454 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 5, Ch. 13
~The real form of this tree cannot be perceived in this world. No one can
understand where it ends, where it begins, or where its foundation is.
But with determination, one must cut down this tree with the weapon of
detachment. So doing, one must seek that place from which, having once
gone. one never returns, and there surrender to that Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead from whom everything has begun and in whom
everything is abiding since time immemorial.” (Bg. 15.3-4)
TEXT 21
Tsay
wa | TaeMfaaaeATTA
fe senfireritcaa fia |
qT aqadeaaaparrat
HERA Ts AAU TAINAN
rajovaca
aho nr-janmékhila-janma-sobhanam
kim janmabhis tv aparair apy amusmin
na yad dhrsikesa-yasah-krtatmanam
mahétmanam vah pracurah samagamah
raja uvdca—King Rahigana said; aho—alas; nr-janma—you who
have taken birth as a human being; akhila-janma-sobhanam—the best
of all species of life; kim—what need; janmabhih—with births in a
higher species like the demigods in the heavenly planets; tu—but;
aparaih—not superior; api—indeed; amusmin—in the next birth; na—
not; yat—which; hrsikesa-yasah—by the glories of the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead, Hrsikesa, the master of all senses: krta-Gtmanam—
of those whose hearts are purified; mahd-atmaném—who are actually
great souls; vah—of us; pracurah—abundant; samdégamah —the associ-
ation.
TRANSLATION
King Rahigana said: This birth as a human being is the best of
all. Even birth among the demigods in the heavenly planets is not
