श्रीयुधिष्ठिर उवाच गृहस्थ एतां पदवीं विधिना येन चाञ्जसा । यायाद्देवऋषे ब्रूहि मादृशो गृहमूढधी: ॥ १ ॥
sri-yudhisthira uvaca grhastha etam padavim vidhina yena canjasa yayad deva-rse bruhi madrso grha-mudha-dhih
- sri-yudhisthirah uvaca
- Yudhisthira Maharaja said
- grhasthah
- a person living with his family
- etam
- this (the process mentioned in the previous chapter)
- padavim
- position of liberation
- vidhina
- according to the instructions of Vedic scripture
- yena
- by which
- ca
- also
- anjasa
- easily
- yayat
- may get
- deva-rse
- O great sage among the demigods
- bruhi
- kindly explain
- madrsah
- such as me
- grha-mudha-dhih
- completely ignorant of the goal of life
Maharaja Yudhisthira inquired from Narada Muni: O my lord, O great sage, kindly explain how we who are staying at home without knowledge of the goal of life may also easily attain liberation, according to the instructions of the Vedas.