Text 46] Vidura’s Talks with Maitreya 211
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panena te deva katha-sudhayah
pravrddha-bhaktya visadasaya ye

vairdgya-saram pralilabhya bodham
yathaijasdnviyur akuntha-dhisnyam

panena—by drinking; te—of You; deva—O Lord; katha—topics;
sudhayah—of the nectar; pravrddha—highly enlightened; bhaktya—by
devotional service; visada-asaya—with a greatly serious attitude; ye—
those; vairagya-saram—the entire purport of renunciation; pratilabh ya—
achieving; bodham—intelligence; yatha—as much as; afjasa—quickly;
anviyuh—achieve; akuntha-dhisn yam—Vaikunthaloka in the spiritual sky.

TRANSLATION

O Lord, persons who, because of their serious attitude, attain the stage
of enlightened devotional service achieve the complete meaning of
renunciation and knowledge and attain the Vaikunthaloka in the spiritual

sky simply by drinking the nectar of Your topics.
PURPORT

The difference between the impersonalistic mental speculators and the
pure devotees of the Lord is that the former pass through a miserable
understanding of the Absolute Truth at every stage, whereas the devotees
enter into the kingdom of all pleasures even from the beginning of their
attempt. The devotee has only to hear about devotional activities, which
are as simple as anything in ordinary life, and he also acts very simply,
whereas the mental speculator has to pass through a jugglery of words,
which are partially facts and partially a make-show for the maintenance of
an artificial impersonal! status. In spite of his strenuous efforts to attain
perfect knowledge, the impersonalist attains merging into the impersonal
oneness of the brahmajyoti of the Lord, which is also attained by the
enemies of the Lord simply because of their being killed by Him. The
devotees, however, attain to the highest stage of knowledge and renuncia-
tion and achieve the Vaikunthalokas, the planets in the spiritual sky. The
impersonalist attains only the sky, and does not achieve any tangible
transcendental bliss, whereas the devotee attains to the planets where real
spiritual life prevails. With a serious attitude, the devotee throws away all
