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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[ Canto 3, Ch. 4 ]
wishers. By some fortunate accident, Maitreya reached the place where Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa was resting. To meet the Lord is not an ordinary incident. Maitreya was a great sage and a learned scholar-philosopher but not a pure devotee of the Lord, and therefore his meeting with the Lord at that time may have been due to  ajñāta-sukṛti , or some unknown devotional service. Pure devotees always engage in pure devotional activities, and therefore their meeting with the Lord is natural. But when those who are not up to that standard meet the Lord, it is due to the unforeseen fortune of accidental devotional service.
TEXT 10
तस्यानुरक्तस्य मुनेर्मुकुन्दः 
    प्रमोदभावानतकन्धरस्य । 
    आशृष्वतो मामनुरागहास- 
    समीक्षया विश्रमयन्नुवाच ॥१०॥
tasyānuraktasya muner mukundaḥ 
    pramoda-bhāvānata-kandharasya 
    āśṛṇvato mām anurāga-hāsa- 
    samīkṣayā viśramayann uvāca
tasya—his (Maitreya’s); anuraktasya—although attached; muneḥ—of the sage; mukundaḥ—the Lord who awards salvation; pramoda-bhāva—in a pleasing attitude; ānata—lowered; kandharasya—of the shoulder; āśṛṇvataḥ—while thus hearing; mām—unto me; anurāga-hāsa—with kind smiling; samīkṣayā—particularly seeing me; viśramayan—allowing me complete rest; uvāca—said.
TRANSLATION
Maitreya Muni was greatly attached to Him [the Lord], and he was listening in a pleasing attitude, with his shoulder lowered. With a smile and a particular glance upon me, having allowed me to rest, the Lord spoke as follows:
PURPORT
Although both Uddhava and Maitreya were great souls, the Lord’s attention was more on Uddhava because he was a spotlessly pure devotee. A  jñāna-bhakta , or one whose devotion is mixed with the monistic viewpoint, is not a pure devotee. Although Maitreya was a devotee, his devotion