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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1973 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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Similarly, if you are actually engaged in religious principles, the test is how much you are detached from material attraction and how much you are attached to God.
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[[Vanisource:730901 - Conversation B - London|730901 - Conversation B - London]]
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Prabhupāda: So you can test. Just like if you are eating, you can understand how much you are getting strength, how much you are satisfied. You haven't got to ask anybody. Similarly, if you are actually engaged in religious principles, the test is how much you are detached from material attraction and how much you are attached to God. This is the test. Anyone can see whether I am increasing my attachment for dog or whether I am increasing my attachment for God. That's all. This is test.

Bhaktiḥ pareśānubhavo viraktir anyatra syāt ([[Vanisource:SB 11.2.42|SB 11.2.42]]). That is bhakti. Bhakti means God-realization. Bhaktyā mām abhijānāti ([[Vanisource:BG 18.55|BG 18.55]]): "One can understand Me only through bhakti." So that is first-class religion, bhakti. So if you have got bhakti, then you will realize God daily, every moment. That is real understanding. So by becoming a follower of (indistinct) Thakur, whether we have developed that Kṛṣṇa consciousness or not, that is the test. But how can I say? It is up to you. That is up to you.
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