260 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

possession, everyone is transmigrating from one body to another in the
path of fruitive activities and their reactions. My dear Lord, I am also no
exception to these conditioned souls. I am falsely thinking myself happy in
possessing my home, wife, children, state, property and effects. In this way
I am acting as if in a dreamland because none of these are permanent. I am
a fool to be always absorbed in such thoughts, accepting them as perma-
nent and true. My dear Lord, due to my false identification, I have
accepted everything which is nonpermanent, such as this material body,
which is not spiritual and is the source of all kinds of miserable conditions.
Being bewildered by such concepts of life, I am always absorbed in
thoughts of duality, and I have forgotten You who are the reservoir of all
transcendental pleasure. I am bereft of Your transcendental association and
am just like a foolish creature who goes in search of water in the desert,
leaving the water spot which is covered by water-nourished vegetables. The
conditioned souls want to quench their thirst, but they do not know where
to find water. They give up the spot where there is actually a reservoir of
water and run into the desert where there is no water. My dear Lord, I am
completely incapable of controlling my mind, which is now driven by the
unbridled senses and is attracted by fruitive activities and their results.
My dear Lord, Your lotus feet cannot be appreciated by any person in
the conditional stage of material existence, but somehow or other I have
come near Your lotus feet, and I consider this to be Your causeless mercy
upon me. You can act in any way because You are the supreme controller.
I can thus understand that when a person becomes eligible to be delivered
from the path of repeated birth and death, it is only by Your causeless
mercy that he further progresses to become attached to Your causeless
devotional service.”

Akrira fell down before the Lord and said, “My dear Lord, Your
transcendental eternal form is full of knowledge. Simply by concentrating
one’s mind upon Your form, one can understand in full knowledge every-
thing that be, because You are the original source of all knowledge. You
are the supreme powerful, possessing all kinds of energies. You are the
Supreme Brahman and the Supreme Person, supreme controller and master
of the material energies. I offer my respectful obeisances unto You because
You are Vasudeva, the resting place of all creation. You are the all-
pervading Supreme Personality of Godhead, and You are also the Supreme
Soul residing in everyone’s heart and giving direction to act. Now, my Lord,
I am cempletely surrendered unto You. Please give me Your protection.”

Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Thirty-ninth Chapter of
Krsna, “Prayers by Akrira.”’
