Narada Bhakti Sutras

Attaining This Love, One Becomes Perfect

Narada promises that on attaining supreme love the devotee becomes perfect, immortal, and fully satisfied — wanting nothing more.

In Sutra 4, Narada declares: 'Yat labdhva puman siddho bhavati, amrito bhavati, tripto bhavati' — 'Attaining which a person becomes perfect, becomes immortal, becomes wholly satisfied.' Here he describes the threefold fruit of para bhakti: perfection (siddhi), immortality (amritatva), and complete contentment (tripti). The devotee no longer hungers for the fleeting satisfactions of the world because the infinite has filled the heart. This is not the satisfaction of having acquired something, but of having become whole. Narada points beyond mere personal fulfillment to a fullness so total that all craving simply dissolves in the presence of the Beloved.

Attaining which a person becomes perfect, immortal, and fully satisfied.

Narada, Narada Bhakti Sutras, Sutra 4

The triad of perfection, immortality, and satisfaction has been compared by scholars to the beatific vision of medieval theology, in which the soul's restless seeking finally comes to rest in the infinite Good.

Narada Bhakti Sutras