Text 10] Pure Devotional Service: The Change in Heart
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akāmaḥ —one who has transcended all material desires;  sarva-kāmaḥ —one who has the sum total of material desires;  vā —either;  mokṣa-kāmaḥ —one who desires liberation;  udāra-dhīḥ —with broader intelligence;  tīvreṇa —with great force;  bhakti-yogena —by devotional service of the Lord;  yajeta —should worship;  puruṣam —the Lord;  param —supreme whole.
TRANSLATION
A person who has broader intelligence, who may be full of all material desire or may be without any material desire, and who also desires liberation, by all means must worship the Supreme Whole Personality of Godhead.
PURPORT
The Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is described in the  Bhagavad-gītā  as the  Puruṣottama , or the Supreme Personality. It is He only who can award liberation to the impersonalists by absorbing such aspirants in the  brahmajyoti , the bodily rays of the Lord. The  brahmajyoti  is not separate from the Lord, as the glowing sun ray is not independent of the sun disc. Therefore one who desires to merge into the supreme impersonal  brahmajyoti  must also worship the Lord by  bhakti-yoga , as it is recommended here in the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam .  Bhakti-yoga  is especially stressed here as the means of all perfection. In the previous chapters it has been stated that  bhakti-yoga  is the ultimate goal of both  karma-yoga  and  jñāna-yoga , and in the same way in this chapter it is emphatically declared that  bhakti-yoga  is the ultimate goal of the different varieties of worship of the different demigods.  Bhakti-yoga , thus being the supreme means of self-realization, is recommended here. Everyone must therefore seriously take up the methods of  bhakti-yoga , even though one aspires for material enjoyment or liberation from material bondage.
Akāmaḥ  is one who has no material desire. A living being, naturally being the part and parcel of the supreme whole  puruṣam pūrṇam , has as his natural function to serve the Supreme Being, just as the parts and parcels of the body, or the limbs of the body, are naturally meant to serve the complete body. Desireless means, therefore, not to be inert like the stone but to be conscious of one's actual position and thus desire satisfaction only from the Supreme Lord. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī has explained this desirelessness as  bhajanīya-parama-puruṣa-sukha-mātra svasukhatvam  in his  Sandharbha . This means that one should only feel happy by experiencing