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Teachings of Lord Chaitanya
Personality of Godhead and offers himself fully under His care, he actually attains immortality at that time, and is eligible to become in association with the Supreme Lord, and to enjoy transcendental bliss.
The Lord then explained to Sanatan Goswami about the various types and symptoms of practical devotional service. When devotional service becomes practical—to be performed with our present senses—at that time it is called practical devotional service. Actually, devotional service is the eternal life of the living entity, and is lying dormant in everyone's heart. The practice which invokes that dormant devotional service is called practical devotional service. The purport is that a living entity is constitutionally part and parcel of the Supreme Lord. The Lord is compared to the Sun, and the living entities are compared to the molecules of sunshine. Under the spell of illusory energy, that spiritual spark is almost extinct. But, by practical devotional service, one is again revived to his natural constitutional position. When one is practicing such devotional service, it means that he is going back to his original normal position of liberation. Such devotional service can be practiced with one's senses, under the direction of a bona fide Spiritual Master.
The beginning of such spiritual activities for making advancement in Krishna Consciousness, or devotional service, is to hear. Hearing is the most important subject matter for advancement in Krishna Consciousness. One should be very eager to hear favorably about Krishna. One should give up speculative knowledge or fruitive activities, and simply worship and desire to achieve love of Godhead. That love of Godhead is eternally existent within oneself. One has to simply practice the process of hearing. Hearing and chanting are the principal processes of devotional service.
Such devotional service may be regulative or affectionate. One who has not developed transcendental affection for Krishna should conduct his life under the direction of Scriptural injunction, and the guidance of the Spiritual Master. In the  Srimad Bhagwatam , Second Canto, First Chapter, Sukadeva Goswami advises Maharaj Parikshit as follows:
“O best amongst the Bharatas, it is the prime duty of persons who want to become fearless to hear about the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, and to chant about Him, and always remember Him. Lord Vishnu is always to be remembered, and not to be forgotten for even a moment. He is the sum and substance of all regulative principles.”
The purport is that there are so many rules and regulations in the revealed Scriptures: so many recommended activities, and so many prohibited activities—but when all of them are taken together, it appears that remembrance