स एवमपरिमितबलपराक्रम एकदा तु देवर्षिचरणानुशयनानुपतितगुणविसर्गसंसर्गेणानिर्वृतमिवात्मानं मन्यमान आत्मनिर्वेद इदमाह ॥ ३६ ॥
sa evam aparimita-bala-parakrama ekada tu devarsi-carananusayananu-patita-guna-visarga-samsargenanirvrtam ivatmanam manyamana atma-nirveda idam aha.
- sah
- he (Maharaja Priyavrata)
- evam
- thus
- aparimita
- unparalleled
- bala
- strength
- parakramah
- whose influence
- ekada
- once upon a time
- tu
- then
- deva-rsi
- of the great saint Narada
- carana-anusayana
- surrendering unto the lotus feet
- anu
- thereafter
- patita
- fallen down
- guna-visarga
- with material affairs (created by the three material modes of nature)
- samsargena
- by connection
- anirvrtam
- not satisfied
- iva
- like
- atmanam
- himself
- manyamanah
- thinking like that
- atma
- self
- nirvedah
- possessing renunciation
- idam
- this
- aha
- said
While enjoying his material opulences with full strength and influence, Maharaja Priyavrata once began to consider that although he had fully surrendered to the great saint Narada and was actually on the path of Krsna consciousness, he had somehow become again entangled in material activities. Thus his mind now became restless, and he began to speak in a spirit of renunciation.