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1.  One should associate with the devotees.  Association with devotees is made possible by hearing them attentively, by asking them relevant questions, by supplying them food and by accepting food from them, and by giving them charity and by accepting from them whatever they offer.
2.  One should chant the holy name of the Lord in all circumstances.  The chanting of the Lord's name is an easy and inexpensive process of realization. One can chant any of the innumerable names of the Lord at any time. One should try to avoid offenses. There are ten offenses which one can commit while chanting the names, and these should be avoided as far as possible. One should try to chant the names of the Lord at all times. Lord Caitanya has recommended the sixteen-word chant called the  mahā-mantra  (or the "Great Chanting for Deliverance") as the sublime method in this age for attaining the anti-material worlds of the kingdom of God. This sixteen-word chant actually utilizes only three words:  Hare ,  Kṛṣṇa  and  Rāma .  Hare  means the energy of the Lord, and is a form of addressing this energy.  Kṛṣṇa  and  Rāma  are the names of the Lord Himself. The  mahā-mantra —HARE KRṢŅA, HARE KRṢŅA, KRṢŅA KRṢŅA, HARE HARE/ HARE RĀMA, HARE RĀMA, RĀMA RĀMA, HARE HARE—can be sung, chanted or recited on beads.
3.  One should hear the transcendental topics enunciated in the Bhagavad-gītā.  This hearing is made possible through platform lectures by bona fide devotees and by authorized translations of the  Gītā .
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4.  One should make his home at Mathurā, the birthplace of Lord Kṛṣṇa.  Or one may make his home as good as Mathurā by installing the Deity of the Lord to be worshiped by all members of the family after proper initiation from the spiritual master.
5.  One should worship the installed Deity with attention and devotion so that the whole atmosphere of one's home becomes the replica of the Lord's abode.  This is made possible by the direction of the spiritual master who knows the transcendental art and can show the candidate the proper method.
The above five items can be adopted by any man in any part of the world. Thus anyone can prepare himself for returning home, back to Godhead, by the simple method recognized by authorities such as Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who specifically advented Himself to deliver the fallen souls of this age.
For further details on this subject, one should read literatures like the  Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu  by Rūpa Gosvāmī and the  Caitanya-caritāmṛta  of Kṛṣṇadāsa, as well as the  Gītā  and  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam .
The whole process of transferring oneself to the spiritual sky involves gradually liquidating the material composition of the gross and subtle coverings of the spirit soul. The above-mentioned five items of devotional activities are so spiritually powerful that their performance by a devotee, even in the preliminary stage, can very quickly promote the sincere executor to the stage of  bhāva  (the first stage of love of Godhead), or emotion on the spiritual plane which is transcendental to mental functions. A complete