Text 45] The Renunciation of Kardama Muni 997

PURPORT

When one’s mind is in full Krsna consciousness and one fully engages in
rendering devotional service to the Lord, he becomes just like an ocean
unagitated by waves. This very example is also cited in Bhagavad-gita:
one should become like the ocean. The ocean is filled by many thousands
of rivers, and clouds evaporate millions of tons of its water, yet the ocean
is the same unagitated ocean. The laws of nature may work, but if one is
fixed in devotional service at the lotus feet of the Lord, he is not agitated
because he is introspective. He does not look outside to material nature,
but he looks into the spiritual nature of his existence; with a sober mind,
he simply engages in the service of the Lord. Thus he realizes his own self
without false identification with matter and without affection for
material possessions. Such a great devotee is never in trouble with others
because he sees everyone from the platform of spiritual understanding; he
sees himself and others in the right perspective.

TEXT 45

aaea anata aad seamen |
TO AMAIA SMTA THIATA: Vell

vasudeve bhagavati
sarva-jne pratyag-atmani
parena bhakti-bhavena
labdhatma mukta-bandhanah

vasudeve—to Vasudeva; bhagavati—the Personality of Godhead; sarva-
jiie—omniscient; pratyak-dtmani—the Supersoul within everyone; parena—
transcendental; bhakti-bhavena—by devotional service; labdha-atma—being
situated in himself; mukta-bandhanah—liberated from material bondage.

TRANSLATION

He thus became liberated from conditioned life and became self-situated
in transcendental devotional service to the Personality of Godhead,
Vasudeva, the omniscient Supersoul within everyone.

PURPORT

When one engages in the transcendental devotional service of the Lord
he becomes aware that his constitutional position, as an individual soul,
