Text 23] Conversation Between Narada and Vyasa 299
TRANSLATION
O virtuous one, you have only once seen My person, and this is just
to increase your desire for Me, because the more you hanker for Me, the
more you will be freed from all material desires.
PURPORT
A living being cannot be vacant of desires. He is not a dead stone. He
must be working, thinking, feeling and willing. But when he thinks, feels
and wills materially, he becomes entangled, and conversely when he thinks,
feels and wills for the service of the Lord, he becomes gradually freed from
all entanglement. The more a person is engaged in the transcendental
loving service of the Lord, the more he acquires a hankering for it. That is
the transcendental nature of godly service. Material service has satiation,
whereas spiritual service of the Lord has neither satiation nor end. One can
go on increasing his hankerings for the loving transcendental service of the
Lord, and yet he will not find satiation nor end. By intense service of the
Lord, one can experience the presence of the Lord transcendentally.
Therefore seeing the Lord means being engaged in His service because His
service and His person are identical. The sincere devotee should go on
with sincere service of the Lord. The Lord will give proper direction as to
how and where it has to be done. There was no material desire in Narada,
and yet just to increase his intense desire for the Lord, he was so advised.
TEXT 23
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sat-sevayadirghayapi
jata mayi drdha matih
hitvavadyam imam lokam
ganta maj-janatamasi
sat-sevaya—by service of the Absolute Truth; adirghaya—for some days;
api—even: jdta—having attained; mayi--unto Me; drdha@—firm; matih—
intelligence; hitva—having given up; avadyam—deplorable; imam—this;
lokam—material worlds; ganta—going to; mat-janatam—My associates; asi—
become.
