Text 27] The Dynasty of Maharaja Nimi 171

TEXT 27
Ud a Atal TAHA: |
TVA «FANT TREY RUMI

ete vai maithila rajann
Gtma-vidyd-visdradah

yogesvara-prasddena
dvandvair mukta grhesv api

ete—all of them; vai—indeed; maithilah—the descendants of
Mithila; réjan—O King; dtma-vidyd-visdradéh—expert in spiritual
knowledge; yogeSsvara-prasddena—by the grace of Yogesvara, the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna; dvandvaih muktah—they were
all freed from the duality of the material world; grhesu api—even
though staying at home.

TRANSLATION

Sukadeva Gosvami said: My dear King Pariksit, all the kings of
the dynasty of Mithila were completely in knowledge of their spiri-
tual identity. Therefore, even though staying at home, they were
liberated from the duality of material existence.

PURPORT

This material world is called dvaita, or duality. The Caitanya-
caritamrta (Antya 4.176) says:

‘dvaite’ bhadrabhadra-jndna, saba — ‘manodharma’
‘ei bhala, ei manda,’—ei saba ‘bhrama’

In the world of duality—that is to say, in the material world—so-called
goodness and badness are both the same. Therefore, in this world, to dis-
tinguish between good and bad, happiness and distress, is meaningless
because they are both mental concoctions (manodharma). Because every-
thing here is miserable and troublesome, to create an artificial situation
and pretend it to be full of happiness is simply illusion. The liberated
person, being above the influence of the three modes of material nature,
