Krishna's transcendental qualities eternally attract even liberated souls; understanding His greatness requires Vedic study, not idle imagination.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
SaUTa ovac AaTMaaraMaaê MauNaYaae iNaGa]RNQaa APYauṛ§-Mae ) ku-vRNTYahETauk-I& >ai¢-iMaTQaM>aUTaGau<aae hir" )) 10 )) Pradyumna: Translation: "All different varieties of ātmārāmas [those who take pleasure in ātmā, or spirit self], especially those established on the path of self-realization, though freed from all kinds of material bondage, desire to render unalloyed devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead. This means that the Lord possesses transcendental qualities and therefore can attract everyone, including liberated souls." Prabhupāda: Read the purport also. Pradyumna: "Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu explained this ātmārāma śloka very vividly before His chief devotee Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī. He points out eleven factors in the śloka, namely (1) ātmārāma, (2) munayaḥ, (3) nirgrantha, (4) api, (5) ca, (6) urukrama, (7) kurvanti, (8) ahaitukīm, (9) bhaktim, (10) ittham-bhūta-guṇaḥ and (11) hariḥ. According to the Viśva-prakāśa Sanskrit dictionary, there are seven synonyms for the word ātmārāma, which are as follows: (1) Brahman [the Absolute Truth], (2) body, (3) mind, (4) endeavor, (5) endurance, (6) intelligence and (7) personal habits.
"The word munayaḥ refers to (1) those who are thoughtful, (2) those who are grave and silent, (3) ascetics, (4) the persistent, (5) mendicants, (6) sages and (7) saints. "The word nirgrantha conveys these ideas: (1) one who is liberated from nescience, (2) one who has no connection with scriptural injunction, that is, who is freed from the obligation of the rules and regulations mentioned in the revealed scriptures like ethics, Vedas, philosophy, psychology and metaphysics, etc. [in other words the fools, illiterate, urchins, etc., who have no connection with regulative principles], (3) a capitalist, and also (4) one who is penniless. "According to the Śabda-kośa dictionary, the affix ni is used in the sense of (1) certainty, (2) counting, (3) building and (4) forbiddance, and the word grantha is used in the sense of wealth, thesis, vocabulary, etc. "The word urukrama means 'the one whose activities are glorious.' Krama means 'step.' This word urukrama specifically indicates the Lord's incarnation as Vāmana, who covered the whole universe by immeasurable steps. Lord Viṣṇu is powerful, and His activities are all-glorious, and He has created the spiritual world by His internal potency and the material world by His external potency. By His all-pervading features He is everywhere present as the Supreme Truth, and in His personal feature He is always present in His transcendental abode of Goloka Vṛndāvana, where He displays His transcendental pastimes in all variegatedness.
His activities cannot be compared with anyone else's, and therefore the word urukrama is just applicable to Him only. "According to Sanskrit verbal arrangement, kurvanti means to doing things for someone else. Therefore, it means that the ātmārāmas render devotional service unto the Lord not for personal interest but for the pleasure of the Lord, Urukrama. "Hetu means 'causal.' There are many causes for one's sense satisfaction, and they can be chiefly classified as material enjoyment, mystic powers and liberation, which are generally desired by progressive persons. As far as material enjoyments are concerned, they are innumerable, and the materialists are eager to increase them more and more because they are under the illusory energy. There is no end to the list of material enjoyments, nor can anyone in the material universe have all of them.
As far as the mystic powers are concerned, they are eight in all [such as to become the minutest in form, to become weightless, to have anything one desires, to lord it over the material nature, to control other living beings, to throw earthly globes in outer space, etc.]." Prabhupāda: So this śloka is still more elaborately explained in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta. This is the summary. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu explained this verse in sixty-four ways, each word explained—and how many ways each word can be explained—and from all angles of vision He has proved that Kṛṣṇa is all-attractive. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu's scholarship... Of course, He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead; there is no comparison to His excellence in every respect.
Six opulences. Na caitanyāt para-tattvaṁ param iha [Cc Ādi 1.3]. That is explained by Kavirāja Gosvāmī. Ṣaḍ-aiśvaryaiḥ pūrṇo ya bhagavān iha sa svayam ayam [Cc Ādi 1.3], Śrī Caitanya-candra. He has explained like that. Ṣaḍ-aiśvaryaiḥ pūrṇaḥ—all knowledge, all beauty, all strength—everything in full.
Pūrṇam. Pūrṇam idam. Pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate [Īśopaniṣad, Invocation]. He is pūrṇa, and whatever He does, that is also pūrṇa.
You cannot find any defect in the creation of the Lord. In the arrangement of maintenance and in the arrangement of annihilation you cannot find out any flaw. Perfection. Pūrṇa. So Kṛṣṇa is pūrṇa in every respect, and if we take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, shelter of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa—sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayoḥ [SB 9.4.18]—if we fix up our mind always at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, then everything will follow very perfectly.