- bhakti vinā mukti nahe, bhāgavate kaya
- kali-kāle nāmābhāse sukhe mukti haya
- (CC Madhya 25.30)
So far salvation is concerned, nobody can be liberated without bhakti, without devotional service. Bhakti vinā, without devotion, or without love of Godhead, without attaining . . . that is the verdict of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. So long one is not a surrendered soul to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, there is no question of liberation from this material world. Bhāgavata says.
Śreyaḥ-sṛtiṁ bhaktim udasya te vibho (SB 10.14.4). There's a nice verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. It is said there that śreyaḥ-sṛtim, the real path of salvation, śreyaḥ-sṛtim, bhaktim, that is devotional service, Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Śreyah-sṛtiṁ bhaktim. Bhaktim udasya te vibho. If somebody gives up the path of devotional service, kliśyanti ye kevala-bodha-labdhaye, and wastes time simply for understanding that "This is not Brahman, this is not Brahman . . ."
That is the way of Māyāvādī philosophers. They scrutinize that, "This is māyā and this is Brahman"; therefore they are called Māyāvāda. Simply, what is not Brahman . . . they say it is one, but simply they distinguish, "This is māyā, this is Brahman." Why this is māyā? They say . . . wherefrom the māyā comes? Then it becomes dualism actually. Although they say that, "We are monists, one," but they explain that this māyā is illusion.