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hundreds and thousands of goddesses of fortune, but the Supreme Lord
does not require service from any of them because if He so desires He can
produce millions of goddesses of fortune through His spiritual energy, the
pleasure potency. This very Personality of Godhead, out of His causeless
mercy, becomes dependent on the devotees. How fortunate, then, is a devo-
tee who is thus favored by the Personality of Godhead. What ungrateful
devotee will not worship the Lord and enter into His devotional service?
Actually a devotee cannot forget his obligation to the Supreme Personality
of Godhead even for a single moment. Srila Vigvanatha Cakravarti Thakura
says that both the Supreme Lord and His devotee are rasa-jria, full of tran-
scendental humor. The mutual attachment between the Supreme Lord and
His devotee is never to be considered material. It always exists as a tran-
scendental fact. There are eight types of transcendental ecstasy (known as
bhava, anubhdva, sthayibhdva and so on), and these are discussed in The
Nectar of Devotion. Those who are unaware of the position of the living
entity and the Supreme Person, Krsna, think that the mutual attachment
between the Lord and His devotees is a creation of the material energy.
Factually such attachment is natural both for the Supreme Lord and for
the devotee, and it cannot be accepted as material.
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gfe HAAR UAT ATTRA: |
TATA ATR TA ATTEN AEA: RA
maitreya uvdca
iti pracetaso rdjann
anyas ca bhagavat-kathah
Sravayitvd brahma-lokam
yayau svayambhuvo munih

maitreyah uvdca—Maitreya said; iti—thus; pracetasah—the Pracetas;
rajan—O King; anyah—others; ca—also; bhagavat-kathah—topics about the
relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead; srdvayitva—after
instructing; brahma-lokam—to Brahmaloka; yayau—went back; sv@yam-
bhuvah—the son of Lord Brahma; munih—the great sage.
