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serious about getting in contact with the Supreme Lord, and it is easy for
the neophytes who are just on the threshold of the house of bhakti. It is a

eat science to achieve the contact of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
Si Krsna, and it is open for all living beings, including the sidras, vaisyas,
women or even those lower than the siidras who are called low-born—
so what to speak of the high-class men like the qualified brahmanas and the
great self-realized kings. The other high-grade activities designated as
sacrifice, charity, austerity, etc., are all corollary factors following the pure
and scientific bhakti cult.

The principles of knowledge and detachment are two important factors
on the path of transcendental realization. The whole spiritual process
leads to perfect knowledge of everything material and spiritual, and the
results of such perfect knowledge are that one becomes detached from
material affection and becomes attached to spiritual activities. Becoming
detached from material things does not mean becoming inert altogether,
as men with a poor fund of knowledge think. Naiskarma means not
undertaking such activities that will produce good or bad effects. Negation
does not mean negation of the positive. Negation of the nonessentials
does not mean negation of the essential. Similarly, detachment from
material forms does not mean nullifying the positive form. The bhakti
cult is meant for realization of the positive form. When the positive form
is realized, the negative forms are automatically eliminated. Therefore, with
the development of the bhakti cult, with the application of the positive
service to the positive form, one naturally becomes detached from inferior
things, and he becomes attached to superior things. Similarly, the bhakti
cult, being the supermost occupation of the living being, leads him out of
material sense enjoyment. That is the sign of a pure devotee. He is neither
a fool, nor is he engaged in the inferior energies, nor does he have material
values. This is not possible by dry reasoning. It actually happens by the
grace of the Almighty. In conclusion, one who is a pure devotee has all
other good qualities, namely knowledge, detachment, etc., but one who
has only knowledge or detachment is not necessarily well acquainted with
the principles of the bhakti cult. Bhakti is the supermost occupation of the
human being.

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aereaaig aa wa oa fe FIST cI
