{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/637ad3ca7d0f940010bd5490/637b4f0ab731010012478012?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Chapter 06: Brahmā Satisfies Lord Śiva","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/637ad3ca7d0f940010bd5490/1668994170862-2ae37bd26bab76ee424c36c4ff0e7c97.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>All the priests and other members of the sacrificial assembly and all the demigods, having been defeated by the soldiers of Lord Śiva and injured by weapons like tridents and swords, approached Lord Brahmā with great fear. After offering him obeisances, they began to speak in detail of all the events which had taken place.</p><p><a href=\"https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/4/6/3/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Text 3:</strong></a>&nbsp;Both Lord Brahmā and Viṣṇu had already known that such events would occur in the sacrificial arena of Dakṣa, and knowing beforehand, they did not go to the sacrifice.</p><p><a href=\"https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/4/6/4/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Text 4:</strong></a>&nbsp;When Lord Brahmā heard everything from the demigods and the members who had attended the sacrifice, he replied: You cannot be happy in executing a sacrifice if you blaspheme a great personality and thereby offend his lotus feet. You cannot have happiness in that way.</p><p><a href=\"https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/4/6/5/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Text 5:</strong></a>&nbsp;You have excluded Lord Śiva from taking part in the sacrificial results, and therefore you are all offenders at his lotus feet. Still, if you go without mental reservations and surrender unto him and fall down at his lotus feet, he will be very pleased.</p><p><a href=\"https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/4/6/6/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Text 6:</strong></a>&nbsp;Lord Brahmā also advised them that Lord Śiva is so powerful that by his anger all the planets and their chief controllers can be destroyed immediately. Also, he said that Lord Śiva was especially sorry because he had recently lost his dear wife and was also very much afflicted by the unkind words of Dakṣa. Under the circumstances, Lord Brahmā suggested, it would behoove them to go at once and beg his pardon.</p><p><a href=\"https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/4/6/7/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Text 7:</strong></a>&nbsp;Lord Brahmā said that no one — not even himself, Indra, all the members assembled in the sacrificial arena or all the sages — could know how powerful Lord Śiva is. Under the circumstances, who would dare to commit an offense at his lotus feet?</p><p><a href=\"https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/4/6/8/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Text 8:</strong></a>&nbsp;After thus instructing all the demigods, the Pitās and the lords of the living entities, Lord Brahmā took them with him and left for the abode of Lord Śiva, known as the Kailāsa Hill.</p><p><a href=\"https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/4/6/9/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Text 9:</strong></a>&nbsp;The abode known as Kailāsa is full of different herbs and vegetables, and it is sanctified by Vedic hymns and mystic yoga practice. Thus the residents of that abode are demigods by birth and have all mystic powers. Besides them there are other human beings, who are known as Kinnaras and Gandharvas and are accompanied by their beautiful wives, who are known as Apsarās, or angels.</p><p><a href=\"https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/4/6/10/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Text 10:</strong></a>&nbsp;Kailāsa is full of mountains filled with all kinds of valuable jewels and minerals and surrounded by all varieties of valuable trees and plants. The top of the hill is nicely decorated by various types of deer.</p><p><a href=\"https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/4/6/11/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Text 11:</strong></a>&nbsp;There are many waterfalls, and in the mountains there are many beautiful caves in which the very beautiful wives of the mystics are found.</p><p><a href=\"https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/4/6/12/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Text 12:</strong></a>&nbsp;On Kailāsa Hill there is always the rhythmical sound of the peacocks[…]</p>","author_name":"Bhaktivedanta Vedic Library"}