cira-kÄla nÄhi kari prema-bhakti dÄna
bhakti vinÄ jagatera nÄhi avasthÄna
cira-kÄla - for a long time; nÄhi kari - I have not done; prema-bhakti - loving devotional service; dÄna - giving; bhakti - devotional service; vinÄ - without; jagatera - of the universe; nÄhi - not; avasthÄna - existence.
“For a long time I have not bestowed unalloyed loving service to Me upon the inhabitants of the world. Without such loving attachment, the existence of the material world is useless.
The Lord seldom awards pure transcendental love, but without such pure love of God, freed from fruitive activities and empiric speculation, one cannot attain perfection in life.
