208 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 6, Ch. 11

the Supreme Personality of Godhead; yah—which; durlabhah—very
difficult to obtain; akivicana-gocarah—within the reach of the unalloyed
devotees; anyaih—by others, who aspire for material happiness.

TRANSLATION
Our Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, forbids His

devotees to endeavor uselessly for religion, economic development
and sense gratification. O Indra, one can thus infer how kind the
Lord is. Such mercy is obtainable only by unalloyed devotees, not
by persons who aspire for material gains.

PURPORT

There are four objectives in human life—namely, religiosity
(dharma), economic development (artha), sense gratification (kama),
and liberation (moksa) from the bondage of material existence. People
generally aspire for religiosity, economic development and sense gra-
tification, but a devotee has no other desire than to serve the Supreme
Personality of Godhead both in this life and in the next. The special
mercy for the unalloyed devotee is that the Lord saves him from hard
labor to achieve the results of religion, economic development and sense
gratification. Of course, if one wants such benefits, the Lord certainly
awards them. Indra, for example, although a devotee, was not much in-
terested in release from material bondage; instead, he desired sense gra-
tification and a high standard of material happiness in the heavenly
planets. Vrtrasura, however, being an unalloyed devotee, aspired only to
serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore the Lord arranged
for him to go back to Godhead after his bodily bondage was destroyed by
Indra. Vrtrasura requested Indra to release his thunderbolt against him
as soon as possible so that both he and Indra would benefit according to
their proportionate advancement in devotional service.

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