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Bhakti should remain pure. Then the result will be very quick and nice.

So pure devotional service... In this way, the point is that pure devotee does not give very much value to so-called liberation.

Pure devotional service must always be freed from such fruitive activities and philosophical speculations One has to learn Kṛṣṇa consciousness, or pure devotional service..."

When your devotional service will make progress in spite of checking, that is pure devotion. And that is pure devotion. I was attacked by heart attack thrice. While on the ship, twice.

Pure devotional service is the only means to attract Kṛṣṇa.

Makhanlāl: So at different levels of advancement of pure devotional service.

Pure devotional service automatically puts one in transcendental pleasure.

Pure devotional service automatically puts one in transcendental pleasure.

concluded that a person who is freed from the bodily concept of life is an eligible candidate for pure devotional service."

Pradyumna: " 'The Characteristics of Pure Devotional Service.' 3.29.10], Śrīla Kapiladeva, while instructing His mother, has given the following characteristics of pure devotional service = 'My dear mother, those who are My pure devotees, and who have no desire for material

So if one takes to devotional service that "My income is hundred dollars. Kṛṣṇa, give me thousand dollars," so this is not pure devotion. Kṛṣṇa can give. Why thousand? But anyone who asks from Kṛṣṇa for this material benefit, he is not a pure devotee. And unless one is pure devotee, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. But that is not pure devotion.

So this pure devotional service is a different subject matter. Therefore Vyāsadeva says that all kinds of motivated religious system is rejected from devotional service In devotional service there is no motive---simply to serve Kṛṣṇa. Ānukūlyena kṛṣṇānu-śīlanam [Cc. That is pure devotion.

So pure devotional service is the beginning of all auspiciousness. So if we stick to pure devotional service, follow the rules and regulation, chant sixteen rounds, be

Pure character, pure qualities will be manifest.

That sample of pure devotion is found in Vṛndāvana amongst the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana. These gopīs and the cowherds boys, they were the best examples of becoming pure devotees.

So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is meant for turning everyone to become a pure Vaiṣṇava. Pure Vaiṣṇava. That is the actual aim of human life.

Just like we have cited the example that animal stool is impure, but cow dung is pure. How it becomes pure?" But in Vedas you'll find such things.

That is real devotion. A devotee does not want to go to Vaikuṇṭha or any liberation. That is pure devotion. That is pure devotee. That is pure devotee.”