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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 3]
the happiness of the Supreme Lord. This intuition of the living being is sometimes manifested even during the conditioned stage of a living being in the material world, and such intuition is expressed in the manner of altruism, philanthropism, socialism, communism, etc., by the undeveloped minds of less intelligent persons. In the mundane field such an outlook of doing good to others in the form of society, community, family, country or humanity is a partial manifestation of the same original feeling in which a pure living entity feels happiness by the happiness of the Supreme Lord. Such superb feelings were exhibited by the damsels of Vrajabhūmi for the happiness of the Lord. The  gopīs  loved the Lord without any return, and this is the perfect exhibition of the  akāmaḥ  spirit.  Kāma  spirit, or the desire for one's own satisfaction, is fully exhibited in the material world, whereas the spirit of  akāmaḥ  is fully exhibited in the spiritual world.
Thoughts of becoming one with the Lord, or being merged in the  brahmajyoti , can also be exhibitions of  kāma  spirit if they are desires for one's own satisfaction to be free from the material miseries. A pure devotee does not want liberation so that he may be relieved from the miseries of life. Even without so-called liberation, a pure devotee is aspirant for the satisfaction of the Lord. Influenced by the  kāma  spirit, Arjuna declined to fight in the Kurukṣetra battlefield because he wanted to save his relatives for his own satisfaction. But being a pure devotee, he agreed to fight on the instruction of the Lord because he came to his senses that satisfaction of the Lord at the cost of his own satisfaction was his prime duty. Thus he became  akāmaḥ . That is the perfect stage of a perfect living being.
Udāra-dhīḥ  means one who has broader outlook. People with desires for material enjoyment worship small demigods, and such intelligence is condemned in the  Bhagavad-gītā  (Bg. 7.20) as  hṛta-jñāna , the intelligence of one who has lost his senses. No one can obtain any result from demigods without getting sanction from the Supreme Lord. Therefore a person with a broader outlook can see that the ultimate authority is the Lord, even for material benefits. Under the circumstances, one with a broader outlook, even with the desire for material enjoyment or for liberation, should take to the worship of the Lord directly. And everyone, either an  akāmaḥ  or a  sakāma  or  mokṣa-kāma , should worship the Lord with great expedience. This implies that  bhakti-yoga  may be perfectly administered without any mixture of  karma  and  jñāna . As the unmixed sun ray is very forceful and is therefore called  tīvra , similarly unmixed  bhakti-yoga  of hearing, chanting, etc., may be performed by one and all regardless of inner motive.