Should we give up bad association?

We are servants of the Supreme Lord. Why should we become materialists? Material enjoyment brings distress. Sense objects, which we perceive through form, taste, smell, touch, and sound perpetually troubles us. We should not become material enjoyers. Sri Gaurangadeva said that one who wants to worship the Lord should never see a materialist.

If we surround ourselves with sense gratification, we will forget the Lord and tend to consider His devotees insignificant. A person who is travelling on the devotional path should not see a materialist’s face. Not only. should he not see a materialist, he should not see even an associate of a materialist. As the physician for our material disease, Sri Gaurasundara, advised, “Do not associate with materialists, do not associate with materialists, do not associate with the materialists.”