Text 38] Dhruva Maharaja Goes Back to Godhead 531

Similarly , yogis are also restless to get mystic power. But a devotee is peace-
ful because he is fully surrendered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead
and thinks of himself as completely helpless; just as a child feels com-
plete peace in depending on the parent, so a devotee is completely peace-
ful, for he depends on the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

A devotee is equipoised. He sees everyone on the same transcendental
platform. A devotee knows that although a conditioned soul has a particu-
lar type of body according to his past fruitive activities, factually everyone
is part of the Supreme Lord. A devotee sees all living entities with spiritual
vision and does not discriminate on the platform of the bodily concept of
life. Such qualities develop only in the association of devotees. Without the
association of devotees, one cannot advance in Krsna consciousness. There-
fore, we have established the International Society for Krishna Con-
sciousness. Factually, whoever lives in this society automatically develops
Krsna consciousness. Devotees are dear to the Supreme Personality of God-
head, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead is only dear to devotees.
On this platform only can one make progress in Krsna consciousness. Per-
sons in Krsna consciousness, or devotees of the Lord, can please everyone,
as is evident in the Krsna consciousness movement. We invite everyone,
without discrimination; we request everyone to sit down and chant the
Hare Krsna mantra and take as much prasdda as we can supply—and thus
everyone is pleased with us. This is the qualification. Sarva-bhutanu-
rajijanah. As for purification, no one can be more pure than devotees. Any-
one who once utters the name of Visnu immediately becomes purified, in-
side and outside (yah smaret pundarikaksam). Since a devotee constantly
chants the Hare Krsna mantra, no contamination of the material world can
touch him. He is, therefore, actually purified. Muci haya suci haya yadi
krsna bhaje. It is said that even a cobbler or person born in the family of a
cobbler can be elevated to the position of a brahmana (Suci) if he takes to
Krsna consciousness. Any person who is purely Krsna conscious and who
engages in chanting the Hare Krsna mantra is the purest in the whole
universe.

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ity uttanapadah putro
dhruvah krsna-parayanah

abhiit trayanam lokanam
cida-manir ivamalah
