By rendering devotional service, one acquires causeless knowledge and detachment
Expressions researched:
"acquire knowledge, jnanam, and vairagyam, detachment"
|"acquire perfect knowledge. One thereby becomes detached"
|"acquires causeless knowledge and detachment"
|"acquiring knowledge and detachment"
|"detachment and advancement in spiritual knowledge acquired"
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 1
By rendering devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, one immediately acquires causeless knowledge and detachment from the world.
Those who consider devotional service to the Supreme Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa to be something like material emotional affairs may argue that in the revealed scriptures, sacrifice, charity, austerity, knowledge, mystic powers and similar other processes of transcendental realization are recommended. According to them, bhakti, or the devotional service of the Lord, is meant for those who cannot perform the high-grade activities. Generally it is said that the bhakti cult is meant for the śūdras, vaiśyas and the less intelligent woman class. But that is not the actual fact. The bhakti cult is the topmost of all transcendental activities, and therefore it is simultaneously sublime and easy. It is sublime for the pure devotees who are serious about getting in contact with the Supreme Lord, and it is easy for the neophytes who are just on the threshold of the house of bhakti.
Page Title: | By rendering devotional service, one acquires causeless knowledge and detachment |
Compiler: | Matea, Labangalatika |
Created: | 19 of Nov, 2009 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=8, CC=1, OB=0, Lec=2, Con=0, Let=1 |
No. of Quotes: | 12 |