Text 46] The Pandavas Retire Timely 827
to the principles of sandtana-dharma, one must retire from family life
after half the duration of life is finished and must engage himself in self-
realization. But the question of engaging oneself is not always decided.
Sometimes retired men are bewildered about how to engage themselves for
the last days of life. Here is a decision by authorities like the Pandavas. All
of them engaged themselves in culturing favorably the devotional service
of Lord Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. According to
Svani Sridhara, dharma, artha, kama and moksa, or fruitive activities,
philosophical speculations or salvation, as conceived by several persons,
are not the ultimate goal of life. They are more or less practiced by
persons who have no information of the ultimate goal of life. The ultimate
goal of life is already indicated by the Lord Himself in the Bhagavad-gita
(Bg. 18.64), and the Pandavas were intelligent enough to follow it without
hesitation.
TEXT 46
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A AMJHTAAUA MASSA TBAT: |
TR | TARA ESAT 1124
te sadhu-krta-sarvartha
Jiiatvatyantikam atmanah
manasa dharayamasur
vaikuntha-caranambujam

te—all of them; sddhu-krta—having performed everything worthy of a
saint; sarva-arthah—that which includes everything worthy; jaatva—know-
ing it well; atyantikam—the ultimate; atmanah—of the living being;
manasa—within the mind; dhadrayamdasuh—sustained; vaikuntha—the Lord
of the spiritual sky; carana-ambujam—lotus feet.

TRANSLATION
They all had performed all the principles of religion and as a result
rightly decided that the lotus feet of the Lord Sri Krsna are the supreme
goal of all. Therefore they meditated upon His feet without interruption.
PURPORT

In the Bhagavad-gita the Lord says (Bg. 7.28) that only those who have

done pious deeds in previous lives and have become freed from the results
