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Bhakti Yoga - Only Devotees Understand
Chapter 18. Conclusion--The Perfection of Renunciation

TEXT 55

bhaktya mam abhijanati
yavan yas casmi tattvatah
tato mam tattvato jnatva
visate tad-anantaram

SYNONYMS
bhaktya--by pure devotional service; mam--Me; abhijanati--one can know; yavan--as much as; yah ca asmi--as I am; tattvatah--in truth; tatah--thereafter; mam--Me; tattvatah--by truth; jnatva--knowing; visate--enters; tat-anantaram--thereafter.

TRANSLATION
One can understand the Supreme Personality as He is only by devotional service. And when one is in full consciousness of the Supreme Lord by such devotion, he can enter into the kingdom of God.

“Na aham thisthAmi vaikunthe, yoginAm hridaye na cha
Mudd bhakta yatra gAyanti, tatra thisthAmi NArada”.

[Oh Narada, neither you would find Me in Vaikuntha nor you
would get Me by following the wandering yogis, wherever My
devotee calls for Me, I make
My self available to him.]
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