Bs 5.60

TEXT 60

TEXT

yasyah sreyas-karam nasti

yaya nirvrtim apnuyat

ya sadhayati mam eva

bhaktim tam eva sadhayet

SYNONYMS

yasyah-than which; sreyah-karam-superior well-being; na-not; asti-there is; yaya-by which; nirvrtim-supreme bliss; apnuyat-one can attain; ya-who; sadhayati-leads; mam-to Me; eva-certainly; bhaktim-loving devotion; tam-that; eva-indeed; sadhayet-one should perform.

TRANSLATION

These preliminary practices of devotion [sadhana-bhakti] are conducive to the realization of loving devotion. [Loving devotion]-than whom there is no superior well-being, who goes hand in hand with the attainment of the exclusive state of supreme bliss and who can lead to Myself.

PURPORT

The jiva-soul has no better well-being than loving devotion. In this is realized the final beatitude of jivas. The lotus feet of Krsna are attainable only by loving devotion. He who cultivates the preliminary devotional activities anxiously keeping in view that realized state of devotion can alone attain to that object of all endeavor. None else can have the same.