Text 33] The Lord in the Heart 117

follow the authoritative version of the acdryas, he will vainly search after
the truth mentioned in the Vedas.

TEXT 33

aaa: fa: Teun aaa: daalae |
TSAI AAA AKAM Ad AIT U3

na hy ato’nyah sivah pantha
visatah samsrtav tha

vasudeve bhagavati
bhakti-yogo yato bhavet

na—never; hi—certainly; atah—beyond this; anyah—any other; sivah—
auspicious; panthah—means; visatah—wandering; samsrtau—in the material
world; iha—in this life; vasudeve—unto Lord Vasudeva, Krsna; bhagavati—
the Personality of Godhead; bhakti-yogah—directly devotional service;
yatah—wherein; bhavet—may result in.

TRANSLATION

“For those who are wandering in the material universe, there is no more
auspicious means of deliverance than what is aimed at in the direct
devotional service of Lord Krsna.

PURPORT

As willbe clarified in the next verse, devotional service, or direct bhakti-
yoga, is the only absolute and auspicious means of deliverance from the
grip of material existence. There are many indirect methods for deliverance
from the clutches of material existence, but none of them are as easy and
auspicious as bhakti-yoga. The means of jidna and yoga and other allied
disciplines are not independent to deliver a performer. Such activities help
one to reach the stage of bhakti-yoga after many, many years. In the
Bhagavad-gita (Bg. 12.5) it is said that those who are attached to the
impersonal feature of the Absolute are liable to many troubles in the
pursuit of their desired goal, and the empiricist philosophers, searching
