92 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 1, Ch. 2

experience in material existence. This relation of servant and the served
is the most congenial form of intimacy. One can realize it as devotional
service progresses. Everyone should engage himself in that transcendental
loving service of the Lord, even in the present conditional state of material
existence. That will gradually give one the clue to actual life and please
him to complete satisfaction.

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vasudeve bhagavati
bhakti-yogah prayojitah

Janayaty asu vairagyam
jiadnam ca yad ahaitukam

vasudeve—unto Krsna; bhagavati—unto the Personality of Godhead;
bhakti-yogah—contact of devotional service; prayojitah—being applied;
Janayati—does produce; asu—very soon; vairagyam—detachment; jnanam—
knowledge; ca—and; yat—that which; ahaitukam—causeless.

TRANSLATION

By rendering devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead, Sri
Krsna, one immediately acquires causeless knowledge and detachment
from the world.

PURPORT

Those who consider devotional service of the Supreme Lord Sri Krsna
to be something like material emotional affairs may argue that in the
revealed scriptures, sacrifice, charity, austerity, knowledge, mystic powers
and similar other processes of transcendental realization are recommended.
According to them, bhakti, or devotional service of the Lord, is meant
for those who cannot perform the high-grade activities. Generally it is
said that the bhakti cult is meant for the sidras, vaisyas and the less
intelligent woman class. But that is not the actual fact. The bhakti cult
is the topmost of all transcendental activities, and therefore it is simul-
taneously sublime and easy. It is sublime for the pure devotees who are
