Text 10] Prahlada, the Best Among Exalted Devotees 293

vimuficati yada kaman
manavo manasi sthitan

tarhy eva pundarikaksa
bhagavattvaya kalpate

vimuficati—gives up; yadd—whenever; kaman—all material desires;
manavah—human society; manasi—within the mind; sthitan—situ-
ated; tarhi—at that time only; eva—indeed; pundarika-aksa—O lotus-
eyed Lord; bhagavattvaya—to be equally as opulent as the Lord;
kalpate—becomes eligible.

TRANSLATION

O my Lord, when a human being is able to give up all the ma-
terial desires in his mind, he becomes eligible to possess wealth
and opulence like Yours.

PURPORT

Atheistic men sometimes criticize a devotee by saying, “If you do not
want to take any benediction from the Lord and if the servant of the Lord
is as opulent as the Lord Himself, why do you ask for the benediction of
being engaged as the Lord’s servant?” Sridhara Svami comments,
bhagavattvaya bhagavat-samadn aisvaryaya. Bhagavattva, becoming
as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, does not mean becoming
one with Him or equal to Him, although in the spiritual world the ser-
vant is equally as opulent as the master. The servant of the Lord is
engaged in the service of the Lord as a servant, friend, father, mother or
conjugal lover, all of whom are equally as opulent as the Lord. This is
acintya-bhedabheda-tattva. The master and servant are different yet
equal in opulence. This is the meaning of simultaneous difference from
the Supreme Lord and oneness with Him.

TEXT 10
So AM ATTA TA FONT Aare |
Rasgaeery AA TEMA Zo

om namo bhagavate tubhyarn
purusdya mahatmane
