In one lifetime, it is possible–SP

670313SB.SF lectures

It is not that we are all liberated persons. We have got so many attachments to family, wife, country. But along with it, if we try to increase our attachment for Kṛṣṇa, automatically there will be detachment. Automatically. Without endeavoring separately. Vāsudeve bhagavati bhakti–yogaḥ prayojitaḥ [SB 1.2.7] . Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa. If we become engaged in bhakti–yoga…

So this is bhakti–mārga. If we follow these principles of bhakti–mārga we do not require to endeavor separately how to become detached. The detachment automatically follows. Vāsudeve bhagavati bhakti–yogaḥ prayojitaḥ janayati āśu vairāgyam [SB 1.2.7] . Vairāgyammeans detachment. The bhakti–yoga is known also as vairāgya.Vairāgya. Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya wrote verses about this vairāgya.

Here is Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu who is Kṛṣṇa Himself. He has come to teach us vairāgya–vidyā. It is little difficult. It is very difficult for ordinary persons to understand this vairāgya–vidyā. Their business is how to increase attachment for this body, and Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is how to increase detachment for this material life. Therefore it is called vairāgya–vidyā. Vairāgya–vidyā can be very easily achieved, just like it is recommended, vāsudeve bhagavati bhakti–yogaḥ prayojitaḥ janayati āśu vairāgyam [SB 1.2.7] ,very soon, very soon.

Janayati āśu vairāgyaṁ jñānaṁ ca. Two things required in human life. One thing is jñānam, jñānaṁ–vijñānam āstikyaṁ brahma–karma sva–bhāva–jam. This jñānam means, beginning of jñāna means “I am not this body. I am spirit soul.” That is jñāna. And as soon as one is situated in that platform of jñānam, it is easy. People are engaged everywhere for the benefit of this body.

But if one understands, he come to the platform jñānam, then naturally he becomes detached, that “I am not this body. Why I am working so hard for this body?“

Jñānaṁ ca yad ahaitukam [SB 1.2.7].Automatically… Two things are required. Caitanya Mahāprabhu has many places, He has stressed on this, and by His life He is teaching jñānam and vairāgyam. One side jñānam, in His teaching to RūpaGosvāmī, teaching to Sanātana Gosvāmī, teaching to, talking with Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī, talking with Rāmānanda Rāya. We have given all these things in our Teachings of Lord Caitanya. So that is jñānam. And by His example in His own life, taking sannyāsa, He is teaching vairāgya. Jñāna and vairāgya,these two things are required.

So not all of a sudden we can be situated on the platform of jñānam and vairāgyam, but if we practice, it is possible. It is possible. Not that it is impossible. That is recommended:

vāsudeve  bhagavati
bhakti– yogaḥ  prayojitaḥ
janayaty  āśu  vairāgyaṁ
jñānaṁ  ca  yad  ahaitukam
[SB  1.2.7]

That is required. So the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is for achieving jñānam and vairāgyam. If we become too much attached to this material world… And how we become attached? The vivid description is given by Prahlāda Mahārāja. The wife, the children, the house, the animals and servants, the furniture, the dress, and so on, so on, so on, so many things. People are working so hard, day and night, only for these things. Is there not (indistinct) nice bungalow, nice animal, nice, so many things we see? What for? To increase attachment. If we increase attachment, there is no question of being freed from this material bondage. So we have to practice this detachment. So this practicing, there are many recommendations, vairāgya.

….then in one life we can learn this vairāgya–vidyā nija–bhakti–yogam [ Cc. Madhya 6.254] and go back to home, back to Godhead. That is possible. It is not impossible. But ordinarily it is very, very difficult.

…The real business is how to increase our love, proportional love for Kṛṣṇa. Then everything, proportionately, will come, and then our life will be successful.