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Nārada's Instructions on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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path of devotional service, one can become attracted, one can have steadiness, one can have perfect taste, one can have transcendental emotions, and at last one can be situated on the plane of loving service of the Lord. All these stages develop by the association of pure devotees, and that is the purport of this stanza.
TEXT 26
तत्रान्वहं कृष्णकथाः प्रगायता- मनुग्रहेणाशृणवं मनोहराः । ताः श्रद्धया मेऽनुपदं विशृष्वतः प्रियश्रवस्यङ्ग ममाभवद्वृचिः ॥२६॥
tatrānvaham kṛṣṇa-kathāḥ pragāyatām anugraheṇāśṛṇavam mano-harāḥ tāḥ śraddhayā me'nupadam viśṛṇvataḥ priyaśravasy aṅga mamābhavad ruciḥ
tatra—thereupon; anu—every day; aham—I; kṛṣṇa-kathāḥ—narration of Lord Kṛṣṇa's activities; pragāyatām—describing; anugraheṇa—by causeless mercy; aśṛṇavam—giving aural reception; manaḥ-harāḥ—attractive; tāḥ—those; śraddhayā—respectfully; me—unto me; anupadam—every step; viśṛṇvataḥ—hearing attentively; priyaśravasi—of the Personality of Godhead; aṅga—O Vyāsadeva; mama—mine; abhavat—it so became; ruciḥ—taste.
TRANSLATION
O Vyāsadeva, in that association and by the mercy of those great Vedāntists, I could hear them describe the attractive activities of Lord Kṛṣṇa. And thus listening attentively, my taste for hearing of the Personality of Godhead increased at every step.
PURPORT
Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa the Absolute Personality of Godhead is not only attractive in His personal features, but also in His transcendental activities. It is so because the Absolute is absolute by His name, fame, form, pastimes, entourage, parapharnalia, etc. The Lord descends on this material world out of His causeless mercy and displays His various transcendental pastimes