854 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 1, Ch. 16

malleable sons of Pandu by accepting posts ranging from chariot driver to
president to messenger, friend, night watchman, etc., according to the will
of the Pandavas, obeying them like a servant and offering obeisances like
one younger in years. When he heard this, Maharaja Pariksit became over-
whelmed with devotion to the lotus feet of the Lord.

PURPORT

Lord Krsna is everything to the unalloyed devotees like the Pandavas.
The Lord was for them the Supreme Lord, the spiritual master, the wor-
shipable Deity, the guide, the chariot driver, the friend, the servant, the
messenger and everything they could conceive of. And thus the Lord also
reciprocated the feeling of the Pandavas. Maharaja Pariksit, as a pure
devotee of the Lord, could appreciate the Lord’s transcendental recipro-
cation of the feelings of His devotees, and thus he himself also was over-
whelmed with the dealings of the Lord. Simply by appreciating the dealings
of the Lord with His pure devotees, one can attain salvation. The Lord’s
dealings with His devotees appear to be ordinary human dealings, but one
who knows them in truth becomes at once eligible to go back home, back
to Godhead. The Pandavas were so malleable to the will of the Lord that
they could sacrifice any amount of energy for the service of the Lord, and
by such unalloyed determination they could secure the Lord’s mercy in
any shape they desired.

TEXT 17

reed ade a say |
aa feorsd aang afar F211

tasyaivam vartamanasya
purvesam urttim anvaham
natidure kilascaryam
yad asit tan nibodha me

tasya—of Maharaja Parksit; evam—thus; vartamanasya—remaining ab-
sorbed in such thought; purvesam—of his forefathers; vrttim—good engage-
ment; anvaham—day after day; na—not; atidiire—far off; kila—verily;
ascaryam—astonishing; yat—that; adsit—was; tat—which; nibodha—know it;
me—from me.
