Pradyumna: "This eternal engagement in bhakti-rasa can be understood by a serious student upon studying The Nectar of Devotion. Adoption of bhakti-rasa, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, will immediately bring one to an auspicious life, free from anxieties, and will bless one with transcendental existence, thus minimizing the value of liberation. Bhakti-rasa itself is sufficient to produce a feeling of liberation because it attracts the attention of the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa. Generally . . ."
Prabhupāda: Bhakti-rasa is better than liberation, mukti. Because generally, the Māyāvādī philosophers, jñāni-sampradāya, they consider mukti means to merge into the spiritual existence, Brahman. Brahmā-sayujya-mukti, to . . . to merge into the impersonal Brahman effulgence of the Absolute.
They consider it that is the highest. And the Buddha philosophers, they think to make all these activities zero, śūnyavādī. Dismantle. Because on account of this combination of matter—earth, water, fire, air, ether—this body's made, and the body is subjected to pains and pleasure on account of this mixture.
So Buddha philosophy is that you dismantle this mixture. Let earth go to the earth portion and water go to the water portion. Then there is no existence of the body, and there is no pains and pleasure. Make it zero. This is called śūnyavādī. And the Māyāvādī, their philosophy is that stop this variegatedness. We are suffering pains and pleasure within this material world on account of these varieties. So these varieties, they are on . . . built up on the foundation of the Supreme Spirit. So merge into the Supreme Spirit and get out of these varieties. This is their philosophy. So the Buddha philosophy or the Māyāvāda philosophy, they're almost one, because their ultimate goal is to make things zero.