These six types of association, when exchanged between devotees, increase devotion. They diminish it when exchanged between non-devotees. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, with the following words taken from Sri Caitanya-candrodaya-nataka, even forbade looking at one who enjoys material senses or a woman possessed by a similar feeling:
niskincanasya bhagavad-bhajanonmukhasya
param param jigamisor bhava-sagarasya
sandarsanam visayinam atha yositam ca
ha hanta hanta visa-bhaksanato ‘py asadhu
Alas! For a person who seriously desires to cross the material ocean and engage without material motivation in the service of transcendental love to the Lord, looking at a materialist engaged in sense gratification or a woman with similar interests is worse than voluntarily drinking poison.
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