When one's ear becomes tuned to the love story in the spiritual world between Kṛṣṇa and his devotees, and the heart becomes attracted—which is the result of the process of devotional service, as Rūpa Gosvāmī mentions—that by continuously hearing and chanting, one starts to notice that there is another situation beyond the material world: that of the devotees of the Lord in the spiritual world. One becomes attracted to those devotees and wants to follow in their footsteps. This is the progressive way in which one steps away from the attraction to the dangerous material world. It's the proverbial third rail, which you cannot touch without being electrocuted.

This allows one then: yat-pāda-paṅkaja-palāśa-vilāsa-bhaktyā ( SB 4.22.39) through the process of cultivation of bhakti, to begin experiencing vilāsa, or the pleasure of hearing Kṛṣṇa's pastimes and the pastimes of his devotees in the spiritual world. Then, karmāśayaṁ grathitam udgrathayanti santaḥ—the hard knot in the heart, which has me bound up in this conviction that if I just try a little harder, I can enjoy the material world. It didn't work the last 12 trillion times, but maybe one more go at it, I'll get that. Prabhupāda says that after hearing about Kṛṣṇa, one loses one's long-cherished desire to dominate material nature. ( Excerpt from the talk)

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