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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 31]
TRANSLATION
Śrī Vidura said: O great mystic, O greatest of all devotees, by your causeless mercy I have been shown the path of liberation from this world of darkness. By following this path, a person liberated from the material world can return home, back to Godhead.
PURPORT
This material world is called  tamah , dark, and the spiritual world is called light. The  Vedas  enjoin that everyone should try to get out of the darkness and go to the kingdom of light. Information of that kingdom of light can be attained through the mercy of a self-realized soul. One also has to get rid of all material desires. As soon as one frees himself from material desires and associates with a liberated person, the path back home, back to Godhead, is clear.
TEXT 30
श्रीशुक उवाच
इत्यानम्य तमामन्य विदुरो गजसाह्वयम् ।
स्वानां दिदृक्षुः प्रययौ ज्ञातीनां निर्वृताशयः ॥३०॥
śrī śuka uvāca 
    ity ānamya tam āmantrya 
    viduro gaja-sāhvayam 
    svānām didṛkṣuḥ prayayau 
    jñātīnām nirvṛtāśayaḥ
śrī śukaḥ uvāca—Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said;  iti —thus;  ānamya —offering obeisances;  tam —unto Maitreya;  āmantrya —taking permission;  viduraḥ —Vidura;  gaja-sāhvayam —the city of Hastināpura;  svānām —own;  didṛkṣuḥ —desiring to see;  prayayau —left that place;  jñātīnām —of his kinsmen;  nirvṛta-āśayaḥ —free from material desires.
TRANSLATION
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Vidura thus offered obeisances unto the great sage Maitreya, and, taking his permission, started for the city of Hastināpura to see his own kinsmen, although he had no material desires.