Text 60] The Advent of Lord Krsna: Introduction 91

matrd-sparsdas tu kaunteya

Sitosna-sukha-duhkha-dah
dgamapayino ’nityds
tams titiksasva bharata
“O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and dis-
tress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and
disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense per-
ception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without
being disturbed.” (Bg. 2.14) The self-realized soul is never disturbed by
so-called distress or happiness, and this is especially true of an exalted
devotee like Vasudeva, who showed this by his practical example.
Vasudeva was not at all disturbed when delivering his first child to
Karnsa to be killed.
TEXT 60
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pratiyatu kumdro ’yarh
na hy asmdd asti me bhayam
astamad yuvayor garbhan
mrtyur me vihitah kila
pratiydtu—my dear Vasudeva, take back your child and go home;
kumérah—newborn child; ayam—this; na—not; hi—indeed; asmat—
from him; asti—there is, me—my; bhayam—fear; astamat—from the
eighth; yuvayoh—of both you and your wife; garbhat—from.the preg-
nancy; mrtyuh—death; me—my; vihitah—has been ordained; kila—
indeed.
TRANSLATION
O Vasudeva, you may take back your child and go home. I have

no fear of your first child. It is the eighth child of you and Devaki I
am concerned with because that is the child by whom I am destined
to be killed.
