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The Nectar of Devotion
"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.
Initiation Lecture [partially recorded]
This is not pure devotion. You should all understand this. Anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam [Cc. That is pure devotion. That will make you happy.
The Nectar of Devotion
That is pure devotion.
The Nectar of Devotion
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.
CC Madhya 19.166
“When one is situated in pure devotional service, he develops love of Godhead; therefore let me describe some of the symptoms of pure devotional service.
Room Conversation with three Trappist Monks
If you have got some motive, and with motive you go to God, that is not pure devotion.
Paṇḍāl Lecture
But that is not pure devotion. Pure devotion means,
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.56–62 at Adubhai Patel's House
That is not pure devotion. Pure devotion means anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam [Brs. 1.1.11], no material desire, anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyaṁ jñāna-karmādy-anāvṛtam
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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
CC Madhya 24.111
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
The Nectar of Devotion
Those who are actually engaged in pure devotion, their senses are purified.
ŚB 10.47.25
By your great fortune you have established an unexcelled standard of pure devotion for the Lord, Uttamaḥśloka