162 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Antya-lila, Ch. 9
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, one can discover how a person worshiping the
goddess Durga begs her for different varieties of material profit. Such activities are
very popular among people in general, but they are the attempts of foolish, blind
people (sei jAana-andha).

A materialist does not actually know why one should become a devotee. A
devotee’s only concern is to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Pure
devotional service is defined by Srila Rapa Gosvami:

anyabhilasita-sanyam
jhana-karmady-anavrtam
anukdlyena krsnanu-
silanam bhaktir uttama
One should be completely free from all material desires and should serve Krsna
simply to please Him. When people become interested in their own sense grati-
fication (bhukti mukti siddhi kami), some of them desire to enjoy the material
world to the fullest extent, some of them desire to be liberated and merge into
the existence of Brahman, and others want to perform magic through mystic
power and thus become incarnations of God. These are all against the principles
of devotional service. One must be free from all material desires. The desire of the
impersonalist to merge into the existence of Brahman is also material because
such an impersonalist wants to gratify his senses by merging into the existence of
Krsna instead of serving His lotus feet. Even if such a person merges into the Brah-
man effulgence, he falls down again into material existence. As stated in Srimad-
Bhagavatam (10.2.32):
4ruhya krcchrena pararn padam tatah
patanty adho ‘nadrta-yusmad-anghrayah
Because Mayavadi philosophers have no information regarding the transcenden-
tal service of the Lord, even after attaining liberation from material activities and
merging in the Brahman effulgence, they must come down again to this material
world.
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COPA SHA-BCH CSTATS ‘CalyUa’ |
fara afr cota Sow, HR aef FAN vd I
tomara bhajana-phale tomate ‘prema-dhana’‘
visaya lagi’ tomaya bhaje, sei mdrkha jana
