Text 34] Kapila’s Instructions on Devotional Service 1213
autkanthya-bdspa-kalaya muhur ardyamanas
tac capi citta-badigsam Sanakair viyunkte

evam—thus; harau—towards Lord Hari; bhagavati—the Personality of
Godhead; pratilabdha—developed; bhavah—pure love; bhaktya—by devo-
tional service; dravat— melting; hrdayah—his heart; utpulakah—experiencing
standing of the hairs of the body; pramodat—from excessive joy ; autkanthya
—occasioned by intense love; baspa-kalaya—by a stream of tears; muhuh—
constantly; ardyamanah—being afflicted; tat—that; ca—and; api—even;
citta—the mind; badisam—hook; sanakaih— gradually ; viyunkte—withdraws.

TRANSLATION

By following this course, the yogi gradually develops pure love for the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari. In the course of his progress in
devotional service, the hairs on his body stand erect through excessive
joy, and he is constantly bathed in a stream of tears occasioned by
intense love. Gradually, even the mind which he used as a means to
attract the Lord, as one attracts a fish to a hook, withdraws from material
activity.

PURPORT

Here it is clearly mentioned that meditation, which is an action of the
mind, is not the perfect stage of samadhi or absorption. In the beginning
the mind is employed in attracting the form of the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, but in the higher stages there is no question of using the
mind. A devotee becomes accustomed to serving the Supreme Lord by
purification of his senses. In other words, the yoga principles of medita-
tion are required as long as one is not situated in pure devotional service.
The mind is used to purify the senses, but when the senses are purified
by meditation, there is no need to sit in a particular place and to try to
meditate upon the form of the Lord. One becomes so habituated that he
automatically engages in the personal service of the Lord. When the mind
forcibly is engaged upon the form of the Lord, this is called nirbija-yoga,
or lifeless yoga, for the yogi does not automatically engage in the personal
service of the Lord. But when he is constantly thinking of the Lord, that
is called sabija-yoga or living yoga. One has to be promoted to the plat-
form of living yoga.

One should engage in the service of the Lord twenty-four hours a day,
as confirmed in the Brahma-samhita. The stage of premanjana-cchurita
can be attained by developing complete love. When one’s love for the
