Characteristics
1. Devotional life is dynamic, not static.
2. Spiritual life is not a voxpopuli or democracy. It’s not necessary that what majority say must be right. Spiritual life is a completely different thing.
Ingredients
Get up early in the morning. Attend mangala-arati. Follow four regulative principles nicely. Assosiate with devotees. Listen lectures thoughtfully. Do service. This is what devotional life is.
Developing Spiritual Greed
Prabhupada says, “You may not have adhikara in 10th canto, but still you can go through, so that you can have ‘lobha’ that he was in that stage, when the day will come that i become like this little, and what to do for that! Krishna will give you intelligence.
Krishna is the centre of Attraction
This Vaishnava, Vaishnavi is just a dress, even though we understand it is present in the spiritual world but the actual attraction is Krishna. Mother Yashoda is not as much attached to Nanda maharaja as much she is attached to Krishna. Same is true for Nanda Maharaja also. We should know this. Whether one is a vana-prastha, sanyasi, grihastha, main attraction is Krishna.