SB 2.8.26
TEXT 26
|
TEXT
न मे ऽसवः परायन्ति ब्रह्मन्ननशनादमी ।
पिबतो ऽच्युतपीयूषम् तद्वाक्याब्धिविनिःसृतम् ॥ २६ ॥ na me 'savaḥ parayanti
brahmann anasanadami
pibato 'cyuta-piyūsam
tad vakyabdhi-viniḥsrtam
na-never; me-mine; asavaḥ-life; parayanti-becomes exhausted; brahman-O learned brahmana; anasanat ami-because of fasting; pibataḥ-because of my drinking; acyuta-the infallible; piyūsam-nectar; tat-your; vakyabdhi-ocean of speech; viniḥsrtam-flowing down from.
TRANSLATION
O learned brahmana, because of my drinking the nectar of the message of the infallible Personality of Godhead, which is flowing down from the ocean of your speeches, I do not feel any sort of exhaustion due to my fasting."
PURPORT
The disciplic succession from Brahma, Narada, Vyasa and Sukadeva Gosvami is particularly different from others. The disciplic succession from other sages is simply a waste of time, being devoid of Acyuta-katha, or the message of the infallible Lord. The mental speculators can present their theories very nicely by reason and arguments, but such reasons and arguments are not infallible because they are defeated by better mental speculators. Maharaja Pariksit was not interested in the dry speculation of the flickering mind, but he was interested in the topics of the Lord because factually he felt that by hearing such a nectarean message from the mouth of Sukadeva Gosvami he was not feeling any exhaustion, even though he was fasting because of his imminent death.
One can indulge in hearing the mental speculators, but such hearing cannot be prolonged for any length of time. One will be exhausted very soon by hearing such hackneyed ways of thinking, and no one in the world can be satisfied simply by hearing such useless speculations. The message of the Lord, especially from a personality like Sukadeva Gosvami, can never be tiring, even though one may be exhausted from other causes.
In some editions of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, the text of the last line of this verse reads anyatra kupitad dvijat, which means the King might be overwhelmed by the thought of his imminent death by snakebite. The snake is also twice-born, and its anger is compared with the cursing brahmana boy who was without good intelligence. Maharaja Pariksit was not at all afraid of death because of being fully encouraged by the message of the Lord. One who is fully absorbed in Acyuta-katha can never be afraid of anything in this world.
Link to this page: https://prabhupadabooks.com/sb/2/8/26
|