Text 23] Divinity and Divine Service 115

ato vai kavayo nityam
bhaktim paramaya muda
vasudeve bhagavati
kurvanty atma-prasddanim

atah—therefore; vai—certainly; kavayah—all transcendentalists; nityam—
from time immemorial; bhaktim—service unto the Lord; paramaya—
supreme; mudé—with great delight; vdsudeve—Sri Krsna; bhagavati—the
Personality of Godhead; kurvanti—do render; atma—self; prasadanim—that
which enlivens.

TRANSLATION

Therefore all transcendentalists have been rendering loving service with
great delight to Lord Krsna, the Personality of Godhead, from time imme-
morial because such devotional service is enlivening to the self.

PURPORT

Speciality of devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead Lord
Sri Krsna is specifically mentioned herein. Lord Sri Krsna is the svayam-
ripa Personality of Godhead, and all other forms of Godhead, beginning
from Sri Baladeva, Sankarsana, Vasudeva, Aniruddha, Pradyumna,
Narayana, purusa-avataras, guna-avataras, lila-avataras, yuga-avataras and
many other thousands of manifestations of the Personality of Godhead, are
Lord Sri Krsna’s plenary portions and integrated parts. The living entities
are separated parts and parcels of the Personality of Godhead. Therefore
Lord Sri Krsna is the original form of Godhead, and He is the last word in
the Transcendence. Thus He is more attractive to the higher transcendental-
ists who participate in the eternal pastimes of the Lord. In other forms of
the Personality of Godhead (except Sri Krsna and Baladeva) there is no fa-
cility for intimate personal contact, as in the case of the transcendental pas-
times of the Lord at Vrajabhimi. The transcendental pastimes of Lord Sri
Krsna are not newly accepted, as argued by some less intelligent persons,
but His pastimes are eternal and are manifested in due course once in a day
of Brahmaji, as the sun rises on the eastern horizon at the end of every
twenty-four hours.

TEXT 23

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