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devotional service are described — namely, bhakti (ordinary devotional service), śuddha-bhakti (pure devotional service) and viddha-bhakti (mixed devotional service).

To attain the platform of pure devotional service, one has to become spiritually pure and attain the When one approaches pure devotional service after realizing Brahman, one becomes attracted by pure devotional

“Thus even in their attainment of liberation, ‘lust’ followed as a manifestation of their pure devotion

Pure devotional service of the Lord, without being tinged with fruitive work, mystic yoga or speculative Such pure devotional service is transcendental in nature, and the systems of yoga and jñāna are subordinate service is mixed with a subordinate process, it is no longer transcendental but is called mixed devotional service

Bhaktivedanta purports of the Second Canto, Third Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “Pure Devotional

Their pure devotion (śuddha-bhakti), manifested from pure love of Godhead, surpasses the regulative principles Pure love for Kṛṣṇa is the perfection of pure devotion, and pure devotional service is identical with

Pure devotional service is represented in the activities of the residents of Vrajabhūmi (Vṛndāvana). But the Lord obligingly acknowledged the pure devotional service of the damsels of Vraja by speaking

Pure devotion is uncontaminated by the modes of material nature. Even the poorest man can equally serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead if he has pure devotion.

, which would normally invoke misfortune, instead invokes the mercy of Viṣṇu when exhibited in pure devotion

This is the platform of pure devotional service.

The conclusion is that one should not give up pure devotional service.

But if this offering process is in the mode of goodness rather than in pure devotion, then the interest Therefore such activities are in the mode of goodness; they cannot be counted in the category of pure devotion Pure devotional service as described by Rūpa Gosvāmī is free from all material desires. Pure devotional service is transcendental to all material qualities.

This is the stage of pure devotional life as described by Rūpa Gosvāmī:

“Of these, the wise one who is in full knowledge in union with Me through pure devotional service is

The word pāṣaṇḍī refers to those who are opposed to pure devotional service.

When one is actually engaged in pure devotional service, it is understood that he has already attained One has to wait for the mercy of the Lord in order to render pure devotional service.

Vasudeva and Devakī, therefore, being situated in a completely pure devotional state, are beyond this In the transcendental world, however, because of pure devotion, there is a similar conception of fear

Pure devotional service is defined by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī:

Such control is a symptom of pure devotional service.”

That is called pure devotional service.”