तस्मिन्नारायणपदे एकान्तमतयो गतिम् ॥४७॥
अवापुर्दुरवापां ते असद्भिर्विषयात्मभिः ।
विधूतकल्मषा स्थानं विरजेनात्मनैव हि ॥४८॥
tad-dhyÄnodriktayÄ bhaktyÄ
viÅ›uddha-dhiá¹£aṇÄḥ pare
tasmin nÄrÄyaṇa-pade
ekÄnta-matayo gatim
avÄpur duravÄpÄá¹ te
asadbhir viá¹£ayÄtmabhiḥ
vidhÅ«ta-kalmaá¹£Ä sthÄnaá¹
virajenÄtmanaiva hi
1 times this text was mentioned in purports to other texts: LSB(1)
tat - that; dhyÄna - positive meditation; utriktayÄ - being freed from; bhaktyÄ - by a devotional attitude; viÅ›uddha - purified; dhiá¹£aṇÄḥ - by intelligence; pare - unto the Transcendence; tasmin - in that; nÄrÄyaṇa - the Personality of Godhead ÅšrÄ« Kṛṣṇa; pade - unto the lotus feet; ekÄnta-matayaḥ - of those who are fixed in the Supreme, who is one; gatim - destination; avÄpuḥ - attained; duravÄpÄm - very difficult to obtain; te - by them; asadbhiḥ - by the materialists; viá¹£aya-Ätmabhiḥ - absorbed in material needs; vidhÅ«ta - washed off; kalmaá¹£Äḥ - material contaminations; sthÄnam - abode; virajena - without material passion; ÄtmanÄ eva - by the selfsame body; hi - certainly.
Thus by pure consciousness due to constant devotional remembrance, they attained the spiritual sky, which is ruled over by the Supreme NÄrÄyaṇa, Lord Kṛṣṇa. This is attained only by those who meditate upon the one Supreme Lord without deviation. This abode of the Lord ÅšrÄ« Kṛṣṇa, known as Goloka Vá¹›ndÄvana, cannot be attained by persons who are absorbed in the material conception of life. But the PÄṇá¸avas, being completely washed of all material contamination, attained that abode in their very same bodies.
According to ÅšrÄ«la JÄ«va GosvÄmÄ«, a person freed from the three modes of material qualities, namely goodness, passion and ignorance, and situated in transcendence can reach the highest perfection of life without change of body. ÅšrÄ«la SanÄtana GosvÄmÄ« in his Hari-bhakti-vilÄsa says that a person, whatever he may be, can attain the perfection of a twice-born brÄhmaṇa by undergoing the spiritual disciplinary actions under the guidance of a bona fide spiritual master, exactly as a chemist can turn gun metal into gold by chemical manipulation. It is therefore the actual guidance that matters in the process of becoming a brÄhmaṇa, even without change of body, or in going back to Godhead without change of body. ÅšrÄ«la JÄ«va GosvÄmÄ« remarks that the word hi used in this connection positively affirms this truth, and there is no doubt about this factual position. The Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ (14.26) also affirms this statement of ÅšrÄ«la JÄ«va GosvÄmÄ« when the Lord says that anyone who executes devotional service systematically without deviation can attain the perfection of Brahman by surpassing the contamination of the three modes of material nature, and when the Brahman perfection is still more advanced by the selfsame execution of devotional service, there is no doubt at all that one can attain the supreme spiritual planet, Goloka Vá¹›ndÄvana, without change of body, as we have already discussed in connection with the Lord’s returning to His abode without a change of body.
