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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 32]
unlimited Brahman appears to be hellish. One should try, therefore, to transcend even the Brahman pleasure in order to approach the position of dealing with Kṛṣṇa face to face. As the mind is the center of all the activities of the senses, so Kṛṣṇa is called the master of the senses, Hṛṣīkeśa. The process is to fix the mind on Hṛṣīkeśa or Kṛṣṇa, as Mahārāja Ambarīṣa did ( sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayoḥ ).  Bhakti  is the basic principle of all processes. Without  bhakti , neither  jñāna-yoga  nor  aṣṭānga-yoga  can be successful, and unless one approaches Kṛṣṇa, the principles of self-realization have no ultimate destination.
TEXTS 34-36
क्रियया क्रतुभिदनिस्तपःस्वाभ्यायमर्शनैः ।
आत्मेन्द्रियजयेनापि संन्यासेन च कर्मणाम् ॥३४॥
योगेन विविधाङ्गेन मक्तियोगेन चैव हि ।
घर्मेणोमयचिह्नेन यः प्रवृत्तिनिवृत्तिमान् ॥३५॥
आत्मतत्त्वावबोधेन वैराग्येण दृढेन च ।
ईयते मगवानेभिः सगुणो निर्गुणः स्वदृढः ॥३६॥
kriyayā kratubhir dānais tapaḥ-svādhyāya-marśanaiḥ ātmendriya-jayenāpi sannyāsena ca karmaṇām
yogena vividhāngena bhakti-yogena caiva hi dharmeṇobhaya-cihnena yaḥ pravṛtti-nivṛttimān
ātma-tattvāvabodhena vairāgyeṇa dṛdhena ca tyate bhagavān ebhiḥ saguṇo nirguṇaḥ sva-dṛk
kriyayā—by fruitive activities; kratubhiḥ—by sacrificial performances; dānaiḥ—by charity; tapaḥ—austerities; svādhyāya—study of Vedic literature; marśanaiḥ—and by philosophical research; ātma-indriya-jayena—by control-