768 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 20

purusa yadi muhyanti
tvadrsa deva-mayaya
§rama eva pararh jato

dirghaya urddha-sevaya

purusah—persons; yadi—if;.muhyanti—become bewildered; tva-drsah—
like you; deva—of the Supreme Lord; mayaya—by the energy; sramah—
exertion; eva—certainly; param—only; jatah-- produced; dirghaya—for a long
time; urddha-sevaya—by serving the superiors.

TRANSLATION

If a personality like you, who are so much advanced because of execut-
ing the instructions of the previous 4caryas, is carried away by the influence
of My material energy, then all your advancement may be considered
simply a waste of time.

PURPORT

In this verse the word vrddha-sevaya is very significant. Vrddha means
“old.” Sevayd means “‘by service.”’ Perfect knowledge is acquired from the
acaryas or liberated souls. No one can be perfect in knowledge without
being trained by the parampara system. Prthu Maharaja was completely
trained in that line; therefore he did not deserve to be considered an ordi-
nary man. Anordinary man, who has only a conception of bodily existence,
is always bewildered by the modes of material nature.

TEXT 5

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atah kdyam imam vidvan
avidya-kama-karmabhih

arabdha iti naivasmin
pratibuddho ’nusajjate

atah—therefore; kdyam—body; imam—this; vidvan—he who has knowl-
edge; avidya—by nescience; kama—desires; karmabhih—and by activities;
arabdhah—created; iti_thus; na—never; eva—certainly; asmin—to this body;
pratibuddhah—one who knows; anusajjate—becomes addicted.
