Prahlada Maharaja’s Description Of Pure Bhakti

Posted on May 6, 2009  
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One who is situated in devotional service is certainly the controller of his
senses, and thus he is a liberated person. When such a liberated person, the
pure devotee, hears of the transcendental qualities and activities of the
Lord’s incarnations for the performance of various pastimes, his hair stands
on end on his body, tears fall from his eyes, and in his spiritual
realization his voice falters. Sometimes he very openly dances, sometimes he
sings loudly, and sometimes he cries. Thus he expresses his transcendental
jubilation.

When a devotee becomes like a person haunted by a ghost, he laughs and very
loudly chants about the qualities of the Lord. Sometimes he sits to perform
meditation, and he offers respects to every living entity, considering him a
devotee of the Lord. Constantly breathing very heavily, he becomes careless
of social etiquette and loudly chants like a madman, “Hare Krsna, Hare
Krsna! O my Lord, O master of the universe!”

The devotee is then freed from all material contamination because he
constantly thinks of the Lord’s pastimes and because his mind and body have
been converted to spiritual qualities. Because of his intense devotional
service, his ignorance, material consciousness and all kinds of material
desires are completely burnt to ashes. This is the stage at which one can
achieve the shelter of the Lord’s lotus feet.

SB 7.7.34-36, texts

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