मैत्रेय उवाच साधु पृष्टं त्वया साधो लोकान् साध्वनुगृह्णता । कीर्तिं वितन्वता लोके आत्मनोऽधोक्षजात्मन: ॥ १८ ॥
maitreya uvaca sadhu prstam tvaya sadho lokan sadhv anugrhnata kirtim vitanvata loke atmano ’dhoksajatmanah
- maitreyah uvaca
- Sri Maitreya said
- sadhu
- all good
- prstam
- I am asked
- tvaya
- by you
- sadho
- O good one
- lokan
- all the people
- sadhu anugrhnata
- showing mercy in goodness
- kirtim
- glories
- vitanvata
- broadcasting
- loke
- in the world
- atmanah
- of the self
- adhoksaja
- the Transcendence
- atmanah
- mind.
Sri Maitreya said: O Vidura, all glory unto you. You have inquired from me of the greatest of all goodness, and thus you have shown your mercy both to the world and to me because your mind is always absorbed in thoughts of the Transcendence.