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15:2515:25, 5 September 2023 diff hist −11‎ It must be accepted that it was so (Maharaja Pariksit anger towards Samika Rsi) ordained by the supreme will of the Lord. The King was a great devotee of the Lord, and the saint was also as good as the King ‎No edit summary current
15:1715:17, 5 September 2023 diff hist +30‎ To produce a new species of humanity at the present moment on the basis of God consciousness and perfection of human life, the ideology of godly communism, the world has to again follow in the footsteps of kings like Maharaja Yudhisthira or Pariksit ‎No edit summary current
15:1515:15, 5 September 2023 diff hist −10‎ To learn this science one should take shelter of the representative of Sri Sukadeva and follow in the footsteps of Maharaja Pariksit without foolishly attempting to interpret, thereby committing a great offense at the feet of the Lord ‎No edit summary
15:1115:11, 5 September 2023 diff hist +52‎ This child (Pariksit) will be almost as good as Lord Sri Krsna by following in His footsteps. In magnanimity he will become as great as King Rantideva. And in religion he will be like Maharaja Yayati ‎No edit summary current
15:0615:06, 5 September 2023 diff hist −10‎ The human society should recognize the importance of the cow and the bull and thus give all protection to these important animals, following in the footsteps of Maharaja Pariksit ‎No edit summary
15:0415:04, 5 September 2023 diff hist +52‎ One must follow in the footsteps of great kings like Maharaja Ambarisa or Maharaja Pariksit and hear it (Srimad-Bhagavatam) from a bona fide representative of Sukadeva Gosvami ‎No edit summary
15:0315:03, 5 September 2023 diff hist +30‎ One has to follow in the footsteps of great sages and devotees like Maitreya & Vidura, Pariksit & Sukadeva Gosvami, and engage in the transcendental devotional service of God if one would know His ultimate feature, which is above Brahman and Paramatma ‎No edit summary
14:5514:55, 5 September 2023 diff hist −12‎ Footsteps of Maharaja Pariksit ‎No edit summary current
14:5014:50, 5 September 2023 diff hist −10‎ Following in the footsteps of Maharaja Pariksit, it is the duty of all executive heads of states to see that the principles of religion, namely austerity, cleanliness, mercy and truthfulness, are established in the state ‎No edit summary current
14:4614:46, 5 September 2023 diff hist +30‎ Anyone who follows in the footsteps of either the ideal reciter or the ideal hearer, Sukadeva Gosvami and Maharaja Pariksit respectively, will undoubtedly attain salvation like them ‎No edit summary
14:4014:40, 5 September 2023 diff hist +11‎ We should take example, or instruction, from the behavior of Pariksit Maharaja that everyone is on the threshold of death, but the foolish person, they do not know. Foolish person thinks that, "I shall live forever." That is foolishness ‎No edit summary current
14:3814:38, 5 September 2023 diff hist −11‎ This example of Maharaja Pariksit's behavior, his remaining patient even at the last point of his life, his undisturbed condition of mind, is an example of reservation ‎No edit summary current
14:3214:32, 5 September 2023 diff hist +11‎ The common man may be able to attain to such a plane (of the transcendental pastimes of the Lord in Vrndavana, or even at Dvaraka) by the gradual process of service and inquiries, as we shall see in the behavior of Maharaja Pariksit ‎No edit summary
14:3114:31, 5 September 2023 diff hist +11‎ Maharaja Pariksit's behavior, his remaining patient even at the last point of his life, his undisturbed condition of mind, is an example of reservation. This is one of the characteristics of a devotee who has developed ecstatic love for Krsna ‎No edit summary
14:3014:30, 5 September 2023 diff hist +33‎ As the Lord is never envious of anyone, so also the Lord's devotee is never envious of anyone. The only justification for Maharaja Pariksit's behavior is that it was ordained by the Lord ‎No edit summary current

10:5210:52, 19 August 2023 diff hist +4,169‎ When he (Pariksit) was assured of his death on a fixed date, he became more determined in the transcendental loving service of Lord Krsna by complete fasting on the bank of the transcendental River Yamuna, which flows down by the capital of Hastinapura ‎No edit summary
