Text 39] Vidura’s Talks with Maitreya 201
are there for the unwanted conditioned souls who always engage in
threatening the tranquility of the kingdom of God. Since all the demigods
are confidential devotee-servitors of the Lord, they are never to he
condemned.
TEXT 39
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deva ticuh
namama te deva padaravindam
prapanna-tapopasamatapatram
yan-mula-kela yalayo ‘fijasoru
samsara-duhkham bahir utksipanti
devah ucuh—the demigods said; namama—we offer our respectful
obeisances; le— Your; deva—O. Lord; pada-aravindam—lotus feet; prapanna-—
surrendered; tapa—distress; upasama— suppresses; atapalram—umbrella; yat-
mula-ketah—shelter of the lotus feet; yatayah—great sages; arijasa—lolally;
uru—greal; samsara-duhkham—miseries of material existence; bahih—oul;
utksipanti—forcibly throw.
TRANSLATION
The demigods said: O Lord, Your lotus feet are like an umbrella for
the surrendered souls, protecting them from all the miseries of material
existence. All the sages under that shelter throw off all material miseries.
We therefore offer our respectful obeisances unto Your lotus feet.
PURPORT
There are many sages and saints who engage in trying to conquer
rebirth and all other material miseries. But of all of them, those who take
shelter under the lotus feet of the Lord can completely throw off all such
miseries without difficulty. Others, who are engaged in transcendental
activities in different ways, cannot do so. For them it is very difficult.
They may artificially think of becoming liberated without accepting the
shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord, but that is not possible. One is sure
to fall again to the material existence from such false liberation, even
