Text 26] Narada’s Instructions on Srimad-Bhagavatam 259

path of devotional service, one can become attracted, one can have
steadiness, one can have perfect taste, one can have transcendental
emotions, and at last one can be situated on the plane of loving service
of the Lord. All these stages develop by the association of pure devotees,
and that is the purport of this stanza.

TEXT 26

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tatranvaham krsna-kathah pragayatam
anugrahenasrnavam mano-harah

tah sraddhayd me’nupadam visrnvatah
pfiyasravasy anga mamabhavad ructh

tatra—thereupon; anu—every day; aham—I; krsna-kathah—narration of
Lord Krsna’s activities; pragayatam—describing; anugrahena—by causeless
mercy; asrnavam—giving aural reception; manah-harah—attractive; tah—
those; sraddhaya—respectfully; me—unto me; anupadam-—every step;
visrnvatah —hearing attentively ; priyasravasi—of the Personality of Godhead;
anga—O Vyasadeva; mama—mine; abhavat—it so became; rucih—taste.

TRANSLATION

O Vyasadeva, in that association and by the mercy of those great
Vedantists, I could hear them describe the attractive activities of Lord
Krsna. And thus listening attentively, my taste for hearing of the Personality
of Godhead increased at every step.

PURPORT

Lord Sri Krsna the Absolute Personality of Godhead is not only
attractive in His personal features, but also in His transcendental activities.
It is so because the Absolute is absolute by His name, fame, form, pastimes,
entourage, parapharnalia, etc. The Lord descends on this material world
out of His causeless mercy and displays His various transcendental pastimes
