In plain words
Rāma said to Vibhīṣaṇa, "To live in hell is far better than to live in bad company." We must keep no company at all with the wicked. The Gopīs had no wish to listen to the teachings of Uddhava, Kṛṣṇa's friend. They did not mean to weigh good and bad at all. They kept in view one aim only: to be with Kṛṣṇa. But the aim of the devotees of today changes from moment to moment. One feeling today, another feeling tomorrow. Such changes and shufflings are no mark of Bhakti at all. The mark of Bhakti is to develop a mind that does not waver and a vision that is not deluded. There must be neither sinking at hardships nor swelling at good fortune. We must first try to recognise what Bhakti is. We must make the right effort so that our heart does not waver. Only through these two, always thinking of the form you long for and remembering it, does the heart melt. This is the principle of Prema. This very Prema is called supreme Bhakti. Such supreme Bhakti is the true goal for the supreme principle.
This whole world is the form of Prema
Supreme devotees give up even Mokṣa. Kulaśekhara Āzhvār: "Swami! People speak of Mokṣa, Mokṣa, for crossing over and for making birth fruitful. You need not give me that Mokṣa. Please grant me births, even a thousand births, birth after birth, in which I sink and rise always in the service of Your feet and in the nectar of Your Prema. I do not want Mokṣa," he said. "If I become sugar, I cannot taste the taste of Your sweetness. Grant me the Ānanda of enjoying Your sweetness, You being the sugar and I the ant," he said. This is the mark of supreme Bhakti. "Brahmavid brahmaiva bhavati": to become Brahman by thinking always of the principle of Brahman is not so joyful a path.