Text 57] Talks Between Narada and King Pracinabarhi 1441
TEXT 57
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aaaisa & 4 fy afsqecact Aery |
arash f gater at afaaTa: Ill
samsayo tra tu me vipra
safichinnas tat-krto mahan
rsayo “pi hi muhyanti
yatra nendriya-urttayah

sanisayuh— doubt; atra—here; tu—but; me—my; vipra—O brahmana;
safichinnah—cleared; tat-krtah—done by that; mahan—very great; rsayah—
the great sages; api— even; hi—certainly ; muh yanti—are bewildered; yatra—
where; na—not; indriya—of the senses; urttayah—activities.

TRANSLATION

My dear brahmana, there are contradictions between your instructions
and those of my spiritual teachers who engaged me in fruitive activities. I
now can understand the distinction between devotional service, knowledge
and renunciation. I had some doubts about them, but you have now very
kindly dissipated all these doubts. I can now understand how even the
great sages are bewildered by the real purpose of life. Of course, there is
no question of sense gratification.

PURPORT

King Barhisman was engaged in different types of sacrifice for elevation
to the heavenly planets. People generally are attracted by these activities,
and very rarely is a person attracted to devotional service, as Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu confirms. Unless one is very very fortunate, he does not take
to devotional service. Even the so-called learned Vedic scholars are be-
wildered by devotional service. They are generally attracted to the rituals
for sense gratification. In devotional service there is no sense gratification
but only transcendental loving service to the Lord. Consequently the so-
called priests engaged in sense gratification do not very much like devotion-
al service. The brahmanas, the priests, have been against this Krsna con-
sciousness movement since it began with Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. When
Caitanya Mahaprabhu started this movement, the priestly class lodged
complaints to the Kazi, the magistrate of the Mohammedan government.
Caitanya Mahaprabhu had to lead a civil disobedience movement against
