harer ekāntināṁ bhavaḥ
kīdṛśaḥ kasya vā śāpo
hari-dāsābhimarśanaḥ
aśraddheya ivābhāti
harer ekāntināṁ bhavaḥ
Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira inquired: What kind of curse and whose curse could affect the two servants of the Lord? This is incredible. It appears that the devotees situated with the Lord can take birth in the material world.
What curse could affect (abhimarśaṇaḥ) the two devotees? It cannot be believed that they could be cursed. It is impossible.
|| 7.1.35 ||
dehendriyāsu-hīnānāṁ
vaikuṇṭha-pura-vāsinām
deha-sambandha-sambaddham
etad ākhyātum arhasi
The inhabitants of Vaikuṇṭha are completely spiritual, having no material body, senses or life airs. Therefore, please tell the story of how they became bound with bodies in this world.
This elaborates why it is impossible that they fell. Inhabitants of Vaikuṇṭha have no material body, senses or life air arising from material birth. They have śuddha-sattva bodies. Śrīdhara Svāmī says the sentence should mean “Please tell the story (sambaddham) of how they took bodies.”
|| 7.1.36 ||
śrī-nārada uvāca
ekadā brahmaṇaḥ putrā
viṣṇu-lokaṁ yadṛcchayā
sanandanādayo jagmuś
caranto bhuvana-trayam
Nārada said: Once, when the four sons of Lord Brahmā named Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanātana and Sanat-kumāra were wandering throughout the three worlds, they came by chance to Viṣṇuloka.
|| 7.1.37 ||
pañca-ṣaḍḍhāyanārbhābhāḥ
pūrveṣām api pūrvajāḥ
dig-vāsasaḥ śiśūn matvā
dvāḥ-sthau tān pratyaṣedhatām
Although these four great sages were older than Brahmā's other sons like Marīci, they appeared like small naked children, only five or six years old. The two gatekeepers, thinking them ordinary children, forbad them to enter.
The Kumāras had the beauty (ābhāh) of five or six year old children, but were older than Marīci and others (pūrveṣām). The gate keepers considered them naked babies.
|| 7.1.38 ||
aśapan kupitā evaṁ
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