Text 29] Vidura Approaches Maitreya 147
Since the Lord is identical with His transcendental body, there is no
question of His changing or quitting His body. To act in accordance with
the rules and customs of the material world, the Lord seems to take His
birth or leave His body, but the pure devotees of the Lord know well the
actual fact. It is necessary, therefore, for the serious students of Srimad-
Bhagavatam to follow the notes and comments of the great acaryas like
Jiva Gosvami and Visvanatha Cakravarti. To others, who are not devotees
of the Lord, the comments and explanations of such acaryas may appear to
be grammatical jugglery, but to the students who are in the line of
disciplic succession, the explanations of the great acaryas are quite fit.

The word upagatesu is also significant. All the members of Vrsni and
Bhoja directly reached the abode of the Lord. Other devotees do not reach
the abode of the Lord directly, but the pure associates of the Lord have no
attraction for the opulence of any planets of the material world. Some-
times, due to inquisitiveness, devotees who are to be promoted to the
abode of the Lord have some attraction for the opulence of the higher
material planets above the earth, and thus they desire to see them while
going up to the perfection. But the Vrsnis and Bhojas were directly dis-
patched because they had no attraction for material planets. Srila
Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakur also suggests that according to the Amara-
kosa dictionary, akrti also means signal. Lord Krsna ordered Uddhava by
signal to go to Badarikasrama after His departure, and Uddhava, as a pure
devotee of the Lord, carried out the order more faithfully than going back
to Godhead or the abode of the Lord. That was the cause of his remaining
alone even after the departure of the Lord from the face of the earth.

TEXT 29
satya vara
~ 5 ~ los
AAMT «| HATATTATLS HA: |
Wet BES ed TSTeceatarayd |*8ll
Sri Suka uvaca
brahma-sapapadesena
kalenamogha-varicchitah
samhrtya sva-kular sphitarn
tyaksyan deham acinta-yat

§ri Sukah uvaca—Sukadeva Gosvami said; brahma-sapa—cursing by the
brahmanas ;apadesena—on the plea, by such a show; kalena—by the eternal
lime; amogha—unfailing; vaicchitah—one who so desires; samhrtya—
