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<div class="section" id="Lectures" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2></div>

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<div class="heading">Just like a student's ideal is to pass the M.A. examination</div>


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<div class="text">'''[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.12 -- Montreal, August 19, 1968|Lecture on SB 7.9.12 -- Montreal, August 19, 1968]]:''' 
''Gopīs'' surrender is the perfection of life. That is the highest perfectional stage of surrender. So that stage is very far, far away. First of all, learn to surrender; then you . . . just like let us first of all enter into the school; then talk of M.A. examination. The ''gopīs'' love is just like M.A. examination. 

So people are not even schooling. First we have to surrender by the regulative principle, by the order of the spiritual master: "You do this, you do that, you do this, you do that." Then gradually, ''ādau śraddhā'', if you have got faith, then ''ādau śraddhā tataḥ sādhu-saṅga'' ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23.14-15|CC Madhya 23.14]]). ''Sādhu-saṅga'' means to associate with the bona fide spiritual master and abide by his order. ''Ādau śraddhā tataḥ sādhu-saṅga 'tha bhajana-kriyā''. And as soon as you intimately associate with the spiritual master, he teaches you how to develop devotional service. ''Bhajana-kriyā''. And if you are perfectly executing devotional service, then ''anartha-nivṛttiḥ syāt'', then all your misgivings and misunderstanding will be cleared. Then ''niṣṭha'', then you get firm faith. 

Beginning is the faith, but when your misgivings are all, I mean to say, eradicated, then the firm . . . faith becomes firm. ''Tato niṣṭha tataḥ rucis''. Then after firm faith, you come to the stage of taste: "It is very nice, Kṛṣṇa consciousness." ''Tato niṣṭha tataḥ rucis tathāsakti'', then attachment. Then you cannot leave. Then ecstasy. Then you come to the stage of ''gopī'' love. 

Don't try to come to the stage of ''gopī ''immediately. First of all, follow the rules and regulation. Gradually, when misgivings are all gone, you have got firm faith, attachment, ecstasy, then come to this stage. But the ideal is to come to that stage. Just like a student's ideal is to pass the M.A. examination. But that requires time and endeavor, patience. Not immediately. </div>
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