Introduction
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The Lord explained the word  mukti  to be equivalent to the word Viṣṇu, or the Personality of Godhead. To attain  mukti  or liberation from the bondage of material existence is to attain to the service of the Lord.
The Lord then proceeded towards South India for some time and converted everyone He met on the way to become devotees of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Such devotees also converted many others to the cult of devotional service or to the  Bhāgavata-dharma  of the Lord, and thus He reached the bank of the Godāvarī, where He met Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya, the Governor of Madras on behalf of Mahārāja Pratāparudra, the King of Orissa. His talks with Rāmānanda Rāya are very important for higher realization of transcendental knowledge, and the conversation itself forms a small booklet. We shall, however, give herewith a summary of the conversation.
Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya was a self-realized soul, although outwardly he belonged to a caste lower than the  brāhmaṇa  in social status. He was not in the renounced order of life, and besides that he was a high government servant in the State. Still Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted him as a liberated soul on the strength of the high order of his realization of transcendental knowledge. Similarly, the Lord accepted Śrīla Haridāsa Thākur, a veteran devotee of the Lord coming from a Mohammedan family. And there are many other great devotees of the Lord who came from different communities, sects and castes. The Lord's only criterion was the standard of devotional service of the particular person. He was not concerned with the outward dress of a man; He was concerned only with the inner soul and its activities. Therefore the whole missionary activities of the Lord are to be understood to be on the spiritual plane, and as such the cult of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu or the cult of  Bhāgavata-dharma  has nothing to do with mundane affairs, sociology, politics, economic development or any such sphere of life.  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  is the purely transcendental urge of the soul.
When He met Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya on the bank of the Godāvarī, the  varṇāśrama-dharma  followed by the Hindus was mentioned by the Lord. Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya said that by following the principles of  varṇāśrama-dharma , the system of four castes and four orders of human life, everyone could realize transcendence. In the opinion of the Lord, the system of  varṇāśrama-dharma  is superficial only, and it has very little to do with the highest realization of spiritual values. The highest perfection of life is to get detached from the material attachment and proportionately realize the transcendental loving service of the Lord. The Personality of Godhead recognizes a living being who is progressing in that line. Devotional service is, therefore, the culmination of the culture of all knowledge. When Śrī Kṛṣṇa the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared for the deliverance