Category:Characteristics of Devotional Service to God
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Pages in category "Characteristics of Devotional Service to God"
The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
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- Advancement in devotional service, or Krsna consciousness, is characterized by increasing renunciation of material enjoyment
- Awe and veneration are absent on the platform of fraternity, since this rasa is predominated by confidential service. Therefore sakhya-rasa is characterized by the qualities of three rasas
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- He (Rupa Gosvami) states that there are six characteristics of pure devotional service, which are as follows
- He (the devotee in dasya-rati) considers the Lord to be a worshipable object, and this means that his attachment for the Lord increases. Thus dasya-rati is characterized as bhaktih paresanubhavo viraktir anyatra ca - SB 11.2.42
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- In the above statement by Kapiladeva from the Srimad-Bhagavatam, the actual position of a pure devotee is described, and the primary characteristics of devotional service are also defined
- In the madhurya-rasa, characterized by conjugal love, one can become like Srimati Radharani or Her lady friends such as Lalita and Her serving maids (manjaris) like Rupa and Rati
- In the vatsalya-rasa, characterized by parental affection, one can become like Nanda Maharaja and Yasoda
- It is confirmed also in the Bhagavad-gita that a devotee who has unflinching faith in and devotion to the Lord, even if he is sometimes found to be accidentally deviated from pure devotional characteristics, should still be counted amongst the pure