Lord Vāsudeva if we serve His lotus feet with devotion then, janayaty āúu vairāgya, he is very quickly detached from the material world and also acquired knowledge. So it is said here, sa vai pusā paro dharmo, so one needs to follow the path of religion but one should follow that path of religion which leads to the developing of devotional service for the Lord, Adhokaja. This is real religion. The Lord is called Adhokaja, which means that He is beyond our mundane knowledge and material senses. It is only an experience, that the Lord is there. The Lord is there, He is there before us but we cannot see him with my material eyes, though I can feel His presence. So that is why he called Adhokaja. By mental speculation, what if God, whether the Lord is formless or with form, what is His form, what are His activities, all these experiences cannot be had through other religions. Only through the superior religion, sa vai pusā paro dharmo. This has been said in the Bhagavad gita also, and the same thing is being said in the Srimad Bhāgavatam, sa vai pusā paro dharmo. And in the Bhagavad gita also the Lord says:
- brahma-bhḻta prasannātmā
- na socati na kākati
When a person is in the brahma-bhḻta stage, when he realizes the Supreme Brahman, then he will not have any desires and no lamentation. 'Till we are in the material concept of life, till then we will be a hankering for the things we don’t possess, "I need to possess that." And when the things we possess are destroyed then there will be lamentation. This is called material life. Material life- hankering and lamentation. And when you are in the brahma-bhḻta stage then these two things will be absent.
- brahma-bhḻta prasannātmā
- na socati na kākati
- sama sarveu bhḻteu
And at that time we can see all the living entities with equanimity. Like, paitā sama-darsina. When one is in actual knowledge, self realized, he sees the soul in every living entity. He doesn’t see the outer covering of the body, that he is a human being, he is an animal, he is a brāhmaa, he is a dog. No, he does not see the body of a dog nor does he see the body of a brāhmaa. He sees the pure soul, this is Brahma-darsana, one who has seen Brahma. We should reach to this level, that is the purpose of human existence. We can adhere to religious principles only in the human form of life, not in any other forms of life. That is why there is a religion for the human beings only not for the animals.