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Chapter 16: How Parikshit Received The Age of Kali

Verse 23 of 26
SB 1.16.23

yad va amba te bhuri bharavatara krita avatarasya harer dharitri antahritasya smarati visrista karmani nirvan vilambitani.

Synonyms

yadthat; vamay be; ambaoh mother; teyour; bhuriheavy; bharaLoad; vataradecreasing the load; kritadone; avatarasyaone who incarnated; harerof Lord Sri Krishna; dharitrioh the earth; antarhritasyaof him who is now out of sight; smaratiwhile thinking of; visristaall that were performed; karmaniactivities; nirvansalvation; vilambitanithat which entails.

Translation

Oh mother earth, the Supreme Personailty of Godhead Hari incarnated Himself as Lord Sri Krishna just to unload your heavy burden whatever He has had done here they are all transcendental activities cementing the path of liberation. You are now bereft ofd His presence and probably you are thinking of those activites and feeling sorry in their absence.

Purport

The activities of the Lord includes liberation but they are more relishable than the pleasure derived from Nirvana or liberation. According to Srila Jiva Goswami and Viswnath Chakravarty Thakur the world used here is Nirvanabidambitani that which minimses the value of liberation. To attain nivana or liberation one has to undergo severe type of Tapasya austerities but the Lord is so merciful that He incarnates to diminish the overburden of the earth and simply by remembering such activities one can defy the pleasure derived from Nirvana and reaches the transcendental abode of the Lord to associate with Him eternally engaged in His blissful loving service.

Verse 23 of 26
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