The 26 Qualities of a pure devotee of God or Krishna, Part 2

 The 26 Qualities of a Pure Devotee of God or Krishna, Part 2, by Haripada dasa

11- He is peaceful: A person can be peaceful when he is free from material desires, I remember a song from a genuine acharya or spiritual master who said that the symptom that I will have gotten the mercy of Sri Nityananda is that I will be free from material desires and When Lord Nrisimhadeva told Prahlada Maharaja to ask for a blessing, he asked that in the bottom of my heart that I have no material desires.

12- He is always surrendered to Krishna or God: In my blog are all the songs of the saranagati or the surrender to the almighty God by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, in the Harinama Chintamani chapter 13 it is said that the six principles of surrender to Krishna o God are: 1- the vow to accept everything favorable to the Lord's service, 2- reject anything that is unfavorable, 3- be convinced that Lord Krishna will always give protection, 4- depend completely on Krishna for everything, 5 -always feeling meek and humble and 6- throwing oneself at the lotus feet of Lord Krishna.

13- He has no material desires: I remember a meaning of Srila Prabhupada who said that there was a corner and a devotee wanted there to be a temple and now that temple is visited by millions of people, those are the wishes of the devotees, Srila Prabhupada said that you only have to wish and Krishna will make the arrangements, the only way to subdue material desires is to have spiritual desires and always making plans to please Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga.

14- He is very humble: Srila Krishna das kaviraja gosvami says in the Chaitanya Charitamrita that he is lower than the worms in the excrement, he is more sinful than Jagay and Madhay, that the one who says his name will lose all activities pious, that is humility, in the Kartika vrata of the year 1972 Srila Prabhupada said in the Radha Damodara in Vrindavana that we must always be ready to offer respects, not only to the devotees, but to everyone, because each living entity is originally a devotee of Krishna, but circumstantially, being covered by maya, he is acting like a demon, but his original nature is that of a devotee of Krishna, that is humility.

15- He is always fixed in his purpose: From faith to love for God there are 9 states of perfection, nistha or being fixed is the fifth, 1 is faith, 2 is association with devotees, 3 is the spiritual initiation, 4 is cleansing the heart from undesirable things, 5 is being fixed, 6 is feeling a taste in devotional service, 7 is feeling an attachment, 8 is feeling spiritual emotions while rendering devotional service and the 9 is the goal of human life, prema pumarto mahan, pure love for God or Krishna.

16- He has triumphed over the six material qualities: lust, anger, greed, envy, madness and illusion, in Srimad Bhagavatm 7,9,1 it is said that the Supreme Personality of Godhead and his devotee know use correctly lust, anger, greed, illusion, pride and envy, lust is spiritualized when we use everything in the service of Krishna, the example of this are the gopis of Vrindavana, anger is spiritualized when we use it to defend Krishna from his enemies, the example of this are Arjuna and Hanuman, greed is spiritualized when we use it to buy the ticket back home back to Godhead, I remember a meaning of Srila Prabhupada that says that the desire to leave with Krishna is not a wish that stirs the mind, the illusion is used a lot by the Sankirtaneros, I told a man that you have the face of a very good person, you look like the Pope, he immediately took out his wallet and gave me a donation of 100 dollars I told one mother who has the face of a saint, she immediately collaborated with me and told me that I collaborate because you have told me holy, pride, Srila Prabhupada said that the words of the spiritual master are the pride of the disciple, also pride is spiritualized when we become proud of Our acharyas or spiritual teachers who form our disciplic succession, what great personalities! They come from the spiritual world, we must not imitate the acharyas, but follow in their footsteps, I remember reading in the Nectar of Devotion that the devotee mahabhagavata is in raganuga , but to set an example to neophytes, act as a neophyte and envy, I remember in the centenary of Srila Prabhupada in the year 1996 the bbt of Spain promised in front of the Deities and 500 devotees that the Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita would print, there are countries very young people who have all of Srila Prabhupada's books translated and printed into their languages, that is transcendental envy.