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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 5]
PURPORT
Vidura was already perfect due to his unalloyed devotion to the infallible Lord. The Lord and the living entities are all qualitatively the same by nature, but the Lord is quantitatively much greater than any individual living entity. He is ever infallible, whereas the living entities are prone to fall under the illusory energy. Vidura had already surpassed the fallible nature of the living entity in conditional life due to his being  acyuta-bhāva , or legitimately absorbed in the devotional service of the Lord. This stage of life is called  acyuta-bhāva-siddha , or perfection by dint of devotional service. Anyone, therefore, who is absorbed in the devotional service of the Lord is a liberated soul and has all admirable qualities. The learned sage Maitreya was sitting in a solitary place on the bank of the Ganges at Hardwar, and Vidura, who was a perfect devotee of the Lord and possessed all good transcendental qualities, approached him for inquiry.
TEXT 2
विदुर उवाच
सुखाय कर्माणि करोति लोको
न तैः सुखं वान्यदुपारमं वा ।
विन्देत भूयस्तत एव दुःखं
यदत्र युक्तं भगवान् वदेन्नः ॥ २ ॥
vidura uvāca
sukhāya karmāṇi karoti loko
na taiḥ sukham vānyad-upāramam vā
vindeta bhūyas tata eva duḥkham
yad atra yuktam bhagavān vaden naḥ
viduraḥ uvāca —Śrī Vidura said;  sukhāya —for attaining happiness;  karmāṇi —fruitive activities;  karoti —everyone does so;  lokaḥ —in this world;  na —never;  taiḥ —by those activities;  sukham —any happiness;  vā —or;  anyat —differently;  upāramam —satiation;  vā —either;  vindeta —achieve;  bhūyaḥ —on the contrary;  tataḥ —by such activities;  eva —certainly;  duḥkham —miseries;  yat —that which;  atra —under the circumstances;  yuktam —right course;  bhagavān —O great one;  vadet —may kindly enlighten;  naḥ —us.
TRANSLATION
Vidura said:  O great sage, in this world everyone engages in fruitive activities to attain happiness, but they find neither satiation nor the