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The symptoms of highly developed devotional service for Kṛṣṇa, which are exhibited by the pure devotees , are sometimes imitated by those who are not actually pure devotees. Without devotional service to Kṛṣṇa, such symptoms are artificial, not actual. Sometimes those who are not conversant with the science of devotional service are captivated by the exhibition

According to the various divisions and gradations of devotees, permanent devotional attitudes can be Characteristic symptoms exhibited by a pure devotee are generally laughing and crying; when emotions are favorable, a pure devotee laughs, and when emotions are not favorable, he cries.

Persons who have been thoroughly cleansed by devotional service and are always joyful, being situated of Kṛṣṇa as the ultimate shelter of their lives, and who are pleased to perform all details of devotional service – such devotees have in their pure hearts the transcendental ecstasy of attachment, which has such spiritual bliss is not possible for those who are not situated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and devotional 2.5.131), where it is said: “It is very difficult for the nondevotee to understand the taste of devotional

Lord Caitanya to Sanātana Gosvāmī very soon becomes situated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and engages in pure devotional service to the Lord.

That ocean is called the bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, the ocean of the pure nectar of devotional service,

living entity, who is friendly, merciful and detached from material possessions, who is situated in his pure equipoised in both happiness and distress, who is forgiving, always satisfied, always engaged in devotional ambition, who is aloof from all materially auspicious and inauspicious activities, and who is fully devoted