austerity is necessary

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....the hard labor involved in preaching, preparing literature, preaching to

atheistic men and distributing literature door to door is of course an

austerity (tapo-yuktena). Tapo divyaM putrakA [sB 5.5.1]. Such austerity is

necessary. Yena sattvaM zuddhyet. By such austerity in devotional service,

one is purified of material existence (kAmAn zanair jahau). Indeed, such

austerity leads one to the constitutional position of devotional service. In

this way one can give up material desires, and as soon as one is freed from

material desires, he is free from the repetition of birth and death, old age

and disease.

 

SB 9.4.27 ppt