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While thus extolling devotion, the pur膩峁嘺 tends to devalue
the traditional goals of knowledge and liberation.
Again
and again we hear that these are not sought by the genuine
bhakta, who wants only the bliss of loving service to the
14 Lord. At 10.14.4, for example, it is said:
For those, O Lord, who abandon bhakti, the fountain of
highest blessing, and strive for the acquisition of
knowledge only, that [quest for knowledge] becomes
nothing more than strenuous exertion, like the pounding
of coarse [but empty] husks.
K峁涐梗峁嘺 tells Uddhava at 11.20.34:
15 My saintly, wise, and one-pointed devotees desire
nothing, not even liberation (kaivalya) and freedom from
rebirth. 16
And at 12.10.6 we read:
This Brahmin-sage, O Goddess, having obtained supreme
devotion to the eternal Person, desires no other boon at
all, not even liberation (mok峁�a).17
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At least three verses in the purana repeat the
phrase "neither yogic powers nor freedom from rebirth,
including these well-known goals of Yoga and Vedanta in
lists of blessings that, in comparison with the joy of the
bhakti, hold no attraction for the devotee. Numerous other
passages expressing the same attitude toward moksa could be
cited. With a consistency perhaps surprising to readers
taught to regard liberation as the highest goal of Hindu
spirituality, the BP (and later, the entire devotional
tradition that is dependent upon it) presents the attainment
of that state as incidental to the bhakta's primary quest.