126 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 4

wishers. By some fortunate accident, Maitreya reached the place where
Lord Sri Krgna was resting. To meet the Lord is not an ordinary incident.
Maitreya was a great sage and a learned scholar-philosopher but not a pure
devotee of the Lord, and therefore his meeting with the Lord at that time
may have been due to ajiiata-sukrti, or some unknown devotional service.
Pure devotees always engage in pure devotional activities, and therefore
their meeting with the Lord is natural. But when those who are not up to
that standard meet the Lord, it is due to the unforeseen fortune of
accidental devotional service.

TEXT 10
TREAT TOA

APTA AAT TeAa-
aa | eaTAAEqaTa 112 ol

tasyanuraktasya muner mukundah
pramoda-bhavanata-kandharasya

asrnvato mam anuraga-hasa-
samiksaya visramayann uvaca

tasya—his (Maitreya’s); anuraktasya—although attached; muneh—of the
sage; mukundah—the Lord who awards salvation; pramoda-bhadva—in a
pleasing attitude; dnata—lowered; kandharasya— of the shoulder; agrnvatah—
while thus hearing; m@m—unto me; anuraga-hadsa—with kind smiling;
samiksaya—particularly seeing me; visramayan—allowing me complete
rest; uwvdca—said.

TRANSLATION

Maitreya Muni was greatly attached to Him [the Lord], and he was
listening in a pleasing attitude, with his shoulder lowered. With a smile
and a particular glance upon me, having allowed me to rest, the Lord spoke
as follows:

PURPORT

Although both Uddhava and Maitreya were great souls, the Lord’s
attention was more on Uddhava because he was a spotlessly pure devotee.
A jitana-bhakta, or one whose devotion is mixed with the monistic view-
point, is not a pure devotee. Although Maitreya was a devotee, his devotion
