Bhaktajan is perfectly correct in asserting that this process is spiritual science. In other words, it is a clearly delineated, systematic practice that has already been perfected and traversed by the predecessor acharyas. We don't have to speculate, we don't have to experiment, we simply have to follow it. We apply positive principles and refrain from negative principles. In practice that means following the four regulative principles of a.) no meat eating, including fish, poultry and eggs; b.) no gambling; c.) no illicit sex, meaning sex between married heterosexual partners and only for the purpose of procreation; and d.) no intoxication, including drugs, alcohol, tobacco, tea or coffee. Now the best part is the practice of the positive principle - the chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra. It does take some shraddha, or faith to begin the process, as the process won't work if we don't practice it !! B.R. Sridhara Swami defined faith as trust in something sublime. I have not found anywhere a more sublime personality than that of Lord Krishna. Especially now, nearly everyone is enamored of the incredible things that can be done with electronic gadgetry. But just see the incredible potency of this sublime Personality - He can even expand Himself unlimitedly into the hearts of everyone of us as Paramatma ! And He holds each planet in perfect orbit effortlessly. This can be said of no one else. So I urge everyone to take to this process, and as my Gurudev, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad said many times, "Your life will be sublime !"
jeffster/AMD