Perfect peace comes through faithful surrender, intelligent service, and redirecting all energy toward Krishna consciousness.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: [taps on microphone] [kīrtana] [prema-dhvani] [40:49] Thank you very much. Get the light. Just like the roaring of a lion drives away the big elephants from the forest—whenever there is roaring of a lion, even the big animals like elephants, they go away—similarly, this vibration of transcendental sound will cleanse the elephants of dirtiness in the mind. We have accumulated dirtiness in our mind after many, many births, and that is a huge garbage.
For this transcendental sound is just like the roaring of lion, and it will clear all the garbages accumulated. śraddhāvāl labhate jñānaṃ tat-paraḥ saṃyatendriyaḥ jñānaṃ labdhvā parāṃ śāntim acireṇādhigacchati [Bg 4.39] [A faithful man who is absorbed in transcendental knowledge and who subdues his senses quickly attains the supreme spiritual peace.] Now Lord Kṛṣṇa says that faithful, those who are faithful, they can acquire transcendental knowledge. This subject matter we have discussed in the last meeting, that without faith we cannot make any progress. In any field of activities we must have faith. For example, I cited the other day, just like we go to your barber shop, and we spread our neck, and the barber has got a sharp razor in his hand.
If he likes, he can at once cut my throat; he has got the weapon ready. But because I have got faith he'll not do it—he'll simply shave my beard or mustaches. So this faith is required in every activity. Without faith we cannot step forward even in our daily life. So if we have got so, so faith in ordinary dealings, don't you think that we must have very good faith when we are making progress in spiritual life? But faith should not be blind.
Blind faith is useless. Now, we have already discussed that one should go to the spiritual master with surrender and question and service—three things. First of all, for acquiring knowledge we have to find out the suitable personality, and if we are fortunate enough to find out such suitable personality, then first thing is to surrender. And that, after that surrender, there are questions.
One must be very intelligent to put questions to the spiritual master. Without questions you cannot make progress. So blind faith is never required, neither questions should be in a mood of challenge. That should not. Questions or answers should be just to understand.
And that should be accompanied with service. This is the mood. Whole Vedic process... Nobody can deny in the Vedic process that there is no need of spiritual master.
There is. So śraddhāvān. Therefore the faithful, the faithful can acquire knowledge. And tat-paraḥ. Tat-paraḥ means we have to follow the faith favorably, not unfavorably.