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Nārada Instructs the Pracetās
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Nor did they want the fulfillment of their material desires. They were simply interested in crossing the ocean of nescience. Everyone should be interested in getting out of these material clutches. Everyone should approach a saintly person in order to be enlightened in this connection. One should not bother a saintly person to get blessings for material enjoyment. Generally householders receive saintly persons to get their blessings, but their real aim is to become happy in the material world. Asking such material benedictions is not recommended in the  śāstras .
TEXT 8
मैत्रेय उवाच
इति प्रचेतसां पृष्ठो भगवान्नारदो मुनिः ।
भगवत्युत्तमश्लोक आविष्टत्माब्रवीन्तृपात्र ॥ ८ ॥
maitreya uvāca  
 iti pracetasām prṣṭo  
 bhagavān nārado muniḥ  
 bhagavaty uttama-śloka  
 āviṣṭātmābravīn nrpān
maitreyaḥ uvāca —Maitreya said;  iti —thus;  pracetasām —by the Pracetās;  prṣṭaḥ —being asked;  bhagavān —the great devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  nāradaḥ —Nārada;  muniḥ —very thoughtful;  bhagavati —in the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  uttama-śloke —possessing excellent renown;  āviṣṭa —absorbed;  ātmā —whose mind;  abravīt —replied;  nrpān —to the Kings.
TRANSLATION
The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, being thus petitioned by the Pracetās, the supreme devotee, Nārada, who is always absorbed in thoughts of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, began to reply.
PURPORT
In this verse  bhagavān nāradaḥ  indicates that Nārada is always absorbed in thoughts of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.  Bhagavaty uttama-śloka āviṣṭātmā . Nārada has no other business than thinking of Krṣṇa, talking of Krṣṇa and preaching about Krṣṇa; therefore he is sometimes called  bhagavān .  Bhagavān  means “one who possesses all opulences.” When a person possesses Bhagavān within his heart, he is also sometimes called