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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.3.8
ojas-kāmo marud-ganān
SYNONYMS
dharma-arthah — for spiritual advancement; uttama-ślokam — the Supreme Lord or persons attached to the Supreme Lord; tantuh — for offspring; tanvan — and for their protection; pitrin — the residents of Pitriloka; yajet — must worship; rakshā-kāmah — one who desires protection; punya-janān — pious persons; ojah-kāmah — one who desires strength should worship; marut-ganān — the demigods.
TRANSLATION
One should worship Lord Vishnu or His devotee for spiritual advancement in knowledge, and for protection of heredity and advancement of a dynasty one should worship the various demigods.
PURPORT
The path of religion entails making progress on the path of spiritual advancement, ultimately reviving the eternal relation with Lord Vishnu 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.
Copyright © r The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness