Text 45]
The Renunciation of Kardama Muni
997
PURPORT
When one's mind is in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness and one fully engages in rendering devotional service to the Lord, he becomes just like an ocean unagitated by waves. This very example is also cited in  Bhagavad-gītā : one should become like the ocean. The ocean is filled by many thousands of rivers, and clouds evaporate millions of tons of its water, yet the ocean is the same unagitated ocean. The laws of nature may work, but if one is fixed in devotional service at the lotus feet of the Lord, he is not agitated because he is introspective. He does not look outside to material nature, but he looks into the spiritual nature of his existence; with a sober mind, he simply engages in the service of the Lord. Thus he realizes his own self without false identification with matter and without affection for material possessions. Such a great devotee is never in trouble with others because he sees everyone from the platform of spiritual understanding; he sees himself and others in the right perspective.
TEXT 45
वासुदेवे भगवति सर्वज्ञे प्रत्यगात्मनि । परेण भक्तिभावेन लब्धात्मा मुक्तबन्धनः ॥४५॥
vāsudeve bhagavati sarva-jñe pratyag-ātmani pareṇa bhakti-bhāvena labdhātmā mukta-bandhanaḥ
vāsudeve—to Vāsudeva; bhagavati—the Personality of Godhead; sarva-jñe—omniscient; pratyak-ātmani—the Supersoul within everyone; pareṇa—transcendental; bhakti-bhāvena—by devotional service; labdha-ātmā—being situated in himself; mukta-bandhanaḥ—liberated from material bondage.
TRANSLATION
He thus became liberated from conditioned life and became self-situated in transcendental devotional service to the Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva, the omniscient Supersoul within everyone.
PURPORT
When one engages in the transcendental devotional service of the Lord he becomes aware that his constitutional position, as an individual soul,