Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.24.16

vidura uvāca

pracetasām giritrena

yathāsīt pathi sańgamah

yad utāha harah prītas

tan no brahman vadārthavat

SYNONYMS

vidurah uvāca — Vidura inquired; pracetasām — of all the Pracetās; giritrena — by Lord Śiva; yathā — just as; āsīt — it was; pathi — on the road; sańgamah — meeting; yat — which; uta āha — said; harah — Lord Śiva; prītah — being pleased; tat — that; nah — unto us; brahman — O great brāhmana; vada — speak; artha-vat — with clear meaning.

TRANSLATION

Vidura asked Maitreya: My dear brāhmana, why did the Pracetās meet Lord Śiva on the way? Please tell me how the meeting happened, how Lord Śiva became very pleased with them and how he instructed them. Certainly such talks are important, and I wish that you please be merciful upon me and describe them.

PURPORT

Whenever there are some important talks between a devotee and the Lord or between exalted devotees, one should be very much curious to hear them. At the meeting of Naimishāranya, where Sūta Gosvāmī spoke Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam to all the great sages, Sūta Gosvāmī was also asked about the talks between Mahārāja Parīkshit and Śukadeva Gosvāmī, for the sages believed that the talks between Śukadeva Gosvāmī and Mahārāja Parīkshit must have been as important as the talks between Lord Krishna and Arjuna. As everyone is still eager to learn the subject of Bhagavad-gītā in order to become perfectly enlightened, Vidura was similarly eager to learn from the great sage Maitreya about the talks between Lord Śiva and the Pracetās.

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