मर्त्यो मृत्युव्यालभीत: पलायन् लोकान् सर्वान्निर्भयं नाध्यगच्छत् । त्वत्पादाब्जं प्राप्य यदृच्छयाद्य सुस्थ: शेते मृत्युरस्मादपैति ॥ २७ ॥
martyo mṛtyu-vyāla-bhītaḥ palāyan lokān sarvān nirbhayaṁ nādhyagacchat tvat pādābjaṁ prāpya yadṛcchayādya susthaḥ śete mṛtyur asmād apaiti
- martyaḥ
- the living entities who are sure to die
- mṛtyu-vyāla-bhītaḥ
- afraid of the serpent of death
- palāyan
- running (as soon as a serpent is seen, everyone runs away, fearing immediate death)
- lokān
- to the different planets
- sarvān
- all
- nirbhayam
- fearlessness
- na adhyagacchat
- do not obtain
- tvat-pāda-abjam
- of Your lotus feet
- prāpya
- obtaining the shelter
- yadṛcchayā
- by chance, by the mercy of Your Lordship and Your representative, the spiritual master (guru-kṛpā, kṛṣṇa-kṛpā)
- adya
- presently
- su-sthaḥ
- being undisturbed and mentally composed
- śete
- are sleeping
- mṛtyuḥ
- death
- asmāt
- from those persons
- apaiti
- flees
No one in this material world has become free from the four principles birth, death, old age and disease, even by fleeing to various planets. But now that You have appeared, My Lord, death is fleeing in fear of You, and the living entities, having obtained shelter at Your lotus feet by Your mercy, are sleeping in full mental peace.