TEXT 20
na va idam rajarsi-varya citram
bhavatsu krsnam samanuvratesu
ye 'dhyasanam raja-kirita-justam
sadyo jahur bhagavat-parsva-kamah
SYNONYMS
naneither; valike this; idamthis; rajarsisaintly king; varyathe chief; citramastonishing; bhavatsuunto all of you; krsnamLord Krsna; samanuvratesuunto those who are strictly in the line of; yewho; adhyasanamseated on the throne; raja-kiritahelmets of kings; justamdecorated; sadyahimmediately; jahuhgave up; bhagavatthe Personality of Godhead; parsva-kamahdesiring to achieve association.
TRANSLATION
[The sages said:] O chief of all the saintly kings of the Pandu dynasty who are strictly in the line of Lord Sri Krsna! It is not at all astonishing that you give up your throne, which is decorated with the helmets of many kings, to achieve eternal association with the Personality of Godhead.
PURPORT
Foolish politicians who hold political administrative posts think that the temporary posts they occupy are the highest material gain of life, and therefore they stick to those posts even up to the last moment of life, without knowing that achievement of liberation as one of the associates of the Lord in His eternal abode is the highest gain of life. The human life is meant for achieving this end. The Lord has assured us in the Bhagavad-gita many times that going back to Godhead, His eternal abode, is the highest achievement. Prahlada Maharaja, while praying to Lord Nrsimha, said, "O my Lord, I am very much afraid of the materialistic way of life, and I am not the least afraid of Your present ghastly ferocious feature as Nrsimhadeva. This materialistic way of life is something like a grinding stone, and we are being crushed by it. We have fallen into this horrible whirlpool of the tossing waves of life, and thus, my Lord, I pray at Your lotus feet to call me back to Your eternal abode as one of Your servitors. This is the summit liberation of this materialistic way of life. I have very bitter experience of the materialistic way of life. In whichever species of life I have taken birth, compelled by the force of my own activities, I have very painfully experienced two things, namely separation from my beloved and meeting with what is not wanted. And to counteract them, the remedies which I undertook were more dangerous than the disease itself. So I drift from one point to another birth after birth, and I pray to You therefore to give me a shelter at Your lotus feet."
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