अथ मुक्तिभ्यो भगवत्प्रीतेराधिक्यं विव्रियते । तत्र यद्यपि तत्प्रीतिं विना ता अपि न सन्त्येव तथापि केषाञ्चित्तेषां स्वस्य दुःखहानौ सामीप्यादिलक्षणसम्पत्तावपि तात्पर्यं, न तु श्रीभगवत्येवेति तेषु न्यूनता ।
atha muktibhyo bhagavat-prīter ādhikyaṁ vivriyate | tatra yadyapi tat-prītiṁ vinā tā api na santy eva tathāpi keṣāñcit teṣāṁ svasya duḥkha-hānau sāmīpyādi-lakṣaṇa-sampattāv api tātparyaṁ, na tu śrī-bhagavaty eveti teṣu nyūnatā |
(Prīti Sandarbha: 16)
“Now, the superiority of Bhagavat-prīti to the muktis [i.e., to the five aforementioned types of mukti] is to be described. Therein, although even these [i.e., these five aforementioned types of mukti] do not at all occur without prīti for him [i.e., Bhagavān], still the intention (tātparya) of some [i.e., of some muktas] is still on the cessation of their own suffering and the attainment characterized by samīpya and so forth, and not, rather, solely on Śrī Bhagavān. Thus, there is an inferiority in them [i.e., in those whose intention in not solely upon Bhagavān because of impurity in their prīti].”