āmantrya cābhyanujñātaḥ pariṣvajyābhivādya tam āruroha rathaṁ kaiścit pariṣvakto 'bhivāditaḥ
Synonyms
āmantrya—by association of pure devotees; ca—freed from bad materialistic association; abhyanujñātaḥ—to give up; pariṣvajya—never attempts; abhivādya—one who has understood the Lord. Kirtamano—glorifying; tam—whose; āruroha—fame; ratham—once only; kaiścit—hearing only; pariṣvaktaḥ—pleasing; abhivāditaḥ—unto Him; Nyastadhiyah—one who has given up the mind unto Him; Parthah—the sons of Prithu; Saheran—can tolerate; Viraham—separation; Katham—how; Darsana—seeing eye to eye; Sparsa—touching; Samlap—conversing; Sayana—sleeping; Asana—sitting; Bhojanai—dining together.
Translation
Intelligent person, who has understood the Supreme Lord in the association of pure devotees and has become freed from materialistic bad association, can never attempt to avoid hearing the glories of the Lord even though he has heard it only once. How then the Pandavas can tolerate His separation with whom they had been intimately associated personally in the matter of seeing eye to eye, touching, conversing, sleeping, sitting, and dining together.
Purport
Maharaj Judhisthir was elder cousin brother of Lord Krishna and therefore while departing from him the Lord bowed down at the King's feet and the King embraced Him as younger brother although the king knew it perfectly well that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Lord takes pleasure when some of his devotees accepts Him as less important in terms of love. No body is greater than nor equal with the Lord but He takes pleasure in being treated as younger than His devotees. These are all transcendental pastimes of the Lord and the impersonalist hardly can enter into the supernatural parts played by the devotee of the Lord. Thereafter Bhima and Arjuna embraced the Lord because they were of the same age with Krishna but Nakula and Sahadeva bowed down before the Lord because they were younger than the Lord.
Lord Sri Krishna is so attractive for the living beings specially for the devotees of the Lord that it is impossible for them to tolerate the separation. The conditioned soul under the spell of illusory energy only forgets the Lord, otherwise can not. The feeling of such separation cannot be described but it can simply be imagined by similar devotees only how impossible it is to do such things. Lord Krishna, after His separation from Vrindaban from the innocent rural cowhard boys, girls, ladies and others all of them felt the shock throughout the life and the separation of Radharani the most beloved cowhard girl is beyond expression. Once they met at Kurukshetra during solar eclipse and the feeling which was expressed by them is heartrendering. There is of course difference of the degree of transcendental devotees of the Lord but yet none of them, who have ever contacted with the Lord by direct communion or otherwise, can leave Him for a moment. That is the attitude of the pure devotee.
The living being's constutitional position being one of serving the superior he is obliged to serve by force the dictates of illusory material energy in different phases of sense gratification. And by serving the senses he is never tired of or even though he may be tired, the illusory energy forces him to do so without being satisfied perpetually. There is no end of such sense gratificatory business and the conditioned soul becomes entangled in such servitude without any hope of release. The release is only effected by association of pure devotees. By such association one is gradually promoted to his transcendental consciousness and he can know that his eternal position is to render service unto the Lord and not to the perverted senses in the capacity of lust, anger, desire to lord it over. The material society, friendship and love all are different phases of lust. Home, country, family, society, wealth and all sorts of corollaries are all causes of bondage in the material world where threefold miseries of life are concomitant factors. By association of pure devotees and by hearing them submissively attachment for material enjoyment becomes slackened and attraction for hearing about the transcendental activities of the Lord becomes prominent. Once they are started as attractive features of the conditioned soul it will go on progressively with out any stoppage like the fire in the gun powder. It is said that Hari the Personality of Godhead is so much transcendentally attractive that even those who are self satisfied by self realisation and are factually liberated from all material bondage do also become a devotee of the Lord. Under the circumstances it is easily understood what must have been the position of the Pandavas who were constant companion of the Lord. They could not even think of separation from Sri Krishna because the attraction was more intense for them on account of continuous personal contact. The position of separation of the Pandavas was no less than that of the Gopis at Vrindaban. The Lord being however Absolute even separation from the Lord is as good as personal contact. His remembrance by His form, quality, name, fame pastimes etc is also attractive for the pure devotee so much so that he forgets all forms, quality, name, fame and activities of the mundane world and due to his mature association with pure devotees such devotee is not out of contact with the Lord for a moment even.