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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 6, Ch. 1]
Parīkṣit Mahārāja was astonished that the living entities in the conditional stage do not accept the path of liberation, devotional service, instead of suffering in so many hellish conditions. This is the symptom of a Vaiṣṇava.  Vāñchā-kalpa-tarubhyaś ca kṛpā-sindhubhya eva ca : a Vaiṣṇava is an ocean of mercy.  Para-duḥkha-duḥkhī : he is unhappy because of the unhappiness of others. Therefore Parīkṣit Mahārāja, being compassionate toward the conditioned souls suffering in hellish life, suggested that Śukadeva Gosvāmī continue describing the path of liberation, which he had explained in the beginning of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam . The word  asaṁsṛti  is very important in this connection.  Saṁsṛti  refers to continuing on the path of birth and death.  Asaṁsṛti , on the contrary, refers to  nivṛtti-mārga , or the path of liberation, by which one's birth and death cease and one gradually progresses to Brahmaloka, unless one is a pure devotee who does not care about going to the higher planetary systems, in which case one immediately returns home, back to Godhead, by executing devotional service ( tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti ). Parīkṣit Mahārāja, therefore, was very eager to hear from Śukadeva Gosvāmī about the path of liberation for the conditioned soul.
According to the opinion of the  ācāryas , the word  krama-yogopalabdhena  indicates that by first performing  karma-yoga  and then  jñāna-yoga  and finally coming to the platform of  bhakti-yoga , one can be liberated.  Bhakti-yoga , however, is so powerful that it does not depend on  karma-yoga  or  jñāna-yoga .  Bhakti-yoga  itself is so powerful that even an impious man with no assets in  karma-yoga  or an illiterate with no assets in  jñāna-yoga  can undoubtedly be elevated to the spiritual world if he simply adheres to  bhakti-yoga .  Mām evaiṣyasy asaṁśayaḥ . Kṛṣṇa says in  Bhagavad-gītā  (8.7) that by the process of  bhakti-yoga  one undoubtedly goes back to Godhead, back home to the spiritual world.  Yogīs , however, instead of going directly to the spiritual world, sometimes want to see other planetary systems, and therefore they ascend to the planetary system where Lord Brahmā lives, as indicated here by the word  brahmaṇā . At the time of dissolution, Lord Brahmā, along with all the inhabitants of Brahmaloka, goes directly to the spiritual world. This is confirmed in the  Vedas  as follows:
brahmaṇā saha te sarve samprāpte pratisañcare