Text 67] Ambarisa Maharaja Offended by Durvasé Muni 141

PURPORT

In this verse, the word sama-darsandah is significant. The pure devotee
is actually equal toward everyone, as confirmed in Bhagavad-gita
(18.54): brahma-bhiitah prasannatma na Socati na kanksati/ samah
sarvesu bhiitesu. Universal brotherhood is possible when one is a pure
devotee (panditah sama-darsinah). A pure devotee is actually learned
because he knows his constitutional position, he knows the position of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, and he knows the relationship between
the living entity and the Supreme Lord. Thus he has full spiritual knowl-
edge and is automatically liberated (brahma-bhitah). He can therefore
see everyone on the spiritual platform. He can comprehend the happi-
ness and distress of all living entities. He understands that what is happi-
ness to him is also happiness to others and that what is distress to him is

distressing for others. Therefore he is sympathetic to everyone. As
Prahlada Maharaja said:

Soce tato vinukha-cetasa indriyartha-
mayd-sukhaya bharam udvahato vimiidhan
(Bhag. 7.9.43)

People suffer from material distress because they are not attached to the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. A pure devotee’s chief concern,
therefore, is to raise the ignorant mass of people to the sense of Krsna
consciousness.

TEXT 67

RAT Adtt 3 aera
aeafa Ran Tt: EASHITMAAGTT 1G

mat-sevaya pratitam te
sdlokyddi-catustayam

necchanti sevaya pirnah
kuto ’nyat kala-viplutam

mat-sevaydé—by being engaged fully in My transcendental loving ser-
vice; pratitam—automatically achieved; te—such pure devotees are
fully satisfied; sdlokya-ddi-catustayam—the four different types of
