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The Lord in the Heart
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follow the authoritative version of the  ācāryas , he will vainly search after the truth mentioned in the  Vedas .
TEXT 33
न ह्यतोऽन्यः शिवः पन्था विशतः संसृताविह । वासुदेवे मगवति भक्तियोगो यतो भवेत् ॥३३॥
na hy ato'nyaḥ śivaḥ panthā viśataḥ saṁsṛtāv iha vāsudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogo yato bhavet
na —never;  hi —certainly;  ataḥ —beyond this;  anyaḥ —any other;  śivaḥ —auspicious;  panthāḥ —means;  viśataḥ —wandering;  saṁsṛtau —in the material world;  iha —in this life;  vāsudeve —unto Lord Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa;  bhagavati —the Personality of Godhead;  bhakti-yogaḥ —directly devotional service;  yataḥ —wherein;  bhavet —may result in.
TRANSLATION
“For those who are wandering in the material universe, there is no more auspicious means of deliverance than what is aimed at in the direct devotional service of Lord Kṛṣṇa.
PURPORT
As will be clarified in the next verse, devotional service, or direct  bhakti-yoga , is the only absolute and auspicious means of deliverance from the grip of material existence. There are many indirect methods for deliverance from the clutches of material existence, but none of them are as easy and auspicious as  bhakti-yoga . The means of  jñāna  and  yoga  and other allied disciplines are not independent to deliver a performer. Such activities help one to reach the stage of  bhakti-yoga  after many, many years. In the  Bhagavad-gītā  (Bg. 12.5) it is said that those who are attached to the impersonal feature of the Absolute are liable to many troubles in the pursuit of their desired goal, and the empiricist philosophers, searching