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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 23]
sharpened activities;  yena —by which;  ciccheda —become separated;  saṁśaya-padam —position of doubtfulness;  nija —own;  jīva-kośam —encagement of the living entity.
TRANSLATION
By regularly discharging devotional service, Pṭthu Mahārāja became transcendental in mind and could therefore constantly think of the lotus feet of the Lord. Because of this, he became completely detached and attained perfect knowledge by which he could transcend all doubt. Thus he was freed from the clutches of false ego and the material conception of life.
PURPORT
In the  Nārada-pañcarātra , devotional service to the Lord is likened unto a queen. When a queen gives an audience, many maidservants follow her. The maidservants of devotional service are material opulence, liberation and mystic powers. The  karmīs  are very much attached to material enjoyment; the  jñānīs  are very anxious to become freed from material clutches; and the  yogīs  are very fond of attaining the eight kinds of mystic perfection. From the  Nārada-pañcarātra  we understand that if one attains the stage of pure devotional service, he also attains all the opulences derived from fruitive activities, empiric philosophical speculation and mystic yogic practice. Śrīla Bilvamaṅgala Thākura therefore prayed in his  Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta : “My dear Lord, if I have unflinching devotion to You, You become manifest before me personally, and the results of fruitive activity and empiric philosophical speculation—namely religion, economic development, sense gratification and liberation—become like personal attendants and remain standing before me as if awaiting my order.” The idea here is that the  jñānīs , by culture of  brahma-vidyā , spiritual knowledge, struggle very hard to get out of the clutches of material nature, but a devotee, by dint of his advancement in devotional service, automatically becomes detached from his material body. When the devotee’s spiritual body begins to manifest, he actually enters into his activities in transcendental life.
At present we have contacted a material body, material mind and material intelligence, but when we become free from these material conditions, our spiritual body, spiritual mind and spiritual intelligence become manifest. In that transcendental state, a devotee attains all the benefits of  karma ,  jñāna  and  yoga . Although he never engages in fruitive activities or empiric speculation to attain mystic powers, automatically