तपन्ति विविधास्तापा नैतान्मद्गतचेतसः ॥२३॥
mad-ÄÅ›rayÄḥ kathÄ mṛṣá¹Äḥ
śṛṇvanti kathayanti ca
tapanti vividhÄs tÄpÄ
naitÄn mad-gata-cetasaḥ
1 times this text was mentioned in purports to other texts: LSB(1)
mat-ÄÅ›rayÄḥ - about Me; kathÄḥ - stories; mṛṣá¹Äḥ - delightful; śṛṇvanti - they hear; kathayanti - they chant; ca - and; tapanti - inflict suffering; vividhÄḥ - various; tÄpÄḥ - the material miseries; na - do not; etÄn - unto them; mat-gata - fixed on Me; cetasaḥ - their thoughts.
Engaged constantly in chanting and hearing about Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the sÄdhus do not suffer from material miseries because they are always filled with thoughts of My pastimes and activities.
There are multifarious miseries in material existence — those pertaining to the body and the mind, those imposed by other living entities and those imposed by natural disturbances. But a sÄdhu is not disturbed by such miserable conditions because his mind is always filled with Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and thus he does not like to talk about anything but the activities of the Lord. MahÄrÄja AmbarÄ«á¹£a did not speak of anything but the pastimes of the Lord. VacÄá¹si vaikuṇá¹ha-guṇÄnuvarṇane (BhÄg. 9.4.18). He engaged his words only in glorification of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. SÄdhus are always interested in hearing about the activities of the Lord or His devotees. Since they are filled with Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they are forgetful of the material miseries. Ordinary conditioned souls, being forgetful of the activities of the Lord, are always full of anxieties and material tribulations. On the other hand, since the devotees always engage in the topics of the Lord, they are forgetful of the miseries of material existence.
