8 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 6, Ch. 14

purusarh tam aharn bhajami). Such persons are described as moghasal
baffled in their hopes. Whatever they desire for the future will be
baffled. Even if they apparently engage in devotional service, they are
described as moghasah because they ultimately desire to merge into the
Brahman effulgence.

Those who aspire to be elevated to the heavenly planets by devo-
tional service will also be frustrated, because this is not the result of de-
votional service. However, they are also given a chance to engage in
devotional service and be purified. As stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam
(1.2.17):

Smvatam sva-kathah krsnah
punya-sravana-kirtanah
hrdy antah-stho hy abhadrani

vidhunoti suhrt satam

“Sri Krsna, the Personality of Godhead, who is the Paramatma
[Supersoul] in everyone’s heart and the benefactor of the truthful devo-
tee, cleanses desire for material enjoyment from the heart of the devotee
who relishes His messages, which are in themselves virtuous when prop-
erly heard and chanted.”

Unless the dirt within the core of one’s heart is cleansed away, one
cannot become a pure devotee. Therefore the word sudurlabhah (“very
rarely found”) is used in this verse. Not only among hundreds and thou-
sands, but among millions of perfectly liberated souls, a pure devotee is
hardly ever found. Therefore the words kotisv api are used herein. Srila
Madhvacarya gives the following quotations from the Tantra Bhagavata:

nava-kotyas tu devandm
rsayah sapta-kotayah
narayanayanah sarve
ye kecit tat-pardyanah

“There are ninety million demigods and seventy million sages, who are
all called ndraéyandayana, devotees of Lord Narayana. Among them, only
a few are called narayana-pardyana.”
