Spiritual association with pure devotees, coupled with regulative practice, stops death and transcends all material planning.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.10.11 — November 3, 1973, Delhi 731103R1-DELHI [38:24 Minutes] Conv_731103R1-DELHI SB-01.10.11_731103R1-DELHI Pradyumna: sat-saṅgān mukta-duḥsaṅgo hātuṁ notsahate budhaḥ kīrtyamānaṁ yaśo yasya sakṛd ākarṇya rocanam [SB 1.10.11] Prabhupāda: Where... Where it is quoted from? Pradyumna: Quoted from Bhāgavatam, Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, 1.10.11.
Prabhupāda: Eh? Pradyumna: First Canto, Tenth Chapter, eleventh verse.
Prabhupāda: [indistinct]. [pause] Pradyumna: Translation?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Pradyumna: "The intelligent, who have understood the Supreme Lord in association with pure devotees and have become freed from bad materialistic association, can never avoid hearing the glories of the Lord, even though they have heard them only once." Prabhupāda: Hmm. So this will protect you from the influence of māyā. Read that again. Pradyumna: Sanskrit or translation? Prabhupāda: Translation. Pradyumna: "The intelligent, who have understood the Supreme Lord in association with pure devotees and have become freed..." Prabhupāda: "In association with pure devotees." So if you are karmīs, then where is the..., what is the value of this association?
Sat-saṅga. Sat-saṅga means assembly, discussion. Bodhayantaḥ parasparam, tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca [Bg. 10.9]. If you are not interested in association, discussion, then you are finished.
So? Karmīs, they are fools and rascals. When you have got this center, it is not that you should be engaged from morning till you go to bed for sense gratification. That is not life.
That is karmī's life. You have no time for sat-saṅga, for association. You cannot make any progress by this sort of karmī's life. We have to work for organization, but not that whole day and night engaged and no sat-saṅga. That is a misguided policy, and it will spoil the whole structure.