246 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 9, Ch. 24

TEXT 62

afar aeRO aaRthlat THA
AAAS TIA ee

yasmin sat-karna-piyuse
yasas-tirtha-vare sakrt

Srotrafijalir upasprsya
dhunute karma-vasandm

yasmin—in the history of the transcendental activities of Krsna upon
the surface of the earth; sat-karna-piyuse—who pleases the demands of
the transcendental, purified ears; yasah-tirtha-vare —keeping oneself in
the best of holy places by hearing the transcendental activities of the
Lord; sakrt—once only, immediately; Srotra-afijalih—in the form of
hearing the transcendental message; upasprsya—touching (exactly like
the water of the Ganges); dhunute—destroys; karma-vasanadm—the
strong desire for fruitive activities.

TRANSLATION

Simply by receiving the glories of the Lord through purified
transcendental ears, the devotees of the Lord are immediately
freed from strong material desires and engagement in fruitive
activities,

PURPORT

When the devotees aurally receive the activities of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead as enacted in Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-
Bhagavatam, they immediately achieve a transcendental vision in which
they are no longer interested in materialistic activities. Thus they achieve
freedom from the material world. For sense gratification practically
everyone is engaged in materialistic activities, which prolong the process
of janma-mrtyu-jard-vyddhi—birth, death, old age and disease—but the
devotee, simply by hearing the message of Bhagavad-gitd and further
relishing the narrations of Srimad- -Bhagavatam, becomes so pure that he
no longer takes interest in materialistic activities. At the moment, devo-
tees in the Western countries are being attracted by Krsna consciousness
