84. Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 10, Ch. 8

TRANSLATION

When Gargamuni had been properly received as a guest and was
very comfortably seated, Nanda Maharaja submitted with gentle
and submissive words: Dear sir, because you are a devotee, you are
full in everything. Yet my duty is to serve you. Kindly order me.
What can I do for you?

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mahad-vicalanam nrnam
grhinam dina-cetasim

nihsreyasdya bhagavan
kalpate nanyatha kvacit

mahat-vicalanam—the movement of great personalities; nfnadm—in
the houses of ordinary persons; grhindm—especially householders;
dina-cetasim—who are very simple-minded, being engaged in family
maintenance and nothing more; nihsreyasdya—a great personality has
no reason to go to the grhastha but to benefit him; bhagavan—O most
powerful devotee; kalpate—is to be taken that way; na anyatha—not
for any other purpose; kvacit—at any time.

TRANSLATION

O my lord, O great devotee, persons like you move from one
place to another not for their own interests but for the sake of
poor-hearted grhasthas [householders]. Otherwise they have no
interest in going from one place to another.

PURPORT

As factually stated by Nanda Maharaja, Gargamuni, being a devotee,
had no needs. Similarly, when Krsna comes He has no needs, for He is
purna, Gtmdrdma. Nonetheless, He descends to this material world to
protect the devotees and vanquish miscreants (paritrandya sddhiinam
vindsdya ca duskrtam). This is the mission of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, and devotees also have the same mission. One who executes
