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vrajera nirmala raga suni’ bhakta-gana
raga-marge bhaje yena chadi’ dharma-karma
SYNONYMS
vrajera—of Vraja; nirmala—spotless; raga—love; suni’-hearing; bhakta-gana—the devotees; raga-marge—on the path of spontaneous love; bhaje—they worship; yena—so that; chadi’-giving up; dharma—religiosity; karma—fruitive activity “Then, by hearing about the pure love of the residents of Vraja, devotees will worship Me on the path of spontaneous love, abandoning all rituals of religiosity and fruitive activity.”
PURPORT
Many realized souls, such as Raghunatha dasa Gosvami and King Kulasekhara, have recommended with great emphasis that one develop this spontaneous love of Godhead, even at the risk of transgressing all the traditional codes of morality and religiosity.
Sri Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, one of the six Gosvamis of Vrndavana, has written in his prayers called the Manah-siksa that one should simply worship Radha and Krsna with all attention.
Na dharmam nadharmam sruti-gana-niruktam kila kuru: one should not be much interested in performing Vedic rituals or simply following rules and regulations.
King Kulasekhara has written similarly, in his book Mukunda-mala-stotra (5):
nastha dharme na vasu-nicaye naiva kamopabhoge
yad bhavyam tad bhavatu bhagavan purva-karmanurupam
etat prarthyam mama bahu-matam janma-janmantare ’pi
tvat-padambho-ruha-yuga-gata niscala bhaktir astu “I have no attraction for performing religious rituals or holding any earthly kingdom.
I do not care for sense enjoyments; let them appear and disappear in accordance with my previous deeds.