Verse Text
tat-kāruṇya-ślathībhūta-jṣāna-saṁskāra-santatiḥ |
eṣa bhakti-rasānanda-nipuṇaḥ syād yathā śukaḥ ||45||
Translation
As in the case of Śukadeva, impressions of jṣāna will slacken by the mercy of the Lord, and the person will attain the perfection of bliss in bhakti-rasa.
Purport (Jiva Goswami)
A more ancient example (Śukadeva) is given as proof. Elsewhere Śukadeva has indicated that the residents of Vraja possess the highest prema, and has shown that even in that place the supreme prema is madhura-rasa.
Purport (Nectar of Devotion)
The same thing happened to Śukadeva Gosvāmī, who also reformed himself by the grace of the Lord and took to the path of devotional service, giving up the way of impersonal realization.
Śukadeva Gosvāmī and Bilvamaṅgala Ṭhākura, who gave up the impersonal conception of the Absolute Truth to take to devotional service, are the best examples of devotees situated in the neutral state.