Srila Prabhupada, Bombay, December 20, 1975: […] If you want to be a rich man it requires so much trouble. Rather, so long you do not desire to become a rich man, you are peaceful. And as soon as you desire to become a rich man, it will be all activities: how to acquire money this way or that way, this way… Everyone tries to become rich man because generally one thinks that at old age I’ll get some income and I shall sit down very peacefully. So you are already sitting down peacefully. Why you take another means?
Of course these things we are not going to discuss, but bhakti means no desire. Anyabhilasita-sunyam [BRS 1.1.11]. Then bhakti is very easy. Anyabhilasita-sunyam jnana-karmady-anavrtam [Madhya 19.167]. People are very busy for knowledge and fruitive activities. Everyone in Bombay is working so hard day and night to get some result, and the jnanis, when they are disgusted, they try to become jnani.
Jnani generally means one who wants liberation, mukti, by merging into the existence. Bhakti is above this jnana-karmady-anavrtam [Madhya 19.167]. If you want to become a bhakta then you have to disregard the process of fruitive activities and the speculative method of understanding God, jnana-karmady-anavrtam [Madhya 19.167]. Then what I have to do? Anukulyena krsnanusilanam bhaktir uttama.
Simply you have to be ready to execute the order of Krsna, Bhagavan. Anukulyena, what Krsna says, you have to do that, just like a servant. Servant faithfulness is, as soon as the master orders something, he is ready. You have to become.
So to become ready to serve Krsna does not require much knowledge or very advanced in fruitive activities. These are material things. Spiritually, when you understand that you are eternal servant of God, Krsna, and if you become fully convinced and do the needful, then you are liberated immediately. Full Lecture
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