If we follow these principles of bhakti-marga we do not require to endeavor separately how to become detached. The detachment automatically follows. Vasudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogah prayojitah janayati asu vairagyam (SB 1.2.7). Vairagyam means detachment. The bhakti-yoga is known also as vairagya. Vairagya. Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya wrote verses about this vairagya.
- vairagya-vidya-nija-bhakti-yoga-
- siksartham ekah purusah puranah
- sri-krsna-caitanya-sarira-dhari
- krpambudhir yas tam aham prapadye
- (CC Madhya 6.254)
Here is Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu who is Krsna Himself. He has come to teach us vairagya-vidya. It is little difficult. It is very difficult for ordinary persons to understand this vairagya-vidya. Their business is how to increase attachment for this body, and Krsna consciousness movement is how to increase detachment for this material life. Therefore it is called vairagya-vidya. Vairagya-vidya can be very easily achieved, just like it is recommended, vasudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogah prayojitah janayati asu vairagyam (SB 1.2.7), very soon, very soon. Janayati asu vairagyam jnanam ca. Two things required in human life. One thing is jnanam, jnanam-vijnanam astikyam brahma-karma sva-bhava-jam. This jnanam means, beginning of jnana means "I am not this body. I am spirit soul." That is jnana. And as soon as one is situated in that platform of jnanam, it is easy. People are engaged everywhere for the benefit of this body. But if one understands, he come to the platform jnanam, then naturally he becomes detached, that "I am not this body. Why I am working so hard for this body?" Jnanam ca yad ahaitukam (SB 1.2.7). Automatically... Two things are required. Caitanya Mahaprabhu has in many places, He has stressed on this, and by His life He is teaching jnanam and vairagyam. One side jnanam, in His teaching to Rupa Gosvami, teaching to Sanatana Gosvami, teaching to, talking with Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya, Prakasananda Sarasvati, talking with Ramananda Raya. We have given all these things in our Teachings of Lord Caitanya. So that is jnanam. And by His example in His own life, taking sannyasa, He is teaching vairagya. Jnana and vairagya, these two things are required.
So not all of a sudden we can be situated on the platform of jnanam and vairagyam, but if we practice, it is possible. It is possible. Not that it is impossible. That is recommended:
- vasudeve bhagavati
- bhakti-yogah prayojitah
- janayaty asu vairagyam
- jnanam ca yad ahaitukam
- (SB 1.2.7)
That is required. So the Krsna consciousness movement is for achieving jnanam and vairagyam. If we become too much attached to this material world... And how we become attached? The vivid description is given by Prahlada Maharaja. The wife, the children, the house, the animals and servants, the furniture, the dress, and so on, so on, so on, so many things. People are working so hard, day and night, only for these things. Is there not (indistinct) nice bungalow, nice animal, nice, so many things we see? What for? To increase attachment. If we increase attachment, there is no question of being freed from this material bondage. So we have to practice this detachment.