Just this morning we were discussing that all these: strī-śūdra-dvijabandhūnāṁ trayī na śruti-gocarā (SB 1.4.25).
Vyāsadeva is so kind that he could understand that the next generation before, I mean to say, five thousands years before, when he was thinking . . . we should always know that great thinkers, great, I mean to say, sages, ṛṣi, they are sitting in the secluded place, in a forest, not idly. They are always thinking how people should be benefited. How people should be benefited. Lokānāṁ hita-kāriṇau. Just like we sing daily about the Gosvāmīs (sings):
- nānā-śāstra-vicāraṇaika-nipuṇau sad-dharma-saṁsthāpakau
- lokānāṁ hita-kāriṇau tri-bhuvane mānyau śaraṇyākarau
- rādhā-kṛṣṇa-padāravinda-bhajanānandena mattālikau
- vande rūpa-sanātanau raghu-yugau śrī-jīva-gopālakau
- (Śrī Śrī Ṣaḍ-gosvāmy-aṣṭaka, verse 2)
Now, just see. These gentlemen, they are . . . some of them were big zamindar, some of them were learned scholar, some of them were ministers in the government service, but they left everything. And at Vṛndāvana they sat down? Nānā-śāstra-vicāraṇaika-nipuṇau. No, they were find out, making research by researching all kinds of Vedic literature how things should be presented to the people of this age so that they can take up the matter very seriously and easily, and they can make progress. That was their business.
Not that they left home, become easy going, and take prasādam and go on sleeping. Oh. No, no, no, no. They had no time to sleep. They were always thinking, lokānāṁ hita-kāriṇau, how people should be benefited. As much as the Lord is very much anxious for our benefit, similarly, the devotees of the Lord, they are equally anxious for the benefit of the public.