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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 6, Ch. 14]
puruṣam tam aham bhajāmi ). Such persons are described as  moghāśāḥ , baffled in their hopes. Whatever they desire for the future will be baffled. Even if they apparently engage in devotional service, they are described as  moghāśāḥ  because they ultimately desire to merge into the Brahman effulgence.
Those who aspire to be elevated to the heavenly planets by devotional service will also be frustrated, because this is not the result of devotional service. However, they are also given a chance to engage in devotional service and be purified. As stated in  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  (1.2.17):
śrṇvatām sva-kathāḥ krṣṇaḥ puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ hṛdy antaḥ-stho hy abhadrāṇi vidhunoti suhṛt satām
“Śrī Krṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead, who is the Paramātmā [Supersoul] in everyone’s heart and the benefactor of the truthful devotee, cleanses desire for material enjoyment from the heart of the devotee who relishes His messages, which are in themselves virtuous when properly heard and chanted.”
Unless the dirt within the core of one’s heart is cleansed away, one cannot become a pure devotee. Therefore the word  sudurlabhaḥ  (“very rarely found”) is used in this verse. Not only among hundreds and thousands, but among millions of perfectly liberated souls, a pure devotee is hardly ever found. Therefore the words  koṭiṣv api  are used herein. Śrīla Madhvācārya gives the following quotations from the  Tantra Bhāgavata :
nava-koṭyas tu devānām rṣayaḥ sapta-koṭayaḥ nārāyaṇāyanāḥ sarve ye kecit tat-parāyaṇāḥ
“There are ninety million demigods and seventy million sages, who are all called  nārāyaṇāyana , devotees of Lord Nārāyaṇa. Among them, only a few are called  nārāyaṇa-parāyaṇa .”