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Bhagavad-gītā As It Is

BG Chapters 1 - 6

BG 2.39 Purport: The Lord says, therefore, that only to those who are always engaged in devotional service out of transcendental love does He award the pure knowledge of devotion in love.

BG 2.50 Translation: A man engaged in devotional service rids himself of both good and bad reactions even in this life. Therefore strive for yoga, which is the art of all work.

BG 2.51 Translation: By thus engaging in devotional service to the Lord, great sages or devotees free themselves from the results of work in the material world.

BG 5.6 Translation: Merely renouncing all activities yet not engaging in the devotional service of the Lord cannot make one happy.

BG 5.6 Purport: The students of the Bhāgavata school are engaged in the devotional service of the Lord, according to pāñcarātrikī regulations, and therefore the Vaiṣṇava sannyāsīs have multiple engagements in the transcendental service of the Lord.

BG 5.6 Purport: The Vaiṣṇava sannyāsīs, who are engaged in devotional service, are happy in the discharge of their transcendental duties, and they have the guarantee of ultimate entrance into the kingdom of God.

BG 5.26 Translation: A devotee of the Lord, constantly engaged in devotional service in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, perfect in self-realization, very quickly attains liberation in the Supreme.

BG 5.27-28 Purport: A Kṛṣṇa conscious person, however, being always engaged in devotional service, does not risk losing his senses to some other engagement.

BG Chapters 7 - 12

BG 7.17 Purport: And of the four orders, the devotee