Text 20) The Glories of Devotional Service 1023

realizes the other features, namely the Paramatma feature and the Brahman
feature, and that total realization is brahma-siddhi.

TEXT 20
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prasaigam ajaram pasam
atmanah kavayo viduh

sa eva sadhusu krto
moksa-dvaram apavurtam

prasaigam—attachment; ajaram—strong; pasam—entanglement; atmanah
—of the soul; kavayah—learned men; viduh—know; sah eva—that same;
sddhusu—to the devotees; krtah—applied; moksa-dvaram—the door of
liberation; apaévrtam—opened.

TRANSLATION

Every learned man knows very well that attachment for the material is
the greatest entanglement of the spirit soul. But that same attachment,
when applied to the self-realized devotees, opens the door of liberation.

PURPORT

Here it is clearly stated that attachment for one thing is the cause of
bondage in conditioned life, and the same attachment, when applied to
something else, opens the door of liberation. Attachment cannot be
killed; it has simply to be transferred. Attachment for material things is
called material consciousness, and attachment for Krsna or His devotee is
called Krsna consciousness. Consciousness, therefore, is the platform of
attachment. It is clearly stated here that when we simply purify the
consciousness from material consciousness to Krsna consciousness, that is
liberation. Despite the statement that one should give up attachment,
desirelessness is not possible for a living entity. A living entity, by
constitution, has the propensity to be attached to something. We see that
if someone has no object of attachment, if he has no children, then he
transfers his attachment to cats and dogs. This indicates that the pro-
pensity for attachment cannot be stopped; it must be utilized for the best
