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The following is a Morning Darśana by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami on November 21st, 2009 at Chennai, India.

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-guruṁ dīna-tāraṇam
paramānandaṁ mādhavaṁ śrī caitanya iśvaram

hariḥ oṁ tat sat!

Devotee : Bhagavad-gītā, Chapter 10, Text 9 

mac-cittā mad-gata-prāṇā 
bodhayantaḥ parasparam
kathayantaś ca māṁ nityaṁ
tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca

Translation & Purport by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupāda Śrīla Prabhupāda Ki! Jay!

Translation: The thoughts of My pure devotees dwell in Me, their lives are fully devoted to My service, and they derive great satisfaction and bliss from always enlightening one another and conversing about Me.

Purport: Pure devotees, whose characteristics are mentioned here, engage themselves fully in the transcendental loving service of the Lord.

Their minds cannot be diverted from the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa.

Their talks are solely on the transcendental subjects.

The symptoms of the pure devotees are described in this verse specifically.

Devotees of the Supreme Lord are twenty-four hours daily engaged in glorifying the qualities and pastimes of the Supreme Lord.

Their hearts and souls are constantly submerged in Kṛṣṇa, and they take pleasure in discussing Him with other devotees.

In the preliminary stage of devotional service they relish the transcendental pleasure from the service itself, and in the mature stage they are actually situated in love of God.

Once situated in that transcendental position, they can relish the highest perfection which is exhibited by the Lord in His abode.

Lord Caitanya likens transcendental devotional service to the sowing of a seed in the heart of the living entity.

There are innumerable living entities traveling throughout the different planets of the universe, and out of them there are a few who are fortunate enough to meet a pure devotee and get the chance to understand devotional service.

This devotional service is just like a seed, and if it is sown in the heart of a living entity, and if he goes on hearing and chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare, Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare, that seed fructifies, just as the seed of a tree fructifies with regular watering.

The spiritual plant of devotional service gradually grows and grows until it penetrates the covering of the material universe and enters into the brahma-jyotir effulgence in the spiritual sky.

In the spiritual sky also that plant grows more and more until it reaches the highest planet, which is called Goloka Vṛndāvana, the supreme planet of Kṛṣṇa.

Ultimately, the plant takes shelter under the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa and rests there.

Gradually, as a plant grows fruits and flowers, that plant of devotional service also produces fruits, and the watering process in the form of chanting and hearing goes on.

This plant of devotional service is fully described in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Madhya-līlā, Chapter Nineteen).

It is explained there that when the complete plant takes shelter under the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord, one becomes fully absorbed in love of God; then he cannot live even for a moment without being in contact with the Supreme Lord, just as a fish cannot live without water.

In such a state, the devotee actually attains the transcendental qualities in contact with the Supreme Lord.

The Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is also full of such narrations about the relationship between the Supreme Lord and His devotees; therefore the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is very dear to the devotees, as stated in the Bhāgavatam itself (12.13.18).

Śrīmad-bhāgavataṁ purāṇam amalaṁ yad vaiṣṇavānāṁ priyam

In this narration there is nothing about material activities, economic development, sense gratification or liberation.

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the only narration in which the transcendental nature of the Supreme Lord and His devotees is fully described.

Thus the realized souls in Kṛṣṇa consciousness take continual pleasure in hearing such transcendental literatures, just as a young boy and girl take pleasure in association. 

Guru Mahārāja: Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare!

Translation again.

Devotee: (Translation) The thoughts of My pure devotees dwell in Me, their lives are fully devoted to My service, and they derive great satisfaction and bliss from always enlightening one another and conversing about Me.

Guru Mahārāja: Hari bol!

This is a very nice verse and Prabhupāda dedicated a lot of energy and time in writing the Purport for this verse.

This Purport is quite long and this is one of his favorite stories of how by watering the creeper of devotional service, we must become expert gardeners.

When we water the creeper of devotional service it grows and grows and grows, it covers the fourteen planetary systems, goes beyond the Virajā, beyond the brahma-jyoti, beyond Kailāsa, beyond brahma-jyoti, beyond the Vaikuṇṭha planets, to the planet of Goloka Vṛndāvana.(Haribol!) 

There the creeper wraps around the lotus feet of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa (Haribol!) and the fruits and the flowers come.

What is the fruit?

Kṛṣṇa-prema.

What is the flower? Ah? You know?

What is the flower?

Kṛṣṇa-bhāvaḥ or ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa.

(Haribol!) With ecstatic love still one is 99% Kṛṣṇa conscious and 1% material conscious.

With prema, one is cent percent, 100% Kṛṣṇa conscious.

Her name Mādhavī is one of the names of Rādhārāṇī and Kṛṣṇa, Caitanya, complete. 

Devotee: You got a blessing from Guru Mahārāja 

Guru Mahārāja: He is very shy right now Ha!

But I heard you are always shy. 

So this verse, you can chant the verse.

This verse tells us about the Kṛṣṇa devotees.

What is their nature?

They like to talk about Kṛṣṇa.

You see, this material world is, this material world is eka-pāda-vibhūti, whereas the spiritual world is tri-pāda-vibhūti.

That means that the spiritual world takes three times more energy to expand.

It is much bigger.

The material world is very small.

In fact this is considered to be like a prison house where the conditioned souls live.

Now there is the nitya-baddha living entities, eternally conditioned.

They are living in this material world.

And the nitya-mukta devotees are living in the spiritual world.

Sometimes a nitya-mukta devotee comes down to the material world to deliver conditioned souls like Nārada Muni or others.

I mean Nārada Muni is already completely liberated.

Some ācāryas they are not liberated, but they are liberated in the sense that everything they do is meant for the pleasure of Kṛṣṇa.

So therefore just like a magnet can magnetize a piece of steel or iron, so they get Kṛṣṇa-ised, they get spiritualized.

So in this way, some of the ācāryas, they come down just to give out this knowledge and the devotees who are living here in the material world they are preparing themselves to go back to Godhead because they like to discuss about Kṛṣṇa.

Talking about Kṛṣṇa naturally qualifies them for going back to the spiritual world, qualifies them to go back to the spiritual world.

Haribol! Haribol! Haribol! Haribol! See one time, our parama-guru Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura he had a daily newsletter, so he was asked, ‘How can you publish a daily newsletter.

I mean, how do you get so much news?’ There are so many things happening in the material world, but spiritual world, most people think that spiritual world is like some 13:15, some imagination.

He explained that the spiritual world is three times bigger than the material world.

So Kṛṣṇa has ananta-līla, He has unlimited pastimes.

So he can write unlimitedly about Lord Kṛṣṇa in a daily newspaper.

Haribol! Haribol! Haribol! So like this most people they don’t realize how much bliss, how much ecstasy there is in serving and talking about Kṛṣṇa.

Instead they are deprived of this.

They wonder what the devotees are doing, how the devotees will enjoy themselves ?

But they don’t realize that the devotees take great pleasure in discussing about Kṛṣṇa.

How many of you like to hear the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa? Haribol! Well, the devotees here, they are naturally interested in Kṛṣṇa.

So we have to convince the others how nice it is to talk about Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

I mean we don’t say don’t read the newspaper, don’t watch the news on TV or something.

But those things come and go but Kṛṣṇa’s eternal pastimes are something which is eternal,its forever and by discussing Kṛṣṇa, we are going to purify ourselves.

Kṛṣṇa said:

janma karma ca me divyam
evaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ
tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma
naiti mām eti so ’rjuna

That even if you know that Kṛṣṇa’s activities and His birth are spiritual in nature, divyam,they are transcendental, if you know that then at the end of this life you don’t have to take reincarnation again, you go right back to the spiritual world.

Haribol!