Text 6] Birth of Emperor Pariksit 613

sampadah kratavo loka
mahisi bhrataro mahi

jambi-dvipadhipatyam ca
yasas ca tridivam gatam

sampadah—opulence; kratavah- sacrifices; lokah—future destination;
mahisi—the queens; bhratarah—the brothers; mahi—the earth; jambi-
dvipa—the globe or planet of our residence; adhipatyam—sovereignty ;
ca—also; yasah—fame; ca—and; tridivam—celestial planets; gatam—spread
over.

TRANSLATION

News even reached the celestial planets about Maharaja Yudhisthira’s
worldly possessions, the sacrifices by which he would attain a better
destination, his queen, his stalwart brothers, his extensive land, his
sovereignty over the planet earth, and his fame, etc.

PURPORT

Only a rich and great man’s name and fame are known all over the
world, and the name and fame of Maharaja Yudhisthira reached the
higher planets because of his good administration, worldly possessions,
glorious wife Draupadi, the strength of his brothers Bhima and Arjuna, and
his solid sovereign power over the world, known as Jambudvipa. Here the
word loka is significant. There are different lokas or higher planets scat-
tered all over the sky, both material and spiritual. A person can reach them
by dint of his work in the present life, as stated in the Bhagavad-gita
(Bg. 9.25). No forceful entrance is allowed there. The tiny material scien-
tists and engineers who have discovered vehicles to travel over a few thou-
sand miles in outer space will not be allowed entrance. That is not the way
to reach the better planets. One must qualify himself to enter into such
happy planets by sacrifice and service. Those who are sinful in every step
of life can expect only to be degraded into animal life to suffer more and
more the pangs of material existence. and this is also stated in the
Bhagavad-gita (Bg. 16.19). Maharaja Yudhisthira’s good sacrifices and
qualifications were so lofty and virtuous that even the residents of the
higher celestial planets were already prepared to receive him as one of
them.

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