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teṣām ahaḿ samuddhartā
mṛtyu-saḿsāra-sāgarāt
bhavāmi na cirāt pārtha
mayy āveśita-cetasām

"For those who are engaged in devotional service & whose minds are
constantly fixed on Me without deviation, I am the swift deliverer
from the ocean of birth and death" [BG 12.7]

Rupa Goswami says that if one takes to that line of activities, Krsna
consciousness, then all things, all regulation, will follow just like
a servant follows a master. If the master starts, the servant follows.
The Lord says, ksipram dharma: "Because he has taken to that Krsna
consciousness, very soon he will be perfect pious man." This process
will help him. Don't be too much anxious, "Oh, I am not in such a way.
I am not in such way." Whatever way you may be, you just take to this
Krsna consciousness, very easy thing. If you take this Krsna
consciousness, chanting Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare,
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare very sincerely and regularly
as far as possible by following the rules and regulation, this Krsna
consciousness will help you to become a perfect and pious man very
soon. Ksipram. Ksipram means very soon.

Then one will relish this Krsna consciousness so nicely that he will
give up all nonsense automatically: "I don't like it, don't like it."
This is the process. He will give up automatically. Param drstva
nivartate. The whole world is after sense gratification, but a Krsna
conscious person, just very soon he will find that "All these
nonsense, oh, there is no happiness." He will give it up. He will give
it up. It is so nice thing.

Some way or other, if you take to Krsna consciousness, your reluctance
for sense gratification will automatically come.You haven't got to
train yourself that "How to stop my sense gratification?" If you
simply go on chanting Hare Krsna sincerely.

Chanting and hearing. When you chant, you hear, and you will enjoy.
And you will enjoy so nicely that you will give up all that is not
wanted in the advancement of his spiritual life. This is
recommendation by Krsna Himself. Perfect peaceful life, eternal life,
blissful life, he very soon attains.

So here Krsna says, kaunteya pratijanihi: "Please declare in the world
that anyone who has taken to this Krsna consciousness will never be
destroyed. He will never go back again to that material life of sense
gratification and pull on this material existence full of miseries. He
will be taken out. He will be taken out sooner or later. As he has
taken to this Krsna consciousness, he will be never destroyed."

Therefore this is the only way, Krsna consciousness, to become
perfect. Perfection means to attain spiritual life, eternity,
blissful, and full of knowledge. That is waiting us. That is waiting
us. Why should we refuse it? It is not a theory. Don't think that
Bhagavad-gita is something, imaginary thing. No. People have taken to
it. They have practiced. They have attained success. It is coming on
since a very, very long time. It was first advised to the sun-god.
Then, after many, many millions of years, again, five thousand years
before, it was advised to Arjuna. So it is coming down. It is accepted
by all great acaryas of India, and it is being followed, still being
followed. So take it. Don't be destroyed. Take to Krsna consciousness,
and you will be saved.

Suppose if I am thrown into the ocean, that is practically my
destruction. I may be very good swimmer, but that is no hope. That is
no hope of my life. Any moment, I can go down into the depth of the
ocean. Similarly, we are struggling very hard in this material ocean
of existence, simply struggling. Just like a man is trying to save
himself in the Atlantic Ocean, similarly, we are also trying here. So
Krsna promises: "Those who are in Krsna consciousness, I promise I
shall take him from this ocean of birth and death."

Just take to this process of Krsna consciousness and your progress and
advancement of spiritual life is guaranteed.

- Srila Prabhupada