Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.22.7

prithur uvāca

aho ācaritam kim me

mańgalam mańgalāyanāh

yasya vo darśanam hy āsīd

durdarśānām ca yogibhih

SYNONYMS

prithuh uvāca — King Prithu spoke; aho — O Lord; ācaritam — practice; kim — what; me — by me; mańgalam — good fortune; mańgala-āyanāh — O personified good fortune; yasya — by which; vah — your; darśanam — audience; hi — certainly; āsīt — became possible; durdarśānām — visible with great difficulty; ca — also; yogibhih — by great mystic yogīs.

TRANSLATION

King Prithu spoke: My dear great sages, auspiciousness personified, it is very difficult for even the mystic yogīs to see you. Indeed, you are very rarely seen. I do not know what kind of pious activity I performed for you to grace me by appearing before me without difficulty.

PURPORT

When something uncommon happens in one's progressive spiritual life, it should be understood to be incurred by ajñāta-sukriti, or pious activities beyond one's knowledge. To see personally the Supreme Personality of Godhead or His pure devotee is not an ordinary incident. When such things happen, they should be understood to be caused by previous pious activity, as confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā (7.28): yeshām tv anta-gatam pāpam janānām punya-karmanām. One who is completely freed from all the resultant actions of sinful activities and who is absorbed only in pious activities can engage in devotional service. Although Mahārāja Prithu's life was full of pious activities, he was wondering how his audience with the Kumāras happened. He could not imagine what kind of pious activities he had performed. This is a sign of humility on the part of King Prithu, whose life was so full of pious activities that even Lord Vishnu came to see him and predicted that the Kumāras would also come.

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