codito vipra-vakyena

 na tvam dhaksyati taksakah

mrtyavo nopadhaksyanti

 mrtyunam mrtyum isvaram

 

Translation: 

 

The snake-bird Taksaka, sent by the curse of the brahmana, will not burn your true self. The agents of death will never burn such a master of the self as you, for you have already conquered all dangers on your path back to Godhead.

 

Purport: 

 

Real death is the covering of one’s eternal Krsna consciousness. For the soul, material illusion is just like death, but Pariksit Maharaja had already destroyed all those dangers that threaten one’s spiritual life, such as lust, envy and fear. Sukadeva Gosvami here congratulates the great saintly king, who, as a pure devotee of Lord Krsna homeward bound to the spiritual sky, was far beyond the reach of death.