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So how this can be achieved? That is suggested in the last [indistinct]: sa eva sadhusu krtaḥ [SB 3.25.20]. The same attachment as you are attached to these material activities, if you transfer that attachment to a sadhu, then your life is successful. We have got attachment for money, we have got attachment for woman, we have got attachment for nice house, we have attachment for our country, for our society, for our families and so on, so on, so on. That attachment is called ajaram pasam. Pasam means rope. If you are tied up with a rope, hands and legs, then you are helpless. So we are actually tied up. Daivi hy esa guna-mayi [Bg 7.14]. (More...)

So we must know that we are conditioned. So this is conditioned life. How you can improve conditioned life? Therefore our business is how to become liberated from all this condition. And that can be done only by sa eva sadhusu krto moksa-dvaram apavrtam. If you... You have got so many attachment for so many things. If you turn all this attachment to a sadhu... Sadhu-sahga sadhu-sahga sarva-sastre kaya. Caitanya Mahaprabhu advised, sadhu-sahga sadhu-sahga sarva-sastre kaya [Cc Madhya 22.54]. In all the sastras they advise that to associate with the sadhu. Tasmad [indistinct] utsrjya bhaja sadhu-samagamam. Even Canakya Panḍita, a great politician... Bhaja sadhu-samagamam. Asat-sahga-tyaga ei vaisnava-acara [Cc Madhya 22.87]. One grhastha Vaisnava, householder Vaisnava, he asked Caitanya Mahaprabhu that "What is the duty of a grhastha, householder Vaisnava?" So Caitanya Mahaprabhu said in two lines: asat-sahga-tyaga ei vaisnava-acara. "Don't associate with nonsense asadhus." Asat-sahga-tyaga ei vaisnava-acara. One line. A Vaisnava's behavior is to give up the association of demons, nondevotee. Because sadhu means devotee. Sadhur eva sa mantavyaḥ [Bg 9.30]. (More...)

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