Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 11.19.27

dharmo mad-bhakti-krt prokto

jnanam caikatmya-darsanam

gunesv asango vairagyam

aisvaryam canimadayah

SYNONYMS

dharmah -- religion; mat -- My; bhakti -- devotional service; krt -- producing; proktah -- it is declared; jnanam -- knowledge; ca -- also; aikatmya -- the presence of the Supreme Soul; darsanam -- seeing; gunesu -- in the objects of sense gratification; asangah -- having no interest; vairagyam -- detachment; aisvaryam -- opulence; ca -- also; anima -- the mystic perfection called anima; adayah -- and so forth.

TRANSLATION

Actual religious principles are stated to be those that lead one to My devotional service. Real knowledge is the awareness that reveals My all-pervading presence. Detachment is complete disinterest in the objects of material sense gratification, and opulence is the eight mystic perfection, such as anima-siddhi.

PURPORT

The Supreme Lord is perfect knowledge; thus one who has been delivered from ignorance automatically engages in the devotional service of the Lord and is called religious. One who becomes detached from the three modes of material nature and the gratificatory objects they produce is considered to be situated in detachment. The eight mystic yoga perfections, described previously by the Lord to Uddhava, constitute material power, or opulence, in the highest degree.

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