Pure devotion blooms only when all material desires fade; Krishna's pastimes liberate through hearing.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: And they are all intelligent in sense gratification. Quite equal in intelligence, like the man. There is no scarcity of intelligence. Āhāra-nidrā-bhaya [Hitopadeśa]. How to sleep, how to eat, how to enjoy sex, how to protect from danger—they know everything completely. [break] ...he's trained up.
And how to enjoy according to the body, place, that complete intelligence is there. Lord Brahmā has got that intelligence, and the small insect, he has got. And Kṛṣṇa is giving everyone facility: "All right, enjoy." Bhrāmayan sarva-bhūtāni yantrārūḍhāni māyayā [Bg 18.61]. Sarva-bhūtāni. Everyone is getting opportunity.
According to his karma, he's getting a suitable body. You want to become Brahmā? All right. And you become..., want to become a hog?
All right. If you want to become worm in the stool, all right. This is going on. And devotion begins when one does not want to become anything. Anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam [Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.1.11(1)].
Then he likes. So when you desire, either you desire like a Brahmā or the worm in the stool, that is material. And when you give up this desire, then spiritual life begins. Anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam [Cc Madhya 19.167].
Sarvopādhi-vinirmuktam [Cc Madhya 19.170]. So to become anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam, that is required. Who will understand this philosophy? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Now with your books, the whole world may understand. Prabhupāda: Of course, we have made such attempt. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: People write that now they have got your books they are feeling actually alive for the first time.
People write like that. They get so many letters, at the BBT, thanking them for giving these books. In all languages people are writing you like that. They feel grateful. Prabhupāda: Yes, I received directly such congratulations in the airport many times.