What are the characteristics of a person whose worldly desires have :
1. Not become blunt,
2. whose worldly desires have become blunt, and
3. whose worldly desires have been completely uprooted?
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we cannot categorize this in this way Prabhu, because every moment things are changing.
The last sinner on the street may become a great Devotee the next day completely without any material desires.
Worldly desires basically means:
-food
-fame
-sex
-wealth
-honor
-.....
but in Kali yuga the one spiritual thing is the Holy Name. If one is happy with only chanting the Holy Names not claiming too much for other things than he is free from material desires.
we can know one's success in spiritual life by his attachment to the Holy Names.
No Deity worship, no other services first but Holy Names.
Your servant,
even serious Devotee sometimes may feel some taste for material things but that time he cries and feels himself shameful and surrenders to Hrishikesh to protect him.
So we cannot say that for sure we will become free from all desires in this material world. But sincere soul seeing his fallen condition will cry for help that is called sincerity.
He is never proud or sure of his purity. But always depends on Krishna's help and mercy that He will protect him. that is humility.
Your servant,