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That knowledge and renunciation are never perfect unless joined by devotional service is explicitly explained When there is devotional service, the question arises where to offer that service. Devotional service is to be offered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the Supersoul of everything Brahma-siddhi means that one should know that he is not matter; he is pure soul. It is clearly stated here that unless one is fully engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality

That is the beginning of devotional service. Unless one is liberated from material contamination, one cannot engage in the devotional service of the constitutional position and is in the renounced order of life, detached from material attraction, then, by pure devotional service, bhakti-yuktena, he can engage himself as a loving servant of the Lord. The Lord states that position as mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām, the real beginning of devotional service.

“The verdict of all revealed scriptures is that by even a moment’s association with a pure devotee, one