78 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 7, Ch. 7

activities artificially created by the modes of material nature and
stop the flow of the intelligence in wakefulness, dreaming and
deep sleep. In other words, when one takes to Krsna conscious-
ness, his ignorance is immediately dissipated.

PURPORT
This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (14.26):

mam ca yo ’vyabhicadrena
bhakti-yogena sevate

sa gunan samatityaitan
brahma-bhityaya kalpate

“One who engages in full devotional service, who does not fall down in
any circumstance, at once transcends the modes of material nature and
thus comes to the level of Brahman.” By the practice of bhakti-yoga, one
immediately comes to the spiritual platform, transcendental to the ac-
tions and reactions of the three modes of material nature. The root of ig-
norance is material consciousness, which must be killed by spiritual con-
sciousness, or Krsna consciousness. The word bija-nirharanam refers to
burning the root cause of material life to ashes. In the Medini dictionary,
yoga is explained by its result: yoge ‘pirvartha-sampraptau sangati-
dhyana-yuktisu. When one is put into an awkward position because of
ignorance, the process by which one can be freed from this entanglement
is called yoga. This is also called liberation. Muktir hitvényatha-ripam
svaripena vyavasthitih, Mukti means giving up one’s position in ig-
norance or illusion, by which one thinks in a way contrary to his con-
stitutional position. Returning to one’s constitutional position is called
mukti, and the process by which one does this is called yoga. Thus yoga
is above karma, jnana and sankhya. Indeed, yoga is the ultimate goal of
life. Krsna therefore advised Arjuna to become a yogi (tasmad yogi
bhavarjuna). Lord Krsna further advised in Bhagavad-gita that the

first-class yogi is he who has come to the platform of devotional service.

yoginadm api sarvesam
mad-gatenantaratmana
