Hellish condition of life
Expressions researched:
"hellish condition of life"
|"hellish condition of material life"
|"hellish condition of materialistic life"
|"hellish conditional life"
|"hellish conditions life after life"
|"hellish conditions of life"
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 3
O Lord, we pray that You let us be born in any hellish condition of life, just as long as our hearts and minds are always engaged in the service of Your lotus feet, our words are made beautiful (by speaking of Your activities) just as tulasī leaves are beautified when offered unto Your lotus feet, and as long as our ears are always filled with the chanting of Your transcendental qualities.
Jaya and Vijaya, the two doorkeepers who checked them from entering the Vaikuṇṭha planet, were certainly offenders, but as Vaiṣṇavas, the four sages should not have cursed them in anger. After the incident, they became conscious that they had done wrong by cursing the devotees of the Lord, and they prayed to the Lord that even in the hellish condition of life their minds might not be distracted from the engagement of service to the lotus feet of Lord Nārāyaṇa.
There is a Bengali proverb, "The person for whom I have stolen accuses me of being a thief." The family members, for whom an attached person acts in so many criminal ways, are never satisfied. In illusion an attached person serves such family members, and by serving them he is destined to enter into a hellish condition of life. For example, a thief steals something to maintain his family, and he is caught and imprisoned. This is the sum and substance of material existence and attachment to material society, friendship and love.
Page Title: | Hellish condition of life |
Compiler: | Alakananda, Mayapur |
Created: | 20 of May, 2011 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=15, CC=2, OB=5, Lec=61, Con=10, Let=2 |
No. of Quotes: | 95 |