Intensive devotion to Krishna alone provides the ultimate good; all other service flows naturally from this root.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.44 — December 12, 1974, Bombay 741212SB-BOMBAY [36:56 Minutes] SB-03.25.44_741212SB-BOMBAY Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] etāvān eva loke 'smin puṁsāṁ niḥśreyasodayaḥ tīvreṇa bhakti-yogena mano mayy arpitaṁ sthiram [SB 3.25.44] [break] [01:08] "Therefore persons whose minds are fixed on the Lord engage in the intensive practice of devotional service.
That is the only means for attainment of the final perfection of life." Prabhupāda: etāvān eva loke 'smin puṁsāṁ niḥśreyasodayaḥ tīvreṇa bhakti-yogena mano mayy arpitaṁ sthiram [SB 3.25.44] This is the conclusion of bhakti-yoga. Kapiladeva has explained bhakti-yoga. In the last verse we have discussed jñāna-vairāgya-yuktena bhakti-yogena [SB 3.25.43]. Bhakti-yoga is not the business of the foolish or ignorant.
One who is advanced in jñāna-vairāgya, knowledge and renunciation... Another name of bhakti-yoga is renunciation. Vairāgya-vidyā. Bhakti-yoga means the education of renouncement.
Sarvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, he explained bhakti-yoga, vairāgya-vidyā. Vairāgya-vidyā-nija-bhakti-yogam [Cc. Madhya 6.254]. Yes.
The bhakti-yoga begins when we accept Kṛṣṇa's instruction, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja [Bg. 18.66]. We have to renounce all nonsense engagement. That is called sarva-dharmān. We have accepted everything as dharma—saṁsāra-dharma, gṛhastha-dharma, rāja-dharma, samājika-dharma.
There are so many we have created. And we are still going on. Dharma means function, characteristic. So we are planning, one after another, various plans to be very happy in this material world. But they will not make us happy—that's a fact—because this place is certified by the Supreme Personality of Godhead as duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam [Bg. 8.15]: "This is a place for misery." This material world is a place for misery.
This body is meant for suffering miseries, and the land is meant for suffering miseries. That we do not understand. But we are placed in a miserable condition all round. That is material life.