Text 10] The Son of Drona Punished 331

According to the Sabda-kosa Dictionary, the affix ni is used in the sense
of 1) certainty, 2) counting, 3) building, and 4) forbiddance, and the word
grantha is used in the sense of wealth, thesis, vocabulary, etc.

The word urukrama means the one whose activities are glorious. Krama
means step. This word urukrama specifically indicates the Lord’s incarna-
tion as Vamana, who covered the whole universe by immeasurable steps.
Lord Visnu is powerful, and His activities are so glorious that He has
created the spiritual world by His internal potency and the material world
by His external potency. By His all-pervading features He is everywhere
present as the Supreme Truth, and in His personal feature He is always
present in His transcendental abode of Goloka Vrndavana where He
displays His transcendental pastimes in all variegatedness. His activities
cannot be compared with anyone else’s, and therefore the word urukrama
is just applicable to Him only.

According to Sanskrit verbal arrangement, kurvanti means to do things
for someone else. Therefore, it means that the a@mdramas render devo-
tional service unto the Lord not for personal interest but for the pleasure
of the Lord, Urukrama.

Hetu means causal. There are many causes for one’s sense satisfaction,
and they can be chiefly classified as material enjoyment, mystic powers
and liberation, which are generally desired by progressive persons. As far
as material enjoyments are concerned, they are innumerable, and the
materialists are eager to increase them more and more because they are
under the illusory energy. There is no end to the list of material enjoy-
ments, nor can anyone in the material universe have all of them. As far as
the mystic powers are concerned, they are eight in all (such as to become
the minutist in form, to become weightless, to have anything one desires,
to lord it over the material nature, to control other living beings, to throw
earthly globes in outer space, etc.). These mystic powers are mentioned in
the Bhégavatam (11.15). The forms of liberation are five in number.

Therefore, unalloyed devotion means service to the Lord without desire
for the above-mentioned personal benefits. And the powerful Personality
of Godhead Sri Krsna can be fully satisfied by such unalloyed devotees
free from all sorts of desires for personal benefit.

Unalloyed devotional service of the Lord progresses in different stages.
Practice of devotional service in the material field is of eighty-one different
qualities, and above such activities there is the transcendental practice of
devotional service, which is one and is called sddhana-bhakti. When
unalloyed practice of sd@dhana-bhakti is matured into transcendental love
for the Lord, the transcendental loving service of the Lord begins gradually
