134 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 3
enjoyment. In other words, the transcendentalists have no material desires
to be fulfilled, whereas the materialist has all types of desires to be fulfilled.
The Lord has proclaimed that the materialists, who desire material enjoy-
ment and thus seek the favor of different demigods, as above mentioned,
are not in control of their senses and so give themselves to nonsense. One
should therefore not desire any sort of material enjoyment, being sensible
enough to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The leaders of
nonsensical persons are still more nonsensical because they preach openly
and foolishly that one can worship any form of the demigods and get the
same result. This sort of preaching is not only against the teachings of
the Bhagavad-gitaé, or those of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, but it is also
foolish, just as it is foolish to claim that with the purchase of any travel
ticket one may reach the same destination. No one can reach Bombay
from Delhi by purchasing a ticket for Baroda. It is clearly defined herein
that persons impregnated with different desires have different modes of
worship, but one who has no desire for material enjoyment should wor-
ship the Supreme Lord Sri Krsna, the Personality of Godhead. And this
worshiping process is called devotional service. Pure devotional service
means service of the Lord without any tinge of material desires, including
desire for fruitive activity and empiric speculation. For fulfillment of
material desires one may worship the Supreme Lord, but the result of
such worship is different, as it will be explained in the next verse. Generally
the Lord does not fulfill anyone’s material desires for sense enjoyment,
but He awards such benediction to worshipers of the Lord, for they ulti-
mately come to the point of not desiring material enjoyment. The conclu-
sion is that one must minimize the desires for material enjoyment, and for
this one should worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is de-
scribed here as param, or beyond anything material. Sripada Sankaracarya
has also stated, ndrayanah paro’vyaktat: the Supreme Lord is beyond the
material encirclement.
TEXT 10
AR: ATTA TT ACTATA SzTCA: |
dan akeata aaa get RZ Zell
akamah sarva-kamo va
moksa-kama udara-dhih
tivrena bhakti-yogena
yajeta purusam param
