Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.18.48

etat te 'bhihitaḿ sādho

bhavān pṛcchati yac ca mām

yathā sva-dharma-saḿyukto

bhakto māḿ samiyāt param

SYNONYMS

etat — this; te — unto you; abhihitam — described; sādho — O saintly Uddhava; bhavān — you; pṛcchati — have asked; yat — which; ca — and; mām — from Me; yathā — the means by which; sva-dharma — in one's prescribed duty; saḿyuktaḥ — perfectly engaged; bhaktaḥ — being a devotee; mām — to Me; samiyāt — one may come; param — the Supreme.

TRANSLATION

My dear saintly Uddhava, I have now described to you, just as you inquired, the means by which My devotee, perfectly engaged in his prescribed duty, can come back to Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Thus end the purports of the humble servants of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda to the Eleventh Canto, Eighteenth Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled "Description of Varṇāśrama-dharma."

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