Text 13] Vidura Approaches Maitreya 129
sa esa sadho caramo bhavanam
asaditas te mad-anugraho yat
yan mam nrlokan raha utsrjantam
distya dadrsvan visadanuurttya
sah—that; esah—of those; sadho—O honest one; caramah— the ultimate;
bhavaném— of all your incarnations (as Vasu); dsdditah—now achieved; te—
unto you; mat—My; anugrahah—mercy; yat—as it is; yat—because; mam—
Me; nrlokdn—the planets of the conditioned souls; rahah—in seclusion;
utsrjantam—while quitting; digtya—by seeing; dadrsvan—what you have
seen; vigada-anuvrttya—by unflinching devotion.
TRANSLATION
O honest one, your present life is the last and the supermost because in
this term of life you have been awarded My ultimate favor. Now you can
go to My transcendental abode, Vaikuntha, by leaving this universe of
conditioned living entities. Your visit to Me in this lonely place because of
your pure and unflinching devotional service is a great boon for you.
PURPORT
When a person is fully conversant with knowledge of the Lord as far as
can be known by a perfect living entity in the liberated state, he is allowed
to enter into the spiritual sky, where the Vaikuntha planets exist. The Lord
was sitting in a lonely place just about to disappear from the vision of the
inhabitants of this universe, and Uddhava was fortunate to see Him even
at that time and thus receive the Lord’s permission to enter Vaikuntha.
The Lord is every where at all times, and His appearance and disappearance
are mercly the experience of the inhabitants of a particular universe. He is
just like the sun. The sun docs not appear or disappear in the sky, but it is
only in the experience of men that in the morning the sun rises and in the
evening the sun sets. The Lord is simultaneously both in Vaikuntha and
every where within and without Vaikuntha.
TEXT 13
TH AT TAA Ay
Te faery aeieat |
ae oot | arafemrraTd
TN wat | Tate 1123
