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By your great fortune you have established an unexcelled standard of pure devotion for the Lord, Uttamaḥśloka

By your great fortune you have established an unexcelled standard of pure devotion for the Lord, Uttamaḥśloka

and who repeatedly tries with faith and devotion to understand his pure character, attains the pure devotional platform and executes pure devotional service.

and who repeatedly tries with faith and devotion to understand his pure character, attains the pure devotional platform and executes pure devotional service.

“Thus even in their attainment of liberation, ‘lust’ followed as a manifestation of their pure devotion

Pure devotional service of the Lord, without being tinged with fruitive work, mystic yoga or speculative Such pure devotional service is transcendental in nature, and the systems of yoga and jñāna are subordinate service is mixed with a subordinate process, it is no longer transcendental but is called mixed devotional service

Bhaktivedanta purports of the Second Canto, Third Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “Pure Devotional

with the Supreme or to possess the mystic powers, there is no question of attaining the stage of pure devotional

O Lord of lords, O master, please grant us pure devotional service at Your lotus feet, life after life

O Lord of lords, O master, please grant us pure devotional service at Your lotus feet, life after life

, which would normally invoke misfortune, instead invokes the mercy of Viṣṇu when exhibited in pure devotion

The conclusion is that one should not give up pure devotional service.

But if this offering process is in the mode of goodness rather than in pure devotion, then the interest Therefore such activities are in the mode of goodness; they cannot be counted in the category of pure devotion Pure devotional service as described by Rūpa Gosvāmī is free from all material desires. Pure devotional service is transcendental to all material qualities.

who regularly listens to this knowledge with faith and attention, all the while engaging in My pure devotional

This is the stage of pure devotional life as described by Rūpa Gosvāmī:

“Of these, the wise one who is in full knowledge in union with Me through pure devotional service is

who regularly listens to this knowledge with faith and attention, all the while engaging in My pure devotional

Vasudeva and Devakī, therefore, being situated in a completely pure devotional state, are beyond this In the transcendental world, however, because of pure devotion, there is a similar conception of fear