Sisya Hoiya Kore Yei Gitar Sravana

Whoever listens to the instructions of the sacred Bhagavad-gīta submissively as a faithful disciple, from his bona-fide spiritual master, will certainly have all ignorance removed and be freed from the bondage of repeated birth and death in this material world.

Liberation from the bondage of this material world of repeated birth and death is achieved not by one externally in the renounced order of life, or sannyasa – the purport of Bhagavad-gīta is that even a gṛhastā, or a married man with house and family, can achieve the complete perfection of life by faithfully following the instructions of Lord Kṛṣṇa.

The secret mantra for perfection in the Bhagavad-Gita is to state as Arjuna stated to the Superme Lord Kṛṣṇa: “I shall act according to Your Instruction.” Thus on the battlefield of Kurukṣetra, Arjuna’s fame and success simply increased.

If the only qualification of a vaiṣṇava is that he retires to a solitary place and chants Hare Kṛṣṇa maha-mantra silently on his meditational japa beads, then in this world what kind of a Vaisnava devotee of the Lord is Arjuna?