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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 15]
mission only, and therefore after His departure he remained in the same transcendental position, even though it appeared that he forgot all the instructions of the  Bhagavad-gītā . One should, therefore, adjust the activities of life in pace with the mission of the Lord, and by doing this one is sure to return back home, back to Godhead. This is the highest perfection of life.
TEXT 31
विशोको ब्रह्मसम्पत्त्या संछिन्नद्वैतसंशयः । लीनप्रकृतिनैर्गुण्यादलिङ्गत्तादसम्भवः ॥३१॥
viśoko brahma-sampattyā sañchinna-dvaita-saṁśayaḥ līna-prakṛti-nairguṇyād aliṅgatvād asambhavaḥ
viśokaḥ —free from bereavement;  brahma-sampattyā —by possession of spiritual assets;  sañchinna —being completely cut off;  dvaita-saṁśayaḥ —from the doubts of relativity;  līna —merged in;  prakṛti —material nature;  nairguṇyāt —due to being in transcendence;  aliṅgatvāt —because of being devoid of a material body;  asambhavaḥ —free from birth and death.
TRANSLATION
Because of his possessing spiritual assets, the doubts of duality were completely cut off. Thus he was freed from the three modes of material nature and placed in transcendence. There was no longer any chance of his becoming entangled in birth and death, for he was freed from material form.
PURPORT
Doubts of duality begin from the misconception of the material body, which is accepted as the self by less intelligent persons. The most foolish part of our ignorance is our identifying this material body with the self. Everything in relation with the body is ignorantly accepted as our own. Doubts due to misconceptions of myself and mine, in other words, my body, my relatives, my property, my wife, my children, my wealth, my country, my community, and hundreds and thousands of similar illusory contemplations, cause bewilderment for the conditioned soul. By assimi-