SB 6.10.11
Text
śrī-bādarāyaṇir uvāca
evaṁ kṛta-vyavasito
dadhyaṅṅ ātharvaṇas tanum
pare bhagavati brahmaṇy
ātmānaṁ sannayañ jahau
Synonyms
śrīplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigsri
and opulence; beautiful; beauty; fortune; Lakṣmī, the goddess of fortune; named śrī; opulence or beauty; opulences; the affluent; the goddess of fortune; the goddess of fortune, or a beautiful calf; the treasury houses; transcendental; with opulence.-bādarāyaṇiḥplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigbādarāyaṇiḥ
son of Vyāsadeva; the son of Vyāsadeva; the son of Vyāsadeva, Śukadeva Gosvāmī; Śukadeva Gosvāmī; Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the son of Vyāsadeva; Śukadeva, son of Vyāsadeva. uvācaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_biguvāca
answered; described; explained; he recited; he said; inquired; prayed; replied; said; she said; she spoke; spoke; talked with them.—Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said; evamplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigevam
also; as; as exhibited by him; as I have done; as mentioned above; certainly; in that way; in the same way; in this manner; in this way (as described previously); in this way (some sons having been cursed and some blessed); in this way (while they were enjoying their lunch); in this way; it is so; just in the same way; like this; only; similarly (as earthly wealth and possessions are impermanent); similarly; so; so living; such; that; therefore; this; thus (as above mentioned); thus (living a devotional life); thus; thus being always engaged; thus prescribed; thus, as aforementioned; yes, this is right.—thus; kṛtaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigkrta
accepted; accepted or assumed; activities; adjusting; already done; by accepting; completed; composed; determination; doing so; done; done by; excited; fixed; had been performed; having done; having made; having performed; made; making; manufactured into different forms; on which is created; performance of; performed; performing; placed; taken; undertaken; with Satya-yuga.-vyavasitaḥplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigvyavasitah
deciding; determined; fixed; having arrived at the conclusion; having firmly decided; situated.—making certain of what to do (in giving his body to the demigods); dadhyaṅplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigdadhyaṅ
Dadhyañca; Dadhīci Muni; Mahārāja Dadhīci.—Dadhīci Muni; ātharvaṇaḥplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigatharvanah
of Atharvā.—the son of Atharvā; tanumplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigtanum
a body; body; body, or representation; form (as Hayagrīva); form; form of the demigods; his body; His transcendental form; such a body; the body.—his body; pareplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigpare
beyond; enemies or opposing elements; exalted; in the higher status of life; in the supreme; in the Supreme Being; in the Transcendence; others; supreme; the supreme; to the Supreme; transcendental; unto the supreme transcendence; unto the Transcendence; wears; while the father or the elder.—to the Supreme; 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.—Personality of Godhead; brahmaṇiplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigbrahmani
absolute; in Brahman; in one who is transcendentally situated; in spiritual realization; in the Absolute; in the Absolute Truth; in the impersonal Brahman; in the spiritual sky; in the Supreme; in the Supreme Brahman; in the Supreme Lord; in the Supreme Personality of Godhead; in the Transcendence; into impersonal Brahman, which is worshiped by impersonalist jñānīs; into the Supreme Absolute; on the Supreme; spiritual entity; the origin of impersonal Brahman; the Supreme; the Supreme Brahman; the Supreme Lord; the Supreme Personality of Godhead; transcendence; unto a brāhmaṇa; unto Brahman; unto Parabrahman, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva; unto the great; unto the spirit; upon the Supreme Absolute Truth; Vedic literature; which is Parabrahman (not idol worship); who are Parabrahman, the Supreme Brahman.—the Supreme Brahman; ātmānamplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigatmanam
and of the mind; by His energies; living entities; mind; most dear; of all living entities; of all other souls; of all the living entities; of men; of such a mind; of the body; of the living entities; of the people; of the subtle body; of those whose minds; the mind; thus inclined; whose minds are absorbed.—himself. the spirit soul; sannayanplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigsannayan
offering.—offering; jahauplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigjahau
gave up; he gave up; left; let go; quit.—gave up. ¶
Translation
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Dadhīci Muni, the son of Atharvā, thus resolved to give his body to the service of the demigods. He placed himself, the spirit soul, at the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and in this way gave up his gross material body made of five elements. ¶
Purport
As indicated by the words pare bhagavati brahmaṇy ātmānaṁ sannayan, Dadhīci placed himself, as spirit soul, at the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In this regard, one may refer to the incident of Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s leaving his body, as described in the First Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.13.55)plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.13.55
Dhṛtarāṣṭra will have to amalgamate his pure identity with intelligence and then merge into the Supreme Being with knowledge of his qualitative oneness, as a living entity, with the Supreme Brahman. Being freed from the blocked sky, he will have to rise to the spiritual sky.. Dhṛtarāṣṭra analytically divided his gross material body into the five different elements of which it was made—earth, water, fire, air and ether—and distributed them to the different reservoirs of these elements; in other words, he merged these five elements into the original mahat-tattva. By identifying his material conception of life, he gradually separated his spirit soul from material connections and placed himself at the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The example given in this connection is that when an earthen pot is broken, the small portion of the sky within the pot is united with the large sky outside the pot. Māyāvādī philosophers misunderstand this description of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Therefore Śrī Rāmānuja Svāmī, in his book Vedānta-tattva-sāra, has described that this merging of the soul means that after separating himself from the material body made of eight elements—earth, water, fire, air, ether, false ego, mind and intelligence—the individual soul engages himself in devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His eternal form (īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ/ anādir ādir govindaḥ sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam [Bs. 5.1]). The material cause of the material elements absorbs the material body, and the spiritual soul assumes its original position. As described by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya-kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’: [Cc. Madhya 20.108]plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.108-109
"It is the living entity's constitutional position to be an eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa because he is the marginal energy of Kṛṣṇa and a manifestation simultaneously one and different from the Lord, like a molecular particle of sunshine or fire. Kṛṣṇa has three varieties of energy. the constitutional position of the living entity is that he is the eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa. When one overcomes the material body through cultivation of spiritual knowledge and devotional service, one can revive his own position and thus engage in the service of the Lord. ¶