Verse Text
yathā –
kvacit prabhur iti stuvan kvacana mitram ity uddhasan
kvacit tanaya ity avan kvacana kānta ity ullasan |
kvacin manasi bhāvayan parama eṣa ātmety asāv
abhūd vividha-sevayā vividha-vṛttir āryo dvijaḥ ||14||
Translation
An example: One brāhmaṇa fixed on following the injunctions of scripture sometimes praised the Lord as master, sometimes joked with Him as a friend, sometimes protected Him as his son, sometimes craved for Him as a lover, and sometimes meditated in his heart on the Lord as Paramātmā. In this way, by various modes of service, he was endowed with various inclinations of mind.
Purport (Nectar of Devotion)
It is said that a great devotee brāhmaṇa would sometimes address the Supreme Personality of Godhead as master and sometimes joke with the Lord, using different kinds of familiar words. Sometimes he would protect the Lord with a paternal affection, sometimes he would cry out to the Lord, addressing the Lord as his beloved, and sometimes he would meditate on the Lord as the Supersoul. This means that the brāhmaṇa expressed his ecstatic loving symptoms in different ways at different times. But in each instance, because of ecstatic love, the brāhmaṇa merged himself in the ocean of happiness and became situated in pure love. Thus he was a transparent medium, like a jewel that shows reality in varying colors according to its own nature.