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The Dynasty of Mahārāja Nimi
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TEXT 27
एते वै मैथिला राजन्त्रात्मविद्याविशारदाः । योगेश्वरप्रसादेन द्वन्द्वैर्मुक्ता गृहेष्वपि ॥२७॥
ete vai maithilā rājann ātma-vidyā-viśāradāḥ yogeśvara-prasādena dvandvair muktā gṛheṣv api
ete —all of them;  vai —indeed;  maithilāḥ —the descendants of Mithila;  rājan —O King;  ātma-vidyā-viśāradāḥ —expert in spiritual knowledge;  yogeśvara-prasādena —by the grace of Yogeśvara, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa;  dvandvaiḥ muktāḥ —they were all freed from the duality of the material world;  gṛheṣu api —even though staying at home.
TRANSLATION
Śukadeva Gosvāmī  said: My dear King Parikṣit, all the kings of the dynasty of Mithila were completely in knowledge of their spiritual identity. Therefore, even though staying at home, they were liberated from the duality of material existence.
PURPORT
This material world is called  dvaita , or duality. The  Caitanya-caritāmṛta  ( Antya  4.176) says:
‘ dvaite ’  bhadrābhadra-jñāna, saba —‘ manodharma ’ ‘ ei bhāla, ei manda ,’— ei saba ‘bhrama ’
In the world of duality—that is to say, in the material world—so-called goodness and badness are both the same. Therefore, in this world, to distinguish between good and bad, happiness and distress, is meaningless because they are both mental concoctions ( manodharma ). Because everything here is miserable and troublesome, to create an artificial situation and pretend it to be full of happiness is simply illusion. The liberated person, being above the influence of the three modes of material nature,