SB 1.10.11-12

TEXTS 11-12

TEXT

सत्सङ्गान्मुक्तदुःसङ्गो हातुं नोत्सहते बुधः ।
कीर्त्यमानं यशो यस्य सकृदाकर्ण्य रोचनम् ।
तस्मिन्न्यस्तधियः पार्थाः सहेरन्विरहं कथम् ।
दर्शनस्पर्शसंलाप शयनासनभोजनैः ॥ १२ ॥

satsahgan mukta-duḥsahgo

hatum notsahate budhaḥ

kirtyamanam yaso yasya

sakrd akarnya rocanam

tasmin nyasta-dhiyaḥ parthaḥ

saheran viraham katham

darsana-sparsa-samlapa-

sayanasana-bhojanaiḥ

satsahgat-by association of pure devotees; mukta-duḥsahgaḥ-freed from bad materialistic association; hatum-to give up; na utsahate-never attempts; budhaḥ-one who has understood the Lord; kirtyamanam-glorifying; yasaḥ-fame; yasya-whose; sakrt-once only; akarnya-hearing only; rocanam-pleasing; tasmin-unto Him; nyasta-dhiyaḥ-one who has given up his mind unto Him; parthaḥ-the sons of Prtha; saheran-can tolerate; viraham-separation; katham-how; darsana-seeing eye to eye; sparsa-touching; samlapa-conversing; sayana-sleeping; asana-sitting; bhojanaiḥ-dining together.

TRANSLATION

The intelligent, who have understood the Supreme Lord in association with pure devotees and have become freed from bad materialistic association, can never avoid hearing the glories of the Lord, even though they have heard them only once. How, then, could the Panḍavas tolerate His separation, for they had been intimately associated with His person, seeing Him eye to eye, touching Him, conversing with Him, and sleeping, sitting and dining with Him?

The living being's constitutional position is one of serving a superior. He is obliged to serve by force the dictates of illusory material energy in different phases of sense gratification. And in serving the senses he is never tired. Even though he may be tired, the illusory energy forces him to do so without being satisfied perpetually. There is no end of such sense gratificatory business, and the conditioned soul becomes entangled in such servitude without any hope of release. The release is only effected by association of pure devotees. By such association one is gradually promoted to his transcendental consciousness. Thus he can know that his eternal position is to render service unto the Lord and not to the perverted senses in the capacity of lust, anger, desire to lord it over, etc. The material society, friendship and love all are different phases of lust. Home, country, family, society, wealth and all sorts of corollaries are all causes of bondage in the material world where the threefold miseries of life are concomitant factors. By associating with pure devotees and by hearing them submissively, attachment for material enjoyment becomes slackened, and attraction for hearing about the transcendental activities of the Lord becomes prominent. Once they are, they will go on progressively without stoppage, like fire in gunpowder. It is said that Hari, the Personality of Godhead, is so transcendentally attractive that even those who are self-satisfied by self-realization and are factually liberated from all material bondage also become devotees of the Lord. Under the circumstances it is easily understood what must have been the position of the Panḍavas, who were constant companions of the Lord. They could not even think of separation from Sri Krsna because the attraction was more intense for them because of continuous personal contact. His remembrance by His form, quality, name, fame, pastimes, etc., is also attractive for the pure devotee, so much so that he forgets all forms, quality, name, fame and activities of the mundane world, and due to his mature association with pure devotees he is not out of contact with the Lord for a moment.

[Madhya 24.98]

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