Category:Desiring Devotional Service to God
Theme Analysis
In the philosophy of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the cessation of desire is not the goal; rather, the purification of desire is the perfection. Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that the living entity is eternally active and must always desire something. When that desire is shifted from self-satisfaction to the service of the Supreme Lord, the soul regains its constitutional position. This category explores the transformative power of desiring devotional service. It explains that even if one is not yet pure, the sincere desire to serve acts as a potent cleansing agent, burning away material contamination and eventually leading to the stage of rāgānuga-bhakti, or spontaneous loving service.
- The Constitutional Position: The inherent nature (svarūpa) of the living entity is to serve; therefore, a liberated soul does not become inert but actively desires to render unalloyed service to the Lord.
- The Role of Association: The desire for devotional service is not easily attained; it is a rare gift that is awakened primarily through the association of pure devotees who possess this intense spiritual longing.
- Purification by Desire: Even if a devotee still harbors material desires, if he simultaneously desires to serve Kṛṣṇa, the Lord mercifully takes away the material impediments and establishes him in pure devotion.
- Progression of Taste: As one engages in service, the desire increases. What begins as a duty evolves into a taste, then attachment, and finally manifests as bhāva or ecstatic love.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Cultivating the Desire for Devotional Service to God.
Pages in category "Desiring Devotional Service to God"
The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
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- A devotee of the Lord always has the Lord in his mind, and thus he does not need to be desireless because all his desires are in relationship with the service of the Lord
- A person who desires unalloyed devotional service to Lord Krsna, who is praised by transcendental sound vibrations, should always hear about His glorification & transcendental qualities. This will surely kill all kinds of inauspiciousness in the heart
- All different varieties of atmaramas (those who take pleasure in atma), especially those established on the path of self-realization, though freed from all kinds of material bondage, desire to render unalloyed devotional service unto the P of G
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- Even after millions and millions of births one cannot achieve a sense of devotional service, but if, somehow or other, one desires to attain devotional service, the association of a pure devotee will render it possible
- Even with your kama, desires, you execute devotional service, make connection with the Supreme Lord, a time will come, you'll become akamah, no more desires
- Everyone can enjoy the company of the Lord in the spiritual realm if he at all desires and sincerely tries for it by the process of bhakti-yoga
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- If a devotee maintains some material desire and at the same time very sincerely desires to engage at the lotus feet of Krsna, Krsna may directly give him unalloyed devotional service and take away all his material desires and possessions
- If anyone wants to advance in spiritual life, he has to come back to the platform of purified desire, the purified desire for devotional service
- If one desires unalloyed devotional service, one must associate with devotees of Sri Krsna, for by such association only can a conditioned soul achieve a taste for transcendental love
- In the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu it is said that a person whose only desire is to render transcendental loving service to the Lord is a free person in any condition of material existence.That service attitude is the svarupa, real form, of the living entity
- It is said there that a person who is constantly engaged in devotional service by his body, mind and words, or even a person who is not practically engaged but is simply desiring to be so, is considered to be liberated
- It is the duty of the spiritual master to test the disciple to see how seriously he desires to execute devotional service. Then he may be initiated
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- One should have a strong desire to engage in devotional service. Ramananda Raya has described the regulative principles and developed love of Godhead
- One then (after being freed from all unwanted things) becomes fixed in devotional service and increases his desire to act in devotional service. Thus one becomes attached to the Lord and His devotional service
- Our only prayer should be in the matter of desiring further development of devotional service and such sincere prayer should be submitted not directly to the lord but through the via-media of His bona fide servitor or representative
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- Sanatana Gosvami comments that because the desires of devotees whose attention is fixed on Krsna have already been fulfilled, the Lord's sidelong glances create variegated desires in relation to Krsna and devotional service
- Somehow or other if one gets in touch with a pure devotee and thus develops a desire to render devotional service to Krsna, he gradually rises to the platform of love of Godhead and is thus freed from the clutches of material energy
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- The mind can be peaceful and thoroughly cleansed when one no longer desires anything but devotional service
- The more the taste grows, the more one desires to render service to the Lord. In this way one becomes attached to a particular mellow in the Lord’s service - santa, dasya, sakhya, vatsalya or madhura. As a result of such attachment, bhava develops
- The word nirantara, meaning - without cessation, continuously, constantly - is very important in this verse (CC Madhya 16.72). The word antara means - interval. If one has desires other than a desire to perform devotional service
- Therefore (that love which has the highest taste in the gradual succession of desire manifests itself in the form of conjugal love) I (Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami) call it madhura-rasa. It has two further divisions, namely wedded and unwedded love
- Those devotees express their feelings in such a way that they automatically melt with ecstasy, and many transcendental symptoms become manifested in their bodies. Anyone desiring advancement in DS must follow in the footsteps of such devotees
- To immediately rectify his mistake, for a short time he (Bharata) was awarded the body of a deer. This was just to increase his desire for mature devotional service