परदेवताप्रसादाधिगतात्मप्रत्यवमर्शेनानुप्रवृत्तेभ्य: पुत्रेभ्य इमां यथादायं विभज्य भुक्तभोगां च महिषीं मृतकमिव सह महाविभूतिमपहाय स्वयं निहितनिर्वेदो हृदि गृहीतहरिविहारानुभावो भगवतो नारदस्य पदवीं पुनरेवानुससार ॥ ३८ ॥
para-devata-prasadadhigatatma-pratyavamarsenanupravrttebhyah putrebhya imam yatha-dayam vibhajya bhukta-bhogam ca mahisim mrtakam iva saha maha-vibhutim apahaya svayam nihita-nirvedo hrdi grhita-hari-viharanubhavo bhagavato naradasya padavim punar evanusasara.
- para-devata
- of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- prasada
- by the mercy
- adhigata
- obtained
- atma-pratyavamarsena
- by self-realization
- anupravrttebhyah
- who exactly follow his path
- putrebhyah
- unto his sons
- imam
- this earth
- yatha-dayam
- exactly according to the inheritance
- vibhajya
- dividing
- bhukta-bhogam
- whom he enjoyed in so many ways
- ca
- also
- mahisim
- the Queen
- mrtakam iva
- exactly like a dead body
- saha
- with
- maha-vibhutim
- great opulence
- apahaya
- giving up
- svayam
- himself
- nihita
- perfectly taken to
- nirvedah
- renunciation
- hrdi
- in the heart
- grhita
- accepted
- hari
- of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- vihara
- pastimes
- anubhavah
- in such an attitude
- bhagavatah
- of the great saintly person
- naradasya
- of Saint Narada
- padavim
- position
- punah
- again
- eva
- certainly
- anusasara
- began to follow
By the grace of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Maharaja Priyavrata reawakened to his senses. He divided all his earthly possessions among his obedient sons. He gave up everything, including his wife, with whom he had enjoyed so much sense gratification, and his great and opulent kingdom, and he completely renounced all attachment. His heart, having been cleansed, became a place of pastimes for the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Thus he was able to return to the path of Krsna consciousness, spiritual life, and resume the position he had attained by the grace of the great saint Narada.