1238 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 29

Devotional service in the modes of ignorance, passion and goodness can
be divided into eighty-one categories. There are different devotional
activities, such as hearing, chanting, remembering, worshiping, offering
prayer, rendering service and surrendering everything, and each of them
can be divided into three qualitative categories. There is hearing in the
mode of passion, in the mode of ignorance, and in the mode of goodness.
Similarly, there is chanting in the mode of ignorance, passion and good-
ness, etc. Three multiplied by nine equals twenty-seven, and when again
multiplied by three it becomes eighty-one. One has to transcend all such
mixed materialistic devotional service in order to reach the standard of pure
devotional service, as explained in the next verses.

TEXTS 11-12

Tagore | aT AATTRTTA |
TAMA ASA TA THAME TA 12 2

wal afar fairs acta |
RITE T ARK TTT 12M

mad-guna-sruti-matrena

mayi sarva-guhasaye
manogatir avicchinna

yatha gangambhaso ’mbudhau

laksanam bhakti-yogasya
nirgunasya hy udahrtam
ahaituky avyavahita
ya bhaktih purusottame

mat—of Me; guna—qualities; sruti-by hearing; matrena—just; mayi—
towards Me; sarva-guha-asaye—residing in everyone’s heart; manah-gatih—
the heart’s course ;avicchinné—continuous; yatha—as; ganga—of the Ganges;
ambhasah—of the water; ambudhau—towards the ocean; laksanam—the
manifestation; bhakti-yogasya—of devotional service; nirgunasya—
unadulterated; hi—indeed; udahrtam—exhibited; ahaituki—causeless;
avyavahita—not separated; ya—which; bhaktih—devotional service; purusa-
uttame—towards the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
