Text 10] Conversation Between Narada and Vyasa 287
TRANSLATION
Once upon a time, my poor mother, when going out one night to
milk a cow, was bitten on the leg by a serpent, influenced by supreme
time.
PURPORT
That is the way of dragging a sincere soul nearer to God. The poor boy
was being looked after only by his affectionate mother, and yet the
mother was taken from the world by the supreme will in order to put him
completely at the mercy of the Lord.
TEXT 10
Tel TENA wa Waa: |
ware aaa: fas aA U2 oll
tada tad aham isasya
bhaktanam sam abhipsatah
anugraham manyamanah
pratistharn digsam uttaram
tada—at that time; tat--that; aham—I; ifasya—of the Lord; bhaktanam—
of the devotees; sam—mercy; abhipsatah—desiring; anugraham—special
benediction; manyamdanah—thinking in that way; pratistham—departed;
digam uttaram—in the northern direction.
TRANSLATION
I took this as the special mercy of the Lord, who always desires
benediction for His devotees, and so thinking, I started for the north.
PURPORT
Confidential devotees of the Lord see in-every step a benedictory
direction of the Lord. What is considered to be an odd or difficult moment
in the mundane sense is accepted as special mercy of the Lord. Mundane
prosperity is a kind of material fever, and by the grace of the Lord the
temperature of this material fever is gradually diminished, and spiritual
health is obtained step by step. Mundane people misunderstand it.
