jitam ajita tadā bhavatā
jitam ajita tadā bhavatā
yadāha bhāgavataṁ dharmam anavadyam
niṣkiñcanā ye munaya
ātmārāmā yam upāsate 'pavargāya
O unconquered Lord! When you spoke about pure bhakti, the path which the devotees who meditate on you and enjoy in you follow for attaining prema, the devotees were conquered by you.
If this is the excellence of bhakti with material desires because of your power, then who much more bhakti without material desires will yield! (This is the kaimutika.)
However, this niṣkāma-bhakti is instigated by you. Your victory over your devotees who are niṣkāma mentioned in verse 34 is caused by you, who are so merciful, and desire to be controlled by your devotee. That is your special victory. That is explained in this verse. O unconquered Lord! When you spoke about niṣkāma (anavadyam) dharma of the devotees, the devotees became indebted to you. You were conquered by devotees through that niṣkāma-bhakti, but that bhakti was spoken by you. That is your good quality. Thus the devotees are indebted to you. Those who were pure from the beginning (niṣkiñcanāḥ), as well as those sages (munayah) who by association with the pure devotees gave up their previous ideas, and some jīvanmuktas (ātmārāmāḥ) who achieved their position by austerity, follow that dharma. Or the two words munayaḥ and ātmā-rāmāh can modify niṣkiñcanāḥ. The pure devotees who continually contemplated you, and derived pleasure from you, follow this dharma. Apavargāya here means “for that goal to which the four vargas of artha, dharma, kāma and mokṣa are inferior.” That means prema. Or apavarga can mean bhakti as in the prose of the Fifth Canto:
yo 'sau bhagavati sarva-bhūtātmany anātmye 'nirukte 'nilayane paramātmani vāsudeve 'nanya-nimitta-bhakti-yoga-lakṣaṇo nānā-gati-nimittāvidyā-granthi-randhana-dvāreṇa yadā hi mahā-puruṣa-puruṣa-prasaṅgaḥ.
Liberation (apavarga), whose essential nature is unmotivated bhakti-yoga to the Lord full of qualities, who attracts the minds of all beings, who is not the object of merging, who is not described by material words, who remains beyond destruction of the universe, who is the most excellent ātmā, who is the son of Vasudeva, takes place by destruction of the knot of ignorance which causes various material goals, when there is association with devotees of the Lord. SB 5.19.20
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