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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.10.13
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 13
- sarve te 'nimiṣair akṣais
- tam anu druta-cetasaḥ
- vīkṣantaḥ sneha-sambaddhā
- vicelus tatra tatra ha
sarveall — all; tethey — they; animiṣaiḥwithout twinkling of the eyes — without twinkling of the eyes; akṣaiḥby the eye — by the eye; tamafter Him anuafter Him — after Him; drutamelted heart-cetasaḥmelted heart — melted heart; vīkṣantaḥlooking upon Him — looking upon Him; snehabound by pure affection-sambaddhāḥbound by pure affection — bound by pure affection; viceluḥbegan to move — began to move; tatrahere and there tatrahere and there — here and there; haso they did — so they did.
All their hearts were melting for Him on the pot of attraction. They looked at Him without blinking their eyes, and they moved hither and thither in perplexity.
Kṛṣṇa is naturally attractive for all living beings because He is the chief eternal amongst all eternals. He alone is the maintainer of the many eternals. This is stated in the Kaṭha Upaniṣad, and thus one can obtain permanent peace and prosperity by revival of one's eternal relation with Him, now forgotten under the spell of māyā, the illusory energy of the Lord. Once this relation is slightly revived, the conditioned soul at once becomes freed from the illusion of material energy and becomes mad after the association of the Lord. This association is made possible not only by personal contact with the Lord, but also by association with His name, fame, form and quality. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam trains the conditioned soul to this stage of perfection by submissive hearing from the pure devotee.