Verse 1.7.45-46

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.7.45-46:

এ রহস্য বিদিত কৈলেন ভাগবতে পরীক্ষিত্ শুনিলেন শুকদেব হৈতে প্রসঙ্গে শুনহ ভাগবতের আখ্যান শুক-পরীক্ষিতের সংবাদ অনুপম ॥ ৪৫-৪৬ ॥

ए रहस्य विदित कैलेन भागवते परीक्षित् शुनिलेन शुकदेव हैते प्रसङ्गे शुनह भागवतेर आख्यान शुक-परीक्षितेर संवाद अनुपम ॥ ४५-४६ ॥

e rahasya vidita kailena bhāgavate parīkṣit śunilena śukadeva haite prasaṅge śunaha bhāgavatera ākhyāna śuka-parīkṣitera saṃvāda anupama || 45-46 ||

e rahasya vidita kailena bhagavate pariksit sunilena sukadeva haite prasange sunaha bhagavatera akhyana suka-pariksitera samvada anupama (45-46)

English translation:

(45-46) Yet this mystery was disclosed by Śukadeva Gosvāmī to Mahārāja Parīkṣit in the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam. Please hear now the matchless discussion between Śukadeva and Parīkṣit from Śrīmad Bhāgavatam in this connection.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

In the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (10.14.49) it is stated: “King Parīkṣit said: O brāhmaṇa, how could the cowherd women have developed for Kṛṣṇa, someone else’s son, such unprecedented pure love—love they never felt even for their own children? Please explain this.” Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī replied in verses 50-57 as follows: “Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, for every created being the dearmost thing is certainly his own self. The dearness of everything else—children, wealth and so on—is due only to the dearness of the self. For this reason, O best of kings, the embodied soul is self-centered: he is more attached to his own body and self than to

his so-called possessions like children, wealth and home. Indeed, for persons who think the body is the self, O best of kings, those things whose importance lies only in their relationship to the body are never as dear as the body itself. If a person comes to the stage of considering the body “mine” instead of “me,” he will certainly not consider the body as dear as his own self. After all, even as the body is growing old and useless, one’s desire to continue living remains strong. Therefore it is his own self that is most dear to every embodied living being, and it is simply for the satisfaction of this self that the whole material creation of moving and nonmoving entities exists. You should know Kṛṣṇa to be the original Soul of all living entities. For the benefit of the whole universe, He has, out of His causeless mercy, appeared as an ordinary human being. He has done this by the strength of His internal potency. Those in this world who understand Lord Kṛṣṇa as He is see all things, whether stationary or moving, as manifest forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Such enlightened persons recognize no reality apart from the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa. The original, unmanifested form of material nature is the source of all material things, and the source of even that subtle material nature is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. What, then, could one ascertain to be separate from Him?” One should refer to these verses and their translation by the author [Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura] in the following verses.