality of Godhead: but factually it did not so happen and again he became the Lord of the senses.
SB 1.15.31 (1965): On account of possessing spiritual assets the doubts of duality was completely cut off. Thus being freed from the three modes of material nature and placed in transcendence there was no more any chance of birth and death being freed from material form.
SB 1.15.32 (1965): Just hearing about Lord Krishna' s returuing back to His abode and on understanding of the end of Yadu dynasty's earthly manifestation, Maharaj Yudhisthir decided alone for going back to Home back to Godhead.
SB 1.15.33 (1965): Kunti also after overhearing from Arjuna all about the end of the Yadu dynasty and disappearance of Lord Krishna, engaged herself with full attention in the devotional service of the transcendence Personality of Godhead and thus became released from the course of material existence.
SB 1.15.34 (1965): The Supreme unborn Lord Sri Krishna caused the members of the Yadu dynasty relinquishing the body by which He took away the burden of the world. The action was like picking out the thorn by a thorn although both of them are equal to the controller.
SB 1.15.35 (1965): The Supreme Lord let go that body which was manifested by Him in the matter of diminishing the burden of the earth as much as He relinquishes His body like the magician in the matter of accepting different bodies like incarnation of Fish etc.
SB 1.15.36 (1965): When the Personality of Godhead Lord Krishna left this earthly planet in His self-same form, from that date verily Kali who appeared slightly before, became fully manifested for creating inauspiousness for those who are endowed with poor fund of knowledge.
SB 1.15.37 (1965): Maharaj Yudhisthir was intelligent enough to understand about the influence of the age of Kali gradually expanding avarice, falsehood, cheating and violence all over the capital, state, home and individual person and wisely he prepared himself for starting from home and he dressed himself likewise.
SB 1.15.38 (1965): Thereafter he enthroned his grandson who was equally qualified and trained up, in the capital of Hastinapur as the emperor and master of all the land outskirted by the seas.
SB 1.15.39 (1965): Then he posted Vajra the son of Aniruddha (grandson of Lord Krishna) at Mathura as the King of Surasena and afterwards capable Maharaj Yudhisthir performed sacrifice of the name Prajapati and placed in himself the fire for quitting household life.
SB 1.15.40 (1965): Maharaj at once relinquished all his garment belt and ornaments of a royal order and became completely uninterested unattached to all sorts of attachment.
SB 1.15.41 (1965): Thus he amalgamated all the organs of senses in to the mind, then mind into life, life into breathing, the total existence into the embodiment of five elements and body unto the death and as pure self, he was free from material conception of life.
SB 1.15.42 (1965): Thus conceiving annihilation of the gross body of five elements in the three qualitative modes of material nature merged them in one nescience and then again he absorbed nescience in self Brahman which is inexhaustible at all circumstances.
SB 1.15.43 (1965): After that Maharaj Yudhisthir dressed himself by torn clothings, gave up eating of all solid foodstuff, voluntarily became dumb and unlocked his bunch of hairs. All these combined he was seen just like an urchin mad man without any activity. He did not any more depend for anything upon his brothers neither did he hear anything just like a deafman.
SB 1.15.44 (1965): He then started towards the northern side, the path which was accepted by his forefathers and great men just to devote himself completely in the thought of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. And he lived in that way wherever he went.
SB 1.15.45 (1965): The younger brothers of Maharaj Yudhisthir observed it also that the age of Kali had already ushered in all the world over and the citizens of the kingdom were already affected by the influence of irreligiosity. They, therefore, decidedly followed the foot prints of their elder brother.
SB 1.15.46 (1965): They had all performed all the priciples of religiosities and as a result of this, rightly they decided that the lotus feet of Lord Sri Krishna is the Supreme goal of everytime and therefore they sustained within their mind uninterruptedly.
SB 1.15.47-48 (1965): They attained the spiritual sky which is dominated by the Supreme Narayana Lord Krishna by pure consciousness due to constant remembrance in devotion. This is attained by them only who are fixed up in one supreme Lord without deviation. Such abode of the Lord Sri Krishna, known as Goloka Vrindaban, is not attainable by persons who are absorbed in material conceptions of life but the Pandavas being completely washed off from all material contamination attained the place in the very self-same body.
SB 1.15.49 (1965): Vidura, also while he was on pilgrimage, left his body at Pravash; and because he was full in thought of Lord Krishna he was received by the denizens of Pitriloka planet where he returned back in his original post.
SB 1.15.50 (1965): Droupadi also saw it that her husbands without caring for her were leaving home and she knew well about Lord Vasudeva Krishna the Personality of Godhead; she and Subhadra also became absorbed in thoughts of Krishna and got the same result like their husbands.
SB 1.15.51 (1965): The statement of the departure of the sons of Pandu for the ultimate goal of life back to home back to Godhead is full of auspiciousness and perfectly pure. Anyone who therefore, hears this narration with devotional faith do certainly over gains devotional service of the Lord, the highest perfection of life.