Six Characteristics of Pure Devotional Service
In the Nectar of Devotion Srila Prabhupada presents the six characteristics of pure devotional service which are described by Rūpa Gosvāmī with evidences from different scriptures. 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 the beginning of all auspiciousness.
(3) Pure devotional service automatically puts one in transcendental pleasure.
(4) Pure devotional service is rarely achieved.
(5) Those in pure devotional service deride even the conception of liberation.
(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 it is Kṛṣṇa's internal potency.
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Thank you, Srila Prabhupada, for blessing us with this knowledge. And please bless us that we can all be pure devotees and that we can now make the whole Krishna conscious as soon as possible to relieve everyone from their suffering in the cycle of birth and death.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Pranams at your lotus feet. Thank you very much for all the good teachings that come from you. Please answer my humble query.
When we say God is one whatever religion one follows and is called by different names, Krishna, God, Allah, Jehovah, so on, why then do you say not to equate Shiva and Krishna?
Pranams again,
Manjula
India
My Dear Manjula,
Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
We understand everything of the basis of sastra, scriptural evidence, and the revealed knowledge of great acharyas. In this way we know that the names Krishna, God, Allah, and Jehovah all refer to the Supreme Person. And in this way we also know that Lord Shiva is the topmost devotee of God ((vaiṣṇavānāṁ yathā śambhuḥ), not that he is God.
I hope this meets you in the best of health.
(1) Pure devotional service brings immediate relief from all kinds of material distress.
(2) Pure devotional service is the beginning of all auspiciousness.
(3) Pure devotional service automatically puts one in transcendental pleasure.
(4) Pure devotional service is rarely achieved.
(5) Those in pure devotional service deride even the conception of liberation.
(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 it is Kṛṣṇa's internal potency.
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Thank you, Srila Prabhupada, for blessing us with this knowledge. And please bless us that we can all be pure devotees and that we can now make the whole Krishna conscious as soon as possible to relieve everyone from their suffering in the cycle of birth and death.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Merciful Srila Prabhupada is Saving Us from Our Misery
Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom
Question: Is Shiva God?
Guru ji,Pranams at your lotus feet. Thank you very much for all the good teachings that come from you. Please answer my humble query.
When we say God is one whatever religion one follows and is called by different names, Krishna, God, Allah, Jehovah, so on, why then do you say not to equate Shiva and Krishna?
Pranams again,
Manjula
India
Answer: He's God's Topmost Devotee
From: ISKCON Austin, Texas USAMy Dear Manjula,
Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
We understand everything of the basis of sastra, scriptural evidence, and the revealed knowledge of great acharyas. In this way we know that the names Krishna, God, Allah, and Jehovah all refer to the Supreme Person. And in this way we also know that Lord Shiva is the topmost devotee of God ((vaiṣṇavānāṁ yathā śambhuḥ), not that he is God.
I hope this meets you in the best of health.
Your ever well-wisher,
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
By the blessings and the order of his spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Sankarshan Das Adhikari is a bona fide spiritual master with tens of thousands of students and disciples all over the world. Since he has been blessed by his spiritual master with the formula for solving all of the world's problems both individually and collectively he is thus endeavoring to attract the whole world to pay serious heed to these teachings, which if followed will make everyone happy and usher in a most glorious new enlightened era in global history.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
By the blessings and the order of his spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Sankarshan Das Adhikari is a bona fide spiritual master with tens of thousands of students and disciples all over the world. Since he has been blessed by his spiritual master with the formula for solving all of the world's problems both individually and collectively he is thus endeavoring to attract the whole world to pay serious heed to these teachings, which if followed will make everyone happy and usher in a most glorious new enlightened era in global history.
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