| "Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura says, tāṅdera caraṇa-sevi-bhakta-sane vās, janame janame mor ei abhilāṣ. To live with the devotees. If we associate with the karmīs or the jñānīs or the yogīs, then it will not be possible. Then you will be mislead. Therefore it is said that mad-deva-saṅgāt. Mad-deva-saṅgāt means one who has absolutely taken the shelter of Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet, mad-deva. There are many others. Of course nobody is deva; deva is Kṛṣṇa. But there are others, demigods. There are thirty-three millions of devas. But Kṛṣṇa especially says mad-deva, one who has taken Kṛṣṇa as the only worshipable Deity. Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekam (BG 18.66), that is. One who has taken such vow, that kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam (SB 1.3.28), "I shall take to the shelter of Kṛṣṇa," that is not very easy thing. But that is the ultimate point."
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