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Do not thirst for sense gratification. Do not desire to commit sinful activities. Rather, use your energy to engage in Lord Haris service staying far away from the concerns of worldly morality. With such full surrender, you will achieve perfection. Jagai and Madhai did not commit further sinful activities after taking shelter of Sriman Mahaprabhu, and we should not either.
Only those who understand that hari-bhajan is the ultimate goal can feel the distress of others. By worshiping Hari one achieves eternal life; those who worship Him do not die. While materialists engage constantly with the enemies of lust, anger and greed, devotees have no such enemies. When one has the natural tendency to worship Hari one need not control his senses by force. Rather, by sincerely engaging in the Lord's service, the poisonous teeth of the senses are easily uprooted by the Lord's mercy.
Even the most experienced conditioned souls are interested in sense gratification, even though in their pursuit of happiness they are forced to suffer distress. Devotees,however, do not meet the pendulum swing of happiness and distress in this world. Rather, this world is a place of complete happiness for them because they have no desires. They do not even desire to become an Indra, what to speak of a Brahma, lord of all the demigods. A materialist would never choose to become an insect in this world, but a devotee would not mind such a birth as long as he could engage in hari-bhajan. Because
of such an attitude, even the demigods are made fortunate by the mercy of Lord Caitanya's devotees.
It is important to become self-realized in this life. Otherwise, absorbed in matter at the time of death, we will be forced to take birth again in the material world. If we do not associate with the Lord 's devotees during this life, we will end up forming narrow-minded groups and sects. |