Pratyakṣāvagamaṁ dharmyaṁ. Pratyakṣa means directly. There is no question of purity. Purity or not, it is practical.
- pratyakṣāvagamaṁ dharmyaṁ
- su-sukhaṁ kartum avyayam
- (BG 9.2)
But it is not very difficult. Su-sukhaṁ, very pleasant. Now, to perform the maṅgala-ārātrika with musical instruments, chanting, dancing before the Deities, nicely dressed—is it not very nice? But one who is in contamination of the other two qualities, passion and ignorance, for them, these things are not attractive.
So these are all practical. We should be very much careful to prosecute. Unless we prosecute the routine work of devotional service . . . it is called vaidhī-bhakti. Vaidhī . . . from viddhi, the word comes viddhi—regulative, regular principles. Vaidhī-bhakti. We should not jump over at once rāga-bhakti. There are two stages of bhakti: vaidhī-bhakti and rāga-bhakti. Rāga-bhakti means spontaneous. Spontaneous. There is no question of pushing one, that "You do this. You do this." No. Automatically he becomes so much attached to devotional service that he automatically does. That is rāga-bhakti.
But you cannot have rāga-bhakti immediately unless you perform the vaidhī-bhakti. Vaidhī-bhakti means to follow the rules and regulation as they are prescribed in the scripture. The scripture is our Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu; we have translated into English, Nectar of Devotion. The everything is there.
So if we take care of these regulative principles, the idea is that everyone should be very serious. It is a very serious engagement, solving the whole problem of material existence. So we should not be lacking. Although:
- pratyakṣāvagamaṁ dharmyaṁ
- su-sukhaṁ kartum avyayam
- (BG 9.2)
Whatever you have done, it will be never lost. My Guru Mahārāja use to say—he was stressing on this point—that "Do not wait for another birth. Finish this business in this birth." That was his recommendation. Although, whatever you are doing, it will never be lost. Suppose you have to do one hundred points. If you have finished fifty points, sixty points, that will never be lost.
That's a fact. But why should you wait for another thirty or forty points, another life? That is botheration. One . . . everyone should be very serious that in this life we shall finish this hundred points or do some service and return back to Kṛṣṇa, back to home, back to Godhead.