श्रीशुक उवाच अम्बरीषो महाभाग: सप्तद्वीपवतीं महीम् । अव्ययां च श्रियं लब्ध्वा विभवं चातुलं भुवि ॥ १५ ॥ मेनेऽतिदुर्लभं पुंसां सर्वं तत् स्वप्नसंस्तुतम् । विद्वान् विभवनिर्वाणं तमो विशति यत् पुमान् ॥ १६ ॥
sri-suka uvaca ambariso maha-bhagah sapta-dvipavatim mahim avyayam ca sriyam labdhva vibhavam catulam bhuvi mene ’tidurlabham pumsam sarvam tat svapna-samstutam vidvan vibhava-nirvanam tamo visati yat puman
- sri-sukah uvaca
- Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said
- ambarisah
- King Ambarisa
- maha-bhagah
- the greatly fortunate king
- sapta-dvipavatim
- consisting of seven islands
- mahim
- the whole world
- avyayam ca
- and inexhaustible
- sriyam
- beauty
- labdhva
- after achieving
- vibhavam ca
- and opulences
- atulam
- unlimited
- bhuvi
- in this earth
- mene
- he decided
- ati-durlabham
- which is rarely obtained
- pumsam
- of many persons
- sarvam
- everything (he had obtained)
- tat
- that which
- svapna-samstutam
- as if imagined in a dream
- vidvan
- completely understanding
- vibhava-nirvanam
- the annihilation of that opulence
- tamah
- ignorance
- visati
- fallen into
- yat
- because of which
- puman
- a person
Sukadeva Gosvami said: Maharaja Ambarisa, the most fortunate personality, achieved the rule of the entire world, consisting of seven islands, and achieved inexhaustible, unlimited opulence and prosperity on earth. Although such a position is rarely obtained, Maharaja Ambarisa did not care for it at all, for he knew very well that all such opulence is material. Like that which is imagined in a dream, such opulence will ultimately be destroyed. The King knew that any nondevotee who attains such opulence merges increasingly into material nature’s mode of darkness.