Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 21

Sanskrit:

विरमेत यदा चित्तं हित्वा वृत्तित्रयं स्वयम् ।योगेन वा तदात्मानं वेदेहाया निवर्तते ॥ २१ ॥

ITRANS:

virameta yadā cittaṁhitvā vṛtti-trayaṁ svayamyogena vā tadātmānaṁvedehāyā nivartate

Translation:

Either automatically or because of one’s regulated spiritual practice, one’s mind may stop functioning on the material platform of waking consciousness, sleep and deep sleep. Then one understands the Supreme Soul and withdraws from material endeavor.

Purport:

As stated in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (3.25.33), jarayaty āśu yā kośaṁ nigīrṇam analo yathā: “Bhakti, devotional service, dissolves the subtle body of the living entity without separate endeavor, just as fire in the stomach digests all that we eat.” The subtle material body is inclined to exploit nature through sex, greed, false pride and madness. Loving service to the Lord, however, dissolves the stubborn false ego and lifts one to pure blissful consciousness, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the sublime perfection of existence.