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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 28]
on the platform of spontaneous attachment for the Lord ( rāga-bhakti ), the Lord also gives instructions from within.  Teṣām satata-yuktānām bhajatām prīti-pūrvakam . This distinct advantage is obtained by a liberated soul. Having attained this stage, King Malayadhvaja was directly in touch with the Supreme Lord and was receiving instructions from Him directly.
TEXT 42
परे ब्रह्मणि चात्मानं परं ब्रह्म तथाऽऽत्मनि ।  
 वीक्षमाणो विहायेक्षामस्मादुपरराम ह ॥४२॥
pare brahmaṇi cātmānam 
    param brahma tathātmani 
    vīkṣamāṇo vihāyekṣām 
    asmād upararāma ha
pare —transcendental;  brahmaṇi —in the Absolute;  ca —and;  ātmānam —the self;  param —the supreme;  brahma —Absolute;  tathā —also;  ātmani —in himself;  vīkṣamāṇaḥ —thus observing;  vihāya —giving up;  īkṣām —reservation;  asmāt —from this process;  upararāma —retired;  ha —certainly.
TRANSLATION
King Malayadhvaja could thus observe that the Supersoul was sitting by his side, and that he, as the individual soul, was sitting by the side of the Supersoul. Since both were together, there was no need for separate interests; thus he ceased from such activities.
PURPORT
In the advanced stage of devotional service, the devotee does not see anything separate between his own interests and those of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Both interests become one, for the devotee does not act for a separate interest. Whatever he does, he does in the interest of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. At that time he sees everything in the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the Supreme Personality of Godhead in everything. Having attained this stage of understanding, he sees no distinction between the spiritual and material worlds. In perfect vision, the material world becomes the spiritual world due to its being the external energy of the Supreme Lord. For the perfect devotee, the energy and the energetic are nondifferent. Thus the so-called material world becomes