1012 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 23
means attaining the very planet where the Supreme Personality of Godhead
resides. There are five kinds of liberation, and one is called sayujya-mukti,
or merging into the existence of the Supreme or the impersonal Brahman
effulgence. However, since there is a chance of one’s falling down again
into the material sky from the Brahman effulgence, Srila Jiva Gosvami
advises that in this human form of life one’s only aim should be to go back
home, back to Godhead. The words sa vancitah indicate that once a person
has obtained the human form of life, he is actually cheated if he does not
make preparations to go back home, back to Godhead. The position of all
nondevotees who are not interested in going back to Godhead is very
much lamentable, for the human form of life is meant for executing devo-
tional service and nothing else.
TEXT 29
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& a mentaat zat aaa: saga TAA
maitreya uvaca
stuvatisv amara-strisu
pati-lokam gata vadhuh
yam va atma-vidam dhuryo
vainyah prapacyutasrayah
maitreyah uvaca—the great sage Maitreya continued to speak; stuvatisu—
while glorifying; amara-strisu—by the wives of the denizens of heaven;
pati-lokam—the planet where the husband had gone; gata—reaching;
vadhuh— the wife; yam—where; va—or; atma-vidam—of the self-realized
souls; dhuryah—the topmost; vainyah—the son of King Vena (Prthu
Maharaja); prapa—obtained; acyuta-asrayah—under the protection of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead.
TRANSLATION
The great sage Maitreya continued speaking: My dear Vidura, when the
wives of the denizens of heaven were thus talking amongst themselves,
Queen Arci reached the planet which her husband, Maharaja Prthu, the
topmost self-realized soul, had attained.
