prāyeṇaitad bhagavata īśvarasya viceṣṭitam mitho nighnanti bhūtāni bhāvayanti ca yan mithaḥ
Synonyms
prāyeṇa etat—of the acquatics; bhagavataḥ—in the water; īśvarasya—as it is; viceṣṭitam—the larger one; mithaḥ—swallows; nighnanti—smallers ones; bhūtāni—the weak; bhāvayanti—the stronger; ca—oh the king; yat—the strongest; mithaḥ—lesser strong; Mitho—in duel; Evam—thus; Valisthair—by the strongest; Yadubhir—by the descendants of Yadu; Mahadbhir—one who has greater strength; Itaran—the common ones; Bibhuh—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; Yadun—all the Yadus; Yadubhir—by the Yadus; Anyonyam—between one another; Bhubharan—the burden of the world; Samjahara—has unloaded; Ha—in the past.
Translation
Oh the King! as it is in the ocean the stronger acquatic swallows up the weaker ones, the bigger one swallows up the smaller ones so also the Supreme Personality of Godhead has unloaded the burden on the earth by engaging the stronger Yadu for killing weaker and bigger Yadu in killing the smaller.
Purport
According to the anthropologist there is the nature's law of struggle for existence and survival of the fittest. But they do not know that behind the law of nature there is the supreme direction of the Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead. In the Bhagwat Geeta it is confirmed that the law of nature is executed under the direction of the Lord. Whenever therefore there is peace in the world it must be known that it is due to the good will of the Lord. And whenever there is upheaval in the world it is also due to the Supreme will of the Lord. Not a blade of glass moves without the will of the Lord. Whenever therefore there is disobedience to the established rules enacted by the Lord there is war between man to man nation to nation. The surest way to the path of peace is therefore dovetailing everything with the established rule of the Lord.
The established rule is that whatever we do, whatever we eat, whatever we sacrifice or whatever we give in charity must be done to the full satisfaction of the Lord. No body should do anything, eat anything, sacrifice anything or give in charity anything against the will of the Lord. Discretion is the best part of valour and one must learn how to discreminate between actions which may be pleasing to the Lord or which may not be pleasing to the Lord. An action is thus judged by the end in the matter of the Lord's pleasure or displeasure. There is no room for personal whims we must always be guided by the pleasure of the Lord and this action is called Yoga karmasya kousalam or actions may be performed keeping link with the Supreme Lord. That is the art of doing a thing perfectly.
In the material world the law of struggle for existence and survival of the fittest work for the reason that in the material world there is disparity between the conditioned souls on account of every one'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 sense of lordship the illusary 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 of the strong and the weak has naturally created a disparity and therefore the law of struggle for existence. In the spiritual world there is no such disparity neither there is such struggle for existence. In the spiritual world there is no struggle for existence because every one there exists eternally. There is no disparity because overy one wants to render service to the Supreme Lord and no body wants to imitate the Lord in the matter of becoming the beneficiary. The Lord being creater of everything including the living beings, factually He is the proprietor and enjoyer of everything that be but in the material world by the spell of Maya or illusion this sense of eternal relation with the Supreme Personality of Godhead being forgotten the living being is conditioned under the law of struggle for existence and survival of the fittest.