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<div class="heading">Examine yourself that whether you are free from all the anarthas, all the unwanted things. If all the unwanted things are vanquished, then you'll have firm faith.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.2.12 -- Vrndavana, October 23, 1972|Lecture on SB 1.2.12 -- Vrndavana, October 23, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
''Anartha'': things which are not wanted. ''Artha'' means wanted, something wanted; ''anartha'' means that is not wanted. So we are habituated to so many things, bad habits. So ''anartha-nivṛttiḥ syāt''. This is the result of ''bhajana-kriyā. Anartha. Anartha''. Just like these things, as we prohibit—illicit sex, intoxication, meat-eating and gambling—these are ''anarthas''. They are not required actually. But people are habituated to these things on account of bad association.

So if you associate with a really ''sādhu'', if you execute really devotional service, these ''anarthas'' will be vanquished. That is the symptom. No more illicit sex. No more intoxication. No more gambling. No more meat-eating, fish-eating, egg-eating. No. That is called ''anartha''. People are not dying for want . . . for want of cigarette smoking. But it is habit. You can give it up. You can give up so many things which is not required at all.

So these unwanted things will be automatically vanquished. This is the result of ''bhajana-kriyā.'' Not that I am chanting one hand Hare Kṛṣṇa, and in another hand smoking. This is not ''anartha-nivṛtti.'' The . . . if actually you are chanting, there will be no more in the other hand smoking ''bīḍī'' or cigarette. This is called ''anartha-nivṛtti''. Then after ''anartha-nivṛtti'', then you become cleansed. ''Yeṣām anta-gataṁ pāpam.'' This is called the freedom stage from all sinful activities. Because unless you are free from all sinful activities, we cannot engage ourself in devotional service.

:''yeṣāṁ tv anta-gataṁ pāpaṁ''
:''janānāṁ puṇya-karmaṇām''
:''te dvandva-moha-nirmuktā''
:''bhajante māṁ dṛḍha-vratāḥ''
:([[Vanisource:BG 7.28 (1972)|BG 7.28]])

The ''bhajana'', devotional service, is possible when one is freed from these ''anarthas'', unwanted things. ''Tato niṣṭhā rucis tataḥ athāsaktis tato bhāvaḥ, sādhakānām ayaṁ premṇaḥ prādurbhāve bhavet kramaḥ'' (Brs. 1.4.15-16).

So these are the different steps of ''śraddhā''. Actually, devotional service means increasing your faith more and more. And these are the steps. The first step is that you must associate with devotees and then take to ''bhajana-kriyā''. Then see, examine yourself that whether you are free from all the ''anarthas'', all the unwanted things. If all the unwanted things are vanquished, then you'll have firm faith.