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TEXT 39
namo namas te khila-mantra-devata-
dravyaya sarva-kratave kriyatmane
vairagya-bhaktyatmajayanubhavita-
jnanaya vidya-gurave namo namah
SYNONYMS
namah namahobeisances unto You; teunto You, who are worshipable; akhilaall-inclusive; mantrahymns; devatathe Supreme Lord; dravyayaunto all ingredients for performing sacrifices; sarva-krataveunto all kinds of sacrifices; kriya-atmaneunto You, the supreme form of all sacrifices; vairagyarenunciation; bhaktyaby devotional service; atma-jaya-anubhavitaperceivable by conquering the mind; jnanayasuch knowledge; vidya-guravethe supreme spiritual master of all knowledge; namah namahagain I offer my respectful obeisances.
TRANSLATION
O Lord, You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead and are worshipable by universal prayers, Vedic hymns and sacrificial ingredients. We offer our obeisances unto You. You can be realized by the pure mind freed from all visible and invisible material contamination. We offer our respectful obeisances to You as the supreme spiritual master of knowledge in devotional service.
PURPORT
The qualification of bhakti, or devotional service to the Lord, is that the devotee should be free from all material contaminations and desires. This freedom is called vairagya, or renouncement of material desires. One who engages in devotional service to the Lord according to regulative principles is automatically freed from material desires, and in that pure state of mind one can realize the Personality of Godhead. The Personality of Godhead, being situated in everyones heart, instructs the devotee regarding pure devotional service so that he may ultimately achieve the association of the Lord. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (10.10) as follows:
To one who constantly engages in the devotional service of the Lord with faith and love, the Lord certainly gives the intelligence to achieve Him at the ultimate end.
One has to conquer the mind, and one may do it by following the Vedic rituals and by performing different types of sacrifice. The ultimate end of all those performances is to attain bhakti, or the devotional service of the Lord. Without bhakti one cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The original Personality of Godhead or His innumerable expansions of Visnu are the only objects of worship by all the Vedic rituals and sacrificial performances.
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