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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 9.5.27
sankirtayann anudhyayan
bhakto bhagavato bhavet
SYNONYMS
iti -- thus; etat -- this; punyam akhyanam -- most pious activity in history; ambarishasya -- of Maharaja Ambarisha; bhupate -- O King (Maharaja Parikshit); sankirtayan -- by chanting, repeating; anudhyayan -- or by meditating upon; bhaktah -- a devotee; bhagavatah -- of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; bhavet -- one can become.
TRANSLATION
Anyone who chants this narration or even thinks of this narration about the activities of Maharaja Ambarisha certainly becomes a pure devotee of the Lord.
PURPORT
Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura herein gives a very good example. When one is very eager for more and more money, he is not satisfied even when he is a millionaire or a multimillionaire, but wants to earn more and more money by any means. The same mentality is present in a devotee. The devotee is never satisfied, thinking, "This is the limit of my devotional service." The more he engages in the service of the Lord, the more service he wants to give. This is the position of a devotee. Maharaja Ambarisha, in his family life, was certainly a pure devotee, complete in every respect, because his mind and all his senses were engaged in devotional service (sa vai manah krishna-padaravindayor vacamsi vaikuntha-gunanuvarnane). Maharaja Ambarisha was self-satisfied because all of his senses were engaged in devotional service (sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam tat-paratvena nirmalam/ hrishikena hrishikesa-sevanam bhaktir ucyate [Cc. Madhya 19.170]). Nonetheless, although Maharaja Ambarisha had engaged all his senses in devotional service, he left his home and went to the forest to concentrate his mind fully at the lotus feet of Krishna, exactly as a mercantile man, even though complete in wealth, tries to earn more and more. This mentality of getting more and more engaged in devotional service puts one in the most exalted position. Whereas on the karma platform the mercantile man who wants more and more money becomes increasingly bound and entangled, the devotee becomes increasingly liberated.
Copyright (c) The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness