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<div class="heading">Kṛṣṇa attraction means decreasing attraction for the material world. Go on. (chants japa) One can test his advancement for spiritual life, how he is being detached to the material life. That's all. It is not to be taken certificate from others. Just like when you eat, you haven't got to take certificate from others. You'll feel, "Yes, I'm satisfied." That's all. You don't require, while eating nicely, you don't require to take certificate: "Am I eating nicely?" You'll know yourself.
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Jagadīśa: So we must always try to fix our mind on Kṛṣṇa-Kṛṣṇa's activities, Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet . . .

Prabhupāda: ''Bhavauṣadhi śrotra-mano-'bhirāmāt'' ([[Vanisource:SB 10.1.4|SB 10.1.4]]). Kṛṣṇa's pastimes are described as the medicine of the disease, ''bhava''. ''Bhava'' means repeated birth and death. This is a disease. So ''bhavauṣadhi''. The medicine, panacea, for curing this disease, ''bhavauṣadhi''. At the same time, ''śrotra-mano-'bhirāmāt'': it is very pleasing to hear, and very enlightening to the heart. Kṛṣṇa's name is so nice, Kṛṣṇa's pastime is so nice, that it is very pleasing, satisfying, at the same time, it is the medicine for the disease of repeated birth and death. (''japa'')

Jagadīśa: (continues lecture) This is the very reason why Kṛṣṇa appears in the material world at all. He appears so that others may know and hear of His transcendental activities and thereby be attracted to offer to Him and be engaged on the spiritual platform and give up all material desires. Just to know Kṛṣṇa's activities and pastimes are all attractive, Kṛṣṇa means all attractive and His pastimes are to attract the conditioned souls to give up.

Give up material association and go back to Kṛṣṇa be with Kṛṣṇa in the spiritual realm. And the last offence is, "To not have complete faith in the chanting of the holy names and to maintain material attachments, even after understanding so many instructions on this matter." One of the qualities of . . .

Prabhupāda: The more you become free from material harassment, the more you make advance in spiritual life, or the more you make advance in spiritual life, the more you become detached to the material life. These are the tests. ''Bhaktiḥ pareśānubhavo viraktir anyatra syāt'' ([[Vanisource:SB 11.2.42|SB 11.2.42]]). ''Bhakti'', devotional life, spiritual life, the test is that ''viraktir anyatra. Anyatra'' means beyond, without Kṛṣṇa, everything becomes detestful.

The example is given just like a hungry man, when he's eating, as he's eating so he's feeling satisfaction and no hunger, proportionately. And at one time it will come, he'll say: "No, I don't want any more. I am completely satisfied." ''Svāmin kṛtārtho 'smi varaṁ na yāce'' ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 22.42|CC Madhya 22.42]]). Just like Dhruva Mahārāja. He said: "I am now completely satisfied. I have . . . I haven't got to ask anything, benediction."

That is the progress and ultimate goal of ''bhakti''. As soon as one is saturated with ''bhakti'', he has no more demand, no more attraction for this material world. Not . . . Kṛṣṇa attraction means decreasing attraction for the material world. Go on. (''japa'') One can test his advancement for spiritual life, how he is being detached to the material life.

That's all. It is not to be taken certificate from others. Just like when you eat, you haven't got to take certificate from others. You'll feel, "Yes, I'm satisfied." That's all. You don't require, while eating nicely, you don't require to take certificate, "Am I eating nicely?" (laughter)

Prabhupāda: You'll know yourself. (''japa'')

Jagadīśa: One must be convinced of success and Viṣṇu is success the only key to advancement. So Kṛṣṇa gives a taste, you feel satisfaction coming, just like when eating one feels the satisfaction. In Kṛṣṇa consciousness this satisfaction is coming.

Prabhupāda: Another example is given: the candy. Candy, when a man is suffering from jaundice disease, if you give him candy, he'll taste it bitter. That means more one is materially suffering, he'll not be interested to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. But the example is this - the candy is the only medicine for jaundice. So we have to give him candy by force. And as he cure, as he cures, he'll say: "Oh, candy's very nice. Candy's sweet." 

So in the beginning we have to force. We have to give the medicine just like horse is given medicine. Three men required to induce medicine to the mouth of the horse. So this is our duty, to inject Hare Kṛṣṇa medicine, just like pushing medicine in the throat of a horse. By force. (laughter) (''japa'')