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Show noteI have given this example that you have got a very nice sputnik, airplane; you can go many thousands and millions miles up. But if you don't get any shelter either in the moon planet or any other planet, then you come back again. The same example. Similarly, you may become brahma-bhutah, Brahman realized, but if you simply remain in the impersonal, or void... Brahma-bhutah means to make this material world null and void and you come to the another world, spiritual world. So if you cannot enter into the spiritual world, mad-bhaktim labhate param [Bg 18.54], if you simply remain brahma-bhutah, then you will fall down. Because you are by nature seeking ananda, blissful life. So if you do not get varieties of life... Just like we want varieties in this material world. This material world is simply imitation of the spiritual world. So we are attached to the varieties; therefore we are seeking ananda. But because it is material and we are spiritual being, we cannot enjoy this ananda, material varieties, fully. There are so many defects, inebrieties, and we are seeking that spiritual variety. So if you don't enter into the spiritual world with spiritual variety, then you will again fall down. That is called bhakti-yoga.
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