930 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 1, Ch. 18
equally anxious to describe Maharaja Pariksit’s wonderful birth and death,
and this verse is stated by Sita Gosvami to increase the interest of the
sages of Naimisaranya.
TEXT 2
HARTMAN TS TIHCAMTATATT |
aq arygateerag anacafiarea: | 2 tl
brahma-kopotthitad yas tu
taksakat prana-viplavat
na sammumohorubhayad
bhagavaty arpitasayah
brahma-kopa—fury of a brahmana; utthitat—caused by; yah— what was;
tu—but; taksakat—by the snake-bird; prana-viplavat—from dissolution of
life; na—never; sammumoha— became overwhelmed; uru-bhayat— great fear-
fulness; bhagavati—unto the Personality of Godhead; arpita—surrendered;
aSayah—consciousness.
TRANSLATION
Furthermore, Maharaja Pariksit was always consciously surrendered to
the Personality of Godhead, and therefore he was neither afraid nor over-
whelmed by fear due to a snake-bird which was to bite him because of the
fury of a brahmana boy.
PURPORT
A self-surrendered devotee of the Lord is called Narayana-parayana. Such
a person is never afraid of any place or person, not even of death. For him
nothing is as important as the Supreme Lord, and thus he gives equal
importance both to heaven and hell. He knows well that both heaven and
hell are creations of the Lord, and similarly life and death are different
conditions of existence created by the Lord. But in all conditions and in
all circumstances, remembrance of Narayana is essential. The Narayana-
parayana practices this constantly. Maharaja Pariksit was such a pure devo-
tee. He was wrongfully cursed by an inexperienced son of a brahmana who
was under the influence of Kali, and Maharaja Pariksit took this to be sent
by Narayana. He knew that Narayana (Lord Krsna) saved him when he was
