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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 At such a time, by rendering devotional service, one gets a spiritual body with purified senses.

Those who are spontaneously devoted to the Lord and have no aims for material gain are called attracted 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 spontaneous devotional service.

“If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water, I will accept it.” The real ingredient is bhakti (devotion). 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. If there is no ulterior motive, devotional service cannot be checked by any material condition.

In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta three kinds of devotional service are described — namely, bhakti (ordinary devotional service), śuddha-bhakti (pure devotional service) and viddha-bhakti (mixed devotional service

When these four kinds of persons come to the Supreme Lord for devotional service and are completely purified by the association of a pure devotee, they also become pure devotees. As far as the miscreants are concerned, for them devotional service is very difficult because their lives But even some of them, by chance, when they come in contact with a pure devotee, also become pure devotees

This is the platform of pure devotional service. That is first-class devotion.

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

Having attained to the stage of devotion, Mahārāja Pṛthu became uninterested in the practices of jñāna This is the stage of pure devotional life as described by Rūpa Gosvāmī:

“To become a staunch, pure devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead without deviation [ananya-bhāk Such control is a symptom of pure devotional service.”

Pure devotional service is so spiritually relishable that a devotee becomes automatically uninterested That is the sign of perfection in progressive devotional service. A pure devotee continuously remembers the lotus feet of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa and does not forget Him even for

When one is actually engaged in pure devotional service, it is understood that he has already attained A sinful person, a miscreant (duṣkṛtī), cannot engage in devotional service. Nor can one engage in devotional service simply on the basis of scholarly speculation. One has to wait for the mercy of the Lord in order to render pure devotional service.

A pure devotee like Prahlāda Mahārāja can understand the minds of others because of his pure vision in devotional service.

who obey the rules and regulations of scriptures, the moral and social laws, and are, more or less, devoted These persons come to the Supreme Lord for devotional service under different conditions. These are not pure devotees, because they have some aspiration to fulfill in exchange for devotional Pure devotional service is without aspiration and without desire for material profit. The Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (1.1.11) defines pure devotion thus:

When one’s senses are pure, one can render loving devotional service to Kṛṣṇa. A pure devotee can only remember Kṛṣṇa’s transcendental qualities.

“Eternal conjugal attraction to Kṛṣṇa, expressed in pure devotional service, cannot develop in one who Thus those who are devoted to Lord Hari, even in conjugal attraction, are already liberated.

Pure devotion is as much infectious, in a good sense, as infectious diseases. A pure devotee is cleared from all kinds of sins. material qualities, one cannot become a pure devotee of the Lord. Such remnants may be taken even without permission of the pure devotees. Infection of the qualities of the pure devotee means to imbibe the taste of pure devotion always in the

the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Second Canto, Third Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “Pure Devotional Service: The Change in Heart.”

Pious activities bring about material opulence, but one cannot acquire devotional service by any amount Devotional service can be attained only by the mercy of a pure devotee. Without a pure devotee’s mercy, one cannot even escape the bondage of material existence. The word mahat in this verse means “a pure devotee,” as Lord Kṛṣṇa confirms in the Bhagavad-gītā (9.13

Even a responsible king like Mahārāja Pṛthu can become a pure devotee of the first order. distinctly see from King Pṛthu’s behavior how he became ecstatic, both externally and internally, in pure devotional service.

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is full of the transcendental topics of the Personality of Godhead and His pure devotees In the absolute world there is no difference in quality between the Supreme Lord and His pure devotee Therefore, hearing the topics of the Lord and hearing of the character and activities of the pure devotee have the same result, namely the development of devotional service.