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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 12]
material attachment and surrender unto the Personality of Godhead, taking shelter of Him.
PURPORT
Material attachment and taking shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord go ill together. Material attachment means ignorance of transcendental happiness under the shelter of the Lord. Devotional service of the Lord, while existing in the material world, is a way to practice one's transcendental relation with the Lord, and when it is matured, one gets completely free from all material attachment and becomes competent to go back home, back to Godhead. Mahārāja Parīkṣit, being especially attached to the Lord from the beginning of his body in the womb of his mother, was continually under the shelter of the Lord, and the so-called warning of his death within seven days from the date of curse by the  brāhmaṇa 's son became a boon to him to prepare himself to go back home, back to Godhead. Since he was always protected by the Lord, he could have avoided the effect of such a curse by the grace of the Lord, but he did not take such undue advantage for nothing. Rather, he made the best use of a bad bargain, and for seven days continually he heard  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  from the right source, and thus he got shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord by that opportunity.
TEXT 28
जिज्ञासितात्मयाथस्यो मुनेर्व्याससुतादसौ । हित्वेदं नृप गङ्गायां यासत्यद्वाकृतोभयम् ॥२८॥
jijñāsitātma-yāthārthyo muner vyāsa-sutād asau hitvedam nṛpa gaṅgāyām yāsyaty addhākutobhayam
jijñāsita—having inquired of; ātma-yāthārthyaḥ—right knowledge of one's own self; muneḥ—from the learned philosopher; vyāsa-sutāt—the son of Vyāsa; asau—he; hitvā—quitting; idam—this material attachment; nṛpa—O King; gaṅgāyām—on the bank of the Ganges; yāsyati—will go; addhā—directly; akutaḥ-bhayam—the life of fearlessness.
TRANSLATION
After inquiring about proper self-knowledge from the son of Vyāsadeva, who will be a great philosopher, he will renounce all material attachment and achieve a life of fearlessness.