Tuwā Bhakti Pratikūla Dharma Jā’te Roy
I will certainly abandon with great care everything that is unfavourable to devotion to You.
I will not associate with those who are averse to devotion to You. I will not even look at the faces of those who are inimical to Śrī Gaurāṅga.
I will not reside in a place that is unfavourable to devotion. I will not have affection for any activities that are unfavourable to devotion.
I will not read any literature that is opposed to devotion. I will never listen to any discourses that are opposed to devotion.
I will not consider any place bereft of Śrī Gaurāṅga to be a holy place. I will consider all knowledge and activity that obstruct devotion to be contemptible.
I will have no fondness for times that are encumbering to devotion. I will consider all my relatives who are averse to devotion to be strangers.
I will abandon all desires that hinder devotion. I will not accept any food presented to me by non-devotees.
I will carefully abandon whatever I know to be unfavourable to devotion. This is my resolute vow.
Falling at the feet of the Lord, Bhakti Vinod prays for the ability to abandon everything unfavourable to devotion.