Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.33
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
An expert physician treats his patient with a therapeutic diet. For example, milk preparations sometimes cause disorder of the bowels, but the very same milk converted into curd and mixed with some other remedial ingredients cures such disorders. Similarly, the threefold miseries of material existence cannot be mitigated simply by material activities. Such activities have to be spiritualized, just as by fire iron is made red-hot, and thereby the action of fire begins. Similarly, the material conception of a thing is at once changed as soon as it is put into the service of the Lord. That is the secret of spiritual success. We should not try to lord it over the material nature, nor should we reject material things. The best way to make the best use of a bad bargain is to use everything in relation with the supreme spiritual being. Everything is an emanation from the Supreme Spirit, and by His inconceivable power He can convert spirit into matter and matter into spirit. Therefore a material thing (so-called) is at once turned into a spiritual force by the great will of the Lord. The necessary condition for such a change is to employ so-called matter in the service of the spirit. That is the way to treat our material diseases and elevate ourselves to the spiritual plane where there is no misery, no lamentation and no fear. When everything is thus employed in the service of the Lord, we can experience that there is nothing except the Supreme Brahman. The Vedic mantra that “everything is Brahman” is thus realized by us.
“How can karma, the cause of saṁsāra, destroy the three miseries?” In two verses, examples are given to show that by different combinations, the destruction can occur. That ghee or some other substance which causes disease (āmayaḥ) when infused (cikitsitam) with medicines (dravyam) does not protect the disease (na punāti), but destroys the disease. The word na punāti (it does not purify) here means “it does not protect.”
- JTM SB 01-05-33 - 2019-06-13 ISKCON Melbourne
- Priya Valabha Mataji SB 01-05-33 Hindi
- UM SB 01-05-33-36 - 2012-05-15 Soho
- SDAP SB 01-05-33 - 2012-01-02 ISKCON Melbourne
- SKrishnaPr SB 01-05-33-34
- BRasamritaSw SB 01-05-33 - 2018-07-20 Bhaktivedanta Manor
- JPS SB 01-05-33 - 1990-07-22 Secundrabad
- PrahladAnS SB 01-05-33 - The Cure for all Diseases - 1998-06-13 Radhadesh
- Romapada Sw SB 01-05-33-35 - Bhakti Yoga vs Kriya Yoga - 2008-05-17 Detroit
- SP Tamil Translation SB 01-05-33 - Lower Planets or Liberation - 1974-08-14 VRN
- SP Telugu Translation SB 01-05-33-35 - 2012-09-30 ISKCON Tirupati
- SP SB 1-05-33 Vrindavan 1974-08-14 Lower Planets or Liberation
- Which of my 'binding' activities could be repurposed as service rather than abandoned?
- Where am I afraid to use my old energies because I haven't trusted that they can be redirected?
My note
Source: vedabase.io