Text 65] Talks Between Narada and King Pracinabarhi 1453

of his downfall. As long as he is within this material atmosphere, he has a
subtle vehicle in the form of the mind, which is the stockpile of all kinds
of material desires. Such desires become manifest in different bodily forms.
Srila Narada Muni requests the King to accept this fact from him because
he is an authority. The conclusion is that the mind is the storehouse of our
past desires, and we have this present body due to our past desires. Simi-
larly, whatever we desire in this present body will be expressed in a future
body. Thus the mind is the source of different kinds of bodies.

If the mind is purified by Krsna consciousness, one will naturally in the
future get a body that is spiritual and full of Krsna consciousness. Such a
body is our original form, as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu confirms: jivera
‘svariipa’ haya——krsnera ‘nitya-dasa’. ‘Every living entity is constitu-
tionally an eternal servant of Krsna.” If a person is engaged in the devo-
tional service of the Lord, he is to be considered a liberated soul even in
this life. This is confirmed by Srila Ripa Gosvami:

ihd yasya harer dasye
karmand manasé gira

nikhilasv apy avasthasu
jivan-muktah sa ucyate

“One who engages in the transcendental service of the Lord in body, mind,
and word is to be considered liberated in all conditions of material
existence.’ (Bh.r.s. 1.2.187) The Krsna consciousness movement is based
on this principle. We must teach people to absorb themselves always in
the service of the Lord because that position is their natural position. One
who is always serving the Lord is to be considered already liberated. This
is also confirmed in Bhagavad-gita:

mam ca yo ’vyabhicarena
bhakti-yogena sevate

sa gundn samatityaitan
brahma-bhiiyaya kalpate

“One who engages in full devotional service, who does not fall down in any
circumstance, at once transcends the modes of material nature and thus
comes to the level of Brahman.” (Bg. 14.26)

The devotee is therefore above the three modes of material nature and
is even transcendental to the brdhmana platform. A brahmana may be
infected by the two baser modes—namely rajo-guna and tamo-guna. A pure
