These are the different steps for highest platform of spiritual life

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Srila Prabhupada, New York, April 27, 1966: […] So these are the techniques. So adau sraddha tatah sadhu-sangah atha bhajana-kriya tatah anartha-nivrttih syat. Anartha means… Anartha means that creates my miseries. Material activities will continue to increase my misery. And if you adopt spiritual life, then your material miseries will be gradually decreased, and practically it will be nil.

And when we are actually free from material affinity, then your real spiritual life begins. Athasakti. You become attached. You cannot give up any more. When your anartha-nivrtti, when your material activities are completely stop, then you cannot give up. Athasakti. Adau sraddha tatah sadhu-sango ’tha bhajana-kriya tato ’nartha-nivrttih syat tato nistha. Nistha means your faith becomes more firm, fixed up, steady.

Tato nistha tato rucih. Ruci. Ruci means you will simply hanker after spiritual things. You won’t like to hear anything except spiritual message. You won’t like to do anything except spiritual activities. You won’t like to eat anything which is not spiritualized. So your life will be changed. Tato nistha athasaktih.

Then attachment, then bhava. Then you will be transcendentally, I mean to say, ecstaticized. There will be some ecstasy. And that is the… These are the different steps for highest platform of spiritual life. Tato bhavah. Tato bhavah. Bhava, that bhava stage, is the right platform from where you can directly talk with the Supreme Lord. Full Lecture