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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 3.4.9
SYNONYMS
tasmin -- then; maha-bhagavatah -- a great devotee of the Lord; dvaipayana -- of Krishna-dvaipayana Vyasa; suhrit -- a well-wisher; sakha -- a friend; lokan -- the three worlds; anucaran -- traveling; siddhe -- in that asrama; asasada -- arrived; yadricchaya -- by his own perfect accord.
TRANSLATION
At that time, after traveling in many parts of the world, Maitreya, a great devotee of the Lord and a friend and well-wisher of the great sage Krishna-dvaipayana Vyasa, reached that spot out of his own perfect accord.
PURPORT
Maitreya was one of the disciples of Maharshi Parasara, the father of Vyasadeva. Thus Vyasadeva and Maitreya were friends and mutual well-wishers. By some fortunate accident, Maitreya reached the place where Lord Sri Krishna was resting. To meet the Lord is not an ordinary incident. Maitreya was a great sage and a learned scholar-philosopher but not a pure devotee of the Lord, and therefore his meeting with the Lord at that time may have been due to ajnata-sukriti, or some unknown devotional service. Pure devotees always engage in pure devotional activities, and therefore their meeting with the Lord is natural. But when those who are not up to that standard meet the Lord, it is due to the unforeseen fortune of accidental devotional service.
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness