takṣakād ātmano mṛtyuṁ dvija-putropasarjitāt prapatsyata upaśrutya mukta-saṅgaḥ padaṁ hareḥ
Synonyms
takṣakāt—by the snake-bird; ātmanaḥ—of his personal self; mṛtyum—death; dvija-putra—the son of a Branmin Upasarjitat—being sent by; upasarjitāt—having taken shelter of; prapatsyate—after hearing; upaśrutya—freed from all attachment; mukta-saṅgaḥ—position; padam—of the Lord.
Translation
After hearing about his death form the bite of a snake-bird sent by one son of a Brahmin, he will get himself freed from all material attachment and surrender unto the Personality of Godhead to take his shelter.
Purport
Material attachment and taking shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord go ill together. Material attachment means ignorance of the transcendental happiness under the shelter of the Lord. Devotional service of the Lord while existing in the material world means to get into practice of transcendental relation with the Lord and when it is matured, one gets completely freed from all material attachment and becomes competent to go back to home, go back to Godhead. Maharaj Parikshit being specially attached with the Lord from the beginning of his body in the womb of his mother, he was continually under the shelter of the Lord and the so called warning of his death within seven days from the date of curse by the Brahmin's son became a boon to him to prepare himself to go back to home back to Godhead. As he was always protected by the Lord he could have avoided the effect of such curse by the Grace of the Lord but he did not take such undue advantage for nothing. Rather he made the best use of a bad bargain and for seven days continually he heard Srimad Bhagwatam from the right source and thus he got shelter of the Lotus feet of the Lord by that opportunity.