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of all. Bhagavad-gita is spoken by the Lord so that human society can be perfectly
organized from all angles of vision—politically, socially, economically, philosophi-
cally and religiously. From any point of view, human society can be reformed by
the Krsna consciousness movement; therefore one who spreads this philosophy
of Krsna consciousness for the benefit of all conditioned souls in the universe is
perfect in pure devotional service.

The criterion is that a devotee must know what Krsna wants him to do. This can
be achieved through the medium of the spiritual master who is a bona fide repre-
sentative of Krsna. Srila Ripa Gosvami advises, adau gurv-asrayam. One who is
serious in wanting to render pure devotional service to the Lord must take shelter
of the spiritual master who comes in the disciplic succession from Krsna. Evam
parampara-praptam imarn rajarsayo viduh. Without accepting a bona fide spiritual
master coming in the disciplic succession, one cannot find out the real purpose of
devotional service. Therefore one has to accept the shelter of a bona fide spiritual
master and agree to be directed by him. The first business of a pure devotee is to
satisfy his spiritual master, whose only business is to spread Krsna consciousness.
Yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasadah: if one can satisfy the spiritual master, Krsna is
automatically satisfied. This is the success of devotional service. This is the mean-
ing of the word anukdlyena—that is, favorable devotional service to the Lord. A
pure devotee has no plans other than those for the Lord’s service. He is not in-
terested in attaining success in mundane activities. He simply wants success in the
progress of devotional service. For a devotee, there cannot be worship of others
or demigod worship. A pure devotee does not engage himself in such pseudo-
devotional service. He is interested only in satisfying Krsna. If one lives only for the
satisfaction of Krsna, he does not have to accept this order or that order. One's
only business should be to satisfy Krsna. This process is completely manifest in the
activities of the Krsna consciousness movement. It has been actually proved that
the entire world can accept devotional service without failure. One simply has to
follow the instructions of the representative of Krsna.

TEXT 168
SDP-AeVi, AH-Ysr SS ‘wate’, “Fa |
ONTSA aed feacn Feorgeva |) Suv

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anya-vafichd, anya-puja chadi’ ‘jana’, ‘karma’
anukdlye sarvendriye krsnanusilana

SYNONYMS
anya-vafhicha—other desires; anya-puja—other types of worship; chadi’—giv-
ing up; jfAana—material knowledge; karma—material activities; anukdlye—
