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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 3 Text 8
dharmartha uttama-slokam
tantuh tanvan pitrn yajet
raksa-kamah punya-janan
ojas-kamo marud-ganan


dharma-arthah -- for spiritual advancement; uttama-slokam -- the Supreme Lord or persons attached to the Supreme Lord; tantuh -- for offspring; tanvan -- and for their protection; pitrn -- the residents of Pitrloka; yajet -- must worship; raksa-kamah -- one who desires protection; punya-janan -- pious persons; ojah-kamah -- one who desires strength should worship; marut-ganan -- the demigods.


TRANSLATION

One should worship Lord Visnu or His devotee for spiritual advancement in knowledge, and for protection of heredity and advancement of a dynasty one should worship the various demigods.

PURPORT

The path of religion entails making progress on the path of spiritual advancement, ultimately reviving the eternal relation with Lord Visnu in His impersonal effulgence, His localized Paramatma feature, and ultimately His personal feature by spiritual advancement in knowledge. And one who wants to establish a good dynasty and be happy in the progress of temporary bodily relations should take shelter of the Pitas and the demigods in other pious planets. Such different classes of worshipers of different demigods may ultimately reach the respective planets of those demigods within the universe, but he who reaches the spiritual planets in the brahmajyoti achieves the highest perfection.

Your Servant In Service Of Srila Prabhupada and Gurudev,
Saci Gaurasunder Das (Sachin Kumar Gupta)
Chant:Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare,Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.& be Happy

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