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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.12.27
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 27
- takṣakād ātmano mṛtyuṁ
- dvija-putropasarjitāt
- prapatsyata upaśrutya
- mukta-saṅgaḥ padaṁ hareḥ
takṣakātby the snake-bird — by the snake-bird; ātmanaḥof his personal self — of his personal self; mṛtyumdeath — death; dvijathe son of a brāhmaṇa-putrathe son of a brāhmaṇa — the son of a brāhmaṇa; upasarjitātbeing sent by — being sent by; prapatsyatehaving taken shelter of — having taken shelter of; upaśrutyaafter hearing — after hearing; muktafreed from all attachment-saṅgaḥfreed from all attachment — freed from all attachment; padamposition — position; hareḥof the Lord — of the Lord.
After hearing about his death, which will be caused by the bite of a snake-bird sent by a son of a brāhmaṇa, he will get himself freed from all material attachment and surrender unto the Personality of Godhead, taking shelter of Him.
Material attachment and taking shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord go ill together. Material attachment means ignorance of transcendental happiness under the shelter of the Lord. Devotional service to the Lord, while existing in the material world, is a way to practice one's transcendental relation with the Lord, and when it is matured, one gets completely free from all material attachment and becomes competent to go back home, back to Godhead. Mahārāja Parīkṣit, being especially attached to the Lord from the beginning of his body in the womb of his mother, was continuously under the shelter of the Lord, and the so-called warning of his death within seven days from the date of the curse by the brāhmaṇa's son was a boon to him to enable him to prepare himself to go back home, back to Godhead. Since he was always protected by the Lord, he could have avoided the effect of such a 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. For seven days continuously he heard Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam from the right source, and thus he got shelter at the lotus feet of the Lord by that opportunity.