Texts 34-35

Devanagari

वर्षवातातपहिमघर्मकालगुणाननु ।
सहमानौ श्वासरोधविनिर्धूतमनोमलौ ॥ ३४ ॥
शीर्णपर्णानिलाहारावुपशान्तेन चेतसा ।
मत्त: कामानभीप्सन्तौ मदाराधनमीहतु: ॥ ३५ ॥

Text

Texto

varṣa-vātātapa-hima-
gharma-kāla-guṇān anu
sahamānau śvāsa-rodha-
vinirdhūta-mano-malau

śīrṇa-parṇānilāhārāv
upaśāntena cetasā
mattaḥ kāmān abhīpsantau
mad-ārādhanam īhatuḥ

Synonyms

Palabra por palabra

varṣa — the rain; vāta — strong wind; ātapa — strong sunshine; hima — severe cold; gharma — heat; kāla-guṇān anu — according to seasonal changes; sahamānau — by enduring; śvāsa-rodha — by practicing yoga, controlling the breath; vinirdhūta — the dirty things accumulated in the mind were completely washed away; manaḥ-malau — the mind became clean, free from material contamination; śīrṇa — rejected, dry; parṇa — leaves from the trees; anila — and air; āhārau — eating; upaśāntena — peaceful; cetasā — with a fully controlled mind; mattaḥ — from Me; kāmān abhīpsantau — desiring to beg some benediction; mat — My; ārādhanam — worship; īhatuḥ — you both executed.

varṣa — la lluvia; vāta — fuerte viento; ātapa — intensa luz solar; hima — frío intenso; gharma — calor; kāla-guṇān anu — en el curso de las estaciones; sahamānau — soportando; śvāsa-rodha — con la práctica del yoga, controlando el aliento; vinirdhūta — la mente se purificó de todas las cosas sucias acumuladas en ella; manaḥ-malau — la mente quedó limpia, libre de contaminación material; śīrṇa — rechazadas, secas; parṇa — hojas de los árboles; anila — y aire; āhārau — comiendo; upaśāntena — pacífica; cetasā — con la mente perfectamente controlada; mattaḥ — de Mí; kāmān abhīpsantau — deseando pedir alguna bendición; mat — Mi; ārādhanam — adoración; īhatuḥ — ambos realizaron.

Translation

Traducción

My dear father and mother, you endured rain, wind, strong sun, scorching heat and severe cold, suffering all sorts of inconvenience according to different seasons. By practicing prāṇāyāma to control the air within the body through yoga, and by eating only air and dry leaves fallen from the trees, you cleansed from your minds all dirty things. In this way, desiring a benediction from Me, you worshiped Me with peaceful minds.

Mis queridos padres, ustedes soportaron la lluvia, el viento, soles intensos, calores abrasadores y fríos terribles, padeciendo toda clase de incomodidades en el curso de las estaciones. Mediante el control de los aires del cuerpo con las prácticas yóguicas de prāṇāyāma, alimentándose tan solo de aire y de hojas secas caídas de los árboles, purificaron su mente de toda clase de suciedades. De ese modo, con el deseo de recibir Mi bendición, Me adoraron con la mente serena.

Purport

Significado

Vasudeva and Devakī did not obtain the Supreme Personality of Godhead as their son very easily, nor does the Supreme Godhead accept merely anyone as His father and mother. Here we can see how Vasudeva and Devakī obtained Kṛṣṇa as their eternal son. In our own lives, we are meant to follow the principles indicated herewith for getting good children. Of course, it is not possible for everyone to get Kṛṣṇa as his son, but at least one can get very good sons and daughters for the benefit of human society. In Bhagavad-gītā it is said that if human beings do not follow the spiritual way of life, there will be an increase of varṇa-saṅkara population, population begotten like cats and dogs, and the entire world will become like hell. Not practicing Kṛṣṇa consciousness but simply encouraging artificial means to check the population will be futile; the population will increase, and it will consist of varṇa-saṅkara, unwanted progeny. It is better to teach people how to beget children not like hogs and dogs, but in controlled life.

A Vasudeva y Devakī no les resultó fácil lograr por hijo a la Suprema Personalidad de Dios, pues el Dios Supremo no acepta a cualquiera como padre o madre. Este verso nos muestra la forma en que Vasudeva y Devakī lograron que Kṛṣṇa fuese su hijo eterno. En nuestra vida, a la hora de engendrar buenos hijos, también tenemos que seguir los principios que se indican en estos versos. Está claro que no todos podemos ser padres de Kṛṣṇa, pero, por lo menos, debemos aspirar a engendrar unos buenos hijos, que sean de beneficio para la sociedad humana. En el Bhagavad-gītā se dice que, si los seres humanos no siguen la senda espiritual en sus vidas, aumentará la población varṇa-saṅkara, concebida al modo de los perros y los gatos, y el mundo entero será un verdadero infierno. Si la gente no practica el proceso de conciencia de Kṛṣṇa, la simple propaganda para contener el crecimiento de la población por medios artificiales no servirá de nada; la población aumentará, y será una población varṇa-saṅkara, de hijos no deseados. Es mejor enseñar a la gente a engendrar hijos, pero no como los cerdos y los perros, sino siguiendo pautas de vida controlada.

Human life is meant not for becoming a hog or dog, but for tapo divyam, transcendental austerity. Everyone should be taught to undergo austerity, tapasya. Although it may not be possible to undergo tapasya like that of Pṛśni and Sutapā, the śāstra has given an opportunity for a method of tapasya very easy to perform — the saṅkīrtana movement. One cannot expect to undergo tapasya to get Kṛṣṇa as one’s child, yet simply by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra (kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya), one can become so pure that one becomes free from all the contamination of this material world (mukta-saṅgaḥ) and goes back home, back to Godhead (paraṁ vrajet). The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, therefore, is teaching people not to adopt artificial means of happiness, but to take the real path of happiness as prescribed in the śāstra — the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra — and become perfect in every aspect of material existence.