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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.3.8
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 8
- dharmārtha uttama-ślokaṁ
- tantuḥ tanvan pitṟn yajet
- rakṣā-kāmaḥ puṇya-janān
- ojas-kāmo marud-gaṇān
dharmafor spiritual advancement-arthaḥfor spiritual advancement — for spiritual advancement; uttamathe Supreme Lord or persons attached to the Supreme Lord-ślokamthe Supreme Lord or persons attached to the Supreme Lord — the Supreme Lord or persons attached to the Supreme Lord; tantuḥfor offspring — for offspring; tanvanand for their protection — and for their protection; pitṟnthe residents of Pitṛloka — the residents of Pitṛloka; yajetmust worship — must worship; rakṣāone who desires protection-kāmaḥone who desires protection — one who desires protection; puṇyapious persons-janānpious persons — pious persons; ojaḥone who desires strength should worship-kāmaḥone who desires strength should worship — one who desires strength should worship; marutthe demigods-gaṇānthe demigods — the demigods.
One should worship Lord Viṣṇu or His devotee for spiritual advancement in knowledge, and for protection of heredity and advancement of a dynasty one should worship the various demigods.
The path of religion entails making progress on the path of spiritual advancement, ultimately reviving the eternal relation with Lord Viṣṇu in His impersonal effulgence, His localized Paramātmā feature, and ultimately His personal feature by spiritual advancement in knowledge. And one who wants to establish a good dynasty and be happy in the progress of temporary bodily relations should take shelter of the Pitās and the demigods in other pious planets. Such different classes of worshipers of different demigods may ultimately reach the respective planets of those demigods within the universe, but he who reaches the spiritual planets in the brahmajyoti achieves the highest perfection.