Text 29] Conversation Between Narada and Vyasa 305

freedom from reactions of fruitive activities. The material body is always
afflicted with these three inebrieties. A devotee’s body becomes at once
surcharged with the transcendental qualities as soon as he is engaged in the
devotional service of the Lord. It acts like the magnetic influence of a
touchstone upon iron. The influence of transcendental devotional service
is like that. Therefore change of the body means stoppage of the reaction
of three qualitative modes of material nature upon the pure devotee. There
are many instances of this in the revealed scriptures. Dhruva Maharaja and
Prahlada Maharaja and many other devotees were able to see the Person-
ality of Godhead face to face apparently in the same body. This means
that the quality of a devotee’s body changes from material to transcen-
dence. That is the opinion of the authorized Gosvamis via the authentic
scriptures. In the Brahma-samhita it is said that beginning from the indra-
gopa germ up to the great Indra, King of heaven, all living beings are
subjected to the law of karma and are bound to suffer and enjoy the
fruitive results of their own work. But only the devotee is exempt from
such reaction by the causeless mercy of the supreme authority, the
Personality of Godhead.

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kalpanta idam adaya
Sayane’mbhasy udanvatah
siSayisor anupranam
vivise ’ntar aham vibhoh

kalpante—at the end of Brahma’s day; idam— this;a@daya— taking together;
Sayane—having gone to lie down; ambhasi—in the causal water; udanvatah
—devastation; sisayisoh—lying of the Personality of Godhead (Narayana);
anupranam—breathing; vivige—entered into; antah—within; aham—1; vibhoh
—of Lord Brahma.

TRANSLATION

At the end of the millennium, when the Personality of Godhead Lord
Narayana lies down within the water of devastation, Brahma begins to
enter into Him along with all creative elements, and I also enter through
His breathing.
