Text 20] Narada and Angira Instruct King Citraketu 69

times addressed as mahd-paurusika. A devotee should always aspire to
engage in the service of advanced devotees. As Srila Narottama dasa
Thakura has sung:

tdndera carana sevi bhakta-sane vasa
Janame janame haya, ei abhildsa

A devotee should always aspire to live in the association of advanced
devotees and engage in the service of the Lord through the paramparé
system. One should serve the mission of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
through the instructions of the great Gosvamis of Vrndavana. This is
called tdridera carana sevi. While serving the lotus feet of the Gosvamis,
one should live in the association of devotees (bhakta-sane vasa). This is
the business of a devotee. A devotee should not aspire for material profit
or lament for material loss. When Angira Rsi and Narada saw that
Maharaja Citraketu, an advanced devotee, had fallen in the darkness of
ignorance and was lamenting for the material body of his son, by their
causeless mercy they came to advise him so that he could be saved from
this ignorance.

Another significant word is brahmanya. The Supreme Personality of
Godhead is sometimes addressed by the prayer namo brahmanya-
devaya, which offers obeisances unto the Lord because He is served by
the devotees. Therefore this verse states, brahmanyo bhagavad-bhakto
na@vasaditum arhasi. This is the symptom of an advanced devotee.
Brahma-bhiitah prasannatma. For a devotee—an advanced, self-
realized soul—there is no cause for material jubilation or lamentation.
He is always transcendental to conditional life.

TEXT 20
waa wt Me cat gears: |
arearentaaa F gaaT eqITA Roll

tadaiva te param jnanam
dadaémi grham dgatah

Jnatvanyabhinivesam te
putram eva dadamy aham
