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That is the test. Test means bhakti paresanubhavo viraktir anyatra syat: if you are actually advancing in bhakti, devotional service, then automatically you don't like these nonsense practices: no illicit sex, no meat eating, no gambling, no intoxication

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"That is the test. Test means bhakti paresanubhavo viraktir anyatra syat" |"if you are actually advancing in bhakti, devotional service, then automatically you don't like these nonsense practices: no illicit sex, no meat eating, no gambling, no intoxication"

Lectures

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Then anartha-nivṛttiḥ. Anartha. These are anartha. There is no need of smoking—it is useless—but we have practiced it. Therefore they are anartha. But if you follow the devotional process, then anartha will be finished very soon. That is the test. Test means bhakti pareśānubhavo viraktir anyatra syāt (SB 11.2.42): if you are actually advancing in bhakti, devotional service, then automatically you don't like these nonsense practices: no illicit sex, no meat eating, no gambling, no intoxication. Automatically. That is the test how far you are. Anartha-nivṛtti syāt. These are anartha.

ādau śraddhā tataḥ sādhu-
saṅgaḥ atha bhajana-kriyā
tato anartha-nivṛttiḥ syāt
tato niṣṭhā tataḥ ruciḥ
athāsaktis tato bhāvas
(tataḥ premābhyudañcati)
sādhakānām ayaṁ premṇaḥ
prādurbhāve bhavet kramaḥ
(CC Madhya 23.14-15)

These are the kramaḥ. You cannot get prema state artificially, crying, falling down and then smoking bidi. This is not prema. Prema you have to learn by the kramaḥ pantha. That kramaḥ pantha is the same: ādau śraddhā. Ādau śraddhā. Śraddhā means faith: "Yes, Kṛṣṇa says that, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekam (BG 18.66). It is right." This is faith. This is beginning of faith.

Now, to keep the faith or to increase the faith, you have to live with faithful servants of Kṛṣṇa. With our this institution, the center is meant for giving a chance to the common people to get association of devotee. Ādau śraddhā tataḥ sādhu-saṅgaḥ (CC Madhya 23.14). Sādhu means those who are well behaved in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, not upstarts. They are called sādhu. So those who are living in this temple, they must be strictly very well behaved, so that whoever may come out of śraddhā, if he sits down for some time and sees your behavior, then he'll be influenced. And if you become third class, then how sādhu-saṅgaḥ will be effective? No. You must strictly follow the regulative principles as given to you by your spiritual master, śāstra. You must follow. Then people will come in contact with you, they will be benefited. Ādau śraddhā tataḥ sādhu-saṅgaḥ (CC Madhya 23.14). And if he regularly makes sādhu-saṅgaḥ, then the effect will be he will try to become a sādhu. That is initiation. Initiation means the beginning of becoming a sādhu, not that after initiation immediately he becomes a sādhu. No. If he follows, just like we instruct that you chant at least sixteen rounds, you have no illicit sex, you cannot take any meat, fish, eggs, or you cannot have any intoxication up to drinking tea and smoking, and we say no gambling—this is the process of becoming a sādhu. So ādau śraddhā. This is called bhajana-kriyā.

Then anartha-nivṛttiḥ. Anartha. These are anartha. There is no need of smoking—it is useless—but we have practiced it. Therefore they are anartha. But if you follow the devotional process, then anartha will be finished very soon. That is the test. Test means bhakti pareśānubhavo viraktir anyatra syāt (SB 11.2.42): if you are actually advancing in bhakti, devotional service, then automatically you don't like these nonsense practices: no illicit sex, no meat eating, no gambling, no intoxication. Automatically. That is the test how far you are. Anartha-nivṛtti syāt. These are anartha. Then it is niṣṭhā, firm faith; then ruci, taste; then asakti, attraction; then bhava; then prema. So Prahlāda Mahārāja, he is on the stage of prema, prema-gadgadayā vācā tan-nyasta-hṛdayekṣaṇaḥ (SB 7.9.7). When you attain the stage of prema, then your core of heart is cleansed for welcoming. He is there, for seeing.

Page Title:That is the test. Test means bhakti paresanubhavo viraktir anyatra syat: if you are actually advancing in bhakti, devotional service, then automatically you don't like these nonsense practices: no illicit sex, no meat eating, no gambling, no intoxication
Compiler:PoojaA
Created:2022-09-29, 07:23:02
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1