Empower (BG and SB)
Bhagavad-gita As It Is
BG Chapters 1 - 6
The demigods are empowered administrators of material affairs. The supply of air, light, water and all other benedictions for maintaining the body and soul of every living entity is entrusted to the demigods, who are innumerable assistants in different parts of the body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.33.30-31) affirms:
- naitat samācarej jātu
- manasāpi hy anīśvaraḥ
- vinaśyaty ācaran mauḍhyād
- yathā 'rudro 'bdhi-jaṁ viṣam
- īśvarāṇāṁ vacaḥ satyaṁ
- tathaivācaritaṁ kvacit
- teṣāṁ yat sva-vaco-yuktaṁ
- buddhimāṁs tat samācaret
"One should simply follow the instructions of the Lord and His empowered servants. Their instructions are all good for us, and any intelligent person will perform them as instructed. However, one should guard against trying to imitate their actions. One should not try to drink the ocean of poison in imitation of Lord Śiva."
If a man gets some ministership in the government by worshiping a political leader, he considers that he has achieved a great boon. All of them are therefore kowtowing to the so-called leaders or "big guns" in order to achieve temporary boons, and they indeed achieve such things. Such foolish men are not interested in Kṛṣṇa consciousness for the permanent solution to the hardships of material existence. They are all after sense enjoyment, and to get a little facility for sense enjoyment they are attracted to worship empowered living entities known as demigods.
| Page Title: | Empower (BG and SB) |
| Compiler: | Visnu Murti, MadhuGopaldas, Gopinath |
| Created: | 29 of Jul, 2010 |
| Totals by Section: | BG=3, SB=83, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=0, Let=0 |
| No. of Quotes: | 86 |