Text 37] The Lord in the Heart 125

pibanti ye bhagavata adtmanah satam
kathamrtam sravana-putesu sambhrtam
punanti te visaya-vidiisitasayam
vrajanti tac-carana-saroruhantikam

pibanti—who drink; ye—those; bhagavatah—of the Personality of God-
head; dtmanah—of the most dear; satam—of devotees; katha-amrtam—the
nectar of the messages; sravana-putesu—within the earholes; sambhrtam—
fully filled; punanti—purify; te—their; visaya— material enjoyment; vidusi-
tasayam—polluted aim of life; vrajanti—do go back; tat—the Lord’s; carana
—feet; saroruha-antikam—near the lotus.

TRANSLATION

Those who drink through aural reception, fully filled with the nectarean
message of Lord Krsna, the beloved of the devotees, purify the polluted
aim of life known as material enjoyment and thus go back to Godhead, to
the lotus feet of Him [the Personality of Godhead }.

PURPORT

The sufferings of human society are due to a polluted aim of life, namely
lording it over the material resources. The more the human society is
engaged in the exploitation of undeveloped material resources for sense
gratification, the more it will be entrapped by the illusory material energy
of the Lord, and thus the distress of the world will be intensified instead
of diminished. The human necessities of life are fully supplied by the Lord
in the shape of foodgrains, milk, fruit, wood, stone, sugar, silk, jewels,
cotton, salt, water, vegetables, etc., in sufficient quantity to feed the
human race of the world as well as those on each and every planet within
the universe. The supply source is complete, and only a little energy by the
human being is required to get them into the proper channel. There is no
need of machines and tools or huge steel plants for artificially creating
comforts of life. Life is never made comfortable by creating artificial needs,
but by plain living and high thinking. The highest perfectional thinking for
human society is suggested here by Sukadeva Gosvami, namely, hearing
sufficiently Srimad-Bhdgavatam. For men in this age of Kali, when they
have lost the perfect vision of life, this Srimad-Bhdgavatam is the torch-
