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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.4.11
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 11
- sūta uvāca
- ity upāmantrito rājñā
- guṇānukathane hareḥ
- hṛṣīkeśam anusmṛtya
- prativaktuṁ pracakrame
sūtaḥSūta Gosvāmī said uvācaSūta Gosvāmī said — Sūta Gosvāmī said; itithus — thus; upāmantritaḥbeing requested — being requested; rājñāby the King — by the King; guṇain describing the transcendental attributes of the Lord-anukathanein describing the transcendental attributes of the Lord — in describing the transcendental attributes of the Lord; hareḥof the Personality of Godhead — of the Personality of Godhead; hṛṣīkeśamthe master of the senses — the master of the senses; anusmṛtyaproperly remembering — properly remembering; prativaktumjust to reply — just to reply; pracakrameexecuted the preliminaries — executed the preliminaries.
Sūta Gosvāmī said: When Śukadeva Gosvāmī was thus requested by the King to describe the creative energy of the Personality of Godhead, he then systematically remembered the master of the senses [Śrī Kṛṣṇa], and to reply properly he spoke thus.
The devotees of the Lord, while delivering speeches and describing the transcendental attributes of the Lord, do not think that they can do anything independently. They think that they can speak only what they are induced to speak by the Supreme Lord, the master of the senses. The senses of the individual being are not his own; the devotee knows that such senses belong to the Supreme Lord and that they can be properly used when they are employed for the service of the Lord. The senses are instruments, and elements are ingredients, all endowed by the Lord; therefore whatever an individual can do, speak, see, etc., is under the direction of the Lord only. The Bhagavad-gītā (BG 15.15, Not yet available in the library. Try the live source.) confirms this: sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭo mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanaṁ ca. No one is free to act freely and independently, and as such, one should always seek the permission of the Lord to act or eat or speak, and by the blessing of the Lord everything done by a devotee is beyond the principles of the four defects typical of the conditioned soul.