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instructions is listed as follows: (1) One should rigidly give up the company of nondevotees. (2) One should not instruct a person who is not desirous of accepting devotional service. (3) One should not be very enthusiastic about constructing costly temples or monasteries. (4) One should not try to read too many books, nor be neglectful in ordinary dealings. (6) One should not be under the spell of lamentation in loss or jubilation in gain. (7) One should not disrespect the demigods. (8) One should not give unnecessary trouble

The purport of this statement is that Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī proposes to mention only basic principles, not Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī does not wish to enter into details here, but wants to place before us only the principles

are engaged in the devotional service of Kṛṣṇa, we must be prepared to give up something that we may not like to give up, and also we have to accept something that we may not like to accept), (7) residing

devotion for the Deity. (41) One should relish the pleasure of Bhāgavatam reading among devotees and not

Of course it is not possible to visit all the temples, but there are at least one dozen very big and