Text 9] Vidura Approaches Maitreya 125
PURPORT
According to Srila Vigvanatha Cakravarti Thakur, the Lord’s sitting
posture—keeping His back against the newly grown banyan tree—is also
meaningful. Asvattha, the banyan tree, is so called because the tree does
not die very quickly; it continues to live for many, many years. His legs
and their energies are the material ingredients, which are five in all: earth,
water, fire, air and sky. The material energies represented by the banyan
tree are all products of His external potency and are thercfore kept to
His back. And because this particular universe is the smallest of all, the
banyan tree is therefore designated as small, or as a child. Tyakta-
pippalam indicates that He had now finished His pastimes in this particular
small universe, but since the Lord is absolute and eternally blissful, there
is no difference between His leaving or accepting something. The Lord
was now preparcd to leave this particular universe and go into another, just
as the sun rises on one particular planet and sets in another simultaneously
but does not change its own situation.
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tasmin maha-bhagavato
dvaipayana-suhrt-sakha
lokananucaran siddha
asasada yadrcchaya
tasmin—then; maha-bhagavatah—a great devotee of the Lord;
dvaipdyana—of Krsna-dvaipayana Vyasa; suhrt—a well-wisher; sakha—a
friend; lokan—the three worlds; anucaran— traveling; siddhe—in that asrama;
asasada— arrived; yadrcchaya— by his own perfect accord.
TRANSLATION
At that time, after traveling in many parts of the world, Maitreya, a
great devotee of the Lord and a friend and well-wisher of the great sage
Krgna-dvaipayana Vyasa, reached that spot out of his own perfect accord.
PURPORT
Maitreya was one of the disciples of Maharsi Paragara, the father of
Vyasadeva. Thus Vyasadeva and Maitreya were friends and mutual well-
