Shloka 14
Parīkṣit’s Full Surrender and Śukadeva’s Maṅgalācaraṇa to Kṛṣṇa
Inquiry into Creation, Maintenance, and Dissolution
नमो नमस्तेऽस्त्वृषभाय सात्वतां विदूरकाष्ठाय मुहु: कुयोगिनाम् । निरस्तसाम्यातिशयेन राधसा स्वधामनि ब्रह्मणि रंस्यते नम: ॥ १४ ॥
namo namas te ’stv ṛṣabhāya sātvatāṁ vidūra-kāṣṭhāya muhuḥ kuyoginām nirasta-sāmyātiśayena rādhasā sva-dhāmani brahmaṇi raṁsyate namaḥ
ഹേ സാത്വതരുടെ ഋഷഭാ! നിനക്കു വീണ്ടും വീണ്ടും നമസ്കാരം. കുയോഗികൾക്കു നീ ദൂരെയുള്ള കാഷ്ഠംപോലെ അപ്രാപ്യൻ. നിന്റെ തേജോമയ വൈഭവം സമത്വത്തിന്റെ ധാരണയെ തന്നെ നീക്കുന്നു; നീ നിന്റെ സ്വധാമമായ ബ്രഹ്മധാമത്തിൽ തന്നെ രമിക്കുന്നു—നിനക്കു നമസ്കാരം।
There are two sides of the transcendental manifestations of the Supreme Lord, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. For the pure devotees He is the constant companion, as in the case of His becoming one of the family members of the Yadu dynasty, or His becoming the friend of Arjuna, or His becoming the associate neighbor of the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana, as the son of Nanda-Yaśodā, the friend of Sudāmā, Śrīdāmā and Madhumaṅgala, or the lover of the damsels of Vrajabhūmi, etc. That is part of His personal features. And by His impersonal feature He expands the rays of the brahmajyoti, which is limitless and all-pervasive. Part of this all-pervasive brahmajyoti, which is compared to the sun rays, is covered by the darkness of the mahat-tattva, and this insignificant part is known as the material world. In this material world there are innumerable universes like the one we can experience, and in each of them there are hundreds of thousands of planets like the one we are inhabiting. The mundaners are more or less captivated by the unlimited expansion of the rays of the Lord, but the devotees are concerned more with His personal form, from which everything is emanating ( janmādy asya yataḥ ). As the sun rays are concentrated in the sun disc, the brahmajyoti is concentrated in Goloka Vṛndāvana, the topmost spiritual planet in the spiritual sky. The immeasurable spiritual sky is full of spiritual planets, named Vaikuṇṭhas, far beyond the material sky. The mundaners have insufficient information of even the mundane sky, so what can they think of the spiritual sky? Therefore the mundaners are always far, far away from Him. Even if in the future they are able to manufacture some machine whose speed may be accelerated to the velocity of the wind or mind, the mundaners will still be unable to imagine reaching the planets in the spiritual sky. So the Lord and His residential abode will always remain a myth or a mysterious problem, but for the devotees the Lord will always be available as an associate.
FAQs
This verse says the Lord remains 'very far' from misguided yogīs—those whose practice lacks true devotion and right understanding—so realization does not come merely by external technique.
Śukadeva glorifies the Supreme Lord as the foremost of the devotees and as the self-effulgent Brahman who eternally enjoys in His own abode, emphasizing reverence and devotion as the proper approach.
It teaches to avoid spiritual shortcuts and perform sincere, devotion-centered practice—cultivating humility, right intention, and steady remembrance rather than showy or misdirected “yoga.”