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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 7, Ch. 13]
whom are the  bhakti-yogīs , want to return home, back to Godhead. The  karmīs  are completely in illusion, the  jñānīs  are neither in illusion nor in positive knowledge, but the  yogīs , especially the  bhakti-yogīs , are completely on the spiritual platform. As confirmed in  Bhagavad-gītā  (14.26):
māṁ ca yo 'vyabhicāreṇa  
 bhakti-yogena sevate  
 sa guṇān samatītyaitān  
 brahma-bhūyāya kalpate
“One who engages in full devotional service, who does not fall down under any circumstance, at once transcends the modes of material nature and thus comes to the level of Brahman.” Thus a devotee’s position is secure. A devotee is at once elevated to the spiritual platform. Others, such as  jñānīs  and  haṭha-yogīs , can only gradually ascend to the spiritual platform by nullifying their material discrimination on the platform of psychology and nullifying the false ego, by which one thinks, “I am this body, a product of matter.” One must merge the false ego into the total material energy and merge the total material energy into the supreme energetic. This is the process of becoming free from material attraction.
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अत्मानुभूतौ तां मायां जुहुयात् सत्यदृङ्मुनिः ।  
 ततो निरीहो विरमेत् स्वानुभूत्यात्मनि स्थितः ॥४४॥
ātmānubhūtau tāṁ māyāṁ  
 juhuyāt satya-dṛṅ muniḥ  
 tato niriho viramet  
 svānubhūty-ātmani sthitaḥ
ātma-anubhūtau —unto self-realization;  tām —that;  māyām —the false ego of material existence;  juhuyāt —should offer as an oblation;  satya-dṛk —one who has actually realized the ultimate truth;  muniḥ —such a thoughtful person;  tataḥ —because of this self-realization;  nirihaḥ —without material desires;  viramet —one must completely retire from material activities;  sva-anubhūti-ātmani —in self-realization;  sthitaḥ —thus being situated.