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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.12

మైత్రేయ ఉవాచ ఇతి స్వమాతుర్నిరవద్యమీప్సితం నిశమ్య పుంసామపవర్గవర్ధనమ్ । ధియాభినన్ద్యాత్మవతాం సతాం గతి- ర్బభాష ఈషత్స్మితశోభితానన: ॥ ౧౨ ॥
maitreya uvāca
[maitreya uvaacha]
iti sva-mātur niravadyam īpsitaṁ
[iti sva-maatur niravadyam eepsitam]
niśamya puṁsām apavarga-vardhanam
[nishamya pumsaam apavarga-vardhanam]
dhiyābhinandyātmavatāṁ satāṁ gatir
[dhiyaabhinandyaatmavataam sataam gatir]
babhāṣa īṣat-smita-śobhitānanaḥ
[babhaasha eeshat-smita-shobhitaananah]
maitreyaḥ uvāca — Maitreya said iti — thus sva-mātuḥ — of His mother niravadyam — uncontaminated īpsitam — desire niśamya — after hearing puṁsām — of people apavarga — cessation of bodily existence vardhanam — increasing dhiyā — mentally abhinandya — having thanked ātma-vatām — interested in self-realization satām — of the transcendentalists gatiḥ — the path babhāṣe — He explained īṣat — slightly smita — smiling śobhita — beautiful ānanaḥ — His face.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
maitreya uvāca
maitreyaḥ uvāca
Maitreya said
iti sva-mātur niravadyam īpsitaṁ
iti
thus
sva-mātuḥ
of His mother
niravadyam
uncontaminated
īpsitam
desire
niśamya puṁsām apavarga-vardhanam
niśamya
after hearing
puṁsām
of people
apavarga
cessation of bodily existence
vardhanam
increasing
dhiyābhinandyātmavatāṁ satāṁ gatir
dhiyā
mentally
abhinandya
having thanked
ātma-vatām
interested in self-realization
satām
of the transcendentalists
gatiḥ
the path
babhāṣa īṣat-smita-śobhitānanaḥ
babhāṣe
He explained
īṣat
slightly
smita
smiling
śobhita
beautiful
ānanaḥ
His face.
Maitreya said: After hearing of His mother’s uncontaminated desire for transcendental realization, the Lord thanked her within Himself for her questions, and thus, His face smiling, He explained the path of the transcendentalists, who are interested in self-realization.

Devahūti has surrendered her confession of material entanglement and her desire to gain release. Her questions to Lord Kapila are very interesting for persons who are actually trying to get liberation from material entanglement and attain the perfectional stage of human life. Unless one is interested in understanding his spiritual life, or his constitutional position, and unless he also feels inconvenience in material existence, his human form of life is spoiled. One who does not care for these transcendental necessities of life and simply engages like an animal in eating, sleeping, fearing and mating has spoiled his life. Lord Kapila was very much satisfied by His mother’s questions because the answers stimulate one’s desire for liberation from the conditional life of material existence. Such questions are called apavarga-vardhanam. Those who have actual spiritual interest are called sat, or devotees. Satāṁ prasaṅgāt. Sat means “that which eternally exists,” and asat means “that which is not eternal.” Unless one is situated on the spiritual platform, he is not sat; he is asat. The asat stands on a platform which will not exist, but anyone who stands on the spiritual platform will exist eternally. As spirit soul, everyone exists eternally, but the asat has accepted the material world as his shelter, and therefore he is full of anxiety. Asad-grāhān, the incompatible situation of the spirit soul who has the false idea of enjoying matter, is the cause of the soul’s being asat. Actually, the spirit soul is not asat. As soon as one is conscious of this fact and takes to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he becomes sat. Satāṁ gatiḥ, the path of the eternal, is very interesting to persons who are after liberation, and His Lordship Kapila began to speak about that path.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Maitreya said: Hearing his mother’s faultless desire for increasing liberation of humanity, Kapila, thanking her by his intelligence, with a slight smile on his shining face, spoke about the path of the devotees who accept Kapila as the Lord. Apavarga-vardhanam means “increasing liberation” or “cutting out material life.” Ātma-vatām means “of those take Lord Kapila as the object of service.” Satām means “of the devotees.” Kapila smiled, “You are the mother of me, the Supreme Lord. How can you be in māyā? Anyway, I will teach something to deliver the common people, through teaching you.”
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