Devanagari
श्रीराजोवाच
भगवन्तं हरिं प्रायो न भजन्त्यात्मवित्तमा: ।
तेषामशान्तकामानां क निष्ठाविजितात्मनाम् ॥ १ ॥
Verse text
śrī-rājovāca
bhagavantaṁ hariṁ prāyo
na bhajanty ātma-vittamāḥ
teṣām aśānta-kāmānāṁ
kā niṣṭhāvijitātmanām
Synonyms
śrī
—
rājā uvāca — King Nimi inquired
;
bhagavantam
—
the Supreme Personality of Godhead
;
harim
—
Hari
;
prāyaḥ
—
for the most part
;
na
—
never
;
bhajanti
—
who worship
;
ātma
—
vittamāḥ — all of you are most perfect in knowledge of the science of the self
;
teṣām
—
of them
;
aśānta
—
unquenched
;
kāmānām
—
material desires
;
kā
—
what
;
niṣṭhā
—
destination
;
avijita
—
who are not able to control
;
ātmanām
—
themselves .
Translation
King Nimi further inquired: My dear Yogendras, all of you are most perfect in knowledge of the science of the self. Therefore, kindly explain to me the destination of those who for the most part never worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, who are unable to quench their material desires and who are not in control of their own selves.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
King Nimi said: O sages most perfect in knowledge of the self! Please explain to me the position of those who for the most part never worship the Supreme Lord, who are unable to quench their material desires and who are not in control of their own selves.
In the Fifth Chapter, Camasa describes the condition of those who do not worship the Lord, and Karabhājana describes the yugāvatāras. Surprised that some people reject the Lord of great fame known through his appearances by his mercy, King Nimi asks a question. O knowers of ātmā! What is their position, what is their destination?
Purport
In the Fifth Chapter of the Eleventh Canto, Camasa Ṛṣi describes the inauspicious path of those who are unfavorable to the devotional service of Lord Viṣṇu, and the sage Karabhājana explains the
yuga-dharmāvatāras,
the incarnations of the Lord who present the authorized process of religion for each different age.
In the previous chapter it was explained that although the demigods place obstacles in the path of the Lord’s devotees, by the mercy of the Supreme Lord the devotees are able to place their feet on the head of such obstacles and thus pass beyond them to the supreme destination. However, for the nondevotees there is no such facility. As soon as the conditioned soul becomes indifferent to the devotional service of the Supreme Lord, he is immediately attracted by the temporary varieties of matter and becomes a slave of inauspicious desires. Thus the conditioned soul, devoid of devotion for the Lord, completely forgets the transcendental bliss of the spiritual world, which is enjoyed in five transcendental
rasas.
Although the devotees are not overcome by the sense gratification offered by the demigods, the demigods themselves become absorbed in material form, taste and smell. And similarly, those who are nondevotees also become bound by material form, taste and other sense perceptions, such as the sensuous experience of sex life. Thus they remain hovering in a dreamlike state, imagining different types of material sense gratification, and forget their eternal relationship with the Personality of Godhead. Videharāja Nimi now inquires from Camasa Muni about the goal attained by such bewildered persons.