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Song Lyrics: Krsna Tvadiya Pada Pankaja
Purport Author: A.C. Bhaktivedanta
Swami
(This)
verse was sung by King Kulaśekhara, a great
king, and, at the same time, a great devotee of the Lord. His songs are
recorded in the book known as Mukunda-mālā-stotra.
That is very famous book. It is sung by many devotees. So it does not matter
whether a man is king, or a poor mendicant. Everyone has the facility to become
the greatest devotee of the Lord. So he's praying "My dear Kṛṣṇa, Your feet is
lotus.'' Generally we say "Lotus feet". But where the lotus flower is
there, the white swans, they come to the lotus flower and try to play with the
stem. They sport, going down the water, and be entangled with the stem of that
lotus flower. That is their sporting. So King Kulaśekhara
is praying that "Let the swan of my mind be immediately entered into the
network of the stem of Your lotus feet.'' So that
means he wants to engage his mind on the lotus feet of the Lord immediately.
There is no question of delaying. He says that "Now I am in sound mind. If
I think that I shall think of Your lotus feet at the
time of death, there is no certainty. Because, at the time of
death, the whole body becomes dislocated. The whole function becomes
dismantled."
The
body's supposed to be conducted by three elements, kapha
pitta vāyu, cold, and
bile, and air. So when these three elements work simultaneously, there is no
disease in the body, but, as soon as there is overlapping disruption of these
three elements, the body becomes diseased. And when it is not possible to bring
them again in their regulative principle, a man dies. That is the verdict of Āyurveda śāstra. So death takes place when these three elements become overlapped
with one another. And the symptom is that there is a sound on the throat
which is called: garhh, garhh.
That means the patient cannot speak. The throat is choked up and he becomes
suffocated and dies. So this is the last stage, symptom of his body.
So
King Kulaśekhara says that "I cannot wait
up to that time when everything will be topsy-turvied.
Now my mind is sound. Let me enter immediately in the stem of your lotus
feet.'' That means he's praying: "Let me die in the sound condition of my
life so that I can think of your lotus feet.'' In other words, he's giving us
lessons that if we do not practice to engage our mind on the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa when our mind is sound, how it is
possible to think of Him at the time of death?
UPDATED: April 1, 2009