32 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 1
TRANSLATION

O Uddhava, does Yuyudhana fare well? He learned the intricacies of the
military art from Arjuna and attained the transcendental destination which
is very difficult to reach even for great renouncers.

PURPORT

The destination of transcendence is to become the personal associate of
the Personality of Godhead, who is known as adhoksaja, He who is beyond
the reach of the senses. The renouncers of the world, the sannyasis, give up
all worldly connections, namely, family, wife, children, friends, home,
wealth—everything—to attain the transcendental bliss of Brahman happi-
ness. But adhoksaja happiness is beyond Brahman happiness. The empiric
philosophers enjoy a transcendental quality of bliss by philosophical
speculation on the Supreme Truth, but beyond that pleasure there is the
pleasure which is enjoyed by Brahman in His eternal form of the
Personality of Godhead. Brahman bliss is enjoyed by living entities after
liberation from material bondage. But Param Brahman, the Personality of
Godhead, enjoys eternally a bliss of His own potency, which is called the
ahladini potency. The empiric philosopher who studies Brahman by nega-
tion of the external features has not yet learned the quality of the ahladini
potency of Brahman. Out of many potencies of the Omnipotent, there are
three features of His internal potency—namely samuvit, sandhini and
ahladini. And in spite of their strict adherence to the principles of yama,
niyama, asana, dhyana, dharana and pranayama, the great yogis and jnanis
are unable to enter into the internal potency of the Lord. This internal
potency is, however, easily realized by the devotees of the Lord by dint of
devotional service. Yuyudhana achieved this stage of life, just as he
achieved expert knowledge in military science from Arjuna. Thus his life
was successful to the fullest extent from both the material and spiritual
angles of vision. That is the way of devotional service to the Lord.

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