104 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 2

has been accepted by the dcaryas who are not only faithful and learned
men. but are also liberated souls without any of the flaws of conditioned
souls. The modern scientists are, however, conditioned souls liable to so
many errors and mistakes: therefore the safe side is to accept the authentic
version of Vedic literatures, like Srimad-Bhdgavatam, which is accepted
unanimously by the great dc@ryas.

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A AT Ta A AU A AT:
aif Fam aa BaPaT |
afrrdise: |Tataa hat

ASAT RMI

na yatra soko na jara na mrtyur
nartir na codvega rte kutascit

yac cit tato ‘dah krpayanidam vidam
duranta-duhkha-prabhavanudarsanat

na—never: vatra—there are; Sokhah—bereavement; na—nor; jard—old age;
na—nor: mrtyuh—death; na—nor: artih—pains; na—nor; ca—also; udvegah—
anxieties; rle—save and except; kutascit—sometimes; yat—because of; cit—
consciousness; tatah— therefore ;adah—compassion;krpaya—out of heartfelt
sympathy; anidarh vidam—of those who are ignorant of the process of
devotional service; duranta—unsurpassable ; duhkha—misery; prabhava—
aggrandizement: anudarsanat—by successive experience.

TRANSLATION

In that planet of Satyaloka, there is neither bereavement, nor old age
nor death. There is no pain of any kind and therefore no anxieties, save
that sometimes, due to consciousness, there is a feeling of compassion for
those who, unaware of the process of devotional service, become subjected
to the aggrandizement of unsurpassable miseries in the material world.
