Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.47.47

paraḿ saukhyaḿ hi nairāśyaḿ

svairiṇy apy āha pińgalā

taj jānatīnāḿ naḥ kṛṣṇe

tathāpy āśā duratyayā

SYNONYMS

param — the highest; saukhyam — happiness; hi — indeed; nairāśyam — indifference; svairiṇī — unchaste; api — although; āha — stated; pińgalā — the prostitute Pińgalā; tat — of that; jānatīnām — who are aware; naḥ — for us; kṛṣṇe — focused on Kṛṣṇa; tathā api — nevertheless; āsā — the hope; duratyayā — is impossible to transcend.

TRANSLATION

Indeed, the greatest happiness is to renounce all desires, as even the prostitute Pińgalā has declared. Yet even though we know this, we cannot give up our hopes of attaining Kṛṣṇa.

PURPORT

The story of Pińgalā is narrated in the Eleventh Canto, Eighth Chapter, of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

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