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for sense satisfaction and avarice for sense gratification. The balanced
mode of nature is goodness. And to be completely freed from all material
tinges is to become free from the modes of goodness also. To search the
audience of God in a lonely forest is considered to be in the mode of
goodness. One can go out into the forest to attain spiritual perfection, but
that does not mean that one can see the Lord personally there. One must
be completely freed from all material attachment and be situated on the
plane of transcendence, which alone will help the devotee get in personal
touch with the Personality of Godhead. The best method is that one
should live at a place where the transcendental form of the Lord is wor-
shiped. The temple of the Lord is a transcendental place, whereas the
forest is a materially good habitation. A neophyte devotee is always
recommended to worship the Deity of the Lord (arcana) rather than go
into the forest to search out the Lord. Devotional service begins from the
process of arcana, which is better than going out in the forest. In his
present life, which is completely freed from all material hankerings, Sri
Narada Muni does not go into the forest, although he can turn every
place into Vaikuntha by his presence only. He travels from one planet to
another to convert men, gods, Kinnaras, Gandharvas, rsis, munis and all
others to become devotees of the Lord. By his activities he has engaged
many devotees like Prahlada Maharaja, Dhruva Maharaja and many others
in the transcendental service of the Lord. A pure devotee of the Lord,
therefore, follows in the footsteps of the great devotees like Narada,
Prahlada, etc., and engages his whole time in glorifying the Lord by the
process of kirtana. Such a preaching process is transcendental to all
material qualities.
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sakrd yad darsitarn riipam
etat kamdaya te’nagha
mat-kamah sanakaih sadhu
sarvan muiicati hre-chayan

sakrt—once only; yat—that; darsitam—shown; ripam—form; etat—this
is; kamdya--for hankerings; te—y our; anagha—O virtuous one; mat—Mine;
kamah—desire; sanakaih—by increasing; s@dhuh—devotee; sarvan—all;
muiicati—gives away; hrt-sayan—material desires.
