यः केनाप्यतिभाग्येन जातश्रद्धोऽस्य सेवने ।
नातिसक्तो न वैराग्यभागस्यामधिकार्यसौ ॥॥
yaḥ kenāpy atibhāgyena jāta-śraddho’sya sevane |
nātisakto na vairāgya-bhāg asyām adhikāry asau ||
(Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.2.14)
“One who by some sort of great fortune is possessed of śraddhā in his [i.e., Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s] service and is neither excessively attached nor possessed of non-attachment is a bearer of eligibility (adhikārī) for this [i.e., for vaidhī-bhakti].”
Commentary
atibhāgyena mahat-saṅgādi-jāta-saṁskāra-viśeṣeṇa |
(Durgama-saṅgamanī-ṭīkā)
“‘By great fortune’ (atibhāgyena) means by a particular saṁskāra produced by association and so forth with a mahat.”
ya iti | atibhāgyena mahat-saṅgādi-jāta-saṁskāra-viśeṣeṇa | vairāgyam atra bhajana-pratikūla-phalgu-vairāgyam ity arthaḥ | tena viṣaya-vāsanādau vairāgyārthaṁ yatiṣyaty eva |
(Bhakti-sāra-pradarśinī-ṭīkā)
“‘By great fortune’ (atibhāgyena) means by a particular saṁskāra produced by association and so forth with a mahat. ‘Non-attachment’ (vairāgyam) here means useless non-attachment (phalgu-vairāgya) that is unfavorable for worship. Thus, one should certainly strive for the sake of non-attachment (vairāgya) in regard to inclination (vāsanā) towards the objects of the senses (viṣaya) and so forth.”
Note: See the definitions of yukta- and phalgu-vairāgya [i.e., proper and useless non-attachment] later in BRS 1.2.255–256 for further discussion of non-attachment (vairāgya) in regard to sādhana-bhakti.