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Vidura's Talks with Maitreya
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a little quantity of Ganges water can save one from the punishment of Yamarāja.
TEXT 42
यच्छ्रद्धया श्रुतवत्या च भक्त्या 
  संमृज्यमाने हृदयेऽवधाय । 
  ज्ञानेन वैराग्यबलेन धीरा 
  व्रजेम तत्तेऽङ्घ्रिसरोजपीठम् ॥४२॥
yac chraddhayā śruta-vatyā ca bhaktyā 
  sammrjyamāne hṛdaye 'vadhāya 
  jñānena vairāgya-balena dhīrā 
  vrajema tat te 'ṅghri-sarojapīṭham
yat —that which;  śraddhayā —by eagerness;  śruta-vatyā —simply by hearing;  ca —also;  bhaktyā —in devotion;  sammrjyamāne —being cleansed;  hṛdaye —in the heart;  avadhāya —meditation;  jñānena —by knowledge;  vairāgya —detachment;  balena —by the strength of;  dhīrāḥ —pacified;  vrajema —must go to;  tat —that;  te —Your;  aṅghri —feet;  saraḥ-japīṭham —lotus sanctuary.
TRANSLATION
Simply by hearing about Your lotus feet with eagerness and devotion and by meditating upon them within the heart, one at once becomes enlightened with knowledge, and on the strength of detachment one becomes pacified. We must therefore take shelter of the sanctuary of Your lotus feet.
PURPORT
The miracles of meditating on the lotus feet of the Lord with eagerness and devotion are so great that no other process can compare to it. The minds of materialistic persons are so disturbed that it is almost impossible for them to search after the Supreme Truth by personal regulative endeavors. But even such materialistic men, with a little eagerness for hearing about the transcendental name, fame, qualities, etc., can surpass all other methods of attaining knowledge and detachment. The conditioned soul is attached to the bodily conception of the self, and therefore he is in ignorance. Culture of self-knowledge can bring about detachment from material affection, and without such detachment there is no meaning to knowledge. The most stubborn attachment for material enjoyment is sex