SB 1.16.23
TEXT 23
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TEXT
यद्वाम्ब ते भूरिभरावतार कृतावतारस्य हरेर्धरित्रि ।
अन्तर्हितस्य स्मरती विसृष्टा कर्माणि निर्वाणविलम्बितानि ॥ २३ ॥ yad-vamba te bhuri-bharavatara-
krtavatarasya harer dharitri
antarhitasya smarati visrsta
karmani nirvana-vilambitani
yat-that; va-may be; amba-O mother; te-your; bhuri-heavy; bhara-load; avatara-decreasing the load; krta-done; avatarasya-one who incarnated; hareh-of Lord Sri Krsna; dharitri-O earth; antarhitasya-of Him who is now out of sight; smarati-while thinking of; visrsta-all that were performed; karmani-activities; nirvana-salvation; vilambitani-that which entails.
TRANSLATION
O mother earth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, incarnated Himself as Lord Sri Krsna just to unload your heavy burden. All His activities here are transcendental, and they cement the path of liberation. You are now bereft of His presence. You are probably now thinking of those activities and feeling sorry in their absence.
The activities of the Lord included liberation, but they are more relishable than the pleasure derived from nirvana or liberation. According to Srila Jiva Gosvami and Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakur, the word used here is nirvana-vilambitani, that which minimizes the value of liberation. To attain nirvana or liberation, one has to undergo a severe type of tapasya, austerities, but the Lord is so merciful that He incarnates to diminish the burden of the earth. Simply by remembering such activities, one can defy the pleasure derived from nirvana and reach the transcendental abode of the Lord to associate with Him, eternally engaged in His blissful loving service.
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