Joga Jāga Saba Chāra Śraddhā Sakalera Sāra

Yoga and yajñas are worthless like piles of ashes. Faith is the best of all. A person who in his heart has faith attains at first a single drap of nectar. Then gradually he becomes qualified to enter the nectar ocean of devotional service.

With many efforts worshiping the demiogods and goddesses with karma and jñāna, one attains only worthless pathetic results and worthless and pathetic impersonal ideas. But if one
stays among the devotees and hears about Lord Kṛṣṇa, one attains powerful faith in the Lord.

O my brothers, this is true faith. Of this faith I always sing. This faith is the seed that grows into the flowering vine of devotional service. The karmīs and jñānīs talk again and again about faith. But their faith is not like this faith.

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When I hear them dispute the glories of the holy name, my limbs burn with flames. If you say an iron thing is made of gold, the iron will remain iron. If it is not touched by a cintāmaṇi
jewel, the iron will never become gold.

Devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa is a cintāmaṇi jewel. By its touch the iron that is faith in karma and jñāna becomes transformed into the gold that is faith in devotional service. Only the cintāmaṇi jewel of devotional service has that power.