Important
To escape the clutches of maya, you must serve a pure devotee - mahatma, who is engaged in Krishna Consciousness 24 hours. Preaching 24 hours. Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.5.2.
And if you don't serve a pure devotee, you don't serve a mahatma, but you associate with non-devotees and those who are fond of women, then you will open your gates to the path of hell. Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.5.30.
One can understand Kṛṣṇa only by serving a mahat, a great soul. Those who try to adjust material conditions are said to be chewing the chewed. No one has been able to adjust material conditions, but life after life, generation after generation, people try and repeatedly fail. Unless one is properly trained by a mahat — a mahātmā, or unalloyed devotee of the Lord — there is no possibility of one's understanding Kṛṣṇa and His devotional service.
And if you don't serve a pure devotee, you don't serve a mahatma, but you associate with non-devotees and those who are fond of women, then you will open your gates to the path of hell. Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.5.30.
One can understand Kṛṣṇa only by serving a mahat, a great soul. Those who try to adjust material conditions are said to be chewing the chewed. No one has been able to adjust material conditions, but life after life, generation after generation, people try and repeatedly fail. Unless one is properly trained by a mahat — a mahātmā, or unalloyed devotee of the Lord — there is no possibility of one's understanding Kṛṣṇa and His devotional service.
posted by Vyoma at Sunday, December 07, 2008
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