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transcendental pleasure. The devotees derive more transcendental pleasure while engaged continuously in the service of the Lord than when they have no such engagement. In the family combination of a man and a woman there is much labor and responsibility for both of them, yet when they are single they feel more trouble for want of their untied activities.
The union of the impersonalists and the union of the devotees are not on a par. The impersonalists try to fully stop their individuality by attaining  sāyujya-mukti , or unification by merging into oneness, whereas the devotees keep their individuality to exchange feelings in relationship with the Supreme Individual Lord. Such reciprocation of feelings takes place in the transcendental Vaikuṇṭha planets, and therefore the liberation sought by the impersonalists is already achieved in devotional service. The devotees attain  mukti  automatically while continuing the transcendental pleasure of maintaining individuality. As explained in the previous verse, the destination of the devotees is Vaikuṇṭha, or  akuṇṭha-dhiṣṇya , the place where anxieties are completely eradicated. One should not mistake the destination of the devotees and that of the impersonalists to be one and the same. The destinations are distinctly different, and the transcendental pleasure derived by the devotee is also distinct from  cinmātra , or spiritual feelings alone.
TEXT 48
तत्ते नयं लोकसिमृक्षयाद्य 
  त्वयानुसृष्टास्त्रिभिरात्मभिः स्म । 
  सर्वे वियुक्ताः स्वविहारतन्त्रं 
  न शक्नुमस्तत्प्रतिहर्तवे ते ॥४८॥
tat te vayam loka-siṣṛkṣayādya 
  tvayānusṛṣṭās tribhir ātmabhiḥ sma 
  sarve viyuktāḥ svavihāra-tantram 
  na śaknumas tat pratihartave te
tat—therefore; te—Your; vayam—all of us; loka—world; siṣṛkṣayā—for the sake of creation; ādya—the original; tvayā—by You; anusṛṣṭāḥ—being created one after another; tribhiḥ—by the three modes of nature; ātma-bhiḥ—by one's own; sma—in the past; sarve—all; viyuktāḥ—separated; svavihāra-tantram—the network of activities for one's own pleasure; na—not; śaknumaḥ—could do it; tat—that; pratihartave—to award; te—unto Your.