Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words /179

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time devotion to LTURE
 
GOVERNord Hari, the MENT OR
 
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aster
who is the SRIMAD BHAGAVATA
 
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have for all
time devotion to Lord Hari, the Master
your owho is the Soul of all beings, even as you
have for your own soul.
 
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'दैतेया यक्षरक्षांसि स्त्रियश्शूद्रा व्रजौकसः ।
 

खगा मृगाः पापजीवास्सन्ति ह्यच्युततां गताः ॥

" There are demons,M Yakshas,
 
" There are

Rakshasas, women, Sudras, shepherds,

birds, animals and others of sinful lives

who have become one with the imperish-

ble Lord.
 

 
' एतावानेव लोकेऽस्मिन्पुंसः स्वार्थः परस्स्मृतः ।

एकान्तभक्तिर्गोविन्दे यत्सर्वत्र तदीक्षणम् ॥
 
'
"Only this much is considered as

man's supreme purpose in this world,

exclusive devotion to Lord Hari and

realisation of His presence everywhere."
 

 
अथ दैत्यसुतास्सर्वे श्रुत्वा तदनुवर्णितम् ।

जगृहुर्निरवद्यत्वान्नैव गुर्वनुशिक्षितम् ॥
 

Then, all the boys of the demons,

having heard what Prahlada had des-

cribed, imbibed it, since it was irre-
cri
proachabed, imbibed it, since it
le, and they did not take at all
the teaching of their proachable, and they did not take at all
the teaching of their ecepreceptor.