Volume 7 - Prabhupada

Text 159] The Lord Instructs Srila Rupa Gosvami 341"One's devotional service is spoiled when he becomes too entangled in thefollowing six activities: (1) eating more than necessary or collecting more fundsthan required, (2) overendeavoring for mundane things that are very difficult toattain, (3) talking unnecessarily about mundane subject matters, (4) practicing thescriptural rules and regulations only for the sake of following them and not for thesake of spiritual advancement, or rejecting the rules and regulations of the scripturesand working independently or whimsically, (5) associating with worldlymindedpersons who are not interested in Kra consciousness, and (6) beinggreedy for mundane achievements."TEXT 158f fif 'li!Hf f.;8f 19t '@ti' I'tf·;ff'9·ttl!i, J i!t '"111