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Vidura Approaches Maitreya
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PURPORT
According to Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Thākur, the Lord's sitting posture—keeping His back against the newly grown banyan tree—is also meaningful.  Aśvattha , the banyan tree, is so called because the tree does not die very quickly; it continues to live for many, many years. His legs and their energies are the material ingredients, which are five in all: earth, water, fire, air and sky. The material energies represented by the banyan tree are all products of His external potency and are therefore kept to His back. And because this particular universe is the smallest of all, the banyan tree is therefore designated as small, or as a child.  Tyaktapippalam  indicates that He had now finished His pastimes in this particular small universe, but since the Lord is absolute and eternally blissful, there is no difference between His leaving or accepting something. The Lord was now prepared to leave this particular universe and go into another, just as the sun rises on one particular planet and sets in another simultaneously but does not change its own situation.
TEXT 9
तस्मिन्महाभागवतो द्वैपायनसुहृत्सवा । लोकाननुचरन् सिद्ध आससाद यदृच्छया ॥ ९ ॥
tasmin mahā-bhāgavato dvaipāyana-suhṛt-sakhā lokānanucaran siddha āsasāda yadṛcchayā
tasmin —then;  mahā-bhāgavataḥ —a great devotee of the Lord;  dvaipāyana —of Kṛṣṇa-dvaipāyana Vyāsa;  suhṛt —a well-wisher;  sakhā —a friend;  lokān —the three worlds;  anucaran —traveling;  siddhe —in that  āśrama ;  āsasāda —arrived;  yadṛcchayā —by his own perfect accord.
TRANSLATION
At that time, after traveling in many parts of the world, Maitreya, a great devotee of the Lord and a friend and well-wisher of the great sage Kṛṣṇa-dvaipāyana Vyāsa, reached that spot out of his own perfect accord.
PURPORT
Maitreya was one of the disciples of Maharṣi Parāśara, the father of Vyāsadeva. Thus Vyāsadeva and Maitreya were friends and mutual well-