parāhṛtāntar-manasaḥ pareśa

parāhṛtāntar-manasaḥ pareśa

atho na paśyanty urugāya nūnaṁ

ye te padanyāsa-vilāsa-lakṣmyāḥ

 

O Supreme Lord! O most praiseworthy! Those whose inner minds are stolen far away by material senses do not see the devotees who have reached success by the wealth of remembering and glorifying your pastimes.

 

Why do these people not take to pure bhakti which is easy to attain by associating with the many devotees wandering about in this world? Those whose minds situated in their bodies are carried far off by senses engrossed in material enjoyment (asad-vṛttibhiḥ) and consequently (athaḥ), definitely (nunam), do not see the devotees.  Why? It is because of their association with the senses. The devotees possess an abundance (lakṣmyāḥ) of your enchanting movements (pada-nyāsa). This means that they are fully satisfied with remembering and singing pleasing stories of your pastimes. Another version has lakṣyāḥ instead of lakṣmyāḥ and pathaḥ instead of athaḥ. The meaning is then “The materialists do not see the devotees who are on the path characterized by your playful pastimes.” Another meaning is that they do not recognize the devotees who are mad with absorption in the Lord’s pastimes, because of their offensive thinking.

|| 3.5.46 ||

pānena te deva kathā-sudhāyāḥ

pravṛddha-bhaktyā viśadāśayā ye

vairāgya-sāraṁ pratilabhya bodhaṁ

yathāñjasānvīyur akuṇṭha-dhiṣṇyam

 

O Lord! Those materialists who attain strength and realization of the Lord’s sweetness by pure bhakti, increased through drinking the nectar of your pastimes, quickly attain Vaikuṇṭha.

 

Just as devotees are very happy from the beginning of practice, the jñānīs are full of misery from the beginning of practice. Two verses now speak of this difference between bhakti and jñāna. Vairāgya-sāram (essence of detachment) is the strength achieved beyond merging in Brahman. One achieves realization (bodham) from strong bhakti. Having attained realization of the sweetness of the Lord, one attains Vaikuṇṭha (akuṇṭha-dhiṣṇyam). This is according to Śrīdhara Svāmī.

 

|| 3.5.47 ||

tathāpare cātma-samādhi-yoga-