Gurudeva calls this verse the turning point of the whole discussion. Everything said before it — karma, the giving up of karma, jñāna — is the ascending path: I am doing, I am striving by my own strength, I will arrive. Āroha-panthā. Bhakti is built the other way round: avaroha-panthā, the path along which things come down rather than one climbs. And the mood changes entirely: I am helpless, transcendental things are beyond my capacity, the goal will come only to one who has placed himself in a receptive disposition and is receiving hari-kathā. Not a staircase but two arrows on one line: a thin dotted one upward, a thick solid one down.