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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.15.25-26
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXTS 25-26
- jalaukasāṁ jale yadvan
- mahānto 'danty aṇīyasaḥ
- durbalān balino rājan
- mahānto balino mithaḥ
- evaṁ baliṣṭhair yadubhir
- mahadbhir itarān vibhuḥ
- yadūn yadubhir anyonyaṁ
- bhū-bhārān sañjahāra ha
jalaukasāmof the aquatics — of the aquatics; jalein the water — in the water; yadvatas it is — as it is; mahāntaḥthe larger one — the larger one; adantiswallows — swallows; aṇīyasaḥsmaller ones — smaller ones; durbalānthe weak — the weak; balinaḥthe stronger — the stronger; rājanO King — O King; mahāntaḥthe strongest — the strongest; balinaḥless strong — less strong; mithaḥin a duel — in a duel; evamthus — thus; baliṣṭhaiḥby the strongest — by the strongest; yadubhiḥby the descendants of Yadu — by the descendants of Yadu; mahadbhiḥone who has greater strength — one who has greater strength; itarānthe common ones — the common ones; vibhuḥthe Supreme Personality of Godhead — the Supreme Personality of Godhead; yadūnall the Yadus — all the Yadus; yadubhiḥby the Yadus — by the Yadus; anyonyamamong one another — among one another; bhūthe burden of the world-bhārānthe burden of the world — the burden of the world; sañjahārahas unloaded — has unloaded; hain the past — in the past.
O King, as in the ocean the bigger and stronger aquatics swallow up the smaller and weaker ones, so also the Supreme Personality of Godhead, to lighten the burden of the earth, has engaged the stronger Yadu to kill the weaker, and the bigger Yadu to kill the smaller.
In the material world the struggle for existence and survival of the fittest are laws because in the material world there is disparity between conditioned souls due to everyone's desire to lord it over the material resources. This very mentality of lording it over the material nature is the root cause of conditioned life. And to give facility to such imitation lords, the illusory energy of the Lord has created a disparity between conditioned living beings by creating the stronger and the weaker in every species of life. The mentality of lording it over the material nature and the creation has naturally created a disparity and therefore the law of struggle for existence. In the spiritual world there is no such disparity, nor is there such a struggle for existence. In the spiritual world there is no struggle for existence because everyone there exists eternally. There is no disparity because everyone wants to render service to the Supreme Lord, and no one wants to imitate the Lord in becoming the beneficiary. The Lord, being creator of everything, including the living beings, factually is the proprietor and enjoyer of everything that be, but in the material world, by the spell of māyā, or illusion, this eternal relation with the Supreme Personality of Godhead is forgotten, and so the living being is conditioned under the law of struggle for existence and survival of the fittest.