Text 44] The Glories of Devotional Service 1059
The words explicitly used here are yuktena bhakti-yogena. Those yogis or
mystics who engage in devotional service are the first-class yogis. The first-
class yogis, as described in Bhagavad-gitd, are those who are constantly
thinking of the Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna. These
yogis are not without knowledge and renunciation. To become a bhakti-
yogi means to automatically attain knowledge and renunciation. That is
the consequent result of bhakti-yoga. In the Bhagavatam, First Canto,
Second Chapter it is also confirmed that one who engages in devotional
service of Vasudeva, Krsna, has complete transcendental knowledge and
renunciation, and there is no explanation for these attainments. Ahaituki—
without reason, they come. Even if a person is completely illiterate, simply
because of his engagement in devotional service, the transcendental
knowledge of the scriptures is revealed unto him. That is also stated in the
Vedic literature. To anyone who has full faith in the Supreme Personality
of Godhead and the spiritual master, all the import of the Vedic literatures
is revealed. He doesn’t have to seek separately; the yogis who engage in
devotional service are full in knowledge and renunciation. If there is a lack
of knowledge and renunciation, it is to be understood that he is not in full
devotional service. The conclusion is that one cannot be sure of entrance
into the spiritual realm—in either the impersonal brahmajyoti effulgence
of the Lord or the Vaikuntha planets within that Brahman effulgence—
unless he is surrendered unto the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord. The
surrendered souls are called akuto-bhaya. They are doubtless and fearless,
and their entrance into the spiritual kingdom is guaranteed.
TEXT 44
udatad aiasteg gat ftaaea: |
dan afratta rat aaftd faq evil
etavan eva loke ’smin
pumsam nihsreyasodayah
tivrena bhakti-yogena
mano mayy arpitam sthiram
etavan eva—only so far; loke asmin—in this world; purnsam—of men;
nihsreyasa—final perfection of life; udayah—the attainment of; tivrena—
intense; bhakti-yogena—by practice of devotional service; manah—mind;
mayi—in Me; arpitam—fixed; sthiram—steady.
