Text 29] The Pandavas Retire Timely 805
suta uvaca
evam cintayato jisnoh
krsna-pada-saroruham
sauhardenatigadhena
Santasid vimala matih
sutah uvaca—Sita Gosvami said; evam—thus; cintayatah—while thinking
of the instructions; jisroh—of the Supreme Personality of Godhead;
krsna-pada—the feet of Krsna; saroruham—resembling lotuses; sauhardena
—by deep friendship; atigadhena—in great intimacy ; §anta—pacified; asit— it
so became; vimala—without any tinge of material contamination; matih—
mind.
TRANSLATION
Suta Gosvami said: Thus being deeply absorbed in thinking of the
instructions of the Lord, which were imparted in the great intimacy of
friendship, and in thinking of His lotus feet, Arjuna’s mind became paci-
fied and free from all material contamination.
PURPORT
Since the Lord is absolute, deep meditation upon Him is as good as
yogic trance. The Lord is nondifferent from His name, form, quality,
pastimes, entourage and specific actions. Arjuna began to think of the
Lord’s instructions to Him on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra. Those instruc-
tions only began to eliminate the tinges of material contamination in the
mind of Arjuna. The Lord is like the sun; the sun’s appearance means
immediate dissipation of darkness, or ignorance, and the Lord’s appearance
within the mind of the devotee can at once drive away the miserable
material effects. Lord Caitanya has therefore recommended constant
chanting of the name of the Lord for protection from all contamination
of the material world. The feeling of separation from the Lord is undoubt-
edly painful to the devotee, but because it is in connection with the Lord,
it has a specific transcendental effect which pacifies the heart. Feelings of
separation are also sources of transcendental bliss, and they are never
comparable to contaminated material feelings of separation.
TEXT 29
We fahrararreerafeiisga: 1128
