SB 4.23.37
मुक्तान्यसङ्गो भगवत्यमलां भक्तिमुद्वहन् ।
वैन्यस्य चरितं पुण्यं शृणुयाच्छ्रावयेत्पठेत् ॥३७॥
Text
muktānya-saṅgo bhagavaty
amalāṁ bhaktim udvahan
vainyasya caritaṁ puṇyaṁ
śṛṇuyāc chrāvayet paṭhet
Synonyms
muktaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigmukta
actually liberated; being delivered; being freed; being freed from; being liberated; disheveled; freed; had become opened; hanging loose; liberated; liberated from; loosened; opened; released.-anyaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_biganya
another; any other; anyone else; anything else; different; diverted; else; for others; from others; other; other types; other,; others; others'; someone else; that other.-saṅgaḥplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigsangah
association; association or attachment; attachment; from material association; material association; material contamination.—being freed from all material contamination; bhagavatiplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigbhagavati
in the Supreme Personality of Godhead; of the Personality of Godhead; of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; on the Supreme Personality of Godhead; Personality of Godhead; the Lord; the Personality of Godhead; the Supreme Lord; the Supreme Personality of Godhead; to the Supreme Personality of Godhead (not to the demigods); to the Supreme Personality of Godhead; to Śiva; towards the Supreme Personality of Godhead; unto Him; unto Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; unto Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa; unto the Lord; unto the Personality of Godhead; unto the Supreme Lord, Śrī Kṛṣṇa; unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead; unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu.—unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead; amalāmplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigamalam
pure; spotless; spotless, free from material qualities; transcendental; very clean; without any spot of material contamination; without contamination; without material contamination.—unalloyed; bhaktimplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigbhaktim
devotion; devotional service; love and faith in devotional service; service unto the Lord.—devotional service; udvahanplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigudvahan
carrying; carrying out; coming out; creating; possessing; rendering; taking.—carrying out; vainyasyaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigvainyasya
of Mahārāja Pṛthu, the son of Vena; of the son of King Vena (Pṛthu Mahārāja); of the son of Mahārāja Vena.—of the son of Mahārāja Vena; caritamplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigcaritam
activities; character; his character; the activities; the character; the pastimes.—character; puṇyamplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigpunyam
holy; holy places; piety; pious; pious activities or their results; purifying; sacred; the holy; very pious; very pious to hear and describe; virtue; which are always full of pious activities (śṛṇvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṇaḥ puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ: [SB 1.2.17] to hear about Kṛṣṇa is always pious); which is auspicious and pious.—pious; śṛṇuyātplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigśṛṇuyāt
does hear; hears; may hear; must hear; personally chants and hears; should hear.—must hear; śrāvayetplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigśrāvayet
and gets others to hear; explains; may describe; must induce others to hear; one should recite.—must induce others to hear; paṭhetplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigpaṭhet
and go on reading; may read; reads.—and go on reading. ¶
Translation
A pure devotee who is executing the different processes of devotional service may be situated in the transcendental position, being completely absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, but even he, while discharging devotional service, must hear, read and induce others to hear about the character and life of Pṛthu Mahārāja. ¶
Purport
There is a type of neophyte devotee who is very anxious to hear about the pastimes of the Lord, especially the rāsa-līlā chapters in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Such a devotee should know by this instruction that the pastimes of Pṛthu Mahārāja are nondifferent from the pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. An ideal king, Pṛthu Mahārāja exhibited all talents in showing how to rule the citizens, how to educate them, how to develop the state economically, how to fight enemies, how to perform great sacrifices (yajñas), etc. Thus it is recommended for the sahajiyā, or the neophyte devotee, to hear, chant and get others to hear about the activities of Pṛthu Mahārāja, even though one may think himself to be in the transcendental position of advanced devotional service. ¶