श्रीशुक उवाच अथाम्बरीषस्तनयेषु राज्यं समानशीलेषु विसृज्य धीर: । वनं विवेशात्मनि वासुदेवे मनो दधद् ध्वस्तगुणप्रवाह: ॥ २६ ॥
sri-suka uvaca athambarisas tanayesu rajyam samana-silesu visrjya dhirah vanam vivesatmani vasudeve mano dadhad dhvasta-guna-pravahah
- sri-sukah uvaca
- Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said
- atha
- in this way
- ambarisah
- King Ambarisa
- tanayesu
- unto his sons
- rajyam
- the kingdom
- samana-silesu
- who were equally as qualified as their father
- visrjya
- dividing
- dhirah
- the most learned person, Maharaja Ambarisa
- vanam
- into the forest
- vivesa
- entered
- atmani
- unto the Supreme Lord
- vasudeve
- Lord Krsna, who is known as Vasudeva
- manah
- mind
- dadhat
- concentrating
- dhvasta
- vanquished
- guna-pravahah
- the waves of the material modes of nature
Srila Sukadeva Gosvami continued: Thereafter, because of his advanced position in devotional life, Maharaja Ambarisa, who no longer desired to live with material things, retired from active family life. He divided his property among his sons, who were equally as qualified, and he himself took the order of vanaprastha and went to the forest to concentrate his mind fully upon Lord Vasudeva.