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faith to love. On faith one associates with bona fide devotees, and by such association one can become engaged in the bona fide devotional service, which includes proper initiation and the execution of the primary devotional duties prescribed in the revealed scriptures. This is clearly indicated herein by the word  śrutekṣita . The  śrutekṣita  path is to hear from bona fide devotees who are conversant with Vedic wisdom, free from mundane sentiment. By this bona fide hearing process, the neophyte devotee becomes cleansed of all material rubbish, and thus he becomes attached to one of the many transcendental forms of the Lord, as described in the  Vedas .
This attachment of the devotee to a particular form of the Lord is due to natural inclination. Each and every living entity is originally attached to a particular type of transcendental service because he is eternally the servitor of the Lord. Lord Caitanya says that the living entity is eternally a servitor of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Therefore, every living entity has a particular type of service relationship with the Lord, eternally. This particular attachment is invoked by practice of regulative devotional service to the Lord, and thus the devotee becomes attached to the eternal form of the Lord, exactly like one who is already eternally attached. This attachment for a particular form of the Lord is called  svarūpa-siddhi . The Lord sits on the lotus heart of the devotee in the eternal form the pure devotee desires, and thus the Lord does not part from the devotee, as confirmed in the previous verse. The Lord, however, does not disclose Himself to a casual or inauthentic worshiper to be exploited. This is confirmed in  Bhagavad-gītā  (Bg. 7.25):  nāham prakāśaḥ sarvasya yoga-māyā-samāvṛtaḥ . Rather, by  yoga-māyā , the Lord remains concealed to the non-devotees or casual devotees who are serving their sense gratification. The Lord is never visible to the pseudo-devotees who worship the demigods in charge of universal affairs. The conclusion is that the Lord cannot become the order supplier of a pseudo-devotee, but He is always prepared to respond to the desires of a pure unconditional devotee who is free from all tinges of material infection.
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नातिप्रसीदति तथोपचितोपचारै-
राराधितः सुरगर्णहैदिबद्धकामैः ।
शत्सर्वभूतदशशासदलभ्यर्थको
नानाजनेष्ववहितः सुहृदन्तरात्मा ॥१२॥