SIX CHARACTERISTICS OF PURE DEVOTIONAL SERVICE

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 Krsna.