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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 2]
experience in material existence. This relation of servant and the served is the most congenial form of intimacy. One can realize it as devotional service progresses. Everyone should engage himself in that transcendental loving service of the Lord, even in the present conditional state of material existence. That will gradually give one the clue to actual life and please him to complete satisfaction.
TEXT 7
वासुदेवे भगवति भक्तियोगः प्रयोजितः । 
  जनयत्याशु वैराग्यं ज्ञानं च यदहैतुकम् ॥ ७ ॥
vāsudeve bhagavati 
  bhakti-yogaḥ prayojitaḥ 
  janayaty āśu vairāgyam 
  jñānam ca yad ahaitukam
vāsudeve—unto Kṛṣṇa; bhagavati—unto the Personality of Godhead; bhakti-yogaḥ—contact of devotional service; prayojitaḥ—being applied; janayati—does produce; āśu—very soon; vairāgyam—detachment; jñānam—knowledge; ca—and; yat—that which; ahaitukam—causeless.
TRANSLATION
By rendering devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, one immediately acquires causeless knowledge and detachment from the world.
PURPORT
Those who consider devotional service of the Supreme Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa to be something like material emotional affairs may argue that in the revealed scriptures, sacrifice, charity, austerity, knowledge, mystic powers and similar other processes of transcendental realization are recommended. According to them,  bhakti , or devotional service of the Lord, is meant for those who cannot perform the high-grade activities. Generally it is said that the  bhakti  cult is meant for the  śūdras ,  vaiśyas  and the less intelligent woman class. But that is not the actual fact. The  bhakti  cult is the topmost of all transcendental activities, and therefore it is simultaneously sublime and easy. It is sublime for the pure devotees who are