Text 2] Dhrtarastra Quits Home 663
of; jata—having grown up; eka—one; bhaktih—transcendental loving
service; govinde—unte Lord Krsna; tebhyah—regarding further questions;
ca—and; upararama—retired from; ha—in the past.

TRANSLATION

After asking various questions and becoming established in the tran-
scendental loving service of Lord Krsna, Vidura retired from putting
questions to Maitreya Muni.

PURPORT

Vidura retired from putting questions before Maitreya Muni when he
was convinced by Maitreya Rsi that the summun bonum of life is to be
finally situated in the transcendental loving service of Lord Sti Krsna, who
is Govinda or one who satisfies His devotees in all respects. The conditioned
soul or living being in material existence seeks happiness by employing his
senses in the modes of materialism, but that cannot give him satisfaction.
He then searches after the Supreme Truth by the empiric philosophical
speculative method and intellectual feats. But if he does not find the ulti-
mate goal, he again goes down to material activities and engages himself in
various philanthrophic and altruistic works, which all fail to give him satis-
faction. So neither fruitive activities nor dry philosophical speculation can
give one satisfaction because by nature a living being is the eternal servitor
of the Supreme Lord Sri Krsna, and all the Vedic literatures give him direc-
tion towards that ultimate end. The Bhagavad-gita confirms this statement
(Bg.15.15).

Like Vidura, an inquisitive conditioned soul must approach a bona fide
spiritual master like Maitreya and by intelligent inquiries must try to know
everything about karma (fruitive activities), jiana (philosophical research
for the Supreme Truth) and yoga (the linking process of spiritual realiza-
tion). One who is not seriously inclined to put questions before a spiritual
master need not accommodate a show bottle spiritual master, nor should
a person who may be a spiritual master for others pose to be so if he is
unable to engage his disciple ultimately in the transcendental loving service
of Lord Sri Krsna. Vidura was successful in approaching a spiritual master
like Maitreya, and he got the ultimate goal of life: bhakti unto Govinda.
Thus there was nothing to be known further about spiritual progress.
