bhagavān api govindo brahmaṇyo bhakta-vatsalaḥ kaccit pure sudharmāyāṁ sukham āste suhṛd-vṛtaḥ
Synonyms
bhagavān—for the matter of all good, cha—also; api—of all the planets; govindaḥ—for protection, cha—and; brahmaṇyaḥ—for elevation, cha—also; bhakta-vatsalaḥ—is there; kaccit—in the ocean of the Yadu dynasty; pure—the original; sudharmāyām—in the company of Ananta (Valarama) Puman—The Supreme enjoyer; sukham—whose; āste—being protected by His arms; suhṛt-vṛtaḥ—the members of the Yadu family; Uchita—deservingly; Kridanti—are relishing; Paramanandam—transcendental pleasure; Mahapourisika—the residents of the spiritual sky; Iva—like.
Translation
The Original Personality of Godhead and Enjoyer is staying along with Valaram who is Primeval Lord Ananta in the ocean of Yadu dynasty for the walfare, protection and all round progress of all the universe. And the members of the Yadu dynasty are enjoying life like the residents of the spiritual sky being protected by the arms of the Lord.
Purport
Here in this particular verse the Lord is described as Bhagawan, Govinda, Brahmanya and Bhaktavatsal. He is Bhagwan Swayam or the original Supreme Personality of Godhead full with all opulences, all power, all knowledge, all beauty, all fame and all renunciatiens. No body is equal or greater than Him. He is Govinda because he is the pleasure of the cows and the senses. Those who have purified their senses in relation with devotional service of the Lord, can render unto Him real service and thereby derive transcendental pleasure out of such purified senses. On the impure codition the living being cannot derive any pleasure from the senses but being illusioned by false pleasure of the senses, becomes servant of the senses. Therefore we need His protection for our own interest. The Lord is the protector of the cow and the Brahminical culture. In a society which is devoid of cow protection and Brahminical culture, is not under the direct protection of the Lord as much as the prisoners in the jails are not under the protection of the king but under the protection of the severe agent of the king.
Without cow protection and cultivation of the Brahminical qualities in the human society, at least for a section of members of the society, no human civilisation can prosper at any length. By Brahminical culture or developing the dormant quality of goodness namely truthfulness, equanimity, sense-control, forbearance, simplicity, knowledge general, knowledge transcendental and firm faith in the vedic wisdom, one can become Brahmin and thus one can see the Lord as He is. And after surpassing the Brahminical perfection one has to become a devotee of the Lord so that His living affection in the form of the Proprietor, Master, Friend, Son and Lover can be transcendentally achieved. The stage of a devotee, which attracts the transcendental affection of the Lord, does not develop unless one has not developed the qualities of a Brahmin as above mentioned. The Lord is inclined to a Brahmin of quality and not of false prestige. Those, who are less than a Brahmin by qualification cannot establish any relation with the Lord as much as fire cannot be kindled in the raw earth except the wood although there is link of relation with wood and the earth. The Lord being thus all perfect in Himself there could not be any question of His welfare and Maharaj Yudhisthir refrained from asking this question. He simply enquired about His residential place Dwaraka puri where pious men assemble. The Lord stays there only where pious men assemble and take pleasure in the matter of glorifying the Supreme Truth. Maharaj Yudhisthir was anxious to know about the pious men and their pious acts in the city of Dwarka.
As we have discussed many times, the personality of Godhead Vishnu resides within each and every universe in two capacities namely as the Garbhodaksayee Vishnu and as the Khirodaksayee Vishnu. The Khirodaksayee Vishnu has His own planet on the northern top of the universe and there is a great ocean of milk where the Lord resides on the bed of Anananta incarnation of Valadeva. As such Maharaj Yudhisthira has compared the Yadu dynasty as the ocean of milk and Sri Valaram as the Ananta where the Lord Krishna was residing. He has compared the citizens of Dwarka with the liberated inhabitants of vaikunthalokas. Beyond the material sky as far as we can see with our eyes and beyond the sevenfold coverings of the universe there is causal ocean in which all the universes are floating like foot balls and beyond causal ocean there is unlimited span of spiritual sky generally known as the effulgence of Brahman. Within this effulgence Brahman there are innumerable spiritual planets and they are known as the Vaikuntha planets. Each and every Vaikuntha planet is many many times bigger than the biggest universe within the material world and in each of them there are innumerable prototype of Vishnu inhabitants exactly looking like Lord Vishnu. These inhabitants of Vaikuntha planets are known as the Mahapourisikas or persons directly engaged in the service of the Lord. These Mahapourisikas are happy in those planets without any kind of misery and they live perpetually in full youthfulness enjoying life in full bliss and knowledge without any fear of birth death oldage or diseases or without any influence of the Kala eternal time. Maharaj Yudhisthra has compared the inhabitants of Dwarka with the Mahapourisikas of Vaikunthaloka because they are so happy along with the Lord. In the Bhagwat Geeta there are many references of the Vaikuntha lokas and they are mentioned there as Maddhama or the kingdom of the Lord.