TEXTS 2526
manah prthivyam tam adbhis
tejasapo nilena tat
khe vayum dharayams tac ca
bhutadau tam mahatmani
tasmin jnana-kalam dhyatva
tayajnanam vinirdahan
hitva tam svena bhavena
nirvana-sukha-samvida
anirdesyapratarkyena
tasthau vidhvasta-bandhanah
SYNONYMS
manahthe mind (full of material desires for eating, sleeping, mating and defending); prthivyamin the earth; tamthat; adbhihwith water; tejasaand with fire; apahthe water; anilenain the fire; tatthat; khein the sky; vayumthe air; dharayanamalgamating; tatthat; caalso; bhuta-adauin the false ego, the origin of material existence; tamthat (false ego); maha-atmaniin the mahat-tattva, the total material energy; tasminin the total material energy; jnana-kalamspiritual knowledge and its different branches; dhyatvaby meditating; tayaby this process; ajnanamignorance; vinirdahanspecifically subdued; hitvagiving up; tammaterial ambition; svenaby self-realization; bhavenain devotional service; nirvana-sukha-samvidaby transcendental bliss, putting an end to material existence; anirdesyaimperceptible; apratarkyenainconceivable; tasthauremained; vidhvastacompletely freed from; bandhanahmaterial bondage.
TRANSLATION
Maharaja Hariscandra first purified his mind, which was full of material enjoyment, by amalgamating it with the earth. Then he amalgamated the earth with water, the water with fire, the fire with the air, and the air with the sky. Thereafter, he amalgamated the sky with the total material energy, and the total material energy with spiritual knowledge. This spiritual knowledge is realization of ones self as part of the Supreme Lord. When the self-realized spiritual soul is engaged in service to the Lord, he is eternally imperceptible and inconceivable. Thus established in spiritual knowledge, he is completely freed from material bondage.
Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Ninth Canto, Seventh Chapter, of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled The Descendants of King Mandhata.

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