- Accept a highly elevated paramahamsa, a spiritually advanced spiritual master.
- Place your faith and love in Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- Detest sense gratification
- Tolerate the duality of pleasure and pain, which are like the seasonal changes of summer and winter.
- Try to realize the miserable condition of living entities, who are miserable even in the higher planetary systems.
- Philosophically inquire about the truth.
- Undergo all kinds of austerities and penances for the sake of devotional service.
- Give up the endeavor for sense enjoyment
- Engage in the service of the Lord.
- Listen to discussions about the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- Always associate with devotees.
- Chant about and glorify the Supreme Lord.
- Look upon everyone equally on the spiritual platform.
- Give up enmity and subdue anger and lamentation.
- Abandon identifying the self with the body and the home
- Practice reading the revealed scriptures.
- Live in a secluded place and practice the process by which you can completely control your life air, mind and senses.
- Have full faith in the revealed scriptures, the Vedic literatures
- Always observe celibacy.
- Perform your prescribed duties
- Avoid unnecessary talks.
- Always thinking of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, acquire knowledge from the right source.
Thus practicing bhakti-yoga, you will patiently and enthusiastically be elevated in knowledge and will be able to give up the false ego.
Lord Rsabhadeva advising his sons on the path of liberation.
As translated by Srila Prabhupada in SB Canto 5;chapter 5;text 10-13
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