1. Unless free from anarthas, bhakti not substantial

    Bhakti-yoga means hearing and chanting: chant Hare Krsna and hear Srimad-Bhagavatam. That's all. Sit down together, all the family members, and chant Hare Krsna and read some passages from Bhagavad-gita or Srimad-Bhagavatam. This is bhakti-yoga. If possible, install Deity, worship it properly. There is no need of going to cinema, restaurant, eating all nonsense. This will be automatically finished. Anartha. These are anartha, unwanted things. Anartha-nivrttih syat. If you take to this devotional
    service, bhakti-yoga, the anarthas, unnecessarily nonsense things — smoking bidi, cigarette, drinking tea, going to the cinema, restaurant, and so many other — they are not required. What is the necessity of these things? If you say there is some ananda, that is not ananda. Ananda is here, to hear about the Supreme Lord. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh [SB 7.5.23] — that is ananda. This is not ananda. This is false ananda. But we are accustomed to this. That is our misfortune. Anartha. So to come to the bhakti platform, one has to become free from the anarthas. Otherwise bhakti will not be substantial.

    Srila Prabhupada, Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.26.28 — January 5, 1975, Bombay