[Advaita-l] Bhagavatam quotes with meaning from Sri Nochur Swamigal speech: How to understand 'jagat mithyā' THE WORLD IS UNREAL

V Subrahmanian v.subrahmanian at gmail.com
Mon Oct 27 12:57:48 EDT 2025


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आत्मावास्यमिदं विश्वं यत्किञ्चिज्जगत्यां जगत्।
तेन त्यक्तेन भुञ्जीथा मा गृधः कस्य स्विद्धनम् १०। 8.1.10

Within this universe, the Supreme Brahman in His Supersoul feature is
present everywhere, wherever there are animate or inanimate beings.
Therefore, one should accept only that which is allotted to him; one should
not desire to infringe upon the property of others.

यावत्स्याद्गुणवैषम्यं तावन्नानात्वमात्मनः
नानात्वमात्मनो यावत्पारतन्त्र्यं तदैव हि ३२
यावदस्यास्वतन्त्रत्वं तावदीश्वरतो भयम्     11.10.32

As long as the living entity thinks that the modes of material nature have
separate existences, he will be obliged to take birth in many different
forms and will experience varieties of material existence. Therefore, the
living entity remains completely dependent on fruitive activities under the
modes of nature.
The conditioned soul who remains dependent on fruitive activities under the
material modes of nature will continue to fear Me, the Supreme Brahman,
since I impose the results of one’s fruitive activities.


In this chapter Shuka Maharishi says to Parikshit:
श्रीमद्भागवतपुराणम्/स्कन्धः १२/अध्यायः ५
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त्वं तु राजन् मरिष्येति पशुबुद्धिमिमां जहि ।
न जातः प्रागभूतोऽद्य देहवत्त्वं न नङ्‌क्ष्यसि ॥ २ ॥
O King, give up the animalistic mentality of thinking, “I am going to die.”
Unlike the body, you have not taken birth. There was not a time in the past
when you did not exist, and you are not about to be destroyed.
मृत्यवो नोपधक्ष्यन्ति मृत्यूनां मृत्युमीश्वरम् ॥ १० ॥
The snake-bird Takṣaka, sent by the curse of the brāhmaṇa, will not burn
your true self. The agents of death will never burn such a master of the
self as you, for you have already conquered all dangers on your path back
to Godhead.
अहं ब्रह्म परं धाम ब्रह्माहं परमं पदम् ।
एवं समीक्ष्य चात्मानम् आत्मन्याधाय निष्कले ॥ ११ ॥

दशन्तं तक्षकं पादे लेलिहानं विषाननैः ।
न द्रक्ष्यसि शरीरं च विश्वं च पृथगात्मनः ॥ १२ ॥

You should consider, “I am nondifferent from the Absolute Truth, the
supreme Brahman, and that Absolute Truth, the supreme Brahman, is
nondifferent from me.” Thus resigning yourself to the Supreme Soul, who is
free from all material misidentifications, you will not even notice the
snake-bird Takṣaka when he approaches with his poison-filled fangs and
bites your foot. Nor will you see your dying body or the material world
around you, because you will have realized yourself to be separate from
them.

These are from the Canto 12, chapter 6:
राजोवाच - सिद्धोऽस्म्यनुगृहीतोऽस्मि भवता करुणात्मना ।
श्रावितो यच्च मे साक्षादनादिनिधनो हरिः ॥२॥

Mahārāja Parīkṣit said: I have now achieved the purpose of my life, because
a great and merciful soul like you has shown such kindness to me. You have
personally spoken to me this narration of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, Hari, who is without beginning or end.

शब्दच्छेदः
नात्यद्भुतमहं मन्ये महतामच्युतात्मनाम् ।
अज्ञेषु तापतप्तेषु भूतेषु यदनुग्रहः ॥३॥
I do not consider it at all amazing that great souls such as yourself,
whose minds are always absorbed in the infallible Brahman, show mercy to
the foolish conditioned souls, tormented as we are by the problems of
material life.
भगवंस्तक्षकादिभ्यो मृत्युभ्यो न बिभेम्यहम् ।
प्रविष्टो ब्रह्म निर्वाणमभयं दर्शितं त्वया ॥५॥
My lord, I now have no fear of Takṣaka or any other living being, or even
of repeated deaths, because I have absorbed myself in that purely spiritual
Absolute Truth, which you have revealed and which destroys all fear.
अज्ञानं च निरस्तं मे ज्ञानविज्ञाननिष्ठया ।
भवता दर्शितं क्षेमं परं भगवतः पदम् ॥७॥
You have revealed to me that which is most auspicious, the supreme Brahman.
I am now fixed in knowledge and self-realization, and my ignorance has been
eradicated.

*Om Tat Sat*


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