vivitsur idam aprākṣīn
pādayoḥ śirasā spṛśan
vivitsur idam aprākṣīn
mahā-bhāgavato 'suraḥ
Worshipping him, offering respects, and touching his feet with their heads, people born in that place desired to know who he was. Prahlāda spoke to him as follows.
People, the people born in that place, wanted to know who he was.
|| 7.13.16-17 ||
bibharṣi kāyaṁ pīvānaṁ
sodyamo bhogavān yathā
vittaṁ caivodyamavatāṁ
bhogo vittavatām iha
bhogināṁ khalu deho 'yaṁ
pīvā bhavati nānyathā
You have a fat body like one who endeavors for enjoyment. A man who endeavors becomes wealth. The wealthy man enjoys. The enjoyer becomes fat. It does not happen otherwise.
Pīvānam means fat. “You cannot say that your body has become fat simply by nature.” Those who endeavor become wealthy. Those who become wealthy enjoy. Those who enjoy become fat. One becomes fat by endeavor, not naturally.
|| 7.13.18 ||
na te śayānasya nirudyamasya
brahman nu hārtho yata eva bhogaḥ
abhogino 'yaṁ tava vipra dehaḥ
pīvā yatas tad vada naḥ kṣamaṁ cet
O brāhmaṇa! Since you are lying down, doing nothing, you certainly have no money and thus clearly have no enjoyment. Since you have fat body, but do not enjoy, kindly explain how you are fat, if we are fit to hear.
“You are just guessing that I must be endeavoring, based on the logic that if fat Devadatta does not eat in the day, he must eat at night.” Nu means certainly. Ha means “it is clear.” By his effulgence Prahlāda understands he is a brāhmaṇa.
|| 7.13.19 ||
kaviḥ kalpo nipuṇa-dṛk
citra-priya-kathaḥ samaḥ
lokasya kurvataḥ karma
śeṣe tad-vīkṣitāpi vā
Though wise, capable, astute, capable of speaking nicely and equiposed, you lie down, looking at people performing actions with disgust, or perhaps curiosity.
“Why do you conclude this?” I desire the nectar of your words to make myself successful, since you seem to be endowed with wisdom, capability, astuteness, and other qualities by seeing your auspicious bodily features. You lie down, while looking at people engaged in actions with disgust, or perhaps looking at them out of curiosity.
|| 7.13.20 ||
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