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TEXT 14 ananya-cetah satatam
SYNONYMS  ananya-cetah--without
deviation; satatam--always; yah--anyone; mam--Me (Krsna);
smarati--remembers; nityasah--regularly; tasya--to
him; aham--I am; su-labhah--very easy to achieve; partha--O
son of Prtha; nitya--regularly; yuktasya--engaged; yoginah--of
the devotee.
TRANSLATION For one who
remembers Me without deviation, I am easy to obtain, O son of Prtha, because
of his constant engagement in devotional service.
PURPORT In this verse
the bhakti-yoga of the unalloyed devotees of the Supreme Godhead
is described. The proceeding verses mention four different kinds of devotees--the
distressed, the inquisitive, those who seek material gain, and the speculative
philosophers. Different processes of liberation from material entanglement
have also been described: karma-yoga, jnana-yoga, and hatha-yoga.
But here bhakti-yoga, without any mixture of these, is mentioned.
In bhakti-yoga the devotees desire nothing but Krsna. The pure bhakti
devotee does not desire promotion to heavenly planets, nor does he seek
salvation or liberation from material entanglement. A pure devotee does
not desire anything. In the Caitanya-caritamrta the pure devotee
is called niskama, which means he has no desire for self-interest.
Perfect peace belongs to him alone, not to them who strive for personal
gain. The pure devotee only wants to please the Supreme Lord, and so the
Lord says that for anyone who is unflinchingly devoted to Him, He is easy
to attain. The devotee can render service to any of the transcendental
forms of the Supreme Lord, and he meets with none of the problems that
plague the practitioners of other yogas. Bhakti-yoga is very
simple and pure and easy to perform. One can begin by simply chanting Hare
Krsna. Krsna is very merciful to those who engage in His service, and He
helps in various ways that devotee who has fully surrendered to Him so
that he can understand Him as He is. The Lord gives such a devotee sufficient
intelligence so that ultimately the devotee can attain Him in His spiritual
kingdom.
The special
qualification of the pure devotee is that he is always thinking of Krsna
without considering the time or place. There should be no impediments.
He should be able to carry out his service anywhere and at any time. Some
say that the devotee should remain in holy places like Vrndavana or some
holy town where the Lord lived, but a pure devotee can live anywhere and
create the atmosphere of Vrndavana by his devotional service. It was Sri
Advaita who told Lord Caitanya, "Wherever You are, O Lord--there
is Vrndavana."
A pure devotee
constantly remembers Krsna and meditates upon Him. These are qualifications
of the pure devotee for whom the Lord is most easily attainable. Bhakti-yoga
is the system that the Gita recommends above all others. Generally,
the bhakti-yogis are engaged in five different ways: 1) santa-bhakta,
engaged in devotional service in neutrality; 2) dasya-bhakta, engaged
in devotional service as servant; 3) sakhya-bhakta, engaged as friend;
4) vatsalya-bhakta, engaged as parent; and 5) madhurya-bhakta,
engaged as conjugal lover of the Supreme Lord. In any of these ways, the
pure devotee is always constantly engaged in the transcendental loving
service of the Supreme Lord and cannot forget the Supreme Lord, and so
for him the Lord is easily attained. A pure devotee cannot forget the Supreme
Lord for a moment, and similarly, the Supreme Lord cannot forget His pure
devotee for a moment. This is the great blessing of the Krsna conscious
process of chanting the maha-mantra--Hare Krsna.
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