Narasimha Lila Chapter 2 Section 4 - Verse 27 - 49 - QUIZ The fourth section of Chapter 2 has 23 verses. You can attempt the quiz with an open book. To score full marks you may have to scrutinize Srila Prabhupada’s purports. Read the questions carefully. Do not attempt the quiz without reading the section. The quiz is facilitation and enablement for you to read Srila Prabhupada’s purports. Name Email 1. What are Puranas? Symbolic Stories relevant to spiritual life from the past that provide moral and spiritual instructions The extremely old factual history of the bygone years Mythological stories that teach us how to lead a spiritual life Chronologically recorded old factual history None 2. Who was the King of Uśīnara whose story Hiraṇyakaśipu narrates to his relatives? Suyajña Yamarāja Ruṣābhānu Kuliṅga None 3. Why in the dead body of Uśīnara's King, the teeth were bitten and stuck in the lips? He was angry for being defeated on the battlefield While fighting in anger, the King bit his lips to show his prowess King was stuck with arrows, so in pain, the King bit his lips and died King was angry with the Supreme Lord None 4. What is saha-māraṇa? The soldiers who die on the battlefield and are cremated together The wife voluntary accepts to die with the husband, who was her life When husband and wife naturally die on the same day In a duel, both fighting kṣatriya kill each other on the battlefield None 5. According to Vedic system, what are the correct procedures to perform a funeral If a person dies at night the funeral must be completed before the next sunrise. If a person dies at night the funeral must be completed before the next sunset. If a person dies during the daytime it is customary for his funeral ceremony to be performed before the sun sets If a person dies during the daytime it is customary for his funeral ceremony to be performed before the next sunrise 6. What BEST substantiates the description of the śāstra that a foolish man in the bodily concept of life is like a cow. Like the cow, the foolish man considers the body as dead When a cow’s calf has died the milkman cheats the cow by presenting before her the dead body of her calf. Thus the cow, who would not otherwise allow milking, licks the dead body of the calf and allows herself to be milked. Like the cow, the foolish man considers he will live forever Like the cow, the foolish man keeps on chewing the chewed None 7. What is the similarity between queens of Uśīnara and the modern scientists Queens of Uśīnara and the modern scientists both perform experiments to understand the cause of life Queens of Uśīnara wanted to exploit material nature through their yogic powers, similarly, the modern scientists are deploying their scientific powers to exploit material nature Queens of Usinara and the modern scientists both consider material nature to be Supreme powerful Queens were unwilling to let go of the dead body of the King, similarly, modern scientists are trying to freeze the bodies with the expectation to revive them later None 8. Why funeral is necessary? To facilitate the onward journey for the soul into another body Because until the present body is annihilated, the soul hovers over the present body as a ghost Because without funeral the soul will come inside the present body Because the soul is attached to the present body and does not want to enter another body 9. sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭo mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanaṁ ca: “I am seated in everyone’s heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and ______________ Please select your answer Intelligence Spiritual Strength Memory how to come back Devotional Service Forgetfulness 10. One who does not abide by the orders of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is given the facility to ___________ this material world. Please select your answer empower destroy annihilate disturb overpower have Supreme rule on enjoy 11. Yamaraj tells the queens of Usinara that the Lord protects the child in the womb so will always continue to protect. The queens may ask why has the Supreme Lord not been given protection to our husband now? What is the answer that Srila Prabhupada provides in this chapter? Sometimes one loses money on street but it remains protected by destiny, however money safe in-home or bank is lost. So, similarly, everything runs by will of the Lord The Lord is completely competent to destroy and protect The Lord is always free, and therefore He can protect and can also annihilate. A child is certainly dependent on his father and mother, but in spite of their presence, the child is harassed in many ways. It is all will of the Lord. Sometimes, in spite of a supply of good medicine and an experienced physician, a patient does not survive. It is all will of the Lord.1 The Lord can do so because He is Supreme. No one can question His activities. If the Lord is answerable to us concerning why He does something and why He does not, His supremacy would be curtailed. The Supreme Lord likes to create and annihilate things If the Supreme Lord gives one protection, even though one has no protector and is in the jungle, one remains alive, whereas a person well protected at home by relatives and others sometimes dies, no one being able to protect him. The Lord does not create this material world at anyone’s request, and therefore He can annihilate everything merely by His will. The Lord is not our order carrier; whatever He likes He will do. The Lord revokes protection for people who become envious of Him The Supreme Lord did not protect as the King was not following Vedic culture To prove His omnipotence He can do anything, and no one can question Him. 12. How, in spite of our being conditioned by the laws of material nature, we shall become free to attain our original constitution? By having firm faith that the Lord is supreme and that if we surrender to Him, He will take charge of us and indicate how we can get out of material life and return home, back to Godhead. Intelligently apply his activities to the service of the Lord to become free from the material bondage of repeated birth and death (sva-karmaṇā tam abhyarcya siddhiṁ vindati mānavaḥ). By aiming to merge in the Brahmjyoti of the Lord By understanding that we are spirit soul and same as Paramatma, so if we negate all material activities, we will become liberated, like the Supreme Lord Spiritual education changes one’s consciousness so that one simply carries out the orders of the Supreme Lord and becomes free from the influence of the modes of material nature. 13. How is the soul compared to be encaged in the body is separate from it? Select all that applies in the section As the water, that flows in the river As the sky, although all-pervading, never mixes with anything As air, although situated within the mouth and nostrils, is perceived to be separate As earth, that grows vegetation As fire, although situated in wood, is perceived to be different from the wood 14. The person named Suyajña, for whom you lament, is still lying before you and has not gone anywhere. Then what is the cause for your lamentation? How is it possible that the person named Sujanya has not gone anywhere? Because person Sujanya is the body and not the soul. The body is still lying in front of them Because Sujanya was hovering like a ghost Because Sujanya did not receive the funeral yet Because the soul was Sujanya and he was still around None Please fill in the comment box below. Time's up
