etat te 'bhihitaá¹ sÄdho
bhavÄn pá¹›cchati yac ca mÄm
yathÄ sva-dharma-saá¹yukto
bhakto mÄá¹ samiyÄt param
etat - this; te - unto you; abhihitam - described; sÄdho - O saintly Uddhava; bhavÄn - you; pá¹›cchati - have asked; yat - which; ca - and; mÄm - from Me; yathÄ - the means by which; sva-dharma - in one's prescribed duty; saá¹yuktaḥ - perfectly engaged; bhaktaḥ - being a devotee; mÄm - to Me; samiyÄt - one may come; param - the Supreme.
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 PrabhupÄda to the Eleventh Canto, Eighteenth Chapter, of the ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam, entitled “Description of VarṇÄÅ›rama-dharma.â€