10:5110:51, 19 August 2023 diff hist +3,211‎ Thus the King, Maharaja Pariksit, sat to fast until death. All the demigods of the higher planets praised the King's actions and in pleasure continually scattered flowers over the earth and beat celestial drums ‎No edit summary
10:4910:49, 19 August 2023 diff hist +5,704‎ This narration was presented by Sukadeva Gosvami when Maharaja Pariksit was prepared to give up his body, fasting on the bank of the Ganges ‎No edit summary
10:4810:48, 19 August 2023 diff hist +4,134‎ The river (Ganges, by which the King (Pariksit) sat to fast) carries the most auspicious water, which is mixed with the dust of the lotus feet of the Lord and tulasi leaves ‎No edit summary current
10:4610:46, 19 August 2023 diff hist +4,942‎ The hunger and thirst from my fast do not disturb me, he (Maharaja Pariksit) said ‎No edit summary
10:4510:45, 19 August 2023 diff hist +3,978‎ Pariksit was a great emperor & possessed all the opulences of his acquired kingdom. He was so exalted that he was increasing the prestige of the Pandu dynasty. Why did he give up everything to sit down on the bank of the Ganges and fast until death? ‎No edit summary
10:4410:44, 19 August 2023 diff hist +3,916‎ Other transcendentalists, the great sages and mystics who assembled together because of Maharaja Pariksit's fasting unto death, were quite anxious to see him, for he was going back to Godhead ‎No edit summary
10:4310:43, 19 August 2023 diff hist +4,008‎ Maharaja Pariksit was interested in the topics of the Lord because factually he felt that by hearing such a nectarean message from the mouth of Sukadeva Gosvami he was not feeling any exhaustion, even though he was fasting because of his imminent death ‎No edit summary
10:4010:40, 19 August 2023 diff hist +3,492‎ From Mahabharata, Sabha-parva (4.11) it is understood that he was also present in the royal assembly of Maharaja Yudhisthira and at the fasting of Maharaja Pariksit ‎No edit summary current
10:3610:36, 19 August 2023 diff hist +3,176‎ Even up to the time of Maharaja Pariksit there were interplanetary communications, and the news of Maharaja Pariksit's fasting unto death to attain salvation reached the higher planets in the sky where the intelligent demigods live ‎No edit summary
10:3510:35, 19 August 2023 diff hist +2,613‎ Emperor Pariksit received the information of his death in time, and he at once left his kingdom and family and sat down on the bank of the Ganges to fast till death ‎No edit summary
10:3310:33, 19 August 2023 diff hist +2,566‎ Consequently there was nothing undesirable in his (Pariksit Maharaja's) opulence and administration. Then why should he give up all these favorable circumstances and sit down on the bank of the Ganges, fasting till death? This is astonishing ‎No edit summary
10:3110:31, 19 August 2023 diff hist +3,987‎ Because of my drinking the nectar of the message of the infallible Personality of Godhead, which is flowing down from the ocean of your (Sukadeva Gosvami's) speeches, I (Maharaja Pariksit) do not feel any sort of exhaustion due to my fasting ‎No edit summary
10:3010:30, 19 August 2023 diff hist +5,354‎ As a human being, he (Maharaja Pariksit) was certainly both hungry and thirsty, and therefore Sukadeva Gosvami might have wanted to stop narrating the transcendental topics of Krsna; but despite his fast, Maharaja Pariksit was not at all fatigued ‎No edit summary
10:2710:27, 19 August 2023 diff hist +4,873‎ Although there were many others who assembled at the place where Pariksit was fasting, the natural conclusion is that there was no topic other than the glorification of Krsna, because the principal speaker was Sukadeva and the chief audience was Pariksit ‎No edit summary current
10:2210:22, 19 August 2023 diff hist +4,533‎ Pariksit was destined to give up his body at the end of seven days, and thus he decided to continue remembering the Lord by His association with the topics of Srimad-Bhagavatam, and thus to quit his body in full consciousness of the presence of the Lord ‎No edit summary
10:2110:21, 19 August 2023 diff hist +34‎ Pariksit Maharaja because of his many obligations to Krsna, intelligently decided to think of Krsna constantly during the last days of his life ‎No edit summary
10:1910:19, 19 August 2023 diff hist +4,221‎ Maharaja Pariksit decided to meditate upon the lotus feet of Lord Sri Krsna, who is Mukunda, or the giver of liberations of all description ‎No edit summary current
