SB 7.1.34

TEXT 34

TEXT

श्रीयुधिष्ठिर उवाच
कीदृशः कस्य वा शापो हरिदासाभिमर्शनः ।
अश्रद्धेय इवाभाति हरेरेकान्तिनां भवः ॥ ३४ ॥

sri-yudhisthira uvaca

kidrsah kasya va sapo

hari-dasabhimarsanah

asraddheya ivabhati

harer ekantinam bhavah

sri-yudhisthirah uvaca-Maharaja Yudhisthira said; kidrsah-what kind of; kasya-whose; va-or; sapah-curse; hari-dasa-the servant of Hari; abhimarsanah-overcoming; asraddheyah-incredible; iva-as if; abhati-appears; hareh-of Hari; ekantinam-of those exclusively devoted as exalted attendants; bhavah-birth.

TRANSLATION

Maharaja Yudhisthira inquired: What kind of great curse could affect even liberated visnu-bhaktas, and what sort of person could curse even the Lord's associates? For unflinching devotees of the Lord to fall again to this material world is impossible. I cannot believe this.

PURPORT

In Bhagavad-gita (8.16) the Lord clearly states, mam upetya tu kaunteya punar janma na vidyate: one who is purified of material contamination and returns home, back to Godhead, does not return to this material world. Elsewhere in Bhagavad-gita (4.9) Krsna says:

janma karma ca me divyam
evam yo vetti tattvatah
tyaktva deham punar janma
naiti mam eti so 'rjuna

"One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna." Maharaja Yudhisthira, therefore, was surprised that a pure devotee could return to this material world. This is certainly a very important question.

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