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"Many are the means described for the attainment of the highest good, such as love, performance of duty], self-control, truthfulness, sacrifice, gifts, austerity, charity, vows, observance of moral precepts, I could name more.

But of all I could name, verily love is the highest:

love and devotion that make on forgetful of everything else,

love that unites the lover with Me.

What ineffable joy does one find through love of Me, the blissful Self!

Once that joy is realized,

all earthly pleasures fade into nothingness."



Krishna
_Srimad Bhagavatam, 11.8
in Whitall N. Perry
_A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom_
Varanasi: Indica, 1998 (1971), p. 618

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