Topics covered:
SB 9.18: King Yayāti Regains His Youth
- Hearing Srimad Bhagavatam destroys material bondage
- The quarrel between Devayani and Sharmishta
- Astrological compatibility and vedicmarriages
- Yayati cursed to suffer premature old age
- Yayati ask his sons to trade youth for old age
- Puruaccepts his fathers old age aand invalidity
- Happiness depends on mind and sense purification
SB 9.19: King Yayāti Achieves Liberation
- The allegory of the he – goat and she goat
- When family life is a dark well
- The advanced spiritualist is uninterested in sex
- Suffering in the cycle of repeated birth and death
- Devayani attains liberation by the grace of her husband
Lessons to be learned:
- Highest perfection of life is if one hears Srimad-Bhagavatam
- Relationship as husband and wife has been made possible by providence
- The parents would consider the horoscopes of the boy and girl who were to be married
- We should completely depend on the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- We shouldfell down at the feet of guru and satisfied him
- The duty of a ksatriya – protection of people
- Sex and sense gratification can be controlled
- Unless one enjoys material happiness one cannot attain renunciation
- If one attains devotional service he is certainly liberated
- Unless one fully satisfies lusty desires in youth there is a chance of one’s being disturbed in rendering service to the Lord
- The flickering youth is not eternal
- Important human body is obtained by the grace of the father
- The best father is one who trains his child in Krsna consciousness
- If a son is an obedient devotee of the Lord he is called putra, or a real son
- If son he is not learned and is not a devotee he is nothing better than urine – mutra
- One may enjoy the senses for many thousands of years, but unless one purifies the senses, one cannot be happy