Wordings
Divi Na bhuvi va mama astu vaso Narakey va narakantaba prakamam. Avadhurita Sharadaravindou charanou te maraney pi' chintayami.
Synonyms
Divi—In the plane of the demigods; Avadhurita—Defied by; Va—Either; Sharada—Of the season called Sharat.; Bhuvi—In the plane of the human beings; Aravind—Lotus Flower.; Va—or; Charanou—Pairs of feet; Mama—My; Te—Of yourself; Astu—Become; Maraney—the time of death,; Vaso—Residence.; Api—Even; Narakey—In the plane of hell; Chintayami—May I remember.; Va—or; Narakantaka—Oh the destroyer of Narakasura.; Prakamam—As a matter of course.
Translation
Oh my Lord the killer of Narakasura! Let there be my residence either in the plane of the demigods or in the plane of the human being or in that of the hell as a matter of course. I pray for that I may remember even at the point of my death the pairs of your Lotus feet which have defied the Lotus grown in the season of Sharat.
Purport
A pure devotee of the Lord, as stated before, has not only not anything to do with mundane religiousity, economic development, sense-gratification and at last salvation etc—but also he has nothing to do even with the highest standard of material existence or even with the lowest. To him both the heaven or the hell are of equal value. He is not afraid of going to hell for the service of the Lord neither he is glad to live in the heaven without the service of the Lord. His supreme is fixed up at the lotus feet of the Lord which defies the most beautiful seasonal lotus flower of the mundane world. The defiance is due to the transcendental position of the Lords' Form, Name, Qualities, Pastimes etc. In the Sruti Mantras, the Lord is described to have no hand and no leg and yet He is competent to accept anything we may offer to Him with devotion. He is said to have no mundane eyes but He can yet see everywhere and anywhere without any hindrance. In the Brahma Samhita He is described to have omnipotency of each & every sense. The mundane eye can see only but it cannot hear. His eyes however can see, hear, eat, generate etc. In the Sruti Mantras as well as in the Bhagwat Geeta it is said that He simply throws His glance over the material nature and She is impregnated with the seeds of living being. There is no need for Him for any other kind of intercourse for begetting the living beings in the womb of mother nature and yet He is able to become the father of all living beings. Therefore His Fatherhood or His Sonhood or His any other relation with His different types of devotees are not at all material. Every material relation with Him is defied. He is all Spirit and the living being in his pure spiritual state only can have all sorts of relations with Him. Philosophers with poor fund of knowledge cannot understand this all spiritual relation with the Lord and thus they simply think in terms of material negation. They have no positive conception of the all spiritual Being and as such naturally they are impersonalists. But a pure devotee like King Kulashekhara has complete knowledge of the full spiritual being. He does not say that everything material is false but he Has nothing to do with anything material beginning from the heaven down to the hell. He has full
knowledge of the statement of Bhagwat Geeta that even up to the status of the Brahmaloka the highest plane in the universal there is no spiritual bliss which is hankered after by the living being. Simultaneously the devotee has full knowledge of spiritual life. His spiritual knowledge is not only a defiance of the material existence but also it is a positive reality of eternal existence.
At the present moment material scientists are busy in finding out means for exploring the universal space and establish new colonies for the human being. They should know it well that there are innumerable planets and globes with different varieties of living conditions. The highest plane is called the Brahmaloka where living beings like Brahma who lives for 100 years of his age which is calculated in ratio of 4320000000 of our years as twelve hours of a day. Without any mechanical means, the spirit soul, simply by his strong desire and necessary activities as mentioned in the Vedic literatures, can approach the planes of the Gods or that of hellish Kingdom by such actions voluntarily or unintentionally. The laws of nature work there and every action of a human being is recorded in the subtle metres of material nature. A human being is promoted or degraded in different species of life in the different planes according to his actions of present life. He is promoted to the higher planes up to Brahmaloka if he is in the mode of goodness. He is stationed in the middle planes and satelites, if he is in the mode of passion and he is degraded in the lower regions of the hellish planes if he is in the mode of darkness. The modern endevour of approaching the plane of the moon may or maynot be successful by the scientist but as a matter of course in the order of material modes as above mentioned, the human being is destined to be promoted or degraded forced by the laws of Nature. King Kulashekhara as a king