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Vidura Approaches Maitreya
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Since the Lord is identical with His transcendental body, there is no question of His changing or quitting His body. To act in accordance with the rules and customs of the material world, the Lord seems to take His birth or leave His body, but the pure devotees of the Lord know well the actual fact. It is necessary, therefore, for the serious students of Śrīmad- Bhāgavatam  to follow the notes and comments of the great  ācāryas  like Jīva Gosvāmī and Viśvanātha Cakravartī. To others, who are not devotees of the Lord, the comments and explanations of such  ācāryas  may appear to be grammatical jugglery, but to the students who are in the line of discipline succession, the explanations of the great  ācāryas  are quite fit.
The word  upagateṣu  is also significant. All the members of Vṛṣṇi and Bhoja directly reached the abode of the Lord. Other devotees do not reach the abode of the Lord directly, but the pure associates of the Lord have no attraction for the opulence of any planets of the material world. Sometimes, due to inquisitiveness, devotees who are to be promoted to the abode of the Lord have some attraction for the opulence of the higher material planets above the earth, and thus they desire to see them while going up to the perfection. But the Vṛṣṇis and Bhojas were directly dispatched because they had no attraction for material planets. Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Thākur also suggests that according to the  Amara-kośa  dictionary,  ākṛti  also means signal. Lord Kṛṣṇa ordered Uddhava by signal to go to Badarikāśrama after His departure, and Uddhava, as a pure devotee of the Lord, carried out the order more faithfully than going back to Godhead or the abode of the Lord. That was the cause of his remaining alone even after the departure of the Lord from the face of the earth.
TEXT 29
श्रीशुक उवाच
ब्रह्मशापापदेशेन
कालेनामोघवाञ्छितः ।
संहृत्य स्वकुलं रफितं त्यक्ष्यन्देहमचिन्तयत् ॥२९॥
śrī śuka uvāca
brahma-śāpāpadeśena
kālenāmogha-vāñcchitaḥ
saṁhṛtya sva-kulaṁ sphītaṁ
tyakṣyan deham acinta-yat
śrī śukaḥ uvāca—Śukadeva Gosvāmī said; brahma-śāpa—cursing by the brāhmanas; apadeśena—on the plea, by such a show; kālena—by the eternal time; amogha—unfailing; vāñcchitaḥ—one who so desires; saṁhṛtya—