Text 145] Ramdananda Raya Instructs Pradyumna Misra 193
PURPORT
In this verse also, mother Sarasvati offers prayers to Krsna. The word purusa-
adhama refers to the Personality of Godhead, under whom all other persons
remain, or, in other words, purusa-uttama, the best of all living beings. Similarly,
the word bandhu-han means “the killer of maya.” In the conditioned state of life,
one is closely related with mdayd as a friend, but when one comes in contact with
Krsna one is freed from that relationship.
TEXT 144
Mel CALS SD YRAASE “MYT |
CAS 2H “YAH? —HARSYA Fa ti 988
yaha haite anya purusa-sakala—— ‘adhama’
sei haya ‘purusadhama’——sarasvatira mana
SYNONYMS
yahé haite—from whom; anya—other; purusa—persons; sakala—all;
adhama—subordinate; sei—he; haya—is; purusa-adhama—the person under
whom all others remain; sarasvatira mana—the explanation of mother Sarasvati.
TRANSLATION
“‘Mother Sarasvati takes ‘purusadhama’ to mean ‘purusottama,’ He to whom
all men are subordinate.
TEXT 145
ACh AACN’ —SiCS Baal ay’ VA |
afro-atre—qqay mC FI 986 H
‘bandhe sabare’—— tate avidya ‘bandhu’ haya
‘avidya-nasaka’—— ‘bandhu-han’-sabde kaya
SYNONYMS
bandhe—binds; sabdére—everyone; tate—therefore; avidyd—nescience, or
mayd; bandhu—binder or relative; haya—is; avidyd-ndsaka—vanquisher of
maya; bandhu-han-sabde—by the word “bandhu-han”; kaya—mother Sarasvati
says.
TRANSLATION
“Nescience, or maya, may be called ‘bandhu’ because she entangles
everone in the material world. Therefore by using the word ‘bandhu-han,’
mother Sarasvati says that Lord Krsna is the vanquisher of maya.
