The Test Of Bhakti - Prabhupada 0135
741126 - Lecture SB 03.25.26 - Bombay
This is required, not that education. Bhaktyā mām abhijānāti (BG 18.55). Kṛṣṇa said: "Not by passing M.A., Ph.D." Bhaktyā: "Simply by bhakti." Bhaktyā mām abhijānāti yāvān yaś cāsmi tattvataḥ. And bhaktyā, the practical example, if you become pure bhakta, then you will forget all this material sense enjoyment. Bhaktiḥ pareśānubhavo viraktir anyatra syāt (SB 11.2.42). This is the test of bhakti. But if you have got taste for material enjoyment and at the same time you advertise yourself that you have become a bhakta, that is not bhakta. One who knows who is a bhakta, immediately detect that, "Here is not a bhakta." A dharmadhvajī. He has got the tilaka and kaṇṭhi simply for advertisement, he is not a bhakta, because he has got material taste.