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The Pāṇḍavas Retire Timely
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the Supreme Lord who is the creator and controller of the sun. Therefore, in the  Bhagavad-gītā  it is stated that anyone who factually understands the transcendental appearance and disappearance of the Lord by His inconceivable energy becomes liberated from the laws of birth and death and is placed in the eternal spiritual sky where the Vaikuṇṭha planets are. There such liberated persons can eternally live without the pangs of birth, death, old age and disease. In the spiritual sky the Lord and those who are eternally engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord are all eternally  young  because there is no old age and disease, and there is no death. Because there is no death there is no birth. It is concluded therefore that simply by understanding the Lord's appearance and disappearance in truth, one can attain the perfectional stage of eternal life. Therefore, Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira also began to consider going back to Godhead. The Lord appears on the earth or any other mortal planet along with His associates who live with Him eternally, and the members of the Yadu family who were engaged in supplementing the pastimes of the Lord are no other than His eternal associates and so also Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira and his brothers and mother, etc. Since the appearance and disappearance of the Lord and His eternal associates are transcendental, one should not be bewildered by the external features of appearance and disappearance.
TEXT 33
पृथाप्यनुश्रुत्य धनञ्जयोदितं 
  नाशं यदनां भगवद्गति च ताम् । 
  एकान्तभक्त्या भगवत्यधोक्षजे 
  निवेशितात्मोपरराम संसृतेः ॥३३॥
pṛthāpy anuśrutya dhanañjayoditam 
  nāśam yadūnām bhagavad gatim ca tām 
  ekānta-bhaktyā bhagavaty adhokṣaje 
  niveśitātmopararāma samṣṛteḥ
pṛthā—Kuntī; api—also; anuśrutya—overhearing; dhanañjaya—Arjuna; uditam—uttered by; nāśam—end; yadūnām—of the Yadu dynasty; bhagavat—of the Personality of Godhead; gatim—disappearance; ca—also; tām—all those; eka-anta—unalloyed; bhaktyā—devotion; bhagavati—unto the Supreme Lord, Śrī Kṛṣṇa; adhokṣaje—transcendence; niveśita-ātmā—with full attention; upararāma—became released from; samṣṛteḥ—material existence.