Text 3] Jada Bharata Instructs King Rahagana 379

cellent source, are insufficient to bring about direct knowledge of
the truth.

PURPORT

In Bhagavad-gité (2.45). Krsna advised Arjuna to become transcen-
dental to the material activities impelled by the three material modes of
nature (traigunya-visaya veda nistraigunyo bhavarjuna). The purpose
of Vedic study is to transcend the activities of the three modes of material
nature. Of course in the material world the mode of goodness is accepted
as the best, and one can be promoted to the higher planetary systems by
being on the sattva-guna platform. However, that is not perfection. One
must come to the conclusion that even the sattva-guna platform is also
not good. One may dream that he has become a king with a good family.
wife and children, but immediately at the end of that dream he comes to
the conclusion that it is false. Similarly, all kinds of material happiness
are undesirable for a person who wants spiritual salvation. If a person
does not come to the conclusion that he has nothing to do with any kind
of material happiness, he cannot come to the platform of understanding
the Absolute Truth, or tattva-jndna. Karmis, janis and yogis are after
some material elevation. The karmis work hard day and night for some
bodily comfort, and the jnanis simply speculate about how to get out of
the entanglement of karma and merge into the Brahman effulgence. The
yogis are very much addicted to the acquisition of material perfection
and magical powers. All of them are trying to be materially perfect. but a
devotee very easily comes to the platform of nirguna in devotional ser-
vice, and consequently for the devotee the results of karma, jrdana and
yoga become very insignificant. Therefore only the devotee is on the
platform of tattva-jndna, not the others. Of course the jridni’s position is
better than that of the karmi but that position is also insufficient. The
jnani must actually become liberated. and after liberation he mav be
situated in devotional service (mad-bhaktim labhate param).

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