SB (1965) Seventeenth Chapter - Punishment And Reward of Kali
SB 1.17.1 (1965): Suta Goswami addressed the Rishis headed by Sounaka and said, 'After reaching the place Maharaj Parikshit observed it that a lower caste Sudra dressed like a king with logger in the hand was just beating a pair of cow and bull, as if they were bereft of the owner.'
SB 1.17.2 (1965): The bull was as white as the white Lotus flower and was terrified of being beaten by the Sudra; it was too much afraid of him and thus trembling and standing on one leg was urinating.
SB 1.17.3 (1965): The cow is also as beneficial as one could draw out religious principles from her, but she is now rendered poor, without any calf and being beaten by the leg of a Sudra, she is too much distressed with tears in her eyes and being too weak she is hankering after some grass on the field.
SB 1.17.4 (1965): Maharaj Parikshit seated on the gold embossed chariot and well equipped with arrows and bow asked him in an exonerating sound of cloud.
SB 1.17.5 (1965): Oh who are you ? You appear to be strong enough and still you dare to kill, within my protection, those who are helpless ? By dress you pose to be a manly god (King) but by your deeds you are against the principles of the twice born Kshatriya.
SB 1.17.6 (1965): You rogue do you dare to beat an innocent cow on account of Lord Krishna's and Arjuna's, the carrier of Gandibha bow, being out of sight ? As you are beating the innocent in a secluded place, you stand to be a culprit and therefore deserve to be killed.
SB 1.17.7 (1965): Thereafter he asked the bull, 'Oh ! who are you either the bull as white as the white lotus or a demigod ? You have lost your three legs and are moving on one only. If you are some demigod and causing us berievement in such form of a bull ?'
SB 1.17.8 (1965): For the first time I have seen you only berieving with tears in the eyes in the kingdom well protected by the arms of the kings of Kuru dynasty; otherwise on the surface of the earth nobody has ever shed tears on account of royal negligence.
SB 1.17.9 (1965): Oh the son of Surabhi, you need not lament any more now; there is no cause of your being afraid of from this lower class Sudra. And oh mother cow so long I am living as the ruler and subduer of all envious, there is no cause for your crying; there is everything good for you.
SB 1.17.10-11 (1965): Oh the chaste, the king, in whose state all kinds of born living beings are made to be terrified by the miscreants, such illusioned king's good name, duration of life, next good life all do vanish away. It is the prime duty of the king certainly to subdue first the sufferings of the sufferers and as such I must kill this man who is the most wretched because he is revolter against other living beings.
SB 1.17.12 (1965): He repeatedly addressed and enquired from the bull, "Oh the son of Surabhi, who has cut off your three legs ? In the state of the kings who are obedient to the laws of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna there is nobody who may be unhappy like you."
SB 1.17.13 (1965): Oh the bull you are all offenceless and honest all round and therefore I wish all good unto you. Please let me know who is the doer of your deformation which is blackmailing the reputation of the sons of Pritha.
SB 1.17.14 (1965): Anyone who is accustomed to cause suffering on offenceless living beings must be afraid of me anywhere and everywhere in the world. And by curbing down the dishonest miscreants automatically auspiciousness is bestowed upon the offenceless.
SB 1.17.15 (1965): Any upstart living being who commits offence by torturing offenceless living beings, eventhough he may be a denizen of a heavenly planet, shall be uprooted by me directly by his arms with decorations of dress and ornaments.
SB 1.17.16 (1965): It is the supreme duty of the ruling king to give all protection to the law abiding persons while chastising others as they are ordained in the scriptures, who go astray even in ordinary times when there is nothing untoward happening.
SB 1.17.17 (1965): The personality of religiosity said, all "these words as spoken by you are just befitting a person in the Pandava dynasty because captivated by the devotional qualities of them, even Lord Krishna the Personality of Godhead performed the duty of their messengers."
SB 1.17.18 (1965): Oh the greatest among the human beings, it is very difficult to ascertain the exact wrong doer who has caused our sufferings because we are bewildered by different opinions of theoretical philosophers.
SB 1.17.19 (1965): Some of the philosophers who decline all sorts of duality, declare that one is ownself responsible for one's personal happiness and distress. Others say superhuman power is responsible while somebody else say activity is responsible and the gross materialist says nature is the cause ultimately.
SB 1.17.20 (1965): There are some thinkers also according to whom nobody can ascertain the cause of distress by arguments neither one can know it by imagination nor anyone can express it by words. Oh the sage among the kings just make your own judgement by thinking over them by your own intelligence.
SB 1.17.21 (1965): Suta Goswami said, oh the best among the Brahmins, the emperor Parikshit thus hearing on the Personality of religiosity so speaking, He was full satisfied in his mind and without mistake or regret he counter replied to him.
SB 1.17.22 (1965): The king said, oh you are one who knows the truth of religiosity in the form of a bull, you are speaking just on the principle that the place which is fixed up for the person engaged in acts of irreligiosity, is also the place for the identifier. You are no other than the personality of religiosity.
