Text 25] Entanglement in Fruitive Activities 1391

PURPORT

The significance of advancement in transcendental knowledge and
detachment from material attraction is exhibited in the personality of a
highly advanced devotee. For him there is nothing agreeable or disagree-
able because he does not act in any way for his personal sense gratifica-
tion. Whatever he does, whatever he thinks, is for the satisfaction of the
Personality of Godhead. Either in the material world or in the spiritual
world, his equipoised mind is completely manifested. He can understand
that in the material world there is nothing good; everything is bad due to
its being contaminated by material nature. The materialists’ conclusions of
good and bad, moral and immoral, etc., are simply mental concoction or
sentiment. Actually there is nothing good in the material world. In the
spiritual field everything is absolutely good. There is no inebriety in the
spiritual varieties. Because a devotee accepts everything in spiritual vision,
he is equipoised; that is the symptom of his being elevated to the tran-
scendental position. He automatically attains detachment, vairdgya, then
jiiana, knowledge, and then actual transcendental knowledge. The conclu-
sion is that an advanced devotee dovetails himself in the transcendental
qualities of the Lord, and in that sense he becomes qualitatively one with
the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

TEXT 25
a aaarerasserd frag TATA |
tarrgartetared TEA NI

sa tadaivatmanatmanam
nihsangam sama-darsanam

heyopadeya-rahitam
arudham padam iksate

sah—the pure devotee; tada—then; eva—certainly; a@tmana@—by his
transcendental intelligence; G@tmanam—himself; nihsangam—without
material attachment; sama-darsanam—equipoised in vision; heya—to be
rejected; upadeya—acceptable; rahitam—devoid of; adridham—elevated;
padam—to the transcendental position; tksate—he sees.

TRANSLATION

Due to his transcendental intelligence, the pure devotee is equipoised in
his vision and sees himself to be uncontaminated by matter. He does not
