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especially pleased with them. Simply the qualification of being a learned
brahmana is not sufficient to attract the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
A brahmana must not only be well qualified according to the requirements
stated in scriptures such as Srimad Bhagavad-gita and S rimad-Bhagavatam,
but at the same time he must be a devotee of Lord Krsna. The vivid
example is Sudama Vipra. He was a qualified brahmana, unattached to all
sorts of material sense enjoyment, and at the same time a great devotee of
Lord Krsna. Lord Krsna, the enjoyer of all sacrifices and penances, is very
fond of a brahmana like Sudama Vipra, and we have seen by the actual
behavior of Lord Krsna how much He adores such a brahmana. Therefore,
the ideal stage of human perfection is to become a brahmana-vaisnava like
Sudama Vipra.

Sudama Vipra realized that although Lord Krsna is unconquerable, He
nevertheless agrees to be conquered by His devotees. He realized how kind
Lord Krsna was to him, and he was always in trance, constantly thinking
of Krsna. By such constant association with Lord Krsna, whatever darkness
of material contamination was remaining within his heart was completely
cleared away, and very shortly he was transferred to the spiritual kingdom,
which is the goal of all saintly persons in the perfectional stage of life.
Sukadeva Gosvami has stated that all persons who hear this history of
Sudama Vipra and Lord Krsna will know how affectionate Lord Krsna is
to the brahmana devotees like Sudama. Therefore anyone who hears this
history gradually becomes as qualified as Sudama Vipra, and he is thus
transferred to the spiritual kingdom of Lord Krsna.

Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Second Volume, Twenty-
sixth Chapter, of Krsna, “The Brahmana Sudéma Benedicted by Lord
Krsna.”
