अ स्माभिपृच्छेऽद्य पतिं प्रजानां
त्वयावतीर्णर्ण उताप्तकामः ।
परिव्रजत्पदवीमास्थितोऽहं
चरिष्ये त्वां हृदि युञ्जन्विशोकः ॥३४॥

Ä smÄbhipá¹›cche 'dya patiá¹ prajÄnÄá¹
tvayÄvatÄ«rṇarṇa utÄpta-kÄmaḥ
parivrajat-padavÄ«m Ästhito 'haá¹
cariá¹£ye tvÄá¹ há¹›di yuñjan viÅ›okaḥ

 Ä sma abhipá¹›cche - I am inquiring; adya - now; patim - the Lord; prajÄnÄm - of all created beings; tvayÄ - by You; avatÄ«rṇa-ṛṇaḥ - free from debts; uta - and; Äpta - fulfilled; kÄmaḥ - desires; parivrajat - of an itinerant mendicant; padavÄ«m - the path; Ästhitaḥ - accepting; aham - I; cariá¹£ye - I shall wander; tvÄm - You; há¹›di - in my heart; yuñjan - keeping; viÅ›okaḥ - free from lamentation.


Text

Today I have something to ask from You, who are the Lord of all living entities. Since I have now been liberated by You from my debts to my father, and since all my desires are fulfilled, I wish to accept the order of an itinerant mendicant. Renouncing this family life, I wish to wander about, free from lamentation, thinking always of You in my heart.

Purport

Actually, sannyÄsa, or renunciation of material household life, necessitates complete absorption in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and immersion in the self. One does not take sannyÄsa, freedom from family responsibility in the renounced order of life, to make another family or to create an embarrassing transcendental fraud in the name of sannyÄsa. The sannyÄsī’s business is not to become proprietor of so many things and amass money from the innocent public. A sannyÄsÄ« is proud that he is always thinking of Kṛṣṇa within himself. Of course, there are two kinds of devotees of the Lord. One is called goṣṭhyÄnandÄ«, which means those who are preachers and have many followers for preaching the glories of the Lord and who live among those many, many followers just to organize missionary activities. Other devotees are ÄtmÄnandÄ«, or self-satisfied, and do not take the risk of preaching work. They therefore remain alone with God. In this classification was Kardama Muni. He wanted to be free from all anxieties and remain alone within his heart with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. ParivrÄja means “an itinerant mendicant.†A mendicant sannyÄsÄ« should not live anywhere for more than three days. He must be always moving because his duty is to move from door to door and enlighten people about Kṛṣṇa consciousness.