SB 7.1.16 — FolioCorpus

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.1.16

శ్రీయుధిష్ఠిర ఉవాచ అహో అత్యద్భ‍ుతం హ్యేతద్దుర్లభైకాన్తినామపి । వాసుదేవే పరే తత్త్వే ప్రాప్తిశ్చైద్యస్య విద్విష: ॥ ౧౬ ॥

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

ati-adbhutam

very wonderful

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 jṣānīs and the bhaktas. The bhaktas do not aspire to merge into the existence of the Lord, but the jṣānīs do. Śiśupāla, however, was neither a jṣānī 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.

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