Text 13] Pure Devotional Service: The Change in Heart 141

kaivalya-pantha, or the only means of attainment of Godhead. This kaivalya-
pantha begins from sravana, or hearing those topics that relate to the
Personality of Godhead, and the natural consequence of hearing such
hari-katha is attainment of transcendental knowledge, which causes a
detachment from all mundane topics, for which a devotee has no taste at
all. For a devotee, all mundane activities, social and political, become un-
attractive, and in the mature state such a devotce becomes disinterested
even in his own body, and what to speak of bodily relatives. In such a
state of affairs one is not agitated by the waves of the material modes.
There are different modes of material nature, and all mundane functions
in which a common man is very much interested or takes part become
unattractive for the devotee. This state of affairs is described herein as
pratinivrtta-gunormi, and it is possible by atma-prasdda, or complete self-
satisfaction without any material connection. The first-class devotee of the
Lord attains this stage by devotional service, but despite his loftiness, still,
for the matter of the Lord’s satisfaction, he may play the voluntary part of
a preacher of the Lord’s glory and dovetail all into devotional service, even
mundane interest, just to give a chance to the neophytes to transform
mundane interest into transcendental bliss. Srila Ripa Gosvami has de-
scribed this action of a pure devotee as “nirbandhah krsna-sambandhe
yuk tam vairagyam ucyate.” Even mundane activities dovetailed with service
of the Lord are also calculated to be transcendental or approved kaivalya
affairs.

TEXT 13

aitan sata
canard Us1 fara aay: |
fenraereary qa aarahaalt Bie 3H

Saunaka uvaca
ity abhivyahrtam raja
nigsamya bharatarsabhah
kim anyat prstavan bhityo
vaiydsakim rsim kavim

iti—thus; abhivyahrtam—all that was spoken; raja—the king; nigsamya—
by hearing; bharata-rsabhah—Maharaja Pariksit; kim—what; anyat—more;
