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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.24.76
adhīyāno durārādhyam
SYNONYMS
yah — anyone; imam — this; śraddhayā — with great faith; yuktah — devoutly attached; mat-gītam — the song composed by me or sung by me; bhagavat-stavam — a prayer offered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead; adhīyānah — by regular study; durārādhyam — very difficult to worship; harim — the Supreme Personality of Godhead; ārādhayati — he can, however, worship Him; asau — such a person.
TRANSLATION
Although rendering devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead and worshiping Him are very difficult, if one vibrates or simply reads this stotra [prayer] composed and sung by me, he will very easily be able to invoke the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
PURPORT
It is especially significant that Lord Śiva is a pure devotee of Lord Vāsudeva. Vaishnavānām yathā śambhuh: "Amongst all Vaishnavas, Lord Śiva is the topmost." Consequently Lord Śiva has a sampradāya, a Vaishnava disciplic succession, called the Rudra-sampradāya. At the present moment those who belong to the Vishnusvāmi-sampradāya of Vaishnavas come from Rudra, Lord Śiva. To become a devotee of Lord Krishna, Vāsudeva, is very, very difficult. The word especially used in this connection is durārādhyam. The worship of the demigods is not very difficult, but becoming a devotee of Lord Vāsudeva, Krishna, is not so easy. However, if one adheres to the principles and follows in the footsteps of the higher authorities, as advised by Lord Śiva, one can easily become a devotee of Lord Vāsudeva. This is also confirmed by Prahlāda Mahārāja. Devotional service cannot be practiced by a mental speculator. Devotional service is a special attainment which can be acquired only by a person who has surrendered unto a pure devotee. As confirmed by Prahlāda Mahārāja, mahīyasām pāda-rajo-'bhishekam nishkińcanānām na vrinīta yāvat: "Unless one accepts the dust of the lotus feet of a pure devotee, who is free from all material contamination, one cannot enter into the devotional service of the Lord." (Bhāg. 7.5.32)
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness