Text 33] The Pandavas Retire Timely 811

the Supreme Lord who is the creator and controller of the sun. Therefore,
in the Bhagavad-gita it is stated that anyone who factually understands
the transcendental appearance and disappearance of the Lord by His
inconceivable energy becomes liberated from the laws of birth and death
and is placed in the eternal spiritual sky where the Vaikuntha planets are.
There such liberated persons can eternally live without the pangs of birth,
death, old age and disease. In the spiritual sky the Lord and those who are
eternally engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord are all
eternally young because there is no old age and disease, and there is no
death. Because there is no death there is no birth. It is concluded therefore
that simply by understanding the Lord’s appearance and disappearance in
truth, one can attain the perfectional stage of eternal life. Therefore,
Maharaja Yudhisthira also began to consider going back to Godhead. The
Lord appears on the earth or any other mortal planet along with His
associates who live with Him eternally, and the members of the Yadu
family who were engaged in supplementing the pastimes of the Lord are no
other than His eternal associates and so also Maharaja Yudhisthira and his
brothers and mother, etc. Since the appearance and disappearance of the
Lord and His eternal associates are transcendental, one should not be
bewildered by the external features of appearance and disappearance. ~

TEXT 33

waa wasted
aa agat anagtd 4 aq |
UE ATA
faafraraaam = daa: 13311

prthapy anusrutya dhanajijayoditam
nasam yadunam bhagavad gatim ca tam

ekanta-bhaktya bhagavaty adhoksaje
nivesitatmopararama samsrteh

prtha—Kunti; api—also; anusrutya—overhearing; dhanajijaya— Arjuna;
uditam—uttered by; nasam—end; yadtnam—of the Yadu dynasty; bhagavat
—of the Personality of Godhead; gatim—disappearance; ca—also; tam—all
those; eka-anta—unalloyed; bhaktya—devotion; bhagavati—unto the Su-
preme Lord, Sri Krsna; adhoksaje—transcendence; nivesita-atma—with full
attention; upararama—became released from; sarisrteh—material existence.
