SB 3.28.44

As it is stated in Bhagavad-gita that the spell of maya, which is covering the knowledge of the living entities, is insurmountable, but one can conquer over this insurmountable spell of maya who surrenders unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna. Similarly, here also the same thing is stated that the daivi prakrti, or the energy of the Supreme Lord, is durvibhavyam, very difficult to understand or very difficult to conquer over. But one has to conquer over this insurmountable spell of maya, and that is possible by the grace of the Lord when God or the Supreme Lord reveals Himself to the surrendered soul. And it is stated here: svarūpenavatisthate. Svarūp..., (s-w-a-r-u-p-e-n-a, svarūpena; avatisthate, a-v-a-t-i, avat, t-i-s-t-h-a-t) svarūpenavatisthate. Svarūpa means one has to know that he is not the Supreme Soul, but he is part and parcel of the Supreme Soul. That is the understanding, self-realization. Falsely to think of that one is the Supreme Soul and he is all-pervading, this is not svarūpa. This is not realization of his real position. The real position is that he is part and parcel. To…, to remain in that position is really self-realization, and that is recommended here. And in the Bhagavad-gita it is stated that this understanding is called Brahman realization. And after Brahman realization, one can be engaged in the activities of Brahman. So long one is not self-realized, he's engaged in the activities of the false identification of the body. And when one is situated in his real self, the activities of Brahman realization begins. The Mayavadi philosophers says that after Brahman realization all activity stops, but that is not actually the position. Soul…, if the soul in its abnormal condition existing under the covering of matter has so much activities, how one can deny his activities when he is free? The example may be cited here, if a man in diseased condition is full of activities or he is very active, how one can imagine that when he is free from the diseased condition he can be inactive? Naturally the conclusion is that when one is free from all diseased condition, his activities are pure. It may be said that the activities of Brahman realization is different from the activities of conditional life, but there is no stoppage of activities and this is indicated in the Bhagavad-gita [Bg 18.54] that after realizing oneself as Brahman, then devotional service begins: mad-bhaktim labhate param. After Brahman realization, one can be engaged in the devotional service of the Lord. Therefore, devotional service of the Lord is the activities in Brahman realization. Or in other words, those who are engaged in devotional service, for them there is no spell of maya and his situation is all-perfect. And the devotional service means that the living entities being part and parcel, his duty is to render service to the whole. That is the ultimate perfection of life.

Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of Chapter Twenty-eight, Third Canto, Srimad-Bhagavatam, in the matter of "Execution of Devotional Service instructed by Lord Kapila."