(Bhagavatham 5.5.14 – 5.5.15)

Now, the question is, how long do we have to practise Sadhana?

Bhagavatham says, as your bondage with your body and your limited existence ceases forever, you can retire from your spiritual practices too.

When, even the traces of desires in your mind burn out, you will experience ‘Brahma Anandam’.

You become Jeevan Muktha! Still you may seem to be an ordinary person for others. It is like a burnt cloth that still has the form of a cloth, but has no characteristic of the cloth.

Rishabha further urges that others must similarly advise their fellow people who walk the wrong path.

A person who knows what is right must guide the ignorant one rightly. If not, you are not a good father or a good mother or a good teacher. The Guru who cannot save the shishya from the misery of ‘Samsara’ is not a Guru at all. Even God who cannot save the devotee is not God at all.

As you show the right path to a blind man, you must guide the worldly man to liberation. Do not become angry with them, with patience you must remove their inhibition and laziness.