648 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 1, Ch. 12
material attachment and surrender unto the Personality of Godhead,
taking shelter of Him.
PURPORT

Material attachment and taking shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord go
ill together. Material attachment means ignorance of transcendental hap-
piness under the shelter of the Lord. Devotional service of the Lord,
while existing in the material world, is a way to practice one’s transcenden-
tal relation with the Lord, and when it is matured, one gets completely free
from all material attachment and becomes competent to go back home,
back to Godhead. Maharaja Pariksit, being especially attached to the Lord
from the beginning of his body in the womb of his mother, was continually
under the shelter of the Lord, and the so-called warning of his death
within seven days from the date of curse by the brahmana’s son became a
boon to him to prepare himself to go back home, back to Godhead. Since
he was always protected by the Lord, he could have avoided the effect of
such a curse by the grace of the Lord, but he did not take such undue
advantage for nothing. Rather, he made the best use of a bad bargain, and
for seven days continually he heard Srimad-Bhagavatam from the right
source, and thus he got shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord by that
opportunity.

TEXT 28
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feat TT TATA TACTATSANAA [RII
Jyfiasitatma-yatharthyo
muner vyasa-sutad asau
hitvedam nrpa gangayam
yasyaty addhakutobhayam

jijfiasita—having inquired of; atma-yatharthyah—right knowledge of
one’s own self; muneh—from the learned philosopher; vydsa-sutat—the
son of Vyasa; asau—he; hitvé—quitting; idam—this material attachment;
nypo—O King; gangdyam—on the bank of the Ganges; ydsyati—will go;
addha— directly ; akutah-bhayam—the life of fearlessness.

TRANSLATION

After inquiring about proper self-knowledge from the son of V yasadeva,
who will be a great philosopher, he will renounce all material attachment
and achieve a life of fearlessness.
