mad-bhaktaḥ pratibuddhārtho

mad-bhaktaḥ pratibuddhārtho

mat-prasādena bhūyasā

niḥśreyasaṁ sva-saṁsthānaṁ

kaivalyākhyaṁ mad-āśrayam

prāpnotīhāñjasā dhīraḥ

sva-dṛśā cchinna-saṁśayaḥ

yad gatvā na nivarteta

yogī liṅgād vinirgame

When a sage engages for many lifetimes in meditation on ātmā with complete detachment from everything in all the worlds including Brahma-loka, and becomes my devotee, understanding the ultimate truth-- by my bountiful mercy, he easily attains the highest benefit, his svarūpa, called Brahman, which is under my shelter. Having attained that position, having cut all doubt by his knowledge of ātmā, having destroyed the subtle body, the steady yogī does not return.

Svasaṁsthānam means the svarūpa beyond the material body, called Brahman (kaivalyākhyam). I am the shelter of that Brahman, for it is said brahmaṇo hi pratiṣṭhāham: I am the basis of Brahman. (BG 14.27) When the subtle body is destroyed and doubts are cut by knowledge of the pure ātmā, the yogī does not return.

 

|| 3.27.30 ||

yadā na yogopacitāsu ceto

māyāsu siddhasya viṣajjate 'ṅga

ananya-hetuṣv atha me gatiḥ syād

ātyantikī yatra na mṛtyu-hāsaḥ

 

When the yogī’s heart is no longer attracted to the abundant enjoyments available only through yoga, he can attain final liberation, where death can show no pride.

There are many secondary effects in the form of various enjoyments including the siddhis. The yogī should not be attracted to these. When the yogī does not fix his mind on various abundant (upacitāsu) enjoyments (māyāsu), which are only due to yoga (ananya-hetuṣu), final liberation will take place, in which death’s pride does not exist. Death has pride in the fact that even the perfect yogī is under his control, if the yogī has material attachments.

 

Thus ends the commentary on Twenty-seventh Chapter of the Third Canto of the Bhāgavatam for the pleasure of the devotees, in accordance with the previous ācāryas.