PURPORT
PURPORT
Here the process of understanding the Supreme Personality of Godhead is given. This process is bhakti.
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sravanam kirtanam visnoh
smaranam pada-sevanam arcanam vandanam dasyam sakhyam atma-nivedanam (Bhag. 7.5.23) Everything should be engaged in the service of the Lord. Hrsikena hrsikesa-sevanam bhaktir ucyate. Everything-the mind, the body and all the sense organs-should be engaged in Krsna's service. This is to be learned from expert devotees like Narada, Svayambhu and Sambhu. This is the process. We cannot manufacture our own way of understanding the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for it is not that everything one manufactures or concocts will lead to understanding God. Such a proposition-yata mata, tata patha-is foolish. Krsna says, bhaktyaham ekaya grahyah: "Only by executing the activities of bhakti can one understand Me." (Bhag. 11.14.21) This is called anukulyena krsnanusilanam, remaining engaged favorably in the service of the Lord.
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