Sri mad Bhagavatam - Prabhupada

Text 20} The Glories of Devotional Service 1023realizes the other features, namely the Paramiitmii feature and the Brahmanfeature, and that total realization is brahma-siddhi.TEXT 2051(11·'11:1 411'1R'Iw:f: fef: I (11 iiD ii\l('l41tij4( llollprasahgam ajaram piisamiitmana kavayo vidusa eva siidhuu krtomok§a-dviiram apiivrtamprasangam-attachment; ajaram-strong; piisam-entanglement; at mana-of the soul; kavaya-learned men; vidu-know; sa eva-that same;siidhu§u-to the devotees; krta-applied; moka-dviiram-the door ofliberation; apiivrtam-opened.TRANSLATIONEvery learned man knows very well that attachment for the material isthe greatest entanglement of the spirit soul. But that same attachment,when applied to the self-realized devotees, opens the door of liberation.PURPORTHere it is clearly stated that attachment for one thing is the cause ofbondage in conditioned life, and the same attachment, when applied tosomething else, opens the door of liberation. Attachment cannot bekilled; it has simply to be transferred. Attachment for material things iscalled material consciousness, and attachment for Kra or His devotee iscalled Kra consciousness. Consciousness, therefore, is the platform ofattachment. It is clearly stated here that when we simply purify theconsciousness from material consciousness to KHa consciousness, that isliberation. Despite the statement that one should give up attachment,desirelessness is not possible for a living entity. A living entity, byconstitution, has the propensity to be attached to something. We see thatif someone has no object of attachment, if he has no children, then hetransfers his attachment to cats and dogs. This indicates that the propensityfor attachment cannot be stopped; it must be utilized for the best