84
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 8]
TRANSLATION
When Gargamuni had been properly received as a guest and was very comfortably seated, Nanda Mahārāja submitted with gentle and submissive words: Dear sir, because you are a devotee, you are full in everything. Yet my duty is to serve you. Kindly order me. What can I do for you?
TEXT 4
महद्विचलनं नृणां गृहिणां दीनचेतसाम् । निःश्रेयसाय भगवन् कल्पते नान्यथा क्वचित् ॥ ४ ॥
mahad-vicalanam nīṇām gṛhiṇām dīna-cetasām niḥśreyasāya bhagavan kalpate nānyathā kvacit
mahat-vicalanam —the movement of great personalities;  nīṇām —in the houses of ordinary persons;  gṛhiṇām —especially householders;  dīna-cetasām —who are very simple-minded, being engaged in family maintenance and nothing more;  niḥśreyasāya —a great personality has no reason to go to the  gṛhastha  but to benefit him;  bhagavan —O most powerful devotee;  kalpate —is to be taken that way;  na anyathā —not for any other purpose;  kvacit —at any time.
TRANSLATION
O my lord, O great devotee, persons like you move from one place to another not for their own interests but for the sake of poor-hearted  gṛhasthas  [householders]. Otherwise they have no interest in going from one place to another.
PURPORT
As factually stated by Nanda Mahārāja, Gargamuni, being a devotee, had no needs. Similarly, when Kṛṣṇa comes He has no needs, for He is  pūrṇa ,  ātmārāma . Nonetheless, He descends to this material world to protect the devotees and vanquish miscreants ( paritrāṇāya sādhūnām vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām ). This is the mission of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and devotees also have the same mission. One who executes