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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.24.34
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 34
- ā smābhipṛcche 'dya patiṁ prajānāṁ
- tvayāvatīrṇarṇa utāpta-kāmaḥ
- parivrajat-padavīm āsthito 'haṁ
- cariṣye tvāṁ hṛdi yuñjan viśokaḥ
ā smaI am inquiring abhipṛccheI am inquiring — I am inquiring; adyanow — now; patimthe Lord — the Lord; prajānāmof all created beings — of all created beings; tvayāby You — by You; avatīrṇafree from debts-ṛṇaḥfree from debts — free from debts; utaand — and; āptafulfilled — fulfilled; kāmaḥdesires — desires; parivrajatof an itinerant mendicant — of an itinerant mendicant; padavīmthe path — the path; āsthitaḥaccepting — accepting; ahamI — I; cariṣyeI shall wander — I shall wander; tvāmYou — You; hṛdiin my heart — in my heart; yuñjankeeping — keeping; viśokaḥfree from lamentation — free from lamentation.
Today I have something to ask from You, who are the Lord of all living entities. Since I have now been liberated by You from my debts to my father, and since all my desires are fulfilled, I wish to accept the order of an itinerant mendicant. Renouncing this family life, I wish to wander about, free from lamentation, thinking always of You in my heart.
Actually, sannyāsa, or renunciation of material household life, necessitates complete absorption in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and immersion in the self. One does not take sannyāsa, freedom from family responsibility in the renounced order of life, to make another family or to create an embarrassing transcendental fraud in the name of sannyāsa. The sannyāsī's business is not to become proprietor of so many things and amass money from the innocent public. A sannyāsī is proud that he is always thinking of Kṛṣṇa within himself. Of course, there are two kinds of devotees of the Lord. One is called goṣṭhyānandī, which means those who are preachers and have many followers for preaching the glories of the Lord and who live among those many, many followers just to organize missionary activities. Other devotees are ātmānandī, or self-satisfied, and do not take the risk of preaching work. They remain, therefore, alone with God. In this classification was Kardama Muni. He wanted to be free from all anxieties and remain alone within his heart with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Parivrāja means "an itinerant mendicant." A mendicant sannyāsī should not live anywhere for more than three days. He must be always moving because his duty is to move from door to door and enlighten people about Kṛṣṇa consciousness.