Text 52] Instructions by Maharaja Prthu 883

TRANSLATION

The citizens continued: Today you have opened our eyes and revealed
how to cross to the other side of the ocean of darkness. By our past
deeds and by the arrangement of superior authority, we are entangled
in a network of fruitive activities and have lost sight of the destination of
life; thus we have been wandering within the universe.

PURPORT

In this verse, the words karmabhir daiva-samjiitaih are very significant.
Due to the quality of our actions, we come to the association of the modes
of material nature, and by superior arrangement we are given a chance to
enjoy the fruitive results of such activities in different types of bodies.
In this way, having lost sight of their destinations in life, all living entities
are wandering in different species throughout the universe, sometimes
getting birth in a lower species and sometimes existence in higher planetary
systems; thus we are all wandering since time immemorial. It is by the
grace of the spiritual master and the Supreme Personality of Godhead
that we get the clue of devotional life, and thus progressive success in our
life begins. Here this is admitted by the citizens of King Prthu; in full
consciousness tity admit the benefit they have derived from the activities
of Maharaja Prthu.

TEXT 52

amt fragaara gema adlaa |
T aa waaay adie Ste 142A

namo vivrddha-sattvaya
purusaya mahiyase

yo brahma ksatram avisya
bibhartidam sva-tejasa

namah—all obeisances; vivrddha—highly elevated; sattvaya—unto the
existence; purusaya—unto the person; mahiyase—unto one who is so
glorified; yah—who; brahma—brahminical culture; ksatram—administrative
duty; avisya—entering; bibharti—maintaining; idam—this; sva-tejasa—by
his own prowess.

TRANSLATION

Dear lord, you are situated in your pure existential position of goodness;
therefore you are the perfect representative of the Supreme Lord. You
