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Vidura's Talks with Maitreya
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are there for the unwanted conditioned souls who always engage in threatening the tranquility of the kingdom of God. Since all the demigods are confidential devotee-servitors of the Lord, they are never to be condemned.
TEXT 39
देवा ऊच्चः 
  नमाम ते देव पदारविन्दं 
  प्रपन्नतापोपशमातपत्रम् । 
  यन्मूलकेता यतयोऽञ्जसोरु 
  संसारदुःखं बहिरुत्क्षिपन्ति ॥३९॥
devā ūcuḥ 
  namāma te deva padāravindam 
  prapanna-tāpopaśamātapatram 
  yan-mūla-ketā yatayo 'ñjasoru 
  saṁsāra-duḥkham bahir utkṣipanti
devāḥ ūcuḥ—the demigods said; namāma—we offer our respectful obeisances; te—Your; deva—O Lord; padā-aravindam—lotus feet; prapanna—surrendered; tāpa—distress; upaśama—suppresses; ātapatram—umbrella; yat-mūla-ketā—shelter of the lotus feet; yatayaḥ—great sages; añjasā—totally; uru—great; saṁsāra-duḥkham—miseries of material existence; bahiḥ—out; utkṣipanti—forcibly throw.
TRANSLATION
The demigods said: O Lord, Your lotus feet are like an umbrella for the surrendered souls, protecting them from all the miseries of material existence. All the sages under that shelter throw off all material miseries. We therefore offer our respectful obeisances unto Your lotus feet.
PURPORT
There are many sages and saints who engage in trying to conquer rebirth and all other material miseries. But of all of them, those who take shelter under the lotus feet of the Lord can completely throw off all such miseries without difficulty. Others, who are engaged in transcendental activities in different ways, cannot do so. For them it is very difficult. They may artificially think of becoming liberated without accepting the shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord, but that is not possible. One is sure to fall again to the material existence from such false liberation, even