Canto 10: The Summum BonumChapter 28: Kṛṣṇa Rescues Nanda Mahārāja from the Abode of Varuṇa

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.28.5

śrī-varuṇa uvāca

adya me nibhṛto deho

'dyaivārtho 'dhigataḥ prabho

tvat-pāda-bhājo bhagavann

avāpuḥ pāram adhvanaḥ

SYNONYMS

śrī-varuṇaḥ uvācaŚrī Varuṇa said; adya — today; me — by me; nibhṛtaḥ — is carried successfully; dehaḥ — my material body; adya — today; eva — indeed; arthaḥ — the goal of life; adhigataḥ — is experienced; prabhoO Lord; tvat — Your; pāda — the lotus feet; bhājaḥ — those who serve; bhagavanO Supreme Personality; avāpuḥ — have achieved; pāram — the state of transcendence; adhvanaḥ — of the path (of material existence) .

TRANSLATION

Śrī Varuṇa said: Now my body has fulfilled its function. Indeed, now the goal of my life is achieved, O Lord. Those who accept Your lotus feet, O Personality of Godhead, can transcend the path of material existence.

PURPORT

Varuṇa ecstatically exclaims here that since he has now seen the infinitely gorgeous body of Lord Kṛṣṇa, the trouble of assuming a material body has now been supremely justified. Indeed, the artha, the goal or real value of Varuṇa's life, has now been achieved. Because Lord Kṛṣṇa's form is transcendental, those who accept His lotus feet go beyond the boundary of material existence, and thus only the spiritually unaware would presume that the Lord's lotus feet are material.

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