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dge along with devotional service to the people in general. Lord Chaitanya is the Original Personality of Godhead, and is compared with the ocean of mercy. "Let me surrender unto that Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu." The other verse states, "The Lord, seeing that devotional service was absent, descended Himself in the Form of Lord Chaitanya to preach that devotional service. Let us all surrender unto His Lotus Feet to learn from Him what is actual devotional service." These two important verses are taken by the devotees of the Lord in discipline succession, as the most important jewels, and Sarbabhouma Bhattacharya has become highest amongst the devotees because of these famous verses.
Sarbabhouma Bhattacharya was thus converted to become one of the important devotees of the Lord, and he had no other interest than to serve the Lord. His only concern was to think of Lord Chaitanya constantly, and this meditation and chanting became the main purpose of his life. One day Sarbabhouma Bhattacharya came before the Lord, and after offering his respects he began to read a verse from the  Srimad Bhagwatam . This verse is stated in the Tenth Canto, Fourteenth Chapter, in connection with Lord Brahma's prayer to the Lord. Sarbabhouma Bhattacharya wanted to change two letters in the last portion of the verse, where the word  Muktipade  occurs. Sarbabhouma Bhattacharya wanted to change it into  Bhakti . The purport of the verse is: A person who devotes his mind, body and speech to the service of the Lord, even in the midst of miserable life due to past misdeeds, is assured of liberation. And Bhattacharya wanted to change the  Mukti , to  Bhakti —devotional service.
The Lord inquired from Bhattacharya, "Why have you changed the original verse? The word is  Mukti , and why have you changed it into  Bhakti ?" Bhattacharya replied that  Mukti  is not so valuable as  Bhakti ; and therefore  Mukti  is a sort of punishment for the pure devotee. He had therefore changed the word from  Mukti  to  Bhakti . He began to explain his realization of  Bhakti , and said, "Any person who does not accept the transcendental Personality of Godhead and His transcendental Form cannot know the Absolute Truth.
Anyone who does not understand the transcendental nature of the Body of Krishna becomes His enemy and decries or fights with Him. And for such enemies of the Lord, the destination is to merge into the Brahman effulgence of the Lord. Such kind of  Mukti  or liberation is never befitting the devotees of the Lord. Although there are five kinds of liberation, as, (1) getting admission to the same planet in which the Lord resides, (2) being able to associate with the Lord, (3) having a transcendental body like the Lord, (4) having