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[[Category:Srimad-Bhagavatam, Canto 02 Chapter 09 Purports - Answers by Citing the Lord's Version]]
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<h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2>
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<h3>SB Canto 2</h3>
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Similarly, the liberty of discharging loving transcendental service to the Lord is invested in everyone, even the women, the śūdras, the forest tribes, or any other living beings born in sinful conditions.
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[[Vanisource:SB 2.9.36|SB 2.9.36, Translation and Purport]]
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A person who is searching after the Supreme Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, must certainly search for it up to this, in all circumstances, in all space and time, and both directly and indirectly.
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One who has unflinching devotion unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead must have all the good qualities of the demigods, and contrarily one who is not a devotee of the Lord must be hovering in the darkness of mental speculation and thus must be engaged in material impermanence. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam ([[Vanisource:SB 11.11.18|SB 11.11.18]]) says:

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:śabda-brahmaṇi niṣṇāto
:na niṣṇāyāt pare yadi
:śramas tasya śrama-phalo
:hy adhenum iva rakṣataḥ
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"One may be well versed in all the transcendental literature of the Vedas, but if he fails to be acquainted with the Supreme, then it must be concluded that all of his education is like the burden of a beast or like one's keeping a cow without milking capacity."

Similarly, the liberty of discharging loving transcendental service to the Lord is invested in everyone, even the women, the śūdras, the forest tribes, or any other living beings born in sinful conditions.

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:te vai vidanty atitaranti ca deva-māyāṁ
:strī-śūdra-hūṇa-śabarā api pāpa-jīvāḥ
:yady adbhuta-krama-parāyaṇa-śīlaśikṣās
:tiryag-janā api kimu śruta-dhāraṇā ye
:([[Vanisource:SB 2.7.46|SB 2.7.46]])
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The lowest of human beings can be elevated to the highest stage of devotional life if they are trained by the bona fide spiritual master well versed in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. If the lowest can be so elevated, then what to speak of the highest, who are well versed in the Vedic knowledge? The conclusion is that devotional service to the Lord is open for all, regardless of who they are. That is the confirmation of its application for all kinds of performers of the service.
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