SRI BRAHMA-SAMHITA

Verse 60

yasyah sreyaskaram nasti yaya nirvrtim apnuyat
ya sadhayati mam eva bhaktim tam eva sadhayet [60]

Translation: Sadhana-bhakti, or practising devotional life, is the means to the objective—prema-bhakti, devotion in love. Of all that is auspicious, there is absolutely nothing beyond prema-bhakti; it brings in its retinue divine ecstatic joy, and it can give Me to My devotee.

Purport: There is no greater good for the jiva beyond prema-bhakti. It is the objective of all devotional practices, and the ultimate transcendental ecstasy of the soul. It is only by virtue of prema-bhakti that one can attain the lotus feet of Krishna. One who cultivates his practising devotional life with deep longing and earnestness for that objective will attain that treasure; others cannot.

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