{"id":113871,"date":"2025-01-28T11:53:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T10:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=113871"},"modified":"2025-01-28T11:53:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T10:53:02","slug":"the-duty-of-the-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=113871","title":{"rendered":"The duty of the King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Translation<br \/>\n\u015ar\u012b Yudhi\u1e63\u1e6dhira said: O Govinda, I desire to worship Your auspicious, opulent expansions by the R\u0101jas\u016bya sacrifice, the king of Vedic ceremonies. Please make our endeavor a success, my Lord.<br \/>\nPurport<br \/>\n\u015ar\u012bla \u015ar\u012bdhara Sv\u0101m\u012b states that the word vibh\u016bt\u012b\u1e25 refers to Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s expansions (a\u1e41\u015b\u0101n), and \u015ar\u012bla Vi\u015bvan\u0101tha Cakravart\u012b \u1e6ch\u0101kura further explains that here the word vibh\u016bt\u012b\u1e25 refers to Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s opulent expansions within this world, such as the demigods and other empowered beings. Thus \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da treats this verse as follows in K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, the Supreme Personality of Godhead: \u201cMy dear Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, the sacrifice known as the R\u0101jas\u016bya-yaj\u00f1a is to be performed by the emperor, and it is considered to be the king of all sacrifices. By performing this sacrifice, I wish to satisfy all the demigods, who are Your empowered representatives within this material world, and I wish that You will kindly help me in this great adventure so that it may be successfully executed. As far as the P\u0101\u1e47\u1e0davas are concerned, we have nothing to ask from the demigods. We are personally fully satisfied by being Your devotees. As you say in the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101, \u2018Persons who are bewildered by material desires worship the demigods,\u2019 but our purpose is different. I want to perform this R\u0101jas\u016bya sacrifice and invite the demigods to show them that they have no power independent of You. They are all Your servants and You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Foolish persons with a poor fund of knowledge consider Your Lordship an ordinary human being. Sometimes they try to find fault in You, and sometimes they defame You. Therefore I wish to perform the R\u0101jas\u016bya-yaj\u00f1a. I wish to invite all the demigods, beginning from Lord Brahm\u0101, Lord \u015aiva and other exalted chiefs of the heavenly planets, and in that great assembly of the demigods from all parts of the universe, I want to substantiate that You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead and that everyone is Your servant.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1108\" height=\"623\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RcDyi5Dyz_E\" title=\"H.H. Vedavyasapriya Swami Maharaja || Srimad Bhagavatam 10.72.01-03 || 28.01.2025\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Translation \u015ar\u012b Yudhi\u1e63\u1e6dhira said: O Govinda, I desire to worship Your auspicious, opulent expansions by the R\u0101jas\u016bya sacrifice, the king of Vedic ceremonies. Please make our endeavor a success, my Lord. Purport \u015ar\u012bla \u015ar\u012bdhara Sv\u0101m\u012b states that the word vibh\u016bt\u012b\u1e25 refers to Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s expansions (a\u1e41\u015b\u0101n), and \u015ar\u012bla Vi\u015bvan\u0101tha Cakravart\u012b \u1e6ch\u0101kura further explains that here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113872,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113871\/revisions\/113872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}