SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM - Prabhupada

Text 16] The Supreme Lord Is Equal to Everyone 23was seated there. While he inquired, all the sages present alsoheard him ask his question.sri-yudh!hira uvacaaho aty-adbhutam hy etaddurlabhaikiintinam apivasudeve pare tattveprdptiS caidyasya vidvi§aftsn-yudh!hiraft uvdca-Maharaja Yudhithira said; aho-oh; atiadbhutam-verywonderful; hi-certainly; etat-this; durlabha-difficultto attain; ekiintinam-for the transcendentalists; api-even;vdsudeve-in Vasudeva; pare-the supreme; tattve-Absolute Truth;prdptift-the attainment; caidyasya-of Sisupala; vidaft-envious.TRANSLATIONMahja Yudhithira inquired: It is very wonderful that thedemon Sisupila merged into the body of the Supreme Personalityof Godhead even though extremely envious. This sayujya-mukti isimpossible to attain even for great transcendentalists. How thendid the enemy of the LOrd attain it?PURPORTThere are two classes of transcendentalists-the jfliinis and the bhaktas.The bhaktas do not aspire to merge into the existence of the Lord,but the jfliinis do. Sisupala, however, was neither a jnanr nor a bhakta,yet simply by envy of the Lord he attained an exalted position by merginginto the Lord's body. Certainly this was astonishing, and thereforeMaharaja Yudhithira inquired about the cause for the Lord's mysteriousmercy to Sisupala.