Devanagari
भक्तिं लब्धवत: साधो: किमन्यदवशिष्यते ।
मय्यनन्तगुणे ब्रह्मण्यानन्दानुभवात्मनि ॥ ३० ॥
Verse text
bhaktiṁ labdhavataḥ sādhoḥ
kim anyad avaśiṣyate
mayy ananta-guṇe brahmaṇy
ānandānubhavātmani
Synonyms
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 .
Translation
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?
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
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.
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.