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hierarchy: Teachings of Lord Caitanya
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In the higher stage there is rāga-bhakti, or devotional service in pure love.
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The symptoms of highly developed devotional service for Kṛṣṇa, which are exhibited by the pure devotees , are sometimes imitated by those who are not actually pure devotees.
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Lord Caitanya rejected all these because in the field of executing pure devotional service there is very Without self-realization, such artificial methods of devotional service cannot be accepted as pure devotional Self-realized, pure devotional service is completely different from all other kinds of transcendental In the highest stage one concentrates on the simple, favorable execution of pure devotional service.
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A pure devotee accepts the transcendental loving service of the Lord but rejects all kinds of liberation This is stated by Lord Kapila in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (3.29.11–14), in His explanation of the nature of pure As soon as a pure devotee hears the glories and transcendental qualities of the Supreme Personality of spontaneous attraction of the devotee’s mind to the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead signifies pure
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Thus he is eligible for pure devotional service.” transcendental body, and, being attracted to the transcendental qualities of Kṛṣṇa, engage fully in pure
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An offense to a pure devotee of the Lord is called vaiṣṇava-aparādha, the mad elephant offense. In the discharge of devotional service, an offense to the feet of a pure devotee creates havoc and stops Thus one has to defend the plant of bhakti by fencing it off properly and taking care not to offend pure
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A pure devotee discharging devotional service with attachment always follows in the footsteps of a personality It is advised in the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (1.2.294) that such a pure devotee should always remember
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King Bharata (after whom India is called Bhārata-varṣa) was also a pure devotee, and at an early age In the Padma Purāṇa another instance of pure devotion is found.
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After speaking in this way about pure devotional service, Lord Caitanya began to describe that service He explained that in pure devotional service there can be no desire other than the desire to advance Pure devotional service means engaging all one’s senses in the service of the Lord. In this way one can engage his senses in the service of the Lord, and such engagement is called pure
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which provoke devotional service one acquires some faith, one takes shelter of the good association of pure When that attachment becomes pure, it exhibits the two characteristics of bhāva (emotion) and rati (affection
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One should desire only to achieve the stage of transcendental loving service to the Lord – pure Kṛṣṇa The all-attractive features of Lord Kṛṣṇa help one attain this stage of pure devotional service, and
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no one can attain the perfected stage of devotional service without being favored by a great soul, a pure such a devotional attitude, the boy replied, “As long as one is not favored by the dust of the feet of pure