Text 11] Narada’s Instructions on Srimad-Bhagavatam 233
spiritually advanced men are called also manasa because they always keep
up the standard of transcendental voluntary service to the Lord on the
spiritual plane. This completely forbids fruitive activities for gross bodily
sense salisfaction or subtle speculation of the material egoistic mind.
Social literary men, scientists, mundane poets, theoretical philosophers
and politicians who are completely absorbed in the material advancement
of sense pleasure are all dolls of the material energy. They take pleasure
in a place where rejected subject matters are thrown. According to Svami
Sridhara, this is the pleasure of the prostitute hunters.
But literatures which describe the glories of the Lord are enjoyed by
the paramahamsas who have grasped the essence of human activities.
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AMIFTATSA TASHA Td
Hafod MAT TMT ATT 2 2
tad-vag-visargo janatagha-viplavo
yasmin prati-slokam abaddhavaty api
namany anantasya yaso nkitani yat
§rnvanti gayanti grnanti sadhavah
tat—that; vak—vocabulary; visargah—creation; janata—the people in gen-
eral; agha—sins; viplavah—revolutionary; yasmin—in which; prati-slokam—
each and every stanza; abaddhavati— irregularly composed; api—in spite
of; nadmani—transcendental names, etc.; anantasya—of the unlimited Lord;
yasah—glories; ankitani—depicted; yat—what; srnvanti—do hear; gayanti—
do sing; grnanti—do accept; sadhavah—the purified men who are honest.
TRANSLATION
On the other hand, that literature which is full of descriptions of the
transcendental glories of the name, fame, forms, pastimes, etc., of the
unlimited Supreme Lord is a different creation, full of transcendental
words directed toward bringing about a revolution in the impious lives of
this world’s misdirected civilization. Such transcendental literatures, even
