Ādi-līlā, Chapter 1
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Purūravā, he was deeply affected by the separation and had to learn to overcome his grief.
It is indicated that to learn the transcendental science, it is imperative that one avoid the company of undesirable persons and always seek the company of saints and sages who are able to impart lessons of transcendental knowledge. The potent words of such realized souls penetrate the heart, thereby eradicating all misgivings accumulated by years of undesirable association. For a neophyte devotee there are two kinds of persons whose association is undesirable: (1) gross materialists who constantly engage in sense gratification and (2) unbelievers who do not serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead but serve their senses and their mental whims in terms of their speculative habits. Intelligent persons seeking transcendental realization should very scrupulously avoid their company.
TEXT 60
সত্যং প্রসঙ্গান্ম বীর্যসংবিদো
ভবস্তি জংকর্ণরসায়নাং কথাঃ ।
তজ্জোবণাদাস্বপবর্গবস্তুনি
প্রত্না রতির্ভক্তিরসুক্রমিয়তি ॥ ৬০ ॥
satām prasaṅgān mama vīrya-saṁvido bhavanti hṛt-karṇa-rasāyanāḥ kathāḥ taj-joṣaṇād āśv apavarga-vartmani śraddhā ratir bhaktir anukramiṣyati
SYNONYMS
satām —of the devotees;  prasaṅgāt —by intimate association;  mama —of Me;  vīrya-saṁvidaḥ —talks full of spiritual potency;  bhavanti —appear;  hṛt —to the heart;  karṇa —and to the ears;  rasa-āyanāḥ —a source of sweetness;  kathāḥ —talks;  tat —of them;  joṣaṇāt —from proper cultivation;  āśv —quickly;  apavarga —of liberation;  vartmani —on the path;  śraddhā —faith;  ratiḥ —attraction;  bhaktiḥ —love;  anukramiṣyati —will follow one after another.
TRANSLATION
“The spiritually powerful message of Godhead can be properly discussed only in a society of devotees, and it is greatly pleasing to hear in that association. If one hears from devotees, the way of transcendental experience quickly opens to him, and gradually he attains a taste in knowledge that in due course develops into attraction and devotion.”
PURPORT
This verse appears in the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  (3.25.25), where Kapiladeva replies to the questions of His mother, Devahūti, about the process of devotional service. As