{"id":112367,"date":"2024-01-28T13:54:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T12:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=112367"},"modified":"2024-01-28T13:54:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T12:54:19","slug":"the-three-sages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=112367","title":{"rendered":"THE THREE SAGES"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Once there were three sages, and these sages were discussing what is the best age to be delivered from material existence. One said, “I propose that Satya-yuga is the best age, because it is the golden age, the age of enlightenment. Just by a few hundred thousand years of meditation one can go back to Vaikuntha. That is my proposition.” The next sage said, “No, Treta-yuga is the age. We can do agnihotra, and just by offering grains and ghee into the fire, distributing gold to the brahmins, by this simple process we can get moksa and leave this world.” The third sage said, “Excuse me, but Dvapara-yuga is without a doubt the best age, because Krsna Bhagavan Himself is coming. Yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata. He comes in His original form and those who take birth in that Yuga can get the opportunity of the Lord’s personal association. So back and forth they were arguing, Satya, Treta, Dvapara, Satya, Treta, Dvapara. But there’s four ages, Satya-yuga, Treta-yuga, Dvapara-yuga and Kali-yuga. However, these sages would not even say the name of Kali, because it’s so inauspicious. What to speak of discussing it’s ill effects, they wouldn’t even mention the name. So after many years of discussion they came to no conclusion. So they said, “Well, let us go to Srila Vyasadeva, the greatest of all sages. He lives in the Himalayas, so lets go there and get his opinion.” So they went to Badrikashrama, and when they arrived there Vyasadeva was taking bath in a tank. “O great sage,” the rishis addressed him, “Of Satya, Treta and Dvapara, what is the best age for making spiritual advancement?” But he wouldn’t come out of the water. They pleaded and pleaded, and then out he came and he spoke, “Satyam satyam param satyam, kaler dosa-nidhe rajann asti hy eko mahan-guna \\ kirtanad eva krsnasya mukta-sangah param vrajet.” And then splash, back under the water he went. The sages asked each other, “Did you hear that?” “No,” one replied, “I blocked my ears as soon as I heard the name of Kali.” “Ask him again,” the third one said. “O great Srila Vyasadeva, could you please repeat yourself?” So out he came again, “Satyam satyam param satyam, kaler dosa-nidhe rajann…” And then he explained the verse, “The highest truth, the truth of all truths, is that although this Kali-yuga is an ocean of faults, there is still one good quality about this age. Simply by chanting the Hare Krsna mahamantra, one can become free from material bondage and be promoted to the transcendental kingdom.”
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