580 Srimad-Bhagavatam {Canto 1, Ch. 11

TRANSLATION

The Almighty Lord greeted everyone present by bowing His head,
exchanging greetings, embracing, shaking hands, looking and smiling, giving
assurances and awarding benedictions, even to the lowest in rank.

PURPORT

To receive the Lord Sri Krsna there were all grades of population
beginning from Vasudeva, Ugrasena, Gargamuni, etc., i.e. the father,
grandfather, teacher, etc., down to the prostitutes and candalas, who are
accustomed to eat dogs. And every one of them was properly greeted by
the Lord in terms of rank and position. As pure living entities, all are the
separated parts and parcels of the Lord, and thus no one is alien by His
eternal relation. Such pure living entities are graded differently in terms
of contamination of the modes of material nature, but the Lord is equally
affectionate to all His parts and parcels, despite material gradation. He
descends only to recall these materialistic living beings back to His
kingdom, and intelligent persons take advantage of this facility offered by
the Personality of Godhead to all living beings. No one is rejected by the
Lord for being accepted in the kingdom of God, and it remains with the
living being to accept this or not.

TEXT 23

aa a aefafit: acid: arate |
oreitfiegsaaraiseaa fea fer rare gee 3 II

svayam ca gurubhir vipraih
sadaraih sthavirair api

asirbhir yujyamano ’nyair-
vandibhis cavisat puram

svayam—Himself; ca—also; gurubhih—by elderly relatives; vipraih—by
the brahmanas; sadadraih—with their wives; sthaviraih—invalid; api—also;
asirbhih—by the blessing of; yujyamanah—being praised by; anyaih—by
others; vandibhih—admirers; ca—and; avisat—entered; puram—the city.
