Text 32] Narada’s Instructions on Srimad-Bhagavatam 267

TRANSLATION

O Brahmana Vyasadeva, it is decided by the learned that the best
remedial measure for removing all troubles and miseries is to dedicate
one’s activities to the service of the Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead
[Sri Krsna].

PURPORT

Sri Narada Muni personally experienced that the most feasible and
practical way to open the path of salvation or get relief from ali miseries
of life is to hear submissively the transcendental activities of the Lord from
the right and bona fide sources. This is the only remedial process. The
entire material existence is full of miseries. Foolish people have manu-
factured, out of their tiny brains, many remedial measures for removing
the threefold miseries pertaining to the body and mind, pertaining to the
natural distrubances and in relation with other living beings. The whole
world is struggling very hard to exist out of these miseries, but men do not
know that without the sanction of the Lord no plan or no remedial mea-
sure can actually bring about the desired peace and tranquility. The re-
medial measure to cure a patient by medical treatment is useless if it is
not sanctioned by the Lord. To cross the river or the ocean by a suitable
boat is no remedial measure if it is not sanctioned by the Lord. We should
know for certain that the Lord is the ultimate sanctioning officer, and we
must therefore dedicate our attempts to the mercy of the Lord for ultimate
success or to get rid of the obstacles on the path of success. The Lord is
all-pervading, all-powerful, omniscient and omnipresent. He is the ultimate
sanctioning agent of all good or bad effects. We should, therefore, learn
to dedicate our activities unto the mercy of the Lord and accept Him
either as impersonal Brahman, localized Paramatma or the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead. It does not matter what one is. One must dedicate
everything in the service of the Lord. If one is a learned scholar, scientist,
philosopher, poet, etc., then he should employ his learning to establish
the supremacy of the Lord. Try to study the energy of the Lord in every
sphere of life. Do not decry Him and try to become like Him or take His
position simply by fragmental accumulation of knowledge. If one is an
administrator, statesman, warrior, politician, etc., then one should try to
establish the Lord’s supremacy in statesmanship. Fight for the cause of the
Lord as Sri Arjuna did. In the beginning, Sri Arjuna, the great fighter, de-
