Lord Sri Krsna is pleased only by elevated character and behavior

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Hare Krsna dear vaisnavas please accept my humble obeisances all glories to

our Guru Maharaj and our Srila Prabhupada.

 

 

Lord Visnu was very pleased with Maharaja Prthu's **good character and

behavior** and offered him a benediction. The Lord openly says that

performing great sacrifices or undergoing the austerities of mystic yoga

practice cannot satisfy Him..

 

But these cannot develop unless one becomes a *pure devotee of the Lord.

Anyone who has developed unalloyed, unflinching devotional service unto the

Lord develops his original good qualities as spirit soul. The spirit soul,

as part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, has all the good

qualities of the Lord.

 

When the spirit soul is contaminated by the material modes of nature, one

is considered good or bad with reference to the material qualities. But when

one is transcendental to all material qualities, all the good qualities come

out.

These qualities of a devotee, twenty-six in number, are listed as follows:

(1) kind to everyone, (2) does not quarrel with anyone, (3) fixed in the

Absolute Truth, (4) equal to everyone, (5) faultless, (6) charitable, (7)

mild, (8) clean, (9) simple, (10) benevolent, (11) peaceful, (12) completely

attached to Krsna, (13) has no material hankering, (14) meek, (15) steady,

(16) self-controlled, (17) does not eat more than required, (18) sane, (19)

respectful, (20) humble, (21) grave, (22) compassionate, (23) friendly, (24)

poetic, (25) expert, (26) silent.

 

The Lord is satisfied by development of the transcendental qualities of the

living entity and not by artificial performance of sacrifices and mystic

yoga. In other words, unless one is fully qualified to become a pure devotee

of the Lord, one cannot expect to be liberated from material entanglement.

 

 

By HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

 

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