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Pradyumna: ...vāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.]

matto 'py anantāt parataḥ parasmāt svargāpavargādhipater na kiñcit yeṣāṁ kim u syād itareṇa teṣām akiñcanānāṁ mayi bhakti-bhājām

[SB 5.5.25]

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Translation = "I am fully opulent, almighty and superior to Lord Brahmā and Indra, the king of the heavenly planets. …

Prabhupāda:

matto 'py anantāt parataḥ parasmāt svargāpavargādhipater na kiñcit yeṣāṁ kim u syād itareṇa teṣām akiñcanānāṁ mayi bhakti-bhājām

[SB 5.5.25]

So devotional life, bhakti-yoga, is so exalted that they do not care for heavenly planet, apavarga, mukti, liberation. They do …

Therefore for a devotee, akiñcanānām, they all neglect all these things. They don't care for all these things. Kaivalyaṁ narakāyate …

nārāyaṇa-parāḥ sarve na kutaścana bibhyati svargāpavarga-narakeṣv api tulyārtha-darśinaḥ

[SB 6.17.28]

Nārāyaṇa-parāḥ, they are not anxious either to go to Svargaloka or to refrain from it. They are satisfied = "Wherever …

So wherever Supreme Personality of Godhead is there, that is Vaikuṇṭha. Just like īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe arjuna tiṣṭhati [Bg. 18.61]. …

Therefore, itareṇa teṣām akiñcanānāṁ mayi bhakti-bhājām. But one has to become akiñcana---nothing material, simply the lotus feet of the Lord. …

So bhakti, devotional service, is not easy, but at the same time very easy, one moment's business. One moment's. But …

So people do not want to stop this business. They want to improve the business. "I am eating now without …

So we should not be attached. We should completely give up anything material. That is niṣkiñcana. We have no business …

So bhakti-bhājām. So we have to learn what is bhakti. Bhaktiḥ pareśānubhavo viraktir anyatra syāt [SB 11.2.42]. If actually we …

And what is that surrendering? Man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru, mām evaiṣyasi asaṁśayaḥ [Bg. 18.68]. Without any doubt. He …