First things first

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Srila Prabhupada indicates some of the main qualifications for

siddha-pranali below (in a conversation on 6/23/76, at New Vrndavana):

 

 

Devotee (1): Srila Prabhupada, when one returns to his svarupa, his

natural form, how does...

 

Prabhupada: First of all, anartha-nivrtti. You are accustomed to so many

bad habits. First of all try to rectify it, then talk of svarupa. Where is

your svarupa? Simply wasting time. A man is diseased, he's thinking, When

I shall be cured I shall eat, go to this hotel, I shall eat like this. First

of all cured, then talk of eating this and that. Svarupa, when you are

cured, that is svarupa. So long you are not cured, what is the use of

talking svarupa? First business is cure yourself. Anartha-nivrtti, that is

anartha-nivrtti. Then svarupa will come. That is the babajis. In

Vrndavana, you have seen? Siddha-pranali.

 

Pradyumna: Ah, siddha-pranali, siddha-deha?

 

Prabhupda: They are smoking and having illicit sex with one dozen

women--svarupa. Rascal. This is called sahajiya, a rascal. Condemned.

Where is your svarupa? Don't talk unnecessarily. First of all come to

svarupa, then talk of svarupa.

 

Devotee: So our motivation should be to get free from birth, disease, old

age and death.

 

Prabhupada: That is already explained. But you must be determined how to

execute devotional service. Without determined devotional service, how we

can attain that position? So what is the use of talking utopian? First

business is anartha-nivrtti syat. Adau sraddha tatha sadhu-sango 'tha

bhajana-kriya tato anartha-nivrtti syat. You adopt this means that you

have got full faith that Krsna consciousness will save me. Then you live

with devotees who are similarly determined. Then you execute devotional

service. Then anartha-nivrtti syat, youll be free from all these.... These

are the stages. There is.... Up to anartha-nivrtti, you have to struggle

very hard with determination, and then automatically everything will come.

Tato nistha tato rucis tatah, athasaktis tato bhava. So before svarupa,

anartha-nivrtti, don't expect all these. Read.