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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 8]
is especially mentioned. If one wants to be happy within this material world, he may aspire to go to the different material planetary systems where there is a higher standard of sense gratification, but real  mokṣa  or liberation is performed without any such desire. This is explained in the  Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu  by the term  anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam , “without desire for material sense gratification.” For persons who are still inclined to enjoy material life in different stages or on different planets, the stage of liberation in  bhakti-yoga  is not recommended. Only persons who are completely free from the contamination of sense gratification can execute  bhakti-yoga , or the process of devotional service, very purely. The activities on the path of  apavarga  up to the stages of  dharma ,  artha  and  kāma  are meant for sense gratification, but when one comes to the stage of  mokṣa , the impersonalist liberation, the practitioner wants to merge into the existence of the Supreme. But that is also sense gratification. When one goes above the stage of liberation, however, he at once becomes one of the associates of the Lord to render transcendental loving service. That is technically called  mukti . For this specific  vimukti  liberation Nārada Muni recommends that one directly engage himself in devotional service.
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इत्युक्तस्तं परिक्रम्य प्रणम्य च नृपार्भकः। ययौ मधुवनं पुण्यं हरेश्वरणचर्चितम् ॥६२॥
ity uktas tam parikramya praṇamya ca nṛpārbhakaḥ yayau madhuvanam puṇyam hareś caraṇa-carcitam
iti—thus; uktaḥ—being spoken; tam—him (Nārada Muni); parikramya—by circumambulating; praṇamya—by offering obeisances; ca—also; nṛpa-arbhakaḥ—the boy of the King; yayau—went to; madhuvanam—a forest in Vṛndāvana known as Madhuvana; puṇyam—which is auspicious and pious; hareḥ—of the Lord; caraṇa-carcitam—imprinted by the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa.
TRANSLATION
When Dhruva Mahārāja, the son of the King, was thus advised by the great sage Nārada Muni, he circumambulated Nārada, his spiritual master, and offered him respectful obeisances. Then he started for Madhuvana, which is always imprinted with the lotus footprints of Lord Kṛṣṇa and which is therefore especially auspicious.