Liberated Person
One who acts to serve Krishna with his body, mind, intelligence and words is a liberated person, even within this material world.
One who acts to serve Krishna with his body, mind, intelligence and words is a liberated person, even within this material world.
A musician, because one has got a good attachment for music, he tries to perform it very perfectly. So love is the basis. Similarly, when you serve Krishna, if you have no love for Krishna, you cannot serve Him very nicely. Krishna also does not accept your service if it is not done in great love and affection.
A pure devotee is he who loves Krishna, without any material desire. Such pure devotees are very rare. Even if they have got some ulterior desire, that will be removed very soon, because they have taken to the pure process of Krishna Consciousness.
Offering gifts in charity, accepting charitable gifts, revealing one’s mind in confidence, inquiring confidentially, accepting prasada and offering prasada are the six symptoms of love shared by one devotee and another.