how devotee association benefits conditioned souls

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The materially conditioned souls spend their days and nights discussing

various topics of sense gratification. They never find time to hear about

transcendental knowledge. But if even only briefly or accidentally they hear

hari-katha, topics of Krsna, in the association of pure devotees of the

Lord, their propensity to suffer in material existence will slacken. When

one sees liberated persons, hears about Krsna from them, remembers their

saintly behavior and so on, one's tendency to bind himself in the illusion

of sense gratification is diminished, and he becomes eager to serve the

Supreme Lord.

 

from SB 11.2.31 ppt