viśvasya janma-sthiti-saṁyamārthe
We should take shelter of your lotus feet. Realizing those feet in a pure heart by bhakti heard with faith through the mouth of guru--by attaining realization of that sweetness which gives strong disgust with the material world--people become wise.
Among all these people, those who take shelter of the Lord with pure bhakti are the best. Realizing those feet in one’s heart purified by bhakti which contains the path taught from the mouth of guru, people become wise (dhīrāḥ) by that realization of sweet taste (jñānena), which gives distaste for all else (vairāgya-balena). If there is honey in the arka tree, why go to the mountain?[229] Thus there is no necessity of labor in searching out the Vedas, as was mentioned in the previous verse.
|| 3.5.43 ||
viśvasya janma-sthiti-saṁyamārthe
kṛtāvatārasya padāmbujaṁ te
vrajema sarve śaraṇaṁ yad īśa
smṛtaṁ prayacchaty abhayaṁ sva-puṁsām
O Lord! We all take shelter of lotus feet of you who take forms as avatāras for creating, maintaining and destroying the universe. We take shelter of those feet which, remembered by devotees, give them fearlessness.
The devatās here recollect the mercy of the Lord to the devotees in order to show how easy this process of bhakti is.
|| 3.5.44 ||
yat sānubandhe ’sati deha-gehe
mamāham ity ūḍha-durāgrahāṇām
puṁsāṁ sudūraṁ vasato ’pi puryāṁ
bhajema tat te bhagavan padābjam
We worship your lotus feet which are hard to attain for men with strong attachment to body, house and accessories, thinking of me and mine, even though you dwell in their bodies.
Bhakti is hard to attain for unfortunately jīvas. The Lord lives in manifest and unmanifest forms in his cities (puryām) of Mathurā and Dvārakā. Or the Lord lives in the city of the body.
|| 3.5.45 ||
tān vai hy asad-vṛttibhir akṣibhir ye
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