1058 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 25

One who has taken shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is
completely protected from all other influences. He no longer serves or is
obliged to anyone else. Of course he is not disobedient to anyone, but his
full power of thought is absorbed in the service of the Lord. The state-
ments by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kapila, that under His
direction the air is blowing, the fire is burning, the sun is giving heat, etc.,
are not sentimental. The impersonalist may say that the Bhagavatam
devotees create and imagine someone as the Supreme Personality of God-
head and assign qualifications to Him;but actually it is neither imagination
nor an imposition of artificial power in the name of Godhead. In the Vedas
it is said, bhisdsmdd vdtah pavate/ bhisodeti siiryah: “By fear of the
Supreme Lord the wind-god and the sun-god are acting.”’ Bhisdsmad agnis
cendras ca/ mrtyur dhavati paficamah: “Agni, Indra, and Mrtyu are also
acting under His direction.” These are the statements of the Vedas.

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Jiiana-vairagya-yuktena
bhakti-yogena yoginah

ksemaya pada-milam me
pravisanty akuto-bhayam

jiana—with knowledge; vairdgya—and renunciation; yuktena—equipped;
bhakti-yogena—by devotional service; yoginah—the yogis; ksemaya—for
eternal benefit; pdda-miilam—feet; me—My; pravisanti—take shelter of;
akutah-bhayam— without fear.

TRANSLATION

The yogis, equipped with transcendental knowledge and renunciation
and engaged in devotional service for their eternal benefit, take shelter of
My lotus feet, and since I am the Lord, they are thus eligible to enter into
the kingdom of Godhead without fear.

PURPORT

One who actually wants to be liberated from the entanglement of this
material world and go back home, back to Godhead, is the mystic yogi.
