Text 50] Maharaja Pariksit Cursed by a Brahmana Boy 983

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prayasah sadhavo loke
parair dvandvesu yojitah

na vyathanti na hrsyanti
yata atma’gunasrayah

prayasah—generally; sadhavah—saints; loke—in this world; paraih—by
others; dvandvesu—in duality; yojitah—being engaged; na—never; vyathan-
ti—distressed; na—nor; hrsyanti—takes pleasure; yatah—because; atma—
self; agunu-asrayah —transcendental.

TRANSLATION

Generally the transcendentalists, even though engaged by others in the
dualities of the material world, are not distressed. Nor do they take plea-
sure [in worldly things], for they are transcendentally engaged.

PURPORT

The transcendentalists are the empiric philosophers, mystics and the
devotees of the Lord. Empiric philosophers aim at the perfection of merg-
ing into the being of the Absolute, the mystics aim at perceiving the all-
pervading Supersoul, and the devotees of the Lord are engaged in. the tran-
scendental loving service of the Personality of Godhead. Since Brahman,
Paramatma, or Bhagavan are different phases of the same Transcendence,
all these transcendentalists are beyond the three modes of material nature.
Material distresses and happinesses are products of the three modes, and
therefore the causes of such material distress and happiness have nothing
to do with the transcendentalists. The King was a devotee, and the rsi was
a mystic. Therefore both of them were unattached to the accidental in-
cidence created by the supreme will. The playful child was an instrument
in fulfilling the Lord’s will.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta Purports of the First Canto, Eighteenth
Chapter, of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled “Maharaja Pariksit Cursed by
a Brahmana Boy.”
