Sūta Gosvāmī says, dharmasya hy āpavargyasya: [SB 1.2.9] the purpose of dharma, or a system of religion, is to take one along the path toward liberation from birth and death. The word apavarga is very significant: it means the negation of pavarga, the miseries of material existence. In Sanskrit linguistics, pavarga indicates the letters pa, pha, ba, bha, and ma, each of which stands for one of the material miseries. PA: indicates pariśrama, hard labor. In this material world, you have to work very hard for sense gratification. PHA: indicates phenilā, foam. When you work very hard, foam sometimes comes from your mouth. We often see this among horses or other animals. BA: indicates byarthatā, frustration. In spite of working very hard, one feels frustration. bha indicates bhaya, fear. Although one works very hard, still one is fearful about what will happen. And finally, MA: indicates mṛtyu, death. We work so hard, day and night, and still death comes. The scientific world is working so hard to defeat death, but the scientists themselves are dying. They cannot stop death. They can create some atom bomb to kill millions of people, but they cannot create something that will stop death. That is not possible. So, the word pavarga—indicating the letters pa, pha, ba, bha, and ma—represents five kinds of miseries in this material world.
Posted on: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 18:10:22 +0000
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