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gita. How do we become faithful? Control of the
senses (sarnyatendriyah) is required. We are in the
material world because we want to gratify our
senses. If we have faith that a physician can cure us,
and he tells us not to eat such and such, and we eat
it anyway, what kind of faith do we have? If we
have faith in our physician, we will follow his pre-
scriptions for cure. The point is that we have to fol-
low the instructions with faith. Then wisdom will
come. When we attain to the stage of wisdom, the
result is pardrh santim—supreme peace. Krsna indi-
cates that when one controls the senses, faith comes
in the near future (acirena). Having attained that
stage of faith in Krsna, one feels that he is the
happiest man in the world. This is our position. We
have to accept the formula and execute it with
faith. This faith must be in the supreme authority,
not in a third class man. We must search out a spiri-
tual master in whom we can have faith. Krsna is the
most authorized personality, but anyone who is Krsna
conscious can be accepted because a person fully in
Krsna consciousness is the bona fide representative of
Krsna. Having tasted the words of Krsna’s representa-
tive, we will feel satisfied, just as we feel satisfied
upon eating a full meal.

ajitas casraddadhanas ca
samsayatma vinasyati
nayam loko ’sti na paro
na sukham samsayatmanah
“But ignorant and faithless persons who doubt the
revealed scriptures do not attain God consciousness.
