134 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 7, Ch. 13

whom are the bhakti-yogis, want to return home, back to Godhead. The
karmis are completely in illusion, the jidnis are neither in illusion nor in
positive knowledge, but the yogis, especially the bhakti-yogis, are com-
pletely on the spiritual platform. As confirmed in Bhagavad-gita
(14.26):
mam ca yo ’vyabhicdrena
bhakti-yogena sevate
sa gunan samatityaitan
brahma-bhityaya kalpate

“One who engages in full devotional service, who does not fall down
under any circumstance, at once transcends the modes of material nature
and thus comes to the level of Brahman.” Thus a devotee’s position is
secure. A devotee is at once elevated to the spiritual platform. Others,
such as jnanis and hatha-yogis, can only gradually ascend to the spiritual
platform by nullifying their material discrimination on the platform of
psychology and nullifying the false ego, by which one thinks, “I am this
body, a product of matter.”” One must merge the false ego into the total
material energy and merge the total material energy into the supreme
energetic. This is the process of becoming free from material attraction.

TEXT 44

AATGTM a Aat FEA AACS Ala |
ant fiat aa argqerrenta fara: Wee II

atmanubhitau tar mayam
Juhuyat satya-dri munih

tato nirtho viramet
svanubhity-atmani sthitah

Gtma-anubhitau—unto self-realization; taém—that; mayam—the
false ego of material existence; juhuyat—should offer as an oblation;
satya-drk—one who has actually realized the ultimate truth; munih—
such a thoughtful person; tatah—because of this self-realization;
nirihah—without material desires; viramet—one must completely retire
from material activities; sva-anubhiti-atmani—in self-realization;

sthitah—thus being situated.
