(Bhagavatham 5.1.11 – 5.1.13)

Lord Brahma gives a wonderful advice to Priyavratha.

He starts, “Take this as the Lord’s message to you. No one can over come the Will of the Lord. Everything in creation abides His rule. Your penance, practice, intelligence or merit can not change what He decides for you.

No one would want to take a body, experience misery and yield to death. But every one undergoes all these here, helplessly. God grants what they deserve through their Karma from life times to life times”.

Note – as we read these slokas we wonder, how could we ever feel pride in our capabilities?

When we are all bound by the laws of Karma, what is our freedom? Even in this life, we get pleasure at times. Where does it come from?

Brahma Deva explains it with an appalling example in the next Slokas. As the Guru, His words were conveying the message of God only.