22 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 6, Ch. 1

TEXT 15

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kecit kevalaya bhaktya
vdsudeva-parayanah

agham dhunvanti kartsnyena
niharam wa bhaskarah

kecit—some people; kevalaya bhaktya —by executing unalloyed devo-
tional service; vdsudeva—to Lord Krsna, the all-pervading Supreme
Personality of Godhead; paréyanadh—completely attached (only to such
service, without dependence on austerity, penance, cultivation of knowl-
edge or pious activities); agham—all kinds of sinful reactions; dhun-
vanti—destroy; kdrtsnyena—completely (with no possibility that sinful
desires will revive); niharam—fog; iva—like; bhaskarah—the sun.

TRANSLATION

Only a rare person who has adopted complete, unalloyed devo-
tional service to Krsna can uproot the weeds of sinful actions with
no possibility that they will revive. He can do this simply by dis-
charging devotional service, just as the sun can immediately
dissipate fog by its rays.

PURPORT

In the previous verse Sukadeva Gosvami gave the example that the
dried leaves of creepers beneath a bamboo tree may be completely burnt
to ashes by a fire, although the creepers may sprout again because the
root is still in the ground. Similarly, because the root of sinful desire is
not destroyed in the heart of a person who is cultivating knowledge but
who has no taste for devotional service, there is a possibility that his sin-
ful desires will reappear. As stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.14.4):

Sreyah-srtirn bhaktim udasya te vibho
klisyanti ye kevala-bodha-labdhaye
