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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.19.35
SYNONYMS
api — definitely; me — unto me; bhagavān — the Personality of Godhead; prītah — pleased; krishnah — the Lord; pāndu-suta — the sons of King Pāndu; priyah — dear; paitri — in relation with the father; svaseya — the sons of the sister; prīti — satisfaction; artham — in the matter of; tat — their; gotrasya — of the descendant; ātta — accepted; bāndhavah — as a friend.
TRANSLATION
Lord Krishna, the Personality of Godhead, who is very dear to the sons of King Pāndu, has accepted me as one of those relatives just to please His great cousins and brothers.
PURPORT
A pure and exclusive devotee of the Lord serves his family interest more dexterously than others, who are attached to illusory family affairs. Generally people are attached to family matters, and the whole economic impetus of human society is moving under the influence of family affection. Such deluded persons have no information that one can render better service to the family by becoming a devotee of the Lord. The Lord gives special protection to the family members and descendants of a devotee, even though such members are themselves nondevotees! Mahārāja Prahlāda was a great devotee of the Lord, but his father, Hiranyakaśipu, was a great atheist and declared enemy of the Lord. But despite all this, Hiranyakaśipu was awarded salvation due to his being the father of Mahārāja Prahlāda. The Lord is so kind that he gives all protection to the family members of His devotee, and thus the devotee has no need to bother about his family members, even if one leaves such family members aside to discharge devotional service. Mahārāja Yudhishthira and his brothers were the sons of Kuntī, the paternal aunt of Lord Krishna, and Mahārāja Parīkshit admits the patronage of Lord Krishna because of his being the only grandson of the great Pāndavas.
Copyright © r The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness