Text 29]
The Renunciation of Kardama Muni
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sa eva bhagavān adya helanam na gaṇayya naḥ grheṣu jāto grāmyāṇām yaḥ svānām pakṣa-poṣaṇaḥ
saḥ eva—that very same; bhagavān—Supreme Personality of Godhead; adya—today; helanam—negligence; na—not; gaṇayya—considering high and low; naḥ—our; grheṣu—in the houses; jātaḥ—appeared; grāmyāṇām—of ordinary householders; yaḥ—He who; svānām—of His own devotees; pakṣa-poṣaṇaḥ—who supports the party.
TRANSLATION
Not considering the negligence of ordinary householders like us, that very same Supreme Personality of Godhead appears in our homes just to support His devotees.
PURPORT
Devotees are so affectionate towards the Personality of Godhead that although He does not appear before those who practice  yoga  in a secluded place even for many, many births, He agrees to appear in a householder's home where devotees engage in devotional service without material  yoga  practice. In other words, devotional service to the Lord is so easy that even a householder can see the Supreme Personality of Godhead as one of the members of his household, as his son, as Kardama Muni experienced. He was a householder, although a  yogī , but he had the incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kapila Muni, as his son.
Devotional service is such a powerful transcendental method that it surpasses all other methods of transcendental realization. The Lord says, therefore, that He lives neither in Vaikuṇṭha nor in the heart of a  yogī , but He lives where His pure devotees are always chanting and glorifying Him. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is known as  bhakta-vatsala . He is never described as  jñāni-vatsala  or  yogi-vatsala . He is always described as  bhakta-vatsala  because He is more inclined towards His devotees than towards other transcendentalists. In  Bhagavad-gītā  it is confirmed that only a devotee can understand Him as He is.  Bhaktyā mām abhijānāti : "One can understand Me only by devotional service, not otherwise." That understanding alone is real because although  jñānīs , mental speculators, can realize only the effulgence or the bodily luster of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and  yogīs  can realize only the partial representation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, a  bhakta  not only realizes