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Lord Rṣabhadeva's Teachings
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karma-āśayam —the desire for fruitive activities;  hṛdaya-granthi —the knot in the heart;  bandham —bondage;  avidyayā —because of ignorance;  āsāditam —brought about;  apramattaḥ —not being covered by ignorance or illusion, very careful;  anena —by this;  yogena —practice of  yoga ;  yathā-upadeśam —as advised;  samyak —completely;  vyapohya —becoming free from;  uparameta —one should desist;  yogāt —from the practice of  yoga , the means of liberation.
TRANSLATION
As I have advised you, My dear sons, you should act accordingly. Be very careful. By these means you will be freed from the ignorance of the desire for fruitive activity, and the knot of bondage in the heart will be completely severed. For further advancement, you should also give up the means. That is, you should not become attached to the process of liberation itself.
PURPORT
The process of liberation is  brahma-jijñāsā , the search for the Absolute Truth. Generally  brahma-jijñāsā  is called  neti neti , the process by which one analyzes existence to search out the Absolute Truth. This method continues as long as one is not situated in his spiritual life. Spiritual life is  brahma-bhūta , the self-realized state. In the words of  Bhagavad-gītā  (18.54):
brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā  
 na śocati na kārikṣati  
 samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu  
 mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām
“One who is thus transcendentally situated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman and becomes fully joyful. He never laments nor desires to have anything; he is equally disposed to every living entity. In that state, he attains pure devotional service unto Me.”
The idea is to enter into the  parā bhakti , the transcendental devotional service of the Supreme Lord. To attain this, one must analyze one's existence, but when one is actually engaged in devotional service, he should