श्रीशुक उवाच सर्वेषामपि भूतानां नृप स्वात्मैव वल्लभ: । इतरेऽपत्यवित्ताद्यास्तद्वल्लभतयैव हि ॥ ५० ॥
śrī-śuka uvāca sarveṣām api bhūtānāṁ nṛpa svātmaiva vallabhaḥ itare ’patya-vittādyās tad-vallabhatayaiva hi
- śrī-śukaḥ uvāca
- Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said
- sarveṣām
- for all
- api
- indeed
- bhūtānām
- created living beings
- nṛpa
- O King
- sva-ātmā
- one’s own self
- eva
- certainly
- vallabhaḥ
- dearmost
- itare
- others
- apatya
- children
- vitta
- wealth
- ādyāḥ
- and so on
- tat
- of that self
- vallabhatayā
- based on the dearness
- eva hi
- indeed
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, for every created being the dearmost thing is certainly his own self. The dearness of everything else — children, wealth and so on — is due only to the dearness of the self.