śrī-gajendra uvāca
oṁ namo bhagavate tasmai
yata etac cid-ātmakam
puruṣāyādi-bījāya
pareśāyābhidhīmahi

yasminn idaṁ yataś cedaṁ
yenedaṁ ya idaṁ svayam
yo ’smāt parasmāc ca paras
taṁ prapadye svayambhuvam

yaḥ svātmanīdaṁ nija-māyayārpitaṁ
kvacid vibhātaṁ kva ca tat tirohitam
aviddha-dṛk sākṣy ubhayaṁ tad īkṣate
sa ātma-mūlo ’vatu māṁ parāt-paraḥ

kālena paṣcatvam iteṣu kṛtsnaśo
lokeṣu pāleṣu ca sarva-hetuṣu
tamas tadāsīd gahanaṁ gabhīraṁ
yas tasya pāre ’bhivirājate vibhuḥ

na yasya devā ṛṣayaḥ padaṁ vidur
jantuḥ punaḥ ko ’rhati gantum īritum
yathā naṭasyākṛtibhir viceṣṭato
duratyayānukramaṇaḥ sa māvatu

Reading in hurry, without any purpose, I do not like such reading. It is not beneficial to me or others. So it is not the desire of the Supreme Lord that I continue this sort of reading. He is directing me that I should follow the vrata, being in one place. He is directing so, perhaps, because my physical body is not so capable now.

didṛkṣavo yasya padaṁ sumaṅgalaṁ
vimukta-saṅgā munayaḥ susādhavaḥ
caranty aloka-vratam avraṇaṁ vane
bhūtātma-bhūtāḥ suhṛdaḥ sa me gatiḥ
(Srimad Bhagavatam 8.3.2-14)

This we have to try to do it from the core of the heart so that we can get the grace of the Supreme Lord, Sri Krishna as Gajendra has got. We have to try to do it with the mood as Gajendra has done. If we cannot do it from the core of the heart then what are we reading this for? Reading it to finish it somehow is useless. This I do not like. We have not renounced our house for this. Only we are seeing the comforts of the body and nothing else.

Gajendra says here that Muni Rishis and even demigod do not get the darshan of the Supreme Lord. But they can get His darshan by becoming bhagavat-vrata, bhakti-vrata. He can be attained only by one-pointed devotion, not by any other means. It is not that no one can attain Him. One cannot attain Him by his own endeavours. But when one becomes surrendered to Him, by his devotion he can attain the Lord.