1054 Stimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 25
only prayer is that | may not forget Your service.” The devotee has that
much mental strength, and he prays to the Lord: ‘‘May I be born again
and again, but let me be born in the home of Your pure devotee so that |
may again get a chance to develop myself.”

A pure devotee is not anxious to elevate himself in his next birth. He
has already given up that sort of hope. In any life in which one is born, as
a householder, or even as an animal, he must have some children, some
resources or some possessions, but a devotee is not anxious to possess
anything. He is satisfied with whatever is obtainable by God’s grace. He is
not at all attached to improving his social status or improving the status of
education of his children. He is not neglectful—he is dutiful—but he does
not spend too much time on the upliftment of temporary household or
social life. He fully engages in the service of the Lord and for other affairs
he simply spares as much time as absolutely necessary (yathartham
upayuijatah). Such a pure devotee does not care for what is going to
happen in the next life or in this life; he does not care even for family,
children or society. He fully engages in the service of the Lord in Krsna
consciousness. It is stated in Bhagavad-gitd that without the knowledge of
the devotee, the Lord arranges for His devotee to be immediately
transferred to His transcendental abode just after leaving his body. After
quitting his body he does not go into the womb of another mother. The
ordinary common living entity, after death, is transferred to the womb of
another mother, according to his karma or activities, to take another type
of body. But as far as the devotee is concerned, he is at once transferred to
the spiritual world in the association of the Lord. That is the Lord’s
special mercy. How it is possible is explained in the following verses.
Because He is all-powerful, the Lord can do anything and everything. He
can excuse all sinful reactions. He can immediately transfer a person to
Vaikunthaloka. That is the inconceivable power of the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, who is favorably disposed to the pure devotees.

TEXT 41
AT ARTA | TATATE VAT |
grat: aaa wt att Frade wee
nanyatra mad bhagavatah
pradhana-purusesvarat
atmanah sarva-bhiitanam
bhayam tivrarh nivartate
