aho alaṁ ślāghyatamaṁ yadoḥ kulam aho alaṁ puṇyatamaṁ madhorvanam yad eṣa puṁsām ṛṣabhaḥ śriyaḥ patiḥ sva-janmanā caṅkramaṇena cāñcati
Synonyms
aho—Oh; alam—verily; ślāghyatamam—supremely glorified; yadoḥ—of the king Yadu; kulam—dynasty; aho—oh; alam—verily; puṇyatamam—supremely virtuous; madhorvanam—the land of Mathura; yat—because; eṣaḥ—this; puṁsām—of all the living beings; ṛṣabhaḥ—Supreme leader; śriyaḥ—of the goddess of fortune; patiḥ—husband; sva-janmanā—by his appearance; caṅkramaṇena—by crawling; ca añcati—glorifies.
Translation
Oh how much supremely glorified is the dynasty of King Yadu and how much virtuous is the land of Mathura where the Supreme Leader of all living beings who is the husband of the Goddess of fortune (Pursottam) has respectively taken His birth and wondered in His childhood.
Purport
In the Bhagwat Geeta (ch/4/9) the Personality of Godhead Sri Krishna has expressively given description of His transcendental appearance, disappearance and activities. The Lord appears in a particular family or place not exactly like others but He does so by His inconceivable potency. He does not take His birth like the conditioned soul quits his body and accepts another body. But His birth is like the appearance and disappearance of the Sun. The sun arises on the eastern horizon but that does not mean that eastern horizon is the parent of the Sun. The Sun is existent in every part of the universe but he becomes visible at a scheduled time and so also becomes invisible at another scheduled time. Similarly the Lord appears in this universe in turn like the sun and again becomes out of our sight at another time. He exists at all time and at every place but by his causeless mercy when He appears before us we take it for granted that He has taken His birth. Any one who can understand this truth in terms of the statements of revealed scriptures, certainly he becomes liberated just after quiting the present body. Liberation is obtainable after many births and after great endeavour in the matter of patience and preserverance in knowledge and renunciation. But simply by knowing in truth about the Lord's transcendenal births and activities one can get liberation at once. That is the verdict of the Bhagwat Geeta. But those who are in the darkness of ignorance, they conclude that the Lord's birth and activities in the material world are similar to that of the ordinary living being. Such imperfect conclusion about the birth and activities of the Lord cannot give any one the desired liberation. His birth, therefore, in the family of King Yadu as the son of King Vasudeva and His transfer in the family of Nanda Maharaj in the land of Mathura are all transcendental arrangement by the internal-potency of the Lord. The fortunes of the Yadu dynasty and that of the inhabitants of the land of Mathura cannot be materially estimated. If simply by knowing the transcendental nature of the birth and activities of the Lord one can get liberation easily, we can just imagine what is in the store for those who actually enjoyed the company of the Lord in person as family member or as neighbour of the Lord. All those who were fortunate enough to associate the Lord the husband of the Goddess of Fortune certainly obtained something more than what is known as liberation. Therefore, rightly the dynasty and the land both are ever glorious by the Grace of the Lord.