When is one qualified to perform pure devotional service?
"Being purified by his intelligence and controlling the mind with determination giving up the objects of sense gratification, being freed from attachment and hatred, one who lives in a secluded place, who eats little, who controls his body, mind and power of speech, who is always in trance and who is detached, free from false ego, false strength, false pride, lust, anger, and acceptance of material things, free from false proprietorship, and peaceful - such a person is certainly elevated to the position of self-realization. One who is thus transcedentally sitiated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman and becomes fully joyful. He never laments or desires to have anything. He is equally disposed toward every living enity. In that state he attains pure devotional service unto Me." BG 18.53-54
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