ājahārāśva-medhāṁs trīn gaṅgāyāṁ bhūri-dakṣiṇān śāradvataṁ guruṁ kṛtvā devā yatrākṣi-gocarāḥ
Synonyms
ājahāra—performed; aśva-medhān—horse-sacrifices; trīn—three Gangayam—the bank of the Ganges; gaṅgāyām—sufficiciently; bhūri—rewards; dakṣiṇān—unto Kripacharya; śāradvatam—Spiritual master; gurum—having selected; kṛtvā—the demigods; devāḥ—wherein; yatra—eyes; akṣi—within the purview.
Translation
Maharaj Parikshit after having selected Kripacharya as his spiritual master, for guidance, performed three horse-sacrifices on the bank of the Ganges executed with sufficient rewards for the attendants. And in these sacrifices even the common man could see demigods within the purview of their vision.
Purport
It appears from this verse that interplanetary travel by the denizens of higher planets is easier than that of the inhabitants of this earth. In many places in the statements of Bhagwatam, we have observed that the demigods from heaven used to visit this earth to attend sacrifices performed by influential kings and emperors. Herein also we find that during the time of horse sacrifice ceremony of Maharaj Parikshst the demigods from other planets were visible even for the common man on account of the sacrificial ceremeny. The demigods are net generally visible to common as much as the Lord is not vistble But as the Lord also, by His causeless mercy, descends to be visible by the common man, similarly the demigods also become visible to the common man by their own grace. Although Celestial beings are not visible to the naked eyes of the inhabitants of this earth, it was due to the influence of Maharaj Parikshit that the demigods also agreed to be visible. The kings used to spend very lavishly during such sacrifices as much as the cloud distribute rains. The cloud is nothing but another state of the reservoires of waters or in other words the sea waters of the earth transform into cloud, similarly the charity made by the kings in such sacrifices is but another form of the taxes collected from the citizens. But as the rains fall down very lavishby and it appears to be more than the necessity, similarly the charity made by such kings, do also seem to be more than what the citizen needs. Such satisfied citizens of the state can never organise any sort of agitation against the king and thus there was no need of changing the monarchical state in to oligarhical state of a few deplomats.
Even for a king like Maharaj Yudhisthir there was need of the spiritual master for guidance. Without such guidance no body can make any progress in spiritual values The spiritual master must be bonafide and one who wants to have self-realisation must approcah and take shelter of such bonafide spiritual master for achieving real success.