By bhakti-yoga one can completely avoid the tendency for sinful life; other methods are not very feasible. Therefore the Vedic literature concludes that devotional service is more important than the methods of karma-käëòa and jïäna-käëòa. Only the path of devotional service is auspicious for everyone. Fruitive activities and speculative knowledge cannot independently liberate anyone, but devotional service, independent of karma and jïäna, is so potent that one who has fixed his mind at the lotus feet of Kåñëa is guaranteed not to meet the Yamadütas, the order carriers of Yamaräja, even in dreams.

SB 6.1