So these are all facts, that Krsna is everywhere, Krsna is within your heart, Krsna is within the atom. Andantara stha-paramanu-cayantara-tham. That’s a fact, but where is your realization? Therefore you have to begin realization by arcana. That is very essential. Then more you become expert in arcana, ye yatha mam prapadyante, the more you become realized, then more you become advanced. So therefore, for kanistha-adhikari, he has to raise himself.
arcayam eva haraye yah pujam sraddhayehate na tad-bhaktesu canyesu sa bhaktah prakrtah smrtah
By executing this arca-vigraha, arcanam, gradually you advance. But if you simply remain in the arcana-viddhi or arcana process, and you cannot understand who is a bhakta and what to do with others… That is also a bhakta’s duty, not that simply we shall remain engaged in arcana. We must know how to respect devotee, how to do some service to others also. That is madhyama-adhikari. Simply if you become satisfied, that “Now I am initiated and I am offering arcana. I have become perfect,” no, the perfection is still awaiting. You have to understand who is a devotee. You have to understand how to give service to the innocent. If you do not know that, then if you simply become packed up by arca-vigraha-seva, arcana, then you will remain in the material platform. Na tad-bhaktesu canyesu sa bhaktah prakrtah smrtah. Prakrtah means material. He is trying to go to the spiritual platform, but if he simply remains in the arcana and does not preach, this is na tad-bhaktesu canyesu. Anyesu. Anyesu means those who are innocent. That is madhyama-adhikari, middle stage.
isvare tad-adhinesu balisesu dvisatsu ca prema-maitri-krpopeksa yah karoti sa madhyamah Isvara. Then, by arca-vigraha worship, by sravana-kirtana, by making your properly advanced you will understand what is the position of Krsna, isvara.
Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.28.18
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Nairobi, October 27, 1975
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