Text 41] Vidura’s Talks with Maitreya 203
ddhyatmic (bodily or mental) pains, a@dhibautic pains (those offered by
living creatures), and ddhidaivic pains (those due to supernatural distur-
bances). His happiness is nothing but a hard struggle to get free from the
miseries of conditional life. But there is only one way he can be rescued,
and that is by accepting the shelter of the lotus feet of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead.

The argument that unless one has proper knowledge one cannot be
freed from material miseries is undoubtedly true. But because the lotus
feet of the Lord are full of transcendental knowledge, acceptance of His
lotus feet completes that necessity. We have already discussed this point
in the First Canto (1.2.7):

vasudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogah prayojitah
Janayaty asu vairagyam jianamca yad ahaitukam
There is no want of knowledge in the devotional service of Vasudeva, the
Personality of Godhead. He, the Lord, personally takes charge of dissi-
pating the darkness of ignorance from the heart of a devotee. He confirms
this in Bhagavad-gita (10.10):
tesam satata-yukatanam bhajatam priti- purvakam
dadami buddhi-yogam tam yena mam upayanti te
Empiric philosophical speculation cannot give one relief from the threefold
miseries of material existence. Simply to endeavor for knowledge without
devoting oneself to the Lord is a waste of valuable time.
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FATANTATT:
qq ae due: orm: eel
marganti yat te mukha-padma-nidais
chandah-suparnair rsayo vivikte
yasyaghamarsoda-sarid-varayah
padam padam tirtha-padah prapannah
marganti—searching after; yat—as; te—Your; mukha-padma-—lotuslike
face; nidaih—by those who have taken shelter of such a lotus flower;
chandah—Vedic hymns; suparnath—by the wings; rsayah—the sages; vivi-
