nirguna
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Imported quote 18520 Gunan, these guna, samatitya, samyag-rūpena atitya, perfectly overcoming. Sa gunan samatityaitan brahma-bhūyaya kalpate. Immediately he is situated in the Brahman platform. So atma is nirguna. Nirguna stage means when you are engaged in devotional service, that is your nirguna stage. Devotional service is nirguna. All other services or activities... We are rendering service. Either you are rendering service in office, or to your family, or to your cat, or to your dog, or to your government, or to your society-you must be giving some service. There is no escape. But that is saguna service, under these material laws. So you have to give nirguna service. If you give nirguna, then you become nirguna. Then what is that nirguna? When you render service to Krsna.
(More...) So to accept your service, to make you nirguna, prakrteḥ para, Krsna accepts this arca-vigraha to accept your service. Krsna is standing here, you offering, and He is ready to accept your service. "No, I am very poor man." No, the poor, rich, He doesn't concern. Ahaituky apratihata. Service rendering to Krsna cannot be checked in any material circumstance. Ahaituky apratihata. Apratihata means it cannot be checked. Any position, you can do. Mam hi partha vyapasritya ye 'pi syuḥ papa-yonayaḥ [Bg 9.32]. Even if you are born in the low-grade family, papa-yoni, striyaḥ sūdras tatha vaisyas te 'pi yanti param, everyone is delivered. These things are there.
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