prayenalpayusah sabhya
kalav asmin yuge janah
mandah sumanda-matayo
manda-bhagya hy upadrutah[1]
This is the position. Almost every one of us, we have got very short life, duration of life. Although in this age the standard of life should be one hundred years, but we may believe it is reducing. On account of sinful activities, the duration of age is reducing, memory is reducing. Therefore, the short-cut policy to make our life successful, as Caitanya Mahaprabhu has introduced, has instructed, that param vijayate sri-krishna-sankirtanam.
ceto-darpana-marjanam
bhava-maha-davagni-nirvapanam
sreyah-kairava-candrika-vitaranam
vidya-vadhu-jivanam
anandambudhi-vardhanam
prati-padam purnamrtasvadanam
…param vijayate sri-Krishna-sankirtanam[2]
So sri-krishna-sankirtanam will give you life. So those who are going to be initiated, they must try to avoid — not try; they must — the ten kinds of offenses, then the pure name will be manifest. Then you will try to chant more and more and more. This is the effect.
So actually, we want peace and prosperity, because we are part and parcel of Krishna. Krishna is full of prosperity. And why we should be not in prosperity? This is the material contamination. So kama-lobhadayas: the material contamination means unnecessarily lusty. Unnecessarily. But if you practice, unnecessary desire for sense gratification will be reduced.
Bhaktih paresanubhavo viraktir anyatra syat[3]
Bhakti, devotional life, is so nice, and…, and as you advance in devotional life, you will become disinterested — practically no interest in material activities. That is the test. That is the test.
[1] Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.1.10
[2] Siksastaka 1
[3] Srimad-Bhagavatam 11.2.42
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