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Pradyumna: [reading] "4) Pure devotional service is rarely achieved. 5) Those in pure devotional service

"Pure devotional service is rarely achieved." That is the criterion. Pure devotional service has got so many advantages, but it is very difficult. It is very difficult. Pure devotional service, even after endeavoring for millions and millions of births, it is very difficult Pure devotional service can be achieved only through the mercy of a pure devotee.

"Those in pure devotional service deride even the conception of liberation. [microphone feedback] 6) 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

People do not wish to come to the pure devotional service. That is the beginning of pure devotional service. No other engagement. Simply Kṛṣṇa. That is pure devotional service. But that is very difficult to achieve.

Kevala means only pure devotional service. What is that pure devotional service?

Prabhupāda: Pure devotional service is one.

Makhanlāl: There are many different levels of pure devotional service?

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

Pure devotional service should be uncovered by the motive of nirbheda-brahmānusandhana, the motive of That is pure devotional service. No motive.

But Kṛṣṇa says, "Pure devotional service..." Not... Rūpa Gosvāmī says, "Pure devotional service is the only means to attract Kṛṣṇa." Hmm. Now...

That person who is engaged in pure devotional service, he transcends all the qualities of material nature

If we serve the Lord with pure devotional service, then this knowledge of the Absolute can be attained

Pradyumna: "One has to learn Kṛṣṇa consciousness, or pure devotional service, from the authorities by

He states that there are six characteristics of pure devotional service, which are as follows = (1) Pure devotional service brings immediate relief from all kinds of material distress. (2) Pure devotional service

is that one may also be in Kṛṣṇa consciousness unfavorably, but that cannot be counted as pure devotional service Pure devotional service should be free from the desire for any material benefit or for sense gratification

This chapter is "Characteristics of Pure Devotional Service." Pure devotional service should be without any desire, anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam [Brs. 1.1.11].

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

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

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

So we are continuing our reading from the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, Second Canto, Third Chapter, "Pure Devotional Service