Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.26.30
भक्तिं लब्धवत: साधो: किमन्यदवशिष्यते ।
मय्यनन्तगुणे ब्रह्मण्यानन्दानुभवात्मनि ॥ ३० ॥
bhaktiṁ labdhavataḥ sādhoḥ
[bhaktim labdhavatah saadhoh]
kim anyad avaśiṣyate
[kim anyad avashishyate]
mayy ananta-guṇe brahmaṇy
[mayy ananta-gune brahmany]
ānandānubhavātmani
[aanandaanubhavaatmani]
Word-for-word
bhaktim
—
devotional service to the Supreme Lord
labdhavataḥ
—
who has achieved
sādhoḥ
—
for the devotee
kim
—
what
anyat
—
else
avaśiṣyate
—
remains
mayi
—
to Me
ananta-guṇe
—
whose qualities are countless
brahmaṇi
—
to the Absolute Truth
ānanda
—
of ecstasy
anubhava
—
the experience
ātmani
—
who comprises.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
bhaktiṁ labdhavataḥ sādhoḥ
bhaktim
devotional service to the Supreme Lord
labdhavataḥ
who has achieved
sādhoḥ
for the devotee
kim anyad avaśiṣyate
kim
what
anyat
else
avaśiṣyate
remains
mayy ananta-guṇe brahmaṇy
mayi
to Me
ananta-guṇe
whose qualities are countless
brahmaṇi
to the Absolute Truth
ānandānubhavātmani
ānanda
of ecstasy
anubhava
the experience
ātmani
who comprises.
What more remains to be accomplished for the perfect devotee after achieving devotional service unto Me, the Supreme Absolute Truth, whose qualities are innumerable and who am the embodiment of all ecstatic experience?
Purport
Devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa is so pleasing that a pure devotee cannot desire anything except service to the Lord. In the Tenth Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Lord Kṛṣṇa told the gopīs that they would have to accept their own service as the ultimate reward of their devotion to Him, since nothing awards as much happiness and knowledge as devotional service itself. When one sincerely chants and hears the holy name and fame of Lord Kṛṣṇa, the heart is purified and gradually one can appreciate the actual, blissful nature of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, loving service to the Lord.
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura
Gauḍīya
Translation
What more remains to be accomplished for the perfect devotee after achieving devotional service unto me, with unlimited qualities in prema, accompanied by the bliss of liberation in Brahman?
What other result remains to be accomplished? Nothing else remains, since bhakti is all results. I have unlimited qualities---such as ego and possessiveness composed of eternity, knowledge and bliss, manifested in prema. I am also liberation in Brahman. But the bliss of Brahman (ānandānubhava) is a secondary result of bhakti.
Personal Guidance
What more remains for the perfect devotee after attaining devotional service to Me, the Absolute Truth and embodiment of all ecstatic experience? The question is rhetorical — devotion is completion.
Reflection Questions
- What am I still chasing beyond devotion, treating it as if it weren't completion?
- Where could trusting completion change my chase?
My note
Source: vedabase.io