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desireless, for they desire yogic perfections in order to exhibit some magical feats
and gain popularity. People gather around these yogis, and the yogis desire more
and more adulation. Because they misuse their mystic power, they fall down again
onto the material platform. It is not possible for them to become niskama, desire-
less.

The conclusion is that only the devotees who are simply satisfied in serving the
Lord can actually become desireless. Therefore it is written: krsna-bhakta niskama.
Since the krsna-bhakta, the devotee of Krsna, is satisfied with Krsna, there is no
possibility of falldown.

TEXT 150

qerarain faatats atatarratats |
RAS Tet CaBRP WALA I oee |

muktanadm api siddhanam
narayana-parayanah

sudurlabhah prasantatma
kotisv api maha-mune

SYNONYMS

muktanam—of persons liberated or freed from the bondage of ignorance;
api—even; siddhanam—of persons who have achieved perfection; narayana —of
the Supreme Personality of Godhead; parayanah—the devotee; su-durlabhah—
very rare; prasanta-atma—completely satisfied, desireless; kotisu—among many
millions; api—certainly; maha-mune—O great sage.

TRANSLATION

“‘O great sage, out of many millions of materially liberated people who are
free from ignorance, and out of many millions of siddhas who have nearly at-
tained perfection, there is hardly one pure devotee of Narayana. Only such a
devotee is actually completely satisfied and peaceful.’

PURPORT

This verse is quoted from Srimad-Bhagavatam (6.14.5). The narayana-parayana,
the devotee of Lord Narayana, is the only blissful person. One who becomes a
narayana-parayana is already liberated from material bondage. He already
possesses all the perfections of yoga. Unless one comes to the platform of
narayana-parayana and passes over the platform of bhukti-mukti-siddhi, he can-
not be fully satisfied. That is the pure devotional stage.
