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TEXT 55 sri-bhagavan uvaca
SYNONYMS  sri-bhagavan
uvaca--the Supreme Personality of Godhead said;
prajahati--gives
up; yada--when; kaman--desires for sense gratification; sarvan--of
all varieties; partha--O son of Prtha; manah-gatan--of mental
concoction; atmani--in the pure state of the soul; eva--certainly;
atmana--by the purified mind; tustah--satisfied; sthita-prajnah--transcendentally
situated; tada--at that time; ucyate--is said.
TRANSLATION The Blessed
Lord said: O Partha, when a man gives up all varieties of sense desire
which arise from mental concoction, and when his mind finds satisfaction
in the self alone, then he is said to be in pure transcendental consciousness.
PURPORT The Bhagavatam
affirms that any person who is fully in Krsna consciousness, or devotional
service of the Lord, has all the good qualities of the great sages, whereas
a person who is not so transcendentally situated has no good qualifications,
because he is sure to be taking refuge in his own mental concoctions. Consequently,
it is rightly said herein that one has to give up all kinds of sense desire
manufactured by mental concoction. Artificially, such sense desires cannot
be stopped. But if one is engaged in Krsna consciousness, then, automatically,
sense desires subside without extraneous efforts. Therefore, one has to
engage himself in Krsna consciousness without hesitation, for this devotional
service will instantly help one onto the platform of transcendental consciousness.
The highly developed soul always remains satisfied in himself by realizing
himself as the eternal servitor of the Supreme Lord. Such a transcendentally
situated person has no sense desires resulting from petty materialism;
rather, he remains always happy in his natural position of eternally serving
the Supreme Lord.
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