Text 46] Lord Krsna Shows the Universal Form 133

mama vartmdanuvartante
manusyah pdartha sarvasah

‘“‘As men surrender unto Me, I reward them accordingly. Everyone
follows My path in all respects, O son of Prtha.”’ One may be a karmi, a
jfidni, a yogi and then a bhakta or prema-bhakta. But the ultimate stage
of realization is prema-bhakti, as actually demonstrated by mother
Yasoda.
TEXT 46
MURA
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ANAT A ALTATTT TT TAT: AA As ULE
Sri-rdjovdca
nandah kim akarod brahman
Sreya evarh mahodayam
yasoda ca maha-bhaga
papau yasyah stanam harih

sri-raja uvaéca—Maharaja Pariksit further inquired (from Sukadeva
Gosvami); nandah—Maharaja Nanda; kim—what; akarot—performed;
brahman—O learned brahmana; sreyah—auspicious activities, like per-
forming penances and austerities; evam—as exhibited by him; mahda-
udayam—from which they achieved the greatest perfection; yasoda—
mother Yasodé; ca—also; maha-bhagd—most fortunate; papau—
drank; yasyah—of whom; stanam—the breast milk; harih—the
Supreme Personality of Godhead.

TRANSLATION

Having heard of the great fortune of mother Yasoda, Pariksit
Maharaja inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami: O learned brahmana,
mother Yasoda’s breast milk was sucked by the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead. What past auspicious activities did she and
Nanda Maharaja perform to achieve such perfection in ecstatic
love?
