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Pure devotional service is the only means to attract Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is all-attractive, but pure devotional service attracts even Him. This means that pure devotional service is even transcendentally stronger than Kṛṣṇa Himself, because

Pure devotional service is rarely achieved.

Pure devotional service is the beginning of all auspiciousness.

Pure devotional service automatically puts one in transcendental pleasure.

Those in pure devotional service deride even the conception of liberation.

Next Rūpa Gosvāmī gives six unique features of pure devotional service.

Pure devotional service brings immediate relief from all kinds of material distress.

The authorized descriptions of bhakti, or devotional service, following in the footsteps of previous devotional service. Pure devotional service should be free from the desire for any material benefit or for sense gratification Pure devotional service must always be free from such fruitive activities and philosophical speculations One has to learn Kṛṣṇa consciousness, or pure devotional service, from the authorities by spontaneous

This is purity of purpose and the platform of pure devotional service in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

He should be restored to his pure identity, in which he engages his senses in the service of the proprietor our senses are engaged for Kṛṣṇa, the actual proprietor of the senses, that activity is called devotional

The definition of a pure devotee, as given by Rūpa Gosvāmī in his Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, can be summarized