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25 / Meeting of Lord Krsna
with Sudama Brahmana

King Pariksit was hearing the narrations of the pastimes of Lord Krsna
and Lord Balarama from Sukadeva Gosvami. These pastimes are all tran-
scendentally pleasurable to hear, and Maharaja Pariksit addressed Sukadeva
Gosvami as follows: ‘My dear Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
Krsna is the bestower of both liberation and love of God simultaneously.
Anyone who becomes a devotee of the Lord automatically attains libera-
tion without having to make a separate attempt. The Lord is unlimited,
and as such, His pastimes and activities for creating, maintaining and
destroying the whole cosmic manifestation are unlimited. I therefore wish
to hear about His other pastimes of which you may not have spoken as
yet. My dear master, the conditioned souls within this material world have
been frustrated by searching out the pleasure of happiness derived from
sense gratification. Such desires for material enjoyment are always piercing
the heart of conditioned souls. But I am actually experiencing how the
transcendental topics of Lord Krsna’s pastimes can relieve one from the
state of being affected by such sense gratificatory material activities. I
think that no intelligent person can reject this method of hearing the
transcendental pastimes of the Lord again and again; simply by hearing,
one can remain always steeped in transcendental pleasure. Thus one will
not be attracted by material sense gratification.”

In this statement, Maharaja Pariksit has used two important words:
visannah and visesajfiah: visannah means “morose.” The materialistic
persons are inventing many ways and means to become fully satisfied, but
actually they remain morose. The point may be raised that sometimes
those who are transcendentalists also remain morose. Pariksit Maharaja has
used, however, the word visesajfiah. There are two kinds of transcenden-
talists, namely the impersonalists and the personalists. Visesajfiah refers to
the personalists, who are interested in transcendental variegatedness. The

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