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realizes the other features, namely the Paramātmā feature and the Brahman feature, and that total realization is  brahma-siddhi .
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प्रसङ्गमजरं पाशमात्मनः कवयो विदुः । स एव साधुषु कृतो मोक्षद्वारमपाश्चतम् ॥२०॥
prasaṅgam ajaraṁ pāśam ātmanaḥ kavayo viduḥ sa eva sādhuṣu kṛto mokṣa-dvāram apāvṛtam
prasaṅgam—attachment; ajaram—strong; pāśam—entanglement; ātmanaḥ—of the soul; kavayaḥ—learned men; viduḥ—know; saḥ eva—that same; sādhuṣu—to the devotees; kṛtaḥ—applied; mokṣa-dvāram—the door of liberation; apāvṛtam—opened.
TRANSLATION
Every learned man knows very well that attachment for the material is the greatest entanglement of the spirit soul. But that same attachment, when applied to the self-realized devotees, opens the door of liberation.
PURPORT
Here it is clearly stated that attachment for one thing is the cause of bondage in conditioned life, and the same attachment, when applied to something else, opens the door of liberation. Attachment cannot be killed; it has simply to be transferred. Attachment for material things is called material consciousness, and attachment for Kṛṣṇa or His devotee is called Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Consciousness, therefore, is the platform of attachment. It is clearly stated here that when we simply purify the consciousness from material consciousness to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that is liberation. Despite the statement that one should give up attachment, desirelessness is not possible for a living entity. A living entity, by constitution, has the propensity to be attached to something. We see that if someone has no object of attachment, if he has no children, then he transfers his attachment to cats and dogs. This indicates that the propensity for attachment cannot be stopped; it must be utilized for the best