Text 81
The Bedā-kīrtana Pastimes
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SYNONYMS
virakta —unattached;  sannyāsī —person in the renounced order;  āmāra —My;  rāja-daraśana —meeting a king;  strī-daraśana —meeting a woman;  sama —like;  viṣera —of poison;  bhakṣana —drinking.
TRANSLATION
“Since I am in the renounced order, it is as dangerous for Me to meet a king as to meet a woman. They are both just like drinking poison.”
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নিষ্কিণ্ডনশ্রু ভগবদ্ভজনোন্মুথশ্রু পারং পরং জিগমিষোর্ভবসাগরশ্রু । সন্দর্শনং বিষয়িণামথ যোষিতাঞ্চ হা হস্ত হস্ত বিষভঙ্গণতোহপ্যসাধু ॥ ৮ ॥
nișkiñcanasya bhagavad-bhajanonmukhasya pāraṁ paraṁ jigamiṣor bhava-sāgarasya sandarśanaṁ viṣayiṇām atha yoṣitāṁ ca hā hanta hanta viṣa-bhakṣaṇato ‘py asādhu
SYNONYMS
nişkiñcanasya —of a person who has completely detached himself from material enjoyment;  bhagavat —the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  bhajana —in serving;  unmukhasya —who is eager to be engaged;  pāram —to the other side;  param —distant;  jigamiṣoḥ —who is desiring to go;  bhava-sāgarasya —of the ocean of material existence;  sandarśanam —the seeing (for some material purpose);  viṣayiṇām —of persons engaged in material activities;  atha —as well as;  yoṣitām —of women;  ca —also;  hā —alas;  hanta hanta —expression of great lamentation;  viṣa-bhakṣaṇataḥ —than the act of drinking poison;  api —even;  asādhu —more abominable.
TRANSLATION
Greatly lamenting, the Lord then informed Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, “‘Alas, for a person who is seriously desiring to cross the material ocean and engage in the transcendental loving service of the Lord without material motives, seeing a materialist engaged in sense gratification and seeing a woman who is similarly interested is more abominable than drinking poison willingly.’”