1446 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 33

third stage in devotional service. There are nine stages of devotional service.
The first is hearing, and then comes chanting and then contemplating. By
executing devotional service, therefore, one automatically becomes an
expert jiant and an expert yogi. in other words, jfiana and yoga are
different preliminary stages of devotional service.

Devahuti was expert in accepting the real substance; she contemplated
the form of Visnu in detail as advised by her smiling son, Kapiladeva. At
the same time, she was thinking of Kapiladeva, who is the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, and therefore she completely perfected her
austerities, penances and transcendental realization.

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nityariidha-samadhitvat
paravrtta-guna-bhrama

na sasmara tadatmanam
svapne drstam ivotthitah

nitya—eternal; aridha—situated in; samadhitvat—from trance; paraurtta—
freed from; guna—of the modes of material nature; bhrama—illusion; na
sasmara—she did not remember; tada—then; dtmanam—her material body;
svapne—in a dream; drstam—seen; iva—just as; utthitah—one who has arisen.

TRANSLATION

Situated in eternal trance and freed from illusion impelled by the modes
of material nature, she forgot her material body, just as one forgets his
different bodies in a dream.

PURPORT

A great Vaisnava said that he who has no remembrance of his body is
not bound to material existence. As long as we are conscious of our bodily
existence, it is to be understood that we are living conditionally, under the
three modes of material nature. When one forgets his bodily existence, his
conditional material life is over. This forgetfulness is actually possible
when we engage our senses in the transcendental loving service of the