10:1810:18, 19 August 2023 diff hist +6,210‎ It was decided that "You (Pariksit) hear Srimad-Bhagavatam the seven days." The Sukadeva Gosvami spoke, & he, listened from Sukadeva, and he became perfect within seven days. Therefore in India they observe this Bhagavat-saptaha. That is simply official ‎No edit summary
10:1610:16, 19 August 2023 diff hist +6,029‎ He (Maharaja Pariksit) decided to prepare himself for his imminent death and find out the way to go back to Godhead ‎No edit summary
10:1310:13, 19 August 2023 diff hist +3,201‎ All the sages who were assembled there also praised the decision of Maharaja Pariksit and they expressed their approval by saying, "Very good." Naturally the sages are inclined to do good to common men, for they have all the qualitative powers of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
10:0810:08, 19 August 2023 diff hist +18,257‎ When that weapon was unleashed, Pariksit Maharaja's mother, Uttara, felt that she was going to have a miscarriage, and therefore she approached Krsna, saying, - Please save me ‎No edit summary
10:0510:05, 19 August 2023 diff hist +5,200‎ When Pariksit Maharaja's mother, Uttara, approached Krsna, Krsna, seeing the danger of abortion, entered her womb as the Supersoul and saved Maharaja Pariksit ‎No edit summary
10:0410:04, 19 August 2023 diff hist +34,607‎ When Maharaja Pariksit was in the womb of his mother, Uttara, Krsna saved him from the attack of the brahmastra atomic weapon of Asvatthama ‎No edit summary
10:0210:02, 19 August 2023 diff hist +6,311‎ When he (Maharaja Pariksit) was in the womb of his mother, a brahmastra weapon was released by Asvatthama to kill the child ‎No edit summary current
09:4109:41, 19 August 2023 diff hist +2,153‎ This (Maharaja Pariksit is miraculously saved in the womb of his mother) was caused by Drauni (Asvatthama), Acarya Drona's son, who killed the five sons of Draupadi while they were asleep, for which he was punished by Arjuna ‎No edit summary
09:3809:38, 19 August 2023 diff hist +2,913‎ The sage Saunaka said: The womb of Uttara, mother of Maharaja Pariksit, was spoiled by the dreadful and invincible brahmastra weapon released by Asvatthama. But Maharaja Pariksit was saved by the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 19 August 2023 diff hist +3,356‎ The Lord was always with him (Maharaj Pariksit), even from the time when he was helplessly lying in the womb of his mother and was attacked by the blazing brahmastra weapon of Asvatthama ‎No edit summary current
09:3509:35, 19 August 2023 diff hist +4,744‎ The Lord is present for the devotee by His acts and glories, and therefore Maharaja Pariksit felt the presence of the Lord when He was glorified by His acts, especially when he was saved by the Lord in the womb of his mother ‎No edit summary current
09:3409:34, 19 August 2023 diff hist +11‎ The first reason (Visnu saved Pariksit) is that the child in the womb of his mother was spotless due to his being a pure devotee of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
09:0909:09, 19 August 2023 diff hist +9‎ The boy (Abhimanyu) left his wife, Uttara, mother of Maharaja Pariksit. The Lord is always pleased to satisfy His devotees in any capacity. Only His devotees can play the parts of His relatives. The Lord is absolute ‎No edit summary current
09:0809:08, 19 August 2023 diff hist +2,269‎ The birth of Maharaja Pariksit is wonderful because in the womb of his mother he was protected by the Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary current
09:0609:06, 19 August 2023 diff hist +1,731‎ Sukadeva Gosvami said: My dear King Pariksit, you were burned by the brahmastra of Asvatthama, but when Lord Krsna entered the womb of your mother, you were saved ‎No edit summary
09:0509:05, 19 August 2023 diff hist +2,418‎ Sri Suta Gosvami said: Due to the mercy of the Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, who acts wonderfully, Maharaja Pariksit, though struck by the weapon of the son of Drona in his mother's womb, could not be burned ‎No edit summary
09:0409:04, 19 August 2023 diff hist +2,957‎ O son of Bhrgu (Saunaka) when the child Pariksit, the great fighter, was in the womb of his mother, Uttara, and was suffering from the burning heat of the brahmastra (thrown by Asvatthama), he could observe the Supreme Lord coming to him ‎No edit summary

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