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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[ Canto 3, Ch. 28 ]
over material nature. This dirt is like a mountain, but a mountain can be shattered when hit by a thunderbolt. Meditating on the lotus feet of the Lord acts like a thunderbolt on the mountain of dirt in the mind of the  yogī . If a  yogī  wants to shatter the mountain of dirt in his mind, he should concentrate on the lotus feet of the Lord and not imagine something void or impersonal. Because the dirt has accumulated like a solid mountain, one must meditate on the lotus feet of the Lord for quite a long time. For one who is accustomed to thinking of the lotus feet of the Lord constantly, however, it is a different matter. The devotees are so fixed on the lotus feet of the Lord that they do not think of anything else. Those who practice the  yoga  system must meditate on the lotus feet of the Lord for a long time after following the regulative principles and thereby controlling the senses.
It is specifically mentioned here,  bhagavataś caraṇāravindam : one has to think of the lotus feet of the Lord. The Māyāvādīs imagine that one can think of the lotus feet of Lord Śiva or Lord Brahmā or the goddess Durgā to achieve liberation, but this is not so.  Bhagavataḥ  is specifically mentioned.  Bhagavataḥ  means of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, and no one else. Another significant phrase in this verse is  śivaḥ śivo 'bhūt . By his constitutional position, Lord Śiva is always great and auspicious, but since he has accepted on his head the Ganges water which emanated from the lotus feet of the Lord, he has become even more auspicious and important. The stress is on the lotus feet of the Lord. A relationship with the lotus feet of the Lord can even enhance the importance of Lord Śiva, what to speak of other, ordinary living entities.
TEXT 23
जानुद्वयं जलजलोचनया जनन्या
लक्ष्म्याखिलस्य सुखन्दितया विधातुः।
ऊर्वोर्निधाय करपञ्चवरोचिषा यत्
संलालितं हृदि विभोरभवस्य कुर्यात् ॥२३॥
jānu-dvayaṁ jalaja-locanayā jananyā
lakṣmyākhilasya sura-vanditayā vidhātuḥ
ūrvor nidhāya kara-pallava-rociṣā yat
saṁlālitaṁ hṛdi vibhor abhavasya kuryāt