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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 24]
as  raso vai saḥ , the source of all relishable relationships ( rasas ). We have various senses—the power of seeing, tasting, smelling, touching, etc.—and all the propensities of our senses can be satisfied when the senses are engaged in the service of the Lord.  Hṛṣīkeṇa hṛṣīkeśa-sevanam bhaktirucyate (Nārada-pañcarātra) . “ Bhakti  means engaging all the senses in the service of the master of the senses,  Hṛṣīkeśa .” These material senses, however, cannot be engaged in the service of the Lord; therefore one has to become free from all designations.  Sarvopādhi-vinirmuktam tatparatvena nirmalam . One has to become free from all designation or false egotism and thus become purified. When we engage our senses in the service of the Lord, the desires or the inclinations of the senses can be perfectly fulfilled. Lord Śiva therefore wants to see the Lord in a form which is inconceivable to the Buddhist philosophers or the Buddhists.
The impersonalists and the voidists also have to see the form of the Absolute. In Buddhist temples there are forms of Lord Buddha in meditation, but these are not worshiped like the forms of the Lord in Vaiṣṇava temples (forms like  Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa ,  Sītā-Rāma  or  Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa ). Amongst the different  sampradāyas  (Vaiṣṇava sects) either  Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa  or  Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa  is worshiped. Lord Śiva wants to see that form perfectly, just as the devotees want to see it. The words  rūpam priyatamam svānām  are specifically mentioned here, indicating that Lord Śiva wants to see that form which is very dear to the devotees. The word  svānām  is especially significant because only the devotees are very, very dear to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The  jñānīs ,  yogīs  and  karmīs  are not particularly dear, for the  karmīs  simply want to see the Supreme Personality of Godhead as their order supplier. The  jñānīs  want to see Him to become one with Him, and the  yogīs  want to see Him partially represented within their heart as Paramātmā, but the  bhaktas , or the devotees, want to see Him in His complete perfection. As stated in  Brahma-saṁhitā :
veṇum kvaṇantam aravinda-dalāyatākṣam barhāvatamsam asitāmbuda-sundarāṅgam kandarpa-koṭi-kamanīya-viśeṣa-śobham govindam ādi-puruṣam tam aham bhajāmi
“I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is adept at playing on His flute, whose eyes are blooming like lotus petals, whose head is bedecked with peacock feathers, whose beauty is tinged with the hue of blue clouds, and whose unique loveliness charms millions of Cupids.” (Bs. 5.30) Thus Lord Śiva’s desire is to see the Supreme Personality of Godhead as He is described in this way—that is, he wants to see Him as He appears to the