Even imperfect devotional service creates eternal spiritual assets that guarantee a blessed human rebirth.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
The Nectar of Devotion — December 28, 1972, Bombay 721228ND-BOMBAY [55:39 Minutes] NOD_721228ND-BOMBAY Pradyumna: [reading:] "Bhakti-rasa, however, the mellow relished in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, does not finish with the end of life. It continues perpetually and is therefore called amṛta, that which does not die, but exists eternally." Prabhupāda: This is the importance of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is said: tyaktvā sva-dharmaṁ caraṇāmbujaṁ harer bhajann apakvo 'tha patet tato yadi yatra kva vābhadram abhūd amuṣya kiṁ ko vārtha āpto 'bhajatāṁ sva-dharmataḥ [SB 1.5.17] Just like sometimes they say that the, in this movement, just like the cinema, the hippies are joining. Accepting that hippies are... Hippies means they're useless.
They are joining. Bhāgavata says that those who are very dutiful, they are called sva-dharma niṣṭhā. Sva-dharma niṣṭhā. According to Vedic culture, there are different divisions of the society.
Brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra, brahmacārī, gṛhastha, vānaprastha. So these are called sva-dharma, means engaged in one's occupational duty. That is called sva-dharma. Or, in the modern sense, somebody's engaged in business, somebody's engaged in other occupation, profession.
There are... Every man has got some engagement. That's a fact. So Bhāgavata says that tyaktvā sva-dharmaṁ caraṇāmbujaṁ harer.
Anyone, even by sentiment, or by any reason, he gives up his own occupational duty and takes shelter of Kṛṣṇa, or joins this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, tyaktvā sva-dharmaṁ caraṇāmbujaṁ harer... All right. If one has joined this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, doing very nicely, he's improving, that's all right. But if he falls down...
Because sometimes they come out of sentiment, join this movement and again falls down. Sometimes. Not very occasionally. But there is chance, because māyā is very strong.
One may fall down. Bhāgavata says, bhajann apakvo 'tha patet tato yadi [SB 1.5.17]. He's not mature. In immature stage, by some reason or other if he falls down, then yatra kva vābhadram abhūd amuṣya kim. Then what is the loss there?