Text 70] The Deliverance of Gopinatha Pattanayaka 163
SYNONYMS

tomdara—Your; bhajana—devotional service; phale—by the result of; tomate —
unto You; prema-dhana—wealth of love; visaya lagi’—for material profit; tomdya
bhaje—one engages in Your service; sei—he; murkha jana—a fool.

TRANSLATION

Kasi Misra continued, ‘If one engages in devotional service for Your
satisfaction, this will result in his increasingly awakening his dormant love for
You. But if one engages in Your devotional service for material purposes, he
should be considered a number-one fool.

PURPORT

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura comments that there are many ma-
terialistic persons who become preachers, gurus, religionists or philosophers only
for the sake of maintaining a high standard of living and sense gratification for
themselves and their families. Sometimes they adopt the dress of a sannydsi or
preacher. They train some of their family members as lawyers and continually
seek help from a high court to acquire riches on the plea of maintaining temples.
Although such persons may call themselves preachers, live in Vrndavana or
Navadvipa, and also print many religious books, it is all for the same purpose,
namely to earn a living to maintain their wives and children. They may also profes-
sionally recite the Bhagavatam or other scriptures, worship the Deity in the temple
and initiate disciples. Making a show of devotional paraphernalia, they may also
collect money from the public and use it to cure the disease of some family mem-
ber or near relative. Sometimes they become bdabdjis or collect money on the plea
of worshiping the poor, whom they call daridra-nardyana, or for social and politi-
cal upliftment. Thus they spread a network of business schemes to collect money
for sense gratification by cheating people in general who have no knowledge of
pure devotional service. Such cheaters cannot understand that by offering devo-
tional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one can be elevated to a
position of eternal servitude to the Lord, which is even greater than the position
of Brahma and other demigods. Unfortunately, fools have no understanding of the
perpetual pleasure of devotional service.

TEXT 70
coral ifs atatae aey Sits CTT |
coral arf Harsa ‘faaw etfeen non
toma lagi’ ramananda rajya tyaga kaila
toma lagi’ sandtana ‘visaya’ chadila
