Chapter I: Lesson II

#	Sanskrit Original	Translation by Tridandi Sri Bhakti Prajnan Yati
10.	सा मुख्येतरापेक्षितत्वात्॥	Bhakti is the fundamental and principal means and others (karma, jnana, etc.) are subordinate and depending upon her.
11.	प्रकरणाच्च॥	Bhakti is the substratum.
12.	दर्शनफलमिति चेन्न, तेन व्यवधानात्॥	Some opine to see God is the supreme attainment or highest pursuit. No, because there is intervention.
13.	दृष्टत्वाच्च॥	Yes, it is also by the very sight of God one becomes svarat (viz. attains highest pursuit of life).
14.	अत एव तदभावाद्वल्लवीनाम्॥	Whereas even before having seen Sri Krishna the Vraja Gopis were pregnant with poignant infatuation of unsurmounting Love for the sole gratification of His Amour.
15.	भक्त्या जानातीति चेन्नाभिज्ञप्त्या साहाय्यात्॥	It is only Bhakti that alone makes to realise God in His totality and absolutely it does not require any help from earlier knowledge of God.
16.	प्रागुक्तं च॥	It was already illustrated beforehand.
17.	एतेन विकल्पोऽपि प्रत्युक्तः॥	Now with these expositions the contradiction regarding Jnana and Bhakti is solved.
18.	देवभक्तिरितरस्मिन् साहचर्यात्॥	When Bhakti is referred to [someone] other than the Supreme Godhead, it is of course, a degraded form or perversely coined.
19.	योगस्तूभयार्थमपेक्षणात् प्रयाजवत्॥	As for the Jnana so also for Yoga Bhakti is the substratum to bring the final success. Just as Prayaja ceremony is subsidiary to Vajapeya-yajna etc. as well as of Dikshaniya etc. so too Yoga and Jnana are subservient to Bhakti.
20.	गौण्या तु समाधिसिद्धिः॥	Even attainment of Samadhi or meditation or contemplation upon God is the secondary aspect of Bhakti.
21.	हेया रागत्वादिति चेन्नोत्तमास्पदत्वात् सङ्गवत्॥	As is the general testament that one must give up the attachment but attachments with the sat (exalted devotee of Supreme Godhead) merit the highest spiritual reward; so also anuraga to Uttama-purusha must not be given up.
22.	तदेव कर्मिज्ञानियोगिभ्य आधिक्यशब्दात्॥	Therefore without any contradiction Bhakti indeed is the highest of all and a Bhakta is superior to Karmi, Jnani or a Yogi.
23.	प्रश्ननिरूपणाभ्यामाधिक्यसिद्धेः॥	The Supremacy of Devotion without any contradiction is established in reply to the question.
24.	नैव श्रद्धा तु साधारण्यात्॥	The idiomatical use of Shraddha or Faith in the Philosophy of Bhakti is not to be taken in an ordinary sense.
25.	तस्यां तत्त्वे चानवस्थानात्॥	If Shraddha, Faith, is not taken as fundamental, then a regressus ad inifnitum would result and it would be sacrilegious.
26.	ब्रह्मकाण्डं तु भक्तौ तस्यानुज्ञानाय सामान्यात्॥	For Brahma-Kanda what is known as Vedanta moreover Bhakti is the sine-qua-non, otherwise it cannot have its locus-standi.