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LIKE
FIRE IN GUNPOWDER
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"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. "
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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 Pandavas tolerate His separation,
for they had been intimately associated with His person, seeing Him
face to face, touching Him, conversing with Him, and sleeping, sitting
and dining with Him?
PURPORT
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 perpetually forces him to
do so without being satisfied. There is no end to such sense
gratificatory business, and the conditioned soul becomes entangled in
such servitude without hope of release. The release is only effected
by association with 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. Material society, friendship and love are all
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 Pandavas, who were constant companions
of the Lord. They could not even think of separation from Sri Krsna,
since 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.
[S.B. 1.10.11-12]
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