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So Rūpa Gosvami says how this asakti can be increased. He gives formula, mad-asrayaḥ. Krsna said, "Either you take shelter of Me directly or to a person who has taken shelter of Me." Just like electric power. Electric house, powerhouse, may be long away, but if the electricity is coming through some wire, and if you touch, immediately you will..., immediately in touch with the powerhouse. So either you touch the powerhouse or an wire, insig..., who is empowered by the powerhouse, you touch, you get the electricity. This is called parampara system. Mad-asrayaḥ. Evam parampara-praptam imam rajarsayo viduḥ, yogo nastaḥ paran... [Bg 4.2].    (More...)

So there is no such facilities at home. Therefore this institution is started. If you are serious about Krsna consciousness, if you are serious about increasing your attachment for Krsna, then you should come and live with the devotees. Adau sraddha tataḥ sadhu-sahgaḥ. And tato bhajana-kriya. The sadhu-sahga... [Cc Madhya 23.14-15]. Now they are chanting, they are having mahgala-arati, they are decorating the Deity, and so many things. Everyone who will associate, you will see. And then he will be inclined to be initiated. This is our practical experience. They will submit, "Please let me be initiated." This is called bhajana-kriya. Bhajana-kriya means... If he is serious about bhajana-kriya, how to worship, then anartha-nivrttiḥ syat. Anartha means we have learned so many nonsense things. They can be summarized in four items: illicit sex, intoxication, gambling and meat-eating. So anartha-nivrttiḥ syat. If you accept bhajana-kriya, the activities of devotional service, then these things will be vanished. Then, when you are purified, as I have said, that sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam [Cc Madhya 19.170], when he is free from all these material bad habits, he is mukta.    (More...)