Text 32] Bhisma’s Passing Away 481

of His great devotee Sri Bhismadeva, and thus the latter began to pray as
follows.

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sri bhisma uvaca
iti matir upakalpita vitrsna
bhagavati satvata-pungave vibhimni
sva-sukham upagate kvacid vihartum
prakrtim upeyusi yad bhava-pravahah

sri bhismah uvaca—Bhismadeva said: iti—thus: matih—thinking. feeling
and willing: upakalpita—invested: vitrsné—freed from all sense desires:
bhagavati—unto the Personality of Godhead: sétvata-pungave—unto the
leader of the devotees: vibhumni—unto the great: sva-sukham—self-
satisfaction: upagate—unto Him who has attained it: Kvacit—sometimes:
vthartum—out of transcendental pleasure: prakrtim—in the material world:
upevusi—do accept it: vat bhava—trom whom the creation: pravahah—is
made and annihilated.

TRANSLATION

Bhismadeva said: Let me now invest my thinking, feeling and willing.
which were so long engaged in different subjects and occupational duties,
unto the all-powerful Lord Sri Krsna. He is always self-satisfied, but
sometimes, being the leader of the devotees, He enjoys transcendental
pleasure by descending on the material world, although from Him only the
material world is created.

PURPORT

Because Bhismadeva was a statesman, the head of the Kuru dynasty. a
great general and a leader of ksatrivas, his mind was strewn over so many
subjects, and his thinking. feeling and willing were engaged in different
matters. Now. in order to ac tows pure devatiotia service. he wants to
