Text 24] Pure Devotional Service: The Change in Heart
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dust of the feet of great devotees.  It is never attained by  tapasya  (austerity), the Vedic worshiping process, acceptance of renounced order of life, the discharge of the duties of household life, the chanting of the Vedic hymns, or the performance of penances in the hot sun, within cold water or before the blazing fire.”
In other words, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the property of His pure unconditional devotees, and as such only the devotees can deliver Kṛṣṇa to another devotee; Kṛṣṇa is never obtainable directly. Lord Caitanya therefore designated Himself as the “ gopī-bhartur dāsa-dāsa-dāsānudāsa ,” or “the most obedient servant of the servants of the Lord who maintains the  gopī  damsels at Vṛndāvana.” A pure devotee therefore never approaches the Lord directly, but tries to please the Lord’s servant of servants, and thus the Lord becomes pleased, and the devotee then only can relish the taste of the  tulasī  leaves stuck to His lotus feet. In the  Brahma-samhitā  it is said that the Lord is never to be found by becoming a great scholar of the Vedic literatures, but He is very easily approachable through His pure devotee. In Vṛndāvana all the pure devotees pray for the mercy of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, the pleasure potency of Lord Kṛṣṇa. Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is a tender-hearted feminine counterpart of the supreme whole, resembling the perfectional stage of the worldly feminine nature. Therefore, the mercy of Rādhārāṇī is available very readily by the sincere devotees, and once She recommends such a devotee to Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Lord at once accepts the devotee’s admittance in His association. The conclusion is, therefore, that one should be more serious about seeking the mercy of the devotee than that of the Lord directly, and by doing so (by the good will of the devotee) the natural attraction for the service of the Lord will be revived.
TEXT 24
तदस्मसारं हृदयं वतेदं 
    यत् गृह्यमार्गहरिनामधेयैः । 
    न विक्रियेताथ यदा विकारो 
    नेत्रे जलं गात्ररुहेषु हर्षः ॥२४॥
tad aśmasāram hṛdayam batedam 
    yad gṛhyamāṇair hari-nāma-dheyaiḥ 
    na vikriyetātha yadā vikāro 
    netre jalam gātra-ruheṣu harṣaḥ