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Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan

Bg 10.28

āyudhānām ahaṁ vajraṁ
dhenūnām asmi kāma-dhuk
prajanaś cāsmi kandarpaḥ
sarpāṇām asmi vāsukiḥ

Word for word: 

āyudhānām — of all weapons; aham — I am; vajram — the thunderbolt; dhenūnām — of cows; asmi — I am;kāma–dhuk — the surabhi cow; prajanaḥ — the cause for begetting children; ca — and; asmi — I am; kandarpaḥ— Cupid; sarpāṇām — of serpents; asmi — I am; vāsukiḥ — Vāsuki.

Translation: 

Of weapons I am the thunderbolt; among cows I am the surabhi. Of causes for procreation I am Kandarpa, the god of love, and of serpents I am Vāsuki.

 

āyudhānām ahaṁ vajraṁ, āyudhā is weapons, so among the weapons I am Vajra, 

dhenūnām asmi kāma-dhuk, desire fulfilling cows, In Vrindavan there are desire fulfilling trees also one can ask them whatever one wants and get it, but we don’t see Vraja Vasi utilizing those desire fulfilling trees too much, Srimati Radharani comes to Pavan Sarover and cooks for Krishna she doesn’t ask desire tree that you give me cooked food, because the joy of love is also in service, so cows are not just offering milk in Vrindavan but their love to Krishna, 

prajanaś cāsmi kandarpaḥ, kandarpaḥ is god of love, who attracts people of opposite gender, he is having flower arrow, from front it is flower but when it goes inside it burns like an arrow, i.e. Kama Dev, so Kam dev induces lust within us so we have to careful but Krishna is saying not all kama is bad, prajana, that Kama which leads to progeny Srila Vishvanatha Chakravarti pad when the attraction leads to begetting of new life that is the kind of lust I am that Krishna says, through a proper dharmic marriage. Children are seen as gifts of God, the Jayani perspective leads everything in detachment in some cases it is helpful but sometimes it leads to hard heartedness, so from Jayani perspective if children are seen as product of lust then how can children be given care and love so that they grow up, and this Jayani perceptive is not complete as they cannot see the hand of Krishna, e.g. When Shivanand comes and tell Lord Chaitanya that his wife is pregnant Lord Chaitanya becomes very happy and said your child becomes devotee of Lord Krishna and given name to child and blessed profusely, 

sarpāṇām asmi vāsukiḥ, Vasuki was used as rope for churning milk ocean that time mode of ignorance acted on him and he went on sleep when everyone was pulling his body.

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