1594 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 31

TRANSLATION

Sri Vidura said: O great mystic, O greatest of all devotees, by your
causeless mercy I have been shown the path of liberation from this world
of darkness. By following this path, a person liberated from the material
world can return home, back to Godhead.

PURPORT

This material world is called tamah, dark, and the spiritual world is
called light. The Vedas enjoin that everyone should try to get out of the
darkness and go to the kingdom of light. Information of that kingdom of
light can be attained through the mercy of a self-realized soul. One also
has to get rid of all material desires. As soon as one frees himself from
material desires and associates with a liberated person, the path back
home, back to Godhead, is clear.

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Sri Suka uvdca
ity dnamya tam dmantrya
viduro gaja-sahvayam
svdnam didrksuh prayayau
jiidtindm nirurtasayah

$ri Sukah uvadca—Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said; iti— thus; dnamya-— offering
obeisances; tam—unto Maitreya; dmantrya—taking permission; vidurah—
Vidura; gaja-sahvayam—the city of Hastinapura; svandm—own; didrksuh—
desiring to see; prayayau—left that place; jiidtindm—of his kinsmen;
nirvrta-dsayah—free from material desires.

TRANSLATION

Sukadeva Gosvami continued: Vidura thus offered obeisances unto the
great sage Maitreya, and, taking his permission, started for the city of
Hastinapura to see his own kinsmen, although he had no material desires.
