9.2 May the desire for you as my supreme desirable reach and enrich my heart

hṛdayer abhadra sate 

ghucibe tāhār

Their misconceptions will depart,

When your message enters their heart.

My dear Lord, Srila Prabhupada here expresses his confidence in the potency of the process of bhakti: by hearing the Bhagavatam regularly, everyone can remove the impurities that misdirect their heart’s love, thus becoming free to direct their love towards you and find therein the fulfillment they have always longed for over many lifetimes.

My fundamental misconception, O supreme enlightener, is that there exists anything lovable outside you and that it can therefore be an alternative to you. Everything attractive gets its attractiveness from you.

Help me, O all-attractive Lord, to see and help others see that whatever they desire—all that and more—they will find in you. You, O Lord, are so magnanimous—you do not want me to give up desire but to give my desire to you. Bless me, O Lord, so that I can not just intellectually understand you as the supremely desirable but also cherish you as my supremely desirable.

Just as Srila Prabhupada inspired millions to make you the life of their life, my beloved Lord, may that inspiration reach and enrich my heart—and through it, reach and enrich many other hearts.