Vaidhi Bhakti - four kinds of liberation

Two types of prema - spiritual love
leading to two different spaces of the spiritual world:

vaidhi -rāgānugā-mārga-bhedena parikirtitaḥ |
dvividhaḥ khalu bhāvo'tra sādhanābhiniveśajaḥ || (brs 1.3.7)

"The vaidhi and raganuga paths are known to be separated from each other.

Engaging in these two types of sadhana definitely awakens two different types of spiritual love."

vidhi-bhaktye pārṣada-dehe vaikuṇṭhete yāya || (cc 2.24.87) ṭ

"By vidhi-bhakti, one can attain the form of an associate in Vaikuntha."

Vaikuntha is that part of the spiritual world in which the Supreme Personality is present in His majestic, opulent, "royal" form - aișvaria.

aiśvarya-jńāne vidhi-bhajana kariyā | -

vaikuṇṭhake yāya catur-vidha mukti pāńā || (cc 1.3.17)

"Those who worship according to scriptural commandments (relating to Vaikuntha), being aware of the Lord's supernatural powers attain the four kinds of liberation in Vaikuntha."

Vaikuntha is that part of the spiritual world in which the Supreme Personality is present in His majestic, opulent, "royal" form - aișvaria.

Unlike impersonal liberation in brahman, sayujia mukti, or eka-tvam, the Vedic literature also speaks of four types of liberation in the spiritual world Vaikuntha

mat-sevayā pratītaḿ te / sālokyādi-catuṣṭayam
necchanti sevayā pūrṇāḥ / kuto 'nyat kāla-viplutam (Srimad Bhagavatam 9.4.67)

Those who have attained devotional service to Me, - pratītaḿ te mat-sevayā
do not desire even in the four types of liberation beginning with - na icchanti catuṣṭayam ādi
attaining the same planet on which the Transcendental Personality lives - sālokya 
than devotional service is making them complete - sevayā pūrṇāḥ
What to say then of the things that time destroys. - kuto anyat kāla-viplutam

sālokya-sārṣṭi-sāmīpya-sārūpyaikatvam apy uta
dīyamānaṁ na gṛhṇanti vinā mat-sevanaṁ janāḥ (Srimad Bhagavatam 3.29.13)

Sālokya - attaining the same planet on which the Transcendental Personality lives, 
sārūpya - attaining bodily features almost identical with those of the Transcendental Personality,
sāmīpya - attaining direct association with the Transcendental Personality, and
sārṣṭi - attaining almost the same opulence as the Transcendental Personality,
ekatvam - becoming one with the Transcendental Lord
even if offered, are not accepted without devotional service to Me
          api uta dīyamānam na gṛhṇanti vinā mat sevanam janāḥ

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