Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura’s concluding words to Śrī Bhajana-rahasya

साधनेर सह अष्टकाल-लीला-धन
चिन्तिते चिन्तिते क्रमे सिद्ध भावापन

sādhanera saha aṣṭakāla-līlā-dhana
cintite cintite krame siddha bhāvāpana

स्वरूप-सिद्धिते व्रजे प्रकटावस्थान
गुणमय गोपी-देहे लीलार वितान

svarūpa-siddhite vraje prakaṭāvasthāna
guṇamaya gopī-dehe līlāra vitāna

कृष्ण-कृपा बले गुणमय वपु त्यजि’
अप्रकट व्रजे गोपी सालोक्यादि भजि

kṛṣṇa-kṛpā bale guṇamaya vapu tyaji’
aprakaṭa vraje gopī sālokyādi bhaji

नित्य-काल शुद्ध-देहे राधा-कृष्ण-सेवा
स्थूल-लिङ्ग-सङ्ग-बोध आर पाय केबा

nitya-kāla śuddha-dehe rādhā-kṛṣṇa-sevā
sthūla-liṅga-saṅga-bodha āra pāya kebā

‘हरे कृष्ण’-नाम गाने नित्य-मुक्त-भावे
पूर्ण-प्रेमानन्द-लाभ अनायासे पाबे

‘hare kṛṣṇa’-nāma gāne nitya-mukta-bhāve
pūrṇa-premānanda-lābha anāyāse pābe

देख भाइ! साधने सिद्धिते एक-इ भाव
कभु नाहि छाडे नाम स्वकीय प्रभाव

dekha bhāi! sādhane siddhite eka-i bhāva
kabhu nāhi chāḍe nāma svakīya prabhāva

अतएव नाम गाओ, नाम कर सार
आर कोन साधनेर ना कर विचार

ataeva nāma gāo, nāma kara sāra
āra kona sādhanera nā kara vicāra

The rāgānuga-bhakta, and especially the rūpānuga-bhakta, remember Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa Yugala’s night pastimes, and while chanting the holy name, they humbly pray, “When will I attain service in these pastimes?”

The sādhaka remembers these pastimes in the association of rasika-bhaktas and gradually reaches perfection. Upon attaining internal realisation of his eternal identity (svarūpa-siddhi), he takes birth in a gopī’s house in prakaṭa-līlā by the arrangement of Yogamāyā. There, under the guidance of Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s eternal associates, his sevā in the pastimes matures. He gives up his body consisting of the material qualities and attains the one of a gopī in the aprakaṭa-līlā of eternal Vṛndāvana. There, he is forever absorbed in serving Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa in his perfected body. At the time of sādhana, the gross and subtle bodies are obstacles in reaching one’s eternal service. However, constant performance of Hare Kṛṣṇa nāma-kīrtana manifests the sādhaka’s pure identity (śuddha-svarūpa). The sādhaka-bhakta who follows the path of spontaneous devotion (rāgamārga) remembers pastimes by means of his internally contemplated body. The bhāvas upon which the sādhaka meditates at the time of sādhana will be attained by him at the time of perfection.

Thus ends the Aṣṭama-yāma-sādhana,
Rātri-līlā, of Śrī Bhajana-rahasya.
Thus ends Śrī Bhajana-rahasya.