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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 27]
and transcendental knowledge for understanding the science of God. Here the same principle is confirmed. A person who is detached from the modes of material nature remains just like the sun reflected on the water. When the sun is reflected on the water, the movement of the water or the coolness or unsteadiness of the water cannot affect the sun. Similarly,  vāsudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogaḥ prayojitaḥ : when one engages fully in the activities of devotional service,  bhakti-yoga , he becomes just like the sun reflected on the water. Although a devotee appears to be in the material world, actually he is in the transcendental world. As the reflection of the sun appears to be on the water but is many millions of miles away from the water, so one engaged in the  bhakti-yoga  process is  nirguṇa , or unaffected by the qualities of material nature.
Avikāra  means without change. It is confirmed in  Bhagavad-gītā  that each and every living entity is part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, and thus his eternal position is to cooperate or to dovetail his energy with the Supreme Lord. That is his unchanging position. As soon as he changes this position or employs his energy and activities for sense gratification, it is called  vikāra . Similarly, even in this material body, when he practices devotional service under the direction of the spiritual master, he comes to the position which is without change because that is his natural duty. As stated in the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , liberation means reinstatement in one's original position. The original position is one of rendering service to the Lord ( bhakti-yogena, bhaktyā ). When one becomes detached from material attraction and engages fully in devotional service, that is changelessness.  Akartṛtva  means not doing anything for sense gratification. When one does something at his own risk, there is a sense of proprietorship and therefore a reaction, but when one does everything for  Kṛṣṇa , there is no proprietorship over the activities. By changelessness and by not claiming the proprietorship of activities, one can immediately situate himself in the transcendental position in which one is not touched by the modes of material nature, just as the reflection of the sun is unaffected by the water.
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स एष यहिं प्रकृतेर्गुणेष्वमिविषजते । अहंक्रियाविमृदात्मा कर्तास्मीत्यमिमन्यते ॥ २ ॥
sa eṣa yarhi prakṛter guṇeṣv abhiviṣajjate ahaṅkriyā-vimūdhātmā kartāsmīty abhimanyate