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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 7, Ch. 15]
four kinds of pious men render devotional service unto Me.” One who takes to devotional service, even with some material motive, is considered pious, and because he has come to Kṛṣṇa, he will gradually come to the stage of  bhakti . Then, like Dhruva Mahārāja, he will refuse to accept any material benediction from the Lord ( svāmin kṛtārtho 'smi varaṁ na yāce ). Therefore, even if one is materially inclined, one may take to the shelter of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, or Gaura and Nitāi, so that he will very soon be purified of all material desires ( kṣipraṁ bhavati dharmātmā śaśvac chāntiṁ nigacchati ). As soon as one is freed from inclinations toward pious and impious activities, he becomes a perfect candidate for returning home, back to Godhead.
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हिंसं द्रव्यमयं काम्यमग्निहोत्राद्यशान्तिदम् ।
दर्शश्च पूर्णमासश्च चातुर्मास्यं पशुः सुतः ॥४८॥
एतदिष्टं प्रवृत्ताल्यं हुतं प्रहुतमेव च ।
पूतं सुरालयारामकूपाजोव्यादिलक्षणम् ॥४९॥
hiṁsraṁ dravyamayaṁ kāmyam agni-hotrādy-aśāntidam darśaś ca pūrṇamāsaś ca cāturmāsyaṁ paśuḥ sutaḥ
etad iṣṭaṁ pravṛttākhyaṁ hutaṁ prahutam eva ca pūrtaṁ surālayārāma- kūpājīvyādi-lakṣaṇam
hiṁsram—a system of killing and sacrificing animals; dravya-mayam—requiring much paraphernalia; kāmyam—full of unlimited material desires; agni-hotra-ādi—ritualistic ceremonies such as the agni-hotra-yajña; aśānti-dam—causing anxieties; darśaḥ—the darśa ritualistic ceremony; ca—and; pūrṇamāsaḥ—the pūrṇamāsa ritualistic ceremony; ca—also; cāturmāsyam—observing four months of regulative principles; paśuḥ—the ceremony of sacrificing animals or paśu-yajña; sutaḥ—the soma-yajña; etat—of all this; iṣṭam—the goal;