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In the association of pure devotees, discussion of the pastimes and activities of the Supreme Personality Then real devotion and devotional service begin.

“In the association of pure devotees, discussion of the pastimes and activities of the Supreme Personality Then real devotion and devotional service begin.” (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.25)

A pure devotee who is attached to the activities of devotional service and who always engages in the

seeing the charming forms of the Lord, smiling and attractive, and hearing His very pleasing words, the pure His senses are freed from all other engagements, and he becomes absorbed in devotional service.

That knowledge and renunciation are never perfect unless joined by devotional service is explicitly explained When there is devotional service, the question arises where to offer that service. Devotional service is to be offered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the Supersoul of everything Brahma-siddhi means that one should know that he is not matter; he is pure soul. It is clearly stated here that unless one is fully engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality

In that state he attains pure devotional service unto Me.”

That is the beginning of devotional service. Unless one is liberated from material contamination, one cannot engage in the devotional service of the constitutional position and is in the renounced order of life, detached from material attraction, then, by pure devotional service, bhakti-yuktena, he can engage himself as a loving servant of the Lord. The Lord states that position as mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām, the real beginning of devotional service.

“The verdict of all revealed scriptures is that by even a moment’s association with a pure devotee, one

he nanda-sūno kutaḥ śrī-govardhana-kalpa-pādapa-tale kālindī-vane kutaḥ ghoṣantāv iti sarvato vraja-pure

He describes the psychology of pure consciousness, delineates the symptoms and characteristics of a sādhu One who engages in bhakti, devotional yoga, automatically transcends material desires and ultimately

In that pure state he transcends the stage of material happiness and distress.

The Bhāgavatam is especially meant for the pure devotees, who always engage in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, in Pure devotees worship the transcendental activities of the Lord in Vṛndāvana, Dvārakā and Mathurā as That is the difference between a Māyāvādī and a pure devotee as they view scripture.

Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, Nārada Muni in the Nārada Pañcarātra and Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa in Bhagavad-gītā, a pure In the Christian religion, people pray, “Give us this day our daily bread,” but a pure bhakta does not A pure devotee is kept in the hand of Kṛṣṇa just like a very precious jewel.

A pure devotee, as Kapila Muni will explain, does not aspire for any of the liberations. That oneness is not for pure devotees.

In all conditions, the pure devotee is liberated.

But as far as the devotees are concerned, their assets – the achievement of devotional service and the eternally fixed in the Vaikuṇṭha atmosphere, which is called śānta-rūpa because it is in the mode of pure Once one is fixed in the devotional service of the Lord, his position of transcendental service cannot

Pure devotees accept the narrations of the pastimes of the Lord as Absolute Truth. spoil the entire process, and the person hearing them will never be able to come to the path of devotional

How liberation is imperceptibly achieved by a pure devotee and what the symptoms are have been explained A pure devotee does not pray to the Lord for liberation from this material bondage. Actually, the pure devotee never thinks that he is fit for liberation. , and he prays to the Lord: “May I be born again and again, but let me be born in the home of Your pure

A pure devotee is not anxious to elevate himself in his next birth. Such a pure devotee does not care what is going to happen in the next life or in this life; he does not is the inconceivable power of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is favorably disposed to the pure