We have very practical advice from Sūta Gosvāmī that is: make sure that you're healthy and in a natural condition of life, so that you can have vitality. And then, with whatever strength you have, with whatever wherewithal you've developed by good association, by getting a human body, by having some intelligence, by Kṛṣṇa's mercy—use that to ask, "How can I increase my service to Madan Mohan?"

One will, step by step, come to the coveted position of being actually attracted to Kṛṣṇa, not theoretically, not because everybody else is doing it, but actually because I've awakened the natural prīti, or love, that I have, and now I've transferred that from love of the material world. And my main priority, even if I can't do it perfectly, becomes: I want to worship Madan Mohan, and Kṛṣṇa is there very specifically to save us from ourselves in this material world. That's why he comes, and he stands and holds forth for everyone to come and see him. And he doesn't mind if you stand there all day long and stare at him. In fact, he likes it because he realizes that here's my devotee.

And rather than staring at something else, which will happen naturally if you pick up your phone, you sit there with drool coming down your cheeks until you nod off, looking at all the different forms that go by the screen, which are designed specifically to attract and invoke the lowest of impulses that we have for this world and think maybe I could have a stake in the world too. No, you can't. There's not a place where you can stake a claim here that you can keep. It's not yours. But you can stake a claim in the spiritual world because it's real, and you can have a relationship that will actually fulfill your desire for love, your desire for beauty, the desire for a response, sort of relationship with someone who actually cares about you more than anybody else can care in this material world.

(excerpt from the talk)

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