Tevy Allan
Taliks Between the lord and Rāmānnda Rāva
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knowledge, simple detachment from material conditions is but another side of material existence. From the spiritual point of view, it is all external. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu rejected this proposal, Rāmānanda Rāya suggested that devotional service based on philosophy and logic is a more progressed position. He therefore quoted the following verse from  Bhagavad-gītā  (18.54).
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ব্ৰহ্মভূত:   প্ৰসন্নাত্মা ন শোচিতি ন কাজ্জতি ।।
সম্ম:  সর্বেষ ভূতেষ মন্তব্জিং লভতে পরাম্ম 
৬৫॥।
b  brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā
na śocati na kāṅksati
samah sarvesu bhūtesu
mad- bhaktim labhate parām ।
SYNONYMS
brahma-bhūtaḥ —freed from material conceptions of life but attached to an impersonal situation;  prasanna-ātmā —fully joyful;  na śocati —he does not lament;  na kāṅkṣati —he does not hanker;  samaḥ —equally disposed;  sarveṣu —all;  bhūteṣu —to the living entities;  mat-bhaktim —My devotional service;  labhate —achieves;  parām —transcendental.
TRANSLATION
Rāmānanda Rāya continued, “According to Bhagavad-gītā: ‘One who is thus transcendentally situated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman and becomes fully joyful. He never laments nor desires to have anything; he is equally disposed to every living entity. In that state he attains pure devotional service unto Me.’ ”
PURPORT
In  Bhagavad-gītā  it is said that a person who accepts the theory of monism—being always engaged in empiric philosophical discussions about spiritual life—becomes joyful and is relieved from all material lamentation and hankering. At that stage, one is equipoised. He sees all living entities as spiritual beings. After attaining this elevated stage, one can attain pure devotional service. The conclusion is that devotional service mixed with ritualistic fruitive activity is inferior to spiritual service based on empiric philosophic discussion.
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প্রিভু   কঙ্কে, “এইো বাল্ব, ভাগে কহ ভার ।”
রান্নি কছে,—“জ্ঞানশ্রুত্তা ভক্তি—সাধ্যসার ॥” ৬৬ ॥