340 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 8
is especially mentioned. If one wants to be happy within this material
world, he may aspire to go to the different material planetary systems
where there is a higher standard of sense gratification, but real moksa or
liberation is performed without any such desire. This is explained in the
Bhakti-rasdmrta-sindhu by the term anyabhilasita-sinyam, “without desire
for material sense gratification.”’ For persons who are still inclined to enjoy
material life in different stages or on different planets, the stage of libera-
tion in bhakti-yoga is not recommended. Only persons who are completely
free from the contamination of sense gratification can execute bhakti-
yoga, or the process of devotional service, very purely. The activities on
the path of apavarga up to the stages of dharma, artha and kama are
meant for sense gratification, but when one comes to the stage of moksa,
the impersonalist liberation, the practitioner wants to merge into the
existence of the Supreme. But that is also sense gratification. When one
goes above the stage of liberation, however, he at once becomes one of the
associates of the Lord to render transcendental loving service. That is
technically called mukti. For this specific vimukti liberation Narada Muni
recommends that one directly engage himself in devotional service.
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gqaed oftary cI az TIM: |
wat ongad ged atamrataag 1G
ity uktas tar parikramya
pranamya ca nrparbhakah
yayau madhuvanam punyam
hares carana-carcitam

iti-thus; uktah—being spoken; tam—him (Narada Muni); parikramya—
by circumambulating; pranamya—by offering obeisances; ca—also; nrpa-
arbhakah—the boy of the King; yayau—went to; madhuvanam—a forest in
Vmdavana known as Madhuvana; punyam— which is auspicious and pious;
hareh—of the Lord; carana-carcitam—imprinted by the lotus feet of Lord
Krsna.

TRANSLATION

When Dhruva Maharaja, the son of the King, was thus advised by the
great sage Narada Muni, he circumambulated Narada, his spiritual master,
and offered him respectful obeisances. Then he started for Madhuvana,
which is always imprinted with the lotus footprints of Lord Krsna and
which is therefore especially auspicious.
