Rupa-Siksa: Pure Devotion

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Sri Nabadwip Dham, Samadhi-mandir class
14 June 2015

[His Divine Grace is reading from Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita, Madhya-lila, chapter 19:]

Mahaprabhu is going to explain now what pure devotion is.

Anyabhilasita-sunyam—pure devotion means you have no desire for anything without Krishna, and no other desires about Krishna also—you only always want devotion to Krishna. When you do what is favourable to devotion and practise Krishna consciousness in this way, that is called pure devotion.

"Anya-vancha, anya-puja chadi' 'jnana', 'karma'": you must give up jnana and karma. You are doing some service but if that service is not recommended by your Guru, that is called karma—it is not seva. When you do karma, you will get bound by that karma and go to hell.

Why, when you practise Krishna consciousness, do you not get energy, do you not feel happiness? I tell this sloka every day. It means you have some other material desire. If you want liberation, or some other material desire comes to your mind, you will practise Krishna consciousness but no love, no happiness—nothing—will come to your heart.

When you practise and do service, service attachment comes, and when this attachment comes, then you cannot leave your service.

Those who have a strong attachment to their service, cannot leave their service. On the other hand, you can see that somebody had been doing some service for a few years, but after that he or she left that service. Why? Because they have no rati gadha (strong attachment). When strong attachment to your service comes, then you cannot leave the service, and the service cannot leave you.

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• First Encounter
• Running Away
• On the way to
Mahaprabhu
• Finishing Visaya

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• Meeting Mahaprabhu
• Empowering Srila Rupa Goswami
• Rare, Rarer, the Rarest
• The Ultimate Gardening Guide
• Pure Devotion

Santan-sikha:
Sambandha:
• Supreme Personality of Godhead
• The Three Worlds
• Brahmas' Realm
• Krishna's Beauty
Abhidheya:
• Maya's Family
• The Cry of a Surrendered Soul
• Breaking Free
• Delusion of Liberation
• Leaving Ulterior Motive
• When Krishna Gives Mercy
• Awakening Taste for Service
• Full Faith
• Power Transmission
• Surrender in Good Association
• Six Limbs of Surrender
• Sixty-Four Devotional Practices
• Spontaneous Loving Devotion
Prayojan:
• The Path to the Supreme Goal
• Hero and Heroine
• "You Are Mine!"
• The All-Attractive Lord