Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.1.16
श्रीयुधिष्ठिर उवाच
अहो अत्यद्भुतं ह्येतद्दुर्लभैकान्तिनामपि ।
वासुदेवे परे तत्त्वे प्राप्तिश्चैद्यस्य विद्विष: ॥ १६ ॥
śrī-yudhiṣṭhira uvāca
[shree-yudhishthira uvaacha]
aho aty-adbhutaṁ hy etad
[aho aty-adbhutam hy etad]
durlabhaikāntinām api
[durlabhaikaantinaam api]
vāsudeve pare tattve
[vaasudeve pare tattve]
prāptiś caidyasya vidviṣaḥ
[praaptish chaidyasya vidvishah]
Word-for-word
śrī-yudhiṣṭhiraḥ uvāca
—
Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira said
aho
—
oh
ati-adbhutam
—
very wonderful
hi
—
certainly
etat
—
this
durlabha
—
difficult to attain
ekāntinām
—
for the transcendentalists
api
—
even
vāsudeve
—
in Vāsudeva
pare
—
the supreme
tattve
—
Absolute Truth
prāptiḥ
—
the attainment
caidyasya
—
of Śiśupāla
vidviṣaḥ
—
envious.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
śrī-yudhiṣṭhira uvāca
śrī-yudhiṣṭhiraḥ uvāca
Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira said
aho aty-adbhutaṁ hy etad
aho
oh
ati-adbhutam
very wonderful
hi
certainly
etat
this
durlabhaikāntinām api
durlabha
difficult to attain
ekāntinām
for the transcendentalists
api
even
vāsudeve pare tattve
vāsudeve
in Vāsudeva
pare
the supreme
tattve
Absolute Truth
prāptiś caidyasya vidviṣaḥ
prāptiḥ
the attainment
caidyasya
of Śiśupāla
vidviṣaḥ
envious.
Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira inquired: It is very wonderful that the demon Śiśupāla merged into the body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead even though extremely envious. This sāyujya-mukti is impossible to attain even for great transcendentalists. How then did the enemy of the Lord attain it?
Purport
There are two classes of transcendentalists — the jñānīs and the bhaktas. The bhaktas do not aspire to merge into the existence of the Lord, but the jñānīs do. Śiśupāla, however, was neither a jñānī nor a bhakta, yet simply by envy of the Lord he attained an exalted position by merging into the Lord’s body. Certainly this was astonishing, and therefore Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira inquired about the cause for the Lord’s mysterious mercy to Śiśupāla.
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura
Gauḍīya
Translation
Yudhiṣṭhira said: It is astonishing that the envious Śiśupāla attained Vāsudeva. This attainment is difficult for even unattached persons.
Ekāntinām means persons who are unattached to anything.
Personal Guidance
Sāyujya-mukti — merging into the Lord — is hard even for advanced yogīs, yet an envious enemy attained it. This reveals that closeness to God is not measured by sentiment but by depth of attention, even hostile attention. The Lord values intensity of focus on Him.
Reflection Questions
- How much of your day is genuinely focused on the Divine, in any mood?
- What competing intensities are stealing the attention you wish were on God?
My note
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