Text 61] Dhruva Maharaja Leaves Home for the Forest 339
PURPORT

Devotional service is so potent that one who renders devotional service
can receive whatever he likes as a benediction from the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. The conditioned souls are very attached to the
material world, and thus, by performing religious rites, they want the
material benefits known as dharma and artha.

TEXT 61
fraafrret afer ara
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aq freaenaa wsrarat awa 1821
viraktascendriya-ratau
bhakti-yogena bhiiyasa
tar nirantara-bhdvena
bhajetaddha vimuktaye

viraktah ca—completely renounced order of life; indriya-ratau—in the
matter of sense gratification; bhakti-yogena—by the process of devotional
service; bhiiyasd—with great seriousness; tam—unto Him (the Supreme);
nirantara—constantly, twenty-four hours daily; bhavena—in the topmost
stage of ecstasy; bhajeta—must worship; addha—directly; vimuktaye—for
liberation.

TRANSLATION

If one is very serious about liberation, then he must stick to the process
of transcendental loving service, engaging twenty-four hours a day in the
highest stage of ecstasy, and he must certainly be aloof from all activities
of sense gratification.

PURPORT

There are different stages of perfection according to different persons’
objectives. Generally people are karmis, for they engage in activities of
sense gratification. Above the karmis arc the jidnis, who arc trying to
become liberated from material entanglement. Yogis are still more ad-
vanced because they meditate on the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality
of Godhead. And above all these are the devotees, who simply engage in
the transcendental loving service of the Lord; they are situated seriously
on the topmost platform of ecstasy.

Here Dhruva Maharaja is advised that if he has no desire for sense
gratification, then he should directly engage himself in the transcendental
loving service of the Lord. The path of apavarga, or liberation, begins from
the stage called mokga. In this verse the word vimuktaye, “for liberation,”
