Text 23] The Behavior of a Perfect Person 105
cause of your being a pure devotee. He always drives away all the
darkness of ignorance, as the sun drives away the darkness of the
universe.
PURPORT

The words bhaktyda kevalaya indicate that simply by executing devo-
tional service one can become full of all knowledge. Krsna is the master
of all knowledge (aisvaryasya samagrasya viryasya yasasah Sriyah).
The Lord is situated in everyone’s heart (i§varah sarva-bhiitanarn hrd-
dese ’rjuna tisthati), and when the Lord is pleased with a devotee, the
Lord instructs him. Only to the devotees, however, does the Lord give in-
structions by which to advance further and further in devotional service.
To others, the nondevotees, the Lord gives instructions according to the
manner of their surrender. The pure devotee is described by the words
bhaktya kevalayd. Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura explains that
bhaktyad kevalaya means jndna-karmddy-amisrayd, “unmixed with
fruitive activities or speculative knowledge.” Simply surrendering at the
lotus feet is the cause of all a devotee’s enlightenment and awareness.

TEXT 23
Tat aae Ta TAT |
arate fe HATA: BRAESN  1123H1
tathdpi briimahe prasnams
tava rdjan yathd-srutam
sambhasaniyo hi bhavan
atmanah suddhim icchata

tathapi—still; briimahe—lI shall answer; prasndn—all the questions;
tava—your; rajan—O King; yathd-srutam—as I have learned by hear-
ing from the authorities; sambhdsaniyah—fit for being addressed; hi—
indeed; bhavan—you; adtmanah—of the self; suddhim—purification;
icchata—by one who desires.

TRANSLATION

My dear King, although you know everything, you have posed

some questions, which I shall try to answer according to what I
