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| Canto 9: Liberation | Chapter 4: Ambarīsha Mahārāja Offended by Durvāsā Muni |
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.4.66
SYNONYMS
mayi — unto Me; nirbaddha-hridayāh — firmly attached in the core of the heart; sādhavah — the pure devotees; sama-darśanāh — who are equal to everyone; vaśe — under control; kurvanti — they make; mām — unto Me; bhaktyā — by devotional service; sat-striyah — chaste women; sat-patim — unto the gentle husband; yathā — as.
TRANSLATION
As chaste women bring their gentle husbands under control by service, the pure devotees, who are equal to everyone and completely attached to Me in the core of the heart, bring Me under their full control.
PURPORT
In this verse, the word sama-darśanāh is significant. The pure devotee is actually equal toward everyone, as confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā (18.54): brahma-bhūtah prasannātmā na śocati na kāńkshati/ samah sarveshu bhūteshu. Universal brotherhood is possible when one is a pure devotee (panditāh sama-darśinah [Bg. 5.18]). 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 knowledge and is automatically liberated (brahma-bhūtah). He can therefore see everyone on the spiritual platform. He can comprehend the happiness and distress of all living entities. He understands that what is happiness 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 Prahlāda Mahārāja said:
śoce tato vimukha-cetasa indriyārtha-
māyā-sukhāya bharam udvahato vimūdhān
(Bhāg. 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 Krishna consciousness.
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