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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.4.15
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 15
- ko nv īśa te pāda-saroja-bhājāṁ
- sudurlabho 'rtheṣu caturṣv apīha
- tathāpi nāhaṁ pravṛṇomi bhūman
- bhavat-padāmbhoja-niṣevaṇotsukaḥ
kaḥO my Lord nuO my Lord īśaO my Lord — O my Lord; teYour — Your; pādaof the devotees engaged in the transcendental loving service of Your lotus feet-sarojaof the devotees engaged in the transcendental loving service of Your lotus feet-bhājāmof the devotees engaged in the transcendental loving service of Your lotus feet — of the devotees engaged in the transcendental loving service of Your lotus feet; suvery difficult to obtain-durlabhaḥvery difficult to obtain — very difficult to obtain; artheṣuin the matter of — in the matter of; caturṣuin the four objectives — in the four objectives; apiin spite of — in spite of; ihain this world — in this world; tathāyet apiyet — yet; nado not — do not; ahamI — I; pravṛṇomiprefer — prefer; bhūmanO great one — O great one; bhavatYour — Your; padalotus feet-ambhojalotus feet — lotus feet; niṣevaṇaanxious to serve-utsukaḥanxious to serve — anxious to serve.
O my Lord, devotees who engage in the transcendental loving service of Your lotus feet have no difficulty in achieving anything within the realm of the four principles of religiosity, economic development, sense gratification and liberation. But, O great one, as far as I am concerned, I have preferred only to engage in the loving service of Your lotus feet.
Those who are associated with the Lord in the Vaikuṇṭha planets achieve all the bodily features of the Lord and appear to be the same as Lord Viṣṇu. Such liberation is called sārūpya-mukti, which is one of the five kinds of liberation. The devotees engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord never accept the sāyujya-mukti, or merging in the rays of the Lord called the brahmajyoti. The devotees can achieve not only liberation but any success in the realm of religiosity, economic development or sense gratification up to the standard of the demigods in the heavenly planets. But such a pure devotee as Uddhava refuses to accept all such facilities. A pure devotee wants simply to engage in the service of the Lord and does not consider his own personal benefit.