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was seated there. While he inquired, all the sages present also
heard him ask his question.

TEXT 16

Haar TNA
wet aeIgd tagedanaaraty |
TIAA Te AI aifesera afer: 124

Sri-yudhisthira uvdca
aho aty-adbhutam hy etad
durlabhaikantinam api
vasudeve pare tattve
praptis caidyasya vidvisah

Sri-yudhisthirah uvaéca—Maharaja Yudhisthira said; aho—oh; ati-
adbhutam—very wonderful; hi—certainly; etat—this; durlabha—dif-
ficult to attain; ekdntindm—for the transcendentalists; api—even;
vdsudeve—in Vasudeva; pare—the supreme; tattve—Absolute Truth;
preps te attainment; caidyasya—of Sigupala; vidvisah—envious.

TRANSLATION

Maharaja Yudhisthira inquired: It is very wonderful that the
demon Sisupala merged into the body of the Supreme Personality
of Godhead even though extremely envious. This séyujya-mukti is
impossible to attain even for great transcendentalists. How then
did the enemy of the Lord attain it?

PURPORT

There are two classes of transcendentalists—the jrdnis and the bhak-
tas. The bhaktas do not aspire to merge into the existence of the Lord,
but the jrdnis do. Sigupila, however, was neither a jfani nor a bhakta,
yet simply by envy of the Lord he attained an exalted position by merg-
ing into the Lord’s body. Certainly this was astonishing, and therefore
Maharaja Yudhisthira inquired about the cause for the Lord’s mysterious
mercy to Sisupila.