SB 1.17.23 (1965): Alternatively—it is thus concluded that the Lord's energies are inconceivable and nobody is able to make an estimate of them either by mental speculaion or by jugglery of words.
SB 1.17.24 (1965): "In the age of Satya (truthfulness) your four legs were established by the four principles of Austerity, Cleanliness, Mercy, and Truthfulness. But it appears that your three legs are broken on account of partially rampant irreligiosities in the matter of pride, too much affection for woman and intoxicating habit."
SB 1.17.25 (1965): You are just standing on one leg or by one part of your existing truthfulness and you are some how or other pulling on with this but this quarrel-personified, being flourished by false representations, is trying to withdraw that also.
SB 1.17.26 (1965): By the Personality of Godhead the burden on the face of the globe was certainly diminished by Himself and by others induced by Him and when He was present as incarnatian by the movements of His auspicious foot prints all round auspiciousness was duly performed.
SB 1.17.27 (1965): Now she the chaste being forsaken as the most unfortunate by the Personality of Godhead as it were, she is with tears in the eyes lamenting her future for being ruled over and enjoyed by the lower class men posing as ruler.
SB 1.17.28 (1965): Maharaj Parikshit who could alone fight with one thousands of enemies, thus after pacifying the personality of religiousity as well as the earth took up his sharpen sword for killing the personality of Kali who is the cause of all irreligiosities.
SB 1.17.29 (1965): When the personality of Kali understood it that the king was willing to kill him, he at once gave up the dress of a king and under pressure of fearfulness completely surrendered unto him by his head.
SB 1.17.30 (1965): Maharaj Parikshit who was qualified for accepting surrender and worthy of being sung in the history, did not kill the poor surrendered and fallen down Kali but said it smiling, being compassionate as he was kind to the poor.
SB 1.17.31 (1965): We have inherited the fame of Arjuna and therefore as you have surrendered yourself with folded hands, you have by all means no fear of life neither you can remain in any land of my kingdom as you are the friend of irreligiosity.
SB 1.17.32 (1965): If the personality of Kali or irreligiosity is allowed to act as the mangod or executive head certainly the rank and file of irreligiosities like greed, falsehood, pilfery, incivility, renegation, misfortune, cheating, quarrel and vanity will follow all round.
SB 1.17.33 (1965): Oh the friend of irreligiosity you do not therefore deserve to remain in the place where in terms of religious principle and truthfulness sacrifices are performed by experts who know how to propagate the sacrificial activities for satisfaction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
SB 1.17.34 (1965): In all sacrificial ceremonies although sometimes some demigod is worshipped still by such sacrifice the Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead is worshipped; because He is the Supersoul of everyone and exists both inside and outside like the air and thus it is He only Who awards all welfare for the worshipper.
SB 1.17.35 (1965): Sri Suta Goswami then explained before the Rishis like Sounaka and others. He said that the personality of Kali thus being ordered by Maharaj Parikshit began to tremble in fear and seeing him like the personality of death Yamaraj ready to kill him, Kali said unto the king as follows:
SB 1.17.36 (1965): Oh your majesty, I may live anywhere and everywhere under your order but there and there I shall have to see you with bow and arrows as I can see.
SB 1.17.37 (1965): Therefore oh the chief amongst the protector of religiousities, your majesty may fix up some places for me where I can live permanently situated under the protection of your government.
SB 1.17.38 (1965): Suta Goswami said, "Maharaj Parikshit, thus being prayed for by the personality of Kali, gave him permission to reside in four different places where gambling, drinking, prostitution and slaughtering of animals are performed respectively."
SB 1.17.39 (1965): The personality of Kali asked for something more and on his begging so the King gave him permission to live where there is gold. Because wherever there is gold there are falsity, intoxication, lust, enviousness and at last all enmity.
SB 1.17.40 (1965): As such the personality of Kali was allowed by the direction of King Maharaj Parikshit the son of Uttara, to live in those five places as described above.
SB 1.17.41 (1965): Therefore anyone who desires progressively well being of oneself, must not be in contact with the above mentioned four irreligiousities and specially the king, the religionists, the public leaders and the Brahmins and Sanyasins are forbidden to do this.
SB 1.17.42 (1965): Thereafter the King re-established the lost legs of the personality of religiosity (the bull) and by encouraging activities, he sufficiently improved the condition of the earth.
SB 1.17.43-44 (1965): The most fortunate emperor Maharaj Parikshit who was entrusted with the Kingdom of Hastinapur by Maharaj Yudhisthir while he desired to retire for going in the forest, is now ruling over the world with great success on account of being glorified by the deeds of the kings of Kuru dynasty.
SB 1.17.45 (1965): Maharaj Parikshit the son of Abhimanyu is so experienced that by his expert administration and patronage only it has been possible for you to perform such sacrifice.