Text 20] Appearance of Sukadeva Gosvami 1009
na va idam rajarsi-varya citram
bhavatsu krsnam samanuuratesu
ye ‘dhyasanam raja-kirita-justam
sadyo jahur bhagavat-parsva-kamah

na—neither; va—like this; idam—this; rajarsi—saintly king; varya—the
chief; citram—astonishing; bhavatsu—unto you all; krsnam—Lord Krsna;
samanuvratesu—unto those who are strictly in the line of; ye—whe;
adhyasanam- seated on the throne; raja-kirita—helmets of kings; justam—
decorated; sadyah—immediately ; jahuh—gave up; bhagavat—the Personality

of Godhead; parsva-kamah-— desiring to achieve association.

TRANSLATION
[The sages said:] O chief of all the saintly kings of the Pandu dynasty
who are strictly in the line of Lord Sri Krsna! It is not at all astonishing
that you give up your throne, which is decorated with the helmets of
many kings, to achieve eternal association with the Personality of Godhead.
PURPORT

Foolish politicians who hold political administrative posts think that the
temporary posts they occupy are the highest material gain of life, and
therefore they stick to that post even up to the last moment of life without
knowing that achievement of liberation as one of the associates of the Lord
in His eternal abode is the highest gain of life. The human life is meant for
achieving this end. The Lord has assured us in the Bhagavad-gita many
times that going back to Godhead, His eternal abode, is the highest achieve-
ment. Prahlada Maharaja, while praying to Lord Nrsimha, said, ““O my
Lord, I am very much afraid of the materialistic way of life, and I am not
the least afraid of Your present ghastly ferocious feature as Nrsimhadeva.
This materialistic way of life is something like a grinding stone, and we are
being crushed by it. We have fallen into this horrible whirlpool of the
tossing waves of life, and thus, my Lord, I pray at Your lotus feet to call
me back to Your eternal abode as one of Your servitors. This is the summit
liberation of this materialistic way of life. I have very bitter experience of
the materialistic way of life. In whichever species of life I have taken birth,
compelled by the force of my own activities, I have very painfully experi-
enced two things, namely separation from my beloved and meeting with
