The mood of a spiritual teacher
“As I have advised you, My dear sons, you should act accordingly. Be very careful. By these means you will be freed from the ignorance of the desire for fruitive activity, and the knot of bondage in the heart will be completely severed. For further advancement, you should also give up the means. That is, you should not become attached to the process of liberation itself.” (SB 5.5.14)
In the Gītā (18.54), Krsna explains that “One who is thus transcendentally situated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman and becomes fully joyful. He never laments or desires to have anything. He is equally disposed toward every living entity. In that state, he attains pure devotional service unto Me.” This makes it clear that pure devotional service can only be attained when one is free from material contamination. First, we need to shed the material contamination by practicing the regulated process, and from this platform of purity, we can gradually come to a platform of pure devotional service. That’s why the artificial process used by sahajiyās doesn’t work: they try to reach the goal without using the stair that leads to it…
