{"id":74369,"date":"2025-06-22T02:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T20:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=74369"},"modified":"2025-06-19T20:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T14:50:24","slug":"engage-without-material-motivation-in-the-service-to-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/engage-without-material-motivation-in-the-service-to-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Engage without Material Motivation in the Service to the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Guru-Parampara.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-74370 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Guru-Parampara-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Guru-Parampara-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Guru-Parampara.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">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:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">niskincanasya bhagavad-bhajanonmukhasya<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">param param jigamisor bhava-sagarasya<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">sandarsanam visayinam atha yositam ca<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><em>ha hanta hanta visa-bhaksanato &#8216;py asadhu<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">This is a section of the book \u201cBhajana-Rahasya\u201d.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To buy the complete book, <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kadachaeditions.com\/art\/bhajana-rahasya-english\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">click here<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These six types of association, when exchanged between devotees, increase devotion. 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