इतिहासमिमं पुण्यं चित्रकेतोर्महात्मन: । माहात्म्यं विष्णुभक्तानां श्रुत्वा बन्धाद्विमुच्यते ॥ ४० ॥
itihasam imam punyam citraketor mahatmanah mahatmyam visnu-bhaktanam srutva bandhad vimucyate
- itihasam
- history
- imam
- this
- punyam
- very pious
- citraketoh
- of Citraketu
- maha-atmanah
- the exalted devotee
- mahatmyam
- containing glory
- visnu-bhaktanam
- from the devotees of Visnu
- srutva
- hearing
- bandhat
- from bondage or conditional, material life
- vimucyate
- is freed.
Citraketu was a great devotee (mahatma). If one hears this history of Citraketu from a pure devotee, the listener also is freed from the conditional life of material existence.