Text 37]
The Lord in the Heart
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pibanti ye bhagavata ātmanaḥ satām kathāmṛtam śravaṇa-puṭeṣu sambhṛtam punanti te viṣaya-vidūṣitāśayam vrajanti tac-caraṇa-saroruhāntikam
pibanti —who drink;  ye —those;  bhagavataḥ —of the Personality of Godhead;  ātmanaḥ —of the most dear;  satām —of devotees;  kathā-amṛtam —the nectar of the messages;  śravaṇa-puṭeṣu —within the earholes;  sambhṛtam —fully filled;  punanti —purify;  te —their;  viṣaya —material enjoyment;  vidūṣitāśayam —polluted aim of life;  vrajanti —do go back;  tat —the Lord's;  caraṇa —feet;  saroruha-antikam —near the lotus.
TRANSLATION
Those who drink through aural reception, fully filled with the nectarean message of Lord Kṛṣṇa, the beloved of the devotees, purify the polluted aim of life known as material enjoyment and thus go back to Godhead, to the lotus feet of Him [the Personality of Godhead].
PURPORT
The sufferings of human society are due to a polluted aim of life, namely lording it over the material resources. The more the human society is engaged in the exploitation of undeveloped material resources for sense gratification, the more it will be entrapped by the illusory material energy of the Lord, and thus the distress of the world will be intensified instead of diminished. The human necessities of life are fully supplied by the Lord in the shape of foodgrains, milk, fruit, wood, stone, sugar, silk, jewels, cotton, salt, water, vegetables, etc., in sufficient quantity to feed the human race of the world as well as those on each and every planet within the universe. The supply source is complete, and only a little energy by the human being is required to get them into the proper channel. There is no need of machines and tools or huge steel plants for artificially creating comforts of life. Life is never made comfortable by creating artificial needs, but by plain living and high thinking. The highest perfectional thinking for human society is suggested here by Śukadeva Gosvāmī, namely, hearing sufficiently  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam . For men in this age of Kali, when they have lost the perfect vision of life, this  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  is the torch-