294. Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 10, Ch. 12
pinahi-bhogotthitam adbhutam mahaj
jyotih sva-dhamna jvalayad diso dasa
pratiksya khe ’vasthitam iSa-nirgamam
vivesa tasmin misatam divaukasém

pina—very great; ahi-bhoga-utthitam—issuing from the serpent’s
body, which was meant for material enjoyment; adbhutam—very won-
derful; mahat—great; jyotih—effulgence; sva-dhamna—by his own il-
lumination; jvalayat—making glaring; disah dasa—all the ten direc-
tions; pratiksya—waiting; khe—in the sky; avasthitam—individually
staying; iSa-nirgamam—until the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
Krsna, came out; vivesa—entered; tasmin—in the body of Krsna;
misatam—while observing; divaukasém—all the demigods.

TRANSLATION

From the body of the gigantic python, a glaring effulgence came
out, illuminating all directions, and stayed individually in the sky
until Krsna came out from the corpse’s mouth. Then, as all the
demigods looked on, this effulgence entered into Krgna’s body.

PURPORT

Apparently the serpent named Aghdasura, because of having received
association with Krsna, attained mukti by entering Krsna’s body. Enter-
ing the body of Krsna is called séyujya-mukti, but later verses prove that
Aghasura, like Dantavakra and others, received sdriipya-mukti. This has
been broadly described by Srila Viévanatha Cakravarti Thakura with
references from the Vaisnava-tosani of Srila Jiva Gosvami. Aghasura at-
tained sdripya-mukti, being promoted to the Vaikuntha planets to live
with the same four-armed bodily features as Visnu. The explanation of
how this is so may be summarized as follows.

The effulgence came out from the python’s body and became purified,
attaining spiritual suddha-sattva, freedom from material contamination,
because Krsna had stayed within the serpent’s body, even after the ser-
pent’s death. One may doubt that such a demon, full of mischievous ac-
tivities, could attain the liberation of sdriijpya or sdyujya, and one may be
astonished about this. But Krsna is so kind that in order to drive away
such doubts, He had the effulgence, the individual life of the python,
