प्रार्थ्यां श्रियं सुरवरैः सदयावलोकाम् ।
नैच्छन्नृपस्तदुचितं महतां मधुद्विट
सेवानुरक्तमनसामभवोऽपि फल्गुः ॥४४॥
yo dustyajÄn ká¹£iti-suta-svajanÄrtha-dÄrÄn
prÄrthyÄá¹ Å›riyaá¹ sura-varaiḥ sadayÄvalokÄm
naicchan ná¹›pas tad-ucitaá¹ mahatÄá¹ madhudviá¹-
sevÄnurakta-manasÄm abhavo 'pi phalguḥ
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yaḥ - who; dustyajÄn - very difficult to give up; ká¹£iti - the earth; suta - children; sva-jana-artha-dÄrÄn - relatives, riches and a beautiful wife; prÄrthyÄm - desirable; Å›riyam - the goddess of fortune; sura-varaiḥ - by the best of the demigods; sa-daya-avalokÄm - whose merciful glance; na - not; aicchat - desired; ná¹›paḥ - the King; tat-ucitam - this is quite befitting him; mahatÄm - of great personalities (mahÄtmÄs); madhu-dviá¹ - of Lord Kṛṣṇa, who killed the demon Madhu; sevÄ-anurakta - attracted by the loving service; manasÄm - of those whose minds; abhavaḥ api - even the position of liberation; phalguḥ - insignificant.
Åšukadeva GosvÄmÄ« continued: My dear King, the activities of Bharata MahÄrÄja are wonderful. He gave up everything difficult for others to give up. He gave up his kingdom, his wife and his family. His opulence was so great that even the demigods envied it, yet he gave it up. It was quite befitting a great personality like him to be a great devotee. He could renounce everything because he was so attracted to the beauty, opulence, reputation, knowledge, strength and renunciation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is so attractive that one can give up all desirable things for His sake. Indeed, even liberation is considered insignificant for those whose minds are attracted to the loving service of the Lord.
This verse confirms Kṛṣṇa’s all-attractiveness. MahÄrÄja Bharata was so attracted to Kṛṣṇa that he gave up all his material possessions. Generally materialistic people are attracted by such possessions.
ato gá¹›ha-ká¹£etra-sutÄpta-vittair
janasya moho ’yam ahaṠmameti
(BhÄg. 5.5.8)
“One becomes attracted to his body, home, property, children, relatives and wealth. In this way one increases life’s illusions and thinks in terms of ‘I and mine.’†The attraction for material things is certainly due to illusion. There is no value in attraction to material things, for the conditioned soul is diverted by them. One’s life is successful if he is absorbed in the attraction of Kṛṣṇa’s strength, beauty and pastimes as described in the Tenth Canto of ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam. The MÄyÄvÄdÄ«s are attracted to merging into the existence of the Lord, but Kṛṣṇa is more attractive than the desire to merge. The word abhavaḥ means “not to take birth again in this material world.†A devotee doesn’t care whether he is going to be reborn or not. He is simply satisfied with the Lord’s service in any condition. That is real mukti.
Ä«hÄ yasya harer dÄsye
karmaá¹‡Ä manasÄ girÄ
nikhilÄsv apy avasthÄsu
jīvan-muktaḥ sa ucyate
“One who acts to serve Kṛṣṇa with his body, mind, intelligence and words is a liberated person, even within this material world.†(Bhakti-rasÄmá¹›ta-sindhu 1.2.187) A person who always desires to serve Kṛṣṇa is interested in ways to convince people that there is a Supreme Personality of Godhead and that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is Kṛṣṇa. That is his ambition. It doesn’t matter whether he is in heaven or in hell. This is called uttamaÅ›loka-lÄlasa.
