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Come to this stage.
This is the beginning of sadhu. Because to come to this stage, ananya-bhavena bhakti-yogena, you have to tolerate so many things. Just like Prahlada Maharaja. Ananya-bhavena yogena. He was simply thinking of Narayana. How much trouble he had to undergo, even by, offered by his father. So we should be very much... Titiksavah. The matter... This material nature will not give you freedom so easily. It will not give so much freedom... Daivi hy esa gunamayi mama... mam eva ye prapadyante [Bg. 7.14]. If you become strong enough to capture the lotus feet of Krsna, then mam eva ye prapadyante mayam etam... Then maya will give you, "No, he's very strong. I cannot any more keep him under my clutches." So that is ananya-bhavena. That is described. Ananyena bhavena bhaktim kurvanti ye drdham, mat-krte. For the sake of Krsna, one can give up everything. That is ananya-bhava. The first-class example is the gopis. They gave up everything. Their family, their relatives, their husband, their sons, their father, their prestige, their honor -- everything sacrificed, simply for Krsna. That is the highest perfection. That is not possible for ordinary... But we can, if we follow the gopis' way of loving Krsna, then... Just like the Gosvamis. They used to... Gopi-bhava-rasamrtabdhi-lahari-kallola-magnau muhur vande rupa-sanatanau raghu-yugau sri-jiva-gopalakau. It is possible if we follow the Gosvamis. The Gosvamis were minister, minister of Nawab Hussain Shah in the Bengal government in those days. Sanatana Gosvami and Ru..., very, mean, prime, finance minister, chief minister, very important ministers, and they gave up everything, everything. Tyaktva turnam asesa-mandala-pati-srenim sada tuccha-vat. By their determination to worship Krsna they gave up everything. Tyaktva turnam asesa-mandala-pati-sreni... Mandala-pati means very big, big leaders. When one is minister, certainly he is connected with so many big, big men. So they were actually connected with them, but they gave up, sada tuccha-vat, as most insignificant thing. And what was their next adoption? Now, tyaktva turnam asesa-mandala-pati-srenim sada tuccha-vat bhutva dina-ganesakau karunaya kaupina-kanthasritau. Kaupina, a, simply a loincloth and underwear, kaupina-kanthasritau, and one quilt. That's all. Minimum. Minimum necessities of the body. But how they lived? They were so big men. How they adopted such life and lived? Because if a man, rich man, adopts immediately renunciation, that affects his material condition of life. That we have seen. Just like in Bengal, C.R. Das, he had fifty thousand rupees' income in those days, and he gave up everything and joined Gandhi's movement. He died within one year, because he could not tolerate. So without spiritual engagement, one cannot give up this material engagement. That is the real fact. One must... Tyaktva turnam asesa-mandala-pati... They gave up this material enjoyment. That's all right. How they lived? Gopi-bhava-rasamrtabdhi-lahari-kallola-magnau muhuh. They dipped into the ocean of the transcendental loving affairs of the gopis with Krsna. That was their asset. Therefore they lived very peacefully and very happily.
So we have to... We, we cannot simply give up. As it is said that tyakta-karmanah, give up everyone, engagement, and tyakta-svajana-bandhavah,... You'll become mad if you give up all these things, unless you have got staunch faith in Krsna. Then you cannot give up. It is not possible. Param drstva nivartate [Bg. 9.59]. If you find Krsna's association is so nice, then you can very easily give up your opulent position, svajana, bandhavah, family, business and everything. If you... That requires sadhu-sanga, sadhu-sanga [Cc. Madhya 22.83], to associate with sadhu, devotees. Then you can develop such thing when day will come you'll be able to give up everything and you become liberated person, quite fit for going back to home, back to Godhead. Unless you are completely free... If you have got a tinge of attachment for material enjoyment, Krsna will give you chance: "All right, you enjoy. You enjoy, to the fullest extent." Because we have come to this material world for enjoying sense gratification. Krsna bhuliya jiva... That is called maya, illusory. It is not enjoyment. It is simply struggle. But one who comes to the senses, that "This is simply struggle. Life after life, there is no enjoyment," then he can become a devotee of Krsna. So that requires knowledge, association of sadhu, devotee. That is being explained by Kapiladeva.
Ref: Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.25.22 -- Bombay, November 22, 1974.