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material desires or motives within himself, and for fulfillment of such desires he engages himself in devotional service, the result will be that he will never get pure love of God. If one is thinking, “I am engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, in Kṛṣṇa’s devotional service, because I want the stage of pure love of Godhead. Pure devotion is devoid of all desires – it is simply to render loving service for its own sake.

In that state he attains pure devotional service unto Me.” [Bhagavad-gītā 18.54]

From the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Lord Caitanya gives an example of pure devotion: it is said in the Bhāgavatam This is the beginning of pure devotional service. everything about Kṛṣṇa simply by hearing a little glorification of His qualities, that is the beginning of pure

Caitanya Mahāprabhu says that if one really wants love of God, then one has to follow the process of pure devotional service. This is the definition of pure devotional service. Hṛṣīkeṇa hṛṣīkeśa-sevanam. If someone says, “I am always thinking of Kṛṣṇa,” that is not pure devotional service.

This is the beginning of pure devotion.

When our pure devotion for the Supreme Personality of Godhead is employed and there are no impediments or stumbling blocks, that is the symptom of pure Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

There is no ambition or motive in pure Kṛṣṇa consciousness. A pure devotee has no such ambitions. A pure devotee does not even desire to go to the supreme abode of Kṛṣṇa.

attached to the sensual material conception of life, but this conception can be removed at once by devotional If we adopt the principles of devotional service, we can become transcendental to the material conceptions This stage is obtainable only by devotional service and nothing else. Most spiritual endeavors are tinged with the colors of materialism, but pure devotional service is transcendental

They speak of God, but actually they do not love God; because there is no cultivation of pure devotional

Mike Robinson: But if I understand you correctly, you seem to be educating people on a purely scientific

A pure devotee’s position is that he has no enemy because he is not envious. A pure devotee is always open to everyone, and he does not discriminate that this person can be allowed The pure devotee, seeing everything with an equal mind, is therefore nonenvious.

We have given up all resultant actions of karma, jñāna, and yoga; and that is the stage of pure devotional

The benefit is that I do not waste my time to research whether cow dung is pure or impure; rather, because it is stated in the Vedas to be pure, I accept it.

Pure devotees, however, do not accept these various forms of liberation. The highest perfection of devotional service, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, is exhibited when a devotee refuses He replied in that way, and that is the sign of a pure person. But the sublime position of bhakti-yoga, or devotional service, is that a pure devotee refuses to accept

Only by Your causeless mercy will my words become pure.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: But in another place it is stated that cow dung, although the stool of an animal, is pure and as soon as you touch it you have to be purified, and in another place it says that cow dung is pure

This is because the commodity is pure gold. There are many editions of the Bhagavad-gītā, but they are not pure.

rāja-guhyam, the most confidential system of spiritual realization; pavitram, the purest of all that is pure

The pure devotee who three decades later will become the world-renowned spiritual master of the Kṛṣṇa

But special respect should be given to God and His pure devotee.