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In all phases of life one has to perform devotional ac-
tivities under the direction of the spiritual master in order to
attain perfection in bhakti-yoga. It is not that one has to con-
fine or narrow one’s activities. Krsna is all-pervading.
Therefore nothing is independent of Krsna, as Krsna Him-
self states in Bhagavad-gita (9.4):

maya tatam idam sarvam

jagad avyakta-martina

mat-sthani sarva-bhitani

na caham tesv avasthitah

“By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is
pervaded. All beings are in Me, but I am not in them.”
Under the direction of the bona fide spiritual master, one
has to make everything favorable for Krsna’s service. For
example, at present we are using a dictaphone. The ma-
terialist who invented this machine intended it for business-
men or writers of mundane subject matters. He certainly
never. thought of using the dictaphone in God’s service, but
we are using this dictaphone to write Krsna conscious
literature. Of course, the manufacture of the dictaphone is
wholly within the energy of Krsna. All the parts of the in-
strument, including the electronic functions, are made from
different combinations and interactions of the five basic
types of material energy—namely, bhimi, jala, agni, vayu
and dkasa. The inventor used his brain to make this compli-
cated machine, and his brain, as well as the ingredients,
were supplied by Krsna. According to the statement of
Krsna, mat-sthani sarva-bhitani: “Everything is depending
