If we are engaged in devotional service, bhakti-yoga, then we are liberated. Māṁ ca . . . Kṛṣṇa says. Māṁ ca 'vyabhicāreṇa (BG 14.26). Without any stoppage, continuously, something in Kṛṣṇa. Māṁ ca 'vyabhicāreṇa bhakti-yogena.
There are so many ways of bhakti-yoga.
- śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ
- smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam
- arcanaṁ vandanaṁ dāsyam . . .
- (SB 7.5.23)
Any of them you take, that is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. The mainly is śravaṇam. Just you are hearing. This is the beginning. Ādau śraddhā. This is śraddhā that, "Here people are talking about Kṛṣṇa. Why not hear us? Let me hear." That is śraddhā, little faith. You have come here with a little faith. That increasing of that faith is advancement of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is required. Ādau śraddhā. First of all little faith, "Let us see." Then sādhu-saṅga. Sādhu-saṅga. They are, the sādhus, the devotees, who are living in the temple, if you associate with them, talk with them about Kṛṣṇa, then you'll be benefited. Ādau śraddhā tataḥ sādhu-saṅgaḥ (CC Madhya 23.14-15). Then gradually bhajana-kriyā. Bhajana-kriyā. Actually engaged in service, officially being initiated to take service of the Lord, that is called bhajana-kriyā. And bhajana-kriyā means anartha-nivṛttiḥ syāt. Then anartha, all these rascal habits, namely illicit sex and intoxication, meat-eating and gambling—nivṛtti, no more.