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If one can gradually advance his status in devotional service, this is understood to be due to the causeless If a person is completely detached from material enjoyment and has developed pure ecstatic devotion, Lord, even if sometimes found to be accidentally deviated from pure devotional characteristics, should still be counted among the pure. in the activities of devotional service.

Such shadow attachment or parā attachment can develop if one associates with a pure devotee or visits or Mathurā, and if an ordinary man develops such attachment for Kṛṣṇa and fortunately performs devotional activities in the association of pure devotees, he can also rise to the platform of pure devotional powerful that if such attachment is seen manifested even in some common man, by the association of a pure for Kṛṣṇa cannot be invoked in a person without his being sufficiently blessed by the association of pure

This conception of monism is completely different from pure, transcendental devotional service. If, however, it is seen that a person has developed a high standard of devotion without having undergone even the regulative principles, it is to be understood that his status of devotional service was achieved The conclusion is that steady progress in devotional service can be attained only in the association of pure devotees.

It is said by Rūpa Gosvāmī that the attachment exhibited by pure devotees for Kṛṣṇa cannot possibly be perfected in the hearts of fruitive workers (karmīs) or mental speculators because such attachment in pure As stated in Bhagavad-gītā, liberation from material contamination is the stage at which devotional service This attachment is very confidentially kept by Kṛṣṇa and is bestowed only upon pure devotees. Even ordinary devotees cannot have such pure attachment for Kṛṣṇa.

There are impersonalist philosophers and mystics, however, who by a show of devotional service want ultimately They sometimes try to imitate a pure devotee’s sentiment for visiting the holy places where Kṛṣṇa had

If someone, without undergoing the regulative principles of devotional service or without being guided person actually attached to material enjoyment or salvation has the good fortune to associate with pure At that time, simply by the association of such pure devotees, the moonlike rays from their hearts reflect on him, and by the influence of the pure devotees he may show some likeness of attachment caused by

As attachment can be invoked by the association of pure devotees, so attachment can also be extinguished by offenses committed at the lotus feet of pure devotees. To be more clear, by the association of pure devotees attachment for Kṛṣṇa can be aroused, but if one One should therefore be very careful while associating with pure devotees to guard against committing

class of men, and they may captivate some innocent persons who have no knowledge in the science of devotional that such attachment gives the pretender hope that he may eventually rise onto the actual platform of pure devotional service.

attachment, either shadow or parā, can be nullified by different degrees of offenses at the lotus feet of pure

When a devotee, in spite of possessing all the qualities of pure realization, is not proud of his position

A pure devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa resides in the district of Mathurā or Vṛndāvana and visits all the places