Narasimha Lila Quiz 7.1 Section 5 – Verses 7.1.22 – 7.1.33

Section 5 of Chapter 1 of the Seventh Canto is where Narada Muni answers Yudhisthira Maharaja’s questions

This section has 12 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.

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1. Who is śrī-bādarāyaṇiḥ?

Sri Narada

Srila Sukhdeva Gosvami

Sri Nara Narayana

Srila Vyasa Deva

2. Why is Sri Narada mentioned as Bhagavan – nārado bhagavān ṛṣiḥ?

Because he is the most powerful spiritual master

Because Sukhdeva Gosvami is flattering Narada

Because Narada is Krishna

Because Narada is a full plenary expansion of the Lord

3. Choose the correct options to fill the blanks respectively

_____________ manufactures the body under the direction of _______________.

Kala manufactures the body under the direction of Krishna

Krishna manufactures the body under the direction of Time

External Energy manufactures the body under the direction of Krishna

Internal Energy manufactures the body under the direction of

4. The body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is not material but sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha

So, what is applicable to the Lord in such a form. Select all that applies

Lord remains unaffected by insults or greetings

Lord does not derive any extra pleasure from the nice prayers offered by His devotees

An enemy who thinks of the Lord in envy also receives great benefit

Lord remains unaffected by blasphemy

5. What does the word mamāham iti in the verse 7.1.24 signify?

The cause of dualities

Considers his body to be his self and considers everything in relationship with the body to be his.

The cause of friends and enemies

The bodily concept of I and Mine

6. Narada Muni uses the word kaivalya to describe Krishna in the verse 7.1.24. What does it mean in this context? Select all that applies.

Krishna is absolute and one without a second

Sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ

ānanda-cinmaya-rasa

Krishna’s body and Himself is one and non-different from each other

7. Why Krishna while being unaffected by the blasphemy of envious people and prayers by His devotees – chastise the blasphemers and accept the prayers?

Krishna, being very kind, punishes the conditioned soul in one life for such sinful activities and then takes him back home, back to Godhead.

His acceptance of the Prayers by the devotees is not that He was seeking Prayers, however, He does so for the good of the devotee

Krishna He does good to both through chastisement or prayers.

His chastisement on blasphemers is not His reaction but mercy for their own good

8. Why did Krishna arrange to send Citraketu Mahārāja, a great devotee into a demoniac life of Vṛtrāsura?

Because when Krishna punishes a demon or conditioned soul, He stops that soul’s habit of blaspheming Him, and when the soul becomes completely pure, the Lord takes him back to Godhead.

Because Chitraketu was impersonalist

Because Chitraketu had to expend his pending sinful reactions

Because Vṛtrāsura derided Lord Śiva, the foremost of all devotees, he had to accept the body of a demon called Vṛtra.

9. In the verse 7.1.26, Narada Muni explains that by following the following one or more of the five ways, if one approaches the Lord and concentrates the mind on the Lord, one will achieve the same result.

By Enmity
By Devotional service
By Fear
By Affection
By Lusty Desires

But what does Srila Prabhupada explain why this does not mean we can blaspheme the Lord?

One who blasphemes the Lord is put into a family of asuras, in which there is every chance of forgetting the service of the Lord.

Blasphemy is not a regulative principle. It is not to be followed.

As one should not try to be killed by embracing an enemy, a tiger or a snake, one should not blaspheme the Supreme Personality of Godhead and become His enemy in order to be put into a hellish life.

Blasphemy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead or His devotees can put into hellish life perpetually or for a minimum of one life by the mercy of the Lord

If these enemies, who blaspheme, try to be liberated or to merge into the existence of Brahman, if they desire to be elevated to the higher planetary systems as karmīs, or even if they desire to return home, back to Godhead, they will certainly be baffled.

Bhakti-yoga means ānukūlyena kṛṣṇānuśīlanam: one should serve Kṛṣṇa very favorably.

The stress is given to the favorable execution of devotional service, not purposeful blasphemy of the Lord.

We can blashpheme the Lord only if we are sure to think of Him always, like Sisupala

10. READ THIS QUESTION CAREFULLY AND UNDERSTAND ITS IMPORT CAREFULLY

Narada Muni states in the verse 7.1.27

By devotional service, one cannot achieve such intense absorption in thought of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as one can through enmity toward Him.

What are the reasons for this statement as per the verse and the explanation by Srila Prabhupada? Select all that is applicable in this context.

It is a humble opinion by Narada Muni

The essential point in this connection is that one should be fully absorbed in thoughts of Kṛṣṇa, twenty-four hours a day.

It does not mean that the enemies of Kṛṣṇa are more elevated than Kṛṣṇa’s pure devotees.

Narada Muni recommends one to become a staunch enemy of Krishna and think of Krishna in a blasphemous and envious way all the time

Narada Muni here recommends that Full absorption in thought of Kṛṣṇa is the highest platform of bhakti-yoga.

Narada Muni wants everyone to take this verse and follow Sisupala and Hiranyakashipu and never take heed of any of his other instructions on Bhakti Yoga

The verse is indirect praise by Narada Muni for all those devotees who cannot get Krishna out of their minds

A pure devotee always thinks himself more deficient than everyone else. Like Radharani, Krishnadasa Kaviraj Gosvami etc

Because Narada Muni thinks of himself as deficient in the inspiration of being feelingly absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

11. How are demons purified in enmity to Krishna?

When a demon continuously thinks of Kṛṣṇa because of enmity toward Him, he is certainly freed from the sinful reactions of his life.

To think of Kṛṣṇa in any way, in terms of His name, form, qualities, paraphernalia or anything pertaining to Him, is beneficial for everyone.

Thinking of Kṛṣṇa, hearing the holy name of Kṛṣṇa or hearing the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa will make one pure, and then he will become a devotee.

12. Out of the below five ways, in what way did the Gopis approach Krishna? Choose an option that is not just for a specific instance.

Lusty desires

Affection

Fear

Devotional Service

Inimical feelings

13. Out of the below five ways, in what way did the Kamsa approach Krishna?

Lusty Desires

Devotional Service

Affection

Fear

Envy

14. Out of the below five ways, in what way did the Sisupala approach Krishna?

Affection

Envy

Fear

Devotional Service

Lusty Desires

15. Out of the below five ways, in what way did the Nanda Maharaj and Mother Yasoda approach Krishna?

Envy

Devotional Service

Fear

Affection

Lusty Desires

16. Out of the below five ways, in what way did the Pandavas approach Krishna?

Fear

Devotional Service

Lusty Desires

Affection

Envy

17. Why King Vena or any other impersonalist, although very blasphemous of the Lord could never attain salvation but are sent to hellish regions of life?

Because King Vena was unable to think of Krishna’s form in one of five ways to approach Krishna

Those who go against the regulative principles of always thinking of Krishna, whether as an enemy or a friend, cannot attain salvation and are surely destined for hellish life.

Māyāvādī atheists make Kṛṣṇa formless, and consequently, because of this severe offense at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, they cannot expect salvation.

Because they constantly think of Krishna in his impersonal form as Brahman

18. What was Sisupala and Dantavakra related to Yudhisthira Maharaj?

They were paternal cousins

None of the above

They were sons of Madri’s sister

They were sons of a maternal aunt of the Pandavas

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