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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 33]
third stage in devotional service. There are nine stages of devotional service. The first is hearing, and then comes chanting and then contemplating. By executing devotional service, therefore, one automatically becomes an expert  jñānī  and an expert  yogī . In other words,  jñāna  and  yoga  are different preliminary stages of devotional service.
Devahūti was expert in accepting the real substance; she contemplated the form of  Viṣṇu  in detail as advised by her smiling son, Kapiladeva. At the same time, she was thinking of Kapiladeva, who is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore she completely perfected her austerities, penances and transcendental realization.
TEXT 27
नित्यारूढसमाधित्वात्पराङ्गनगुणभ्रमा । न सस्मार तदाऽऽत्मानं खप्ने दृष्टमिवोत्थितः॥२७॥
nityārūḍha-samādhitvāt parāvṛtta-guṇa-bhramā na sasmāra tadātmānam svapne dṛṣṭam ivotthitaḥ
nitya—eternal; ārūḍha—situated in; samādhitvāt—from trance; parāvṛtta—freed from; guṇa—of the modes of material nature; bhramā—illusion; na sasmāra—she did not remember; tadā—then; ātmānam—her material body; svapne—in a dream; dṛṣṭam—seen; iva—just as; utthitaḥ—one who has arisen.
TRANSLATION
Situated in eternal trance and freed from illusion impelled by the modes of material nature, she forgot her material body, just as one forgets his different bodies in a dream.
PURPORT
A great  Vaiṣṇava  said that he who has no remembrance of his body is not bound to material existence. As long as we are conscious of our bodily existence, it is to be understood that we are living conditionally, under the three modes of material nature. When one forgets his bodily existence, his conditional material life is over. This forgetfulness is actually possible when we engage our senses in the transcendental loving service of the