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It has been already explained that pure devotional service is without any tinge of karma or jñāna.

or desirous of merging into the spiritual effulgence, one cannot enter into the realm of pure devotional service

There is additional evidence in the Agastya-saṁhitā: “As the regulative principles of scripture are not required by a liberated person, so the ritualistic principles indicated in the Vedic supplements are also not In other words, the devotees of Lord Rāmacandra, or Kṛṣṇa, are already liberated persons and are not

Gosvāmī warns, however, that if a person is properly initiated by a bona fide spiritual master, he should not If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations If we do not render service to Kṛṣṇa then again we fall down. In other words, simply becoming initiated does not elevate one to the position of a high-class brāhmaṇa

The so-called brāhmaṇas claim that one who is not born into a brāhmaṇa family cannot receive the sacred But we do not accept such a theory because it is not supported by Rūpa Gosvāmī or by the strength of

First Canto, fifth chapter, verse 17, wherein Śrī Nārada Muni advises Vyāsadeva thus: “Even if one does not service, or if he doesn’t finish the complete course of devotional service and dies untimely, still he is not discharging his occupational duty in varṇa and āśrama, however, with no Kṛṣṇa consciousness, practically does not

If someone falls down from the principles of devotional service, he need not take to the prāyaścitta

person who is very seriously engaged in his occupational duties in the varṇas and āśramas, and who does not

One may think that because he is surrendering unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead he will not be

turned out successfully, and it is now correctly and practically established that devotional service is not

Vedic literature was simply heard and the disciples would learn the mantras quickly by hearing and not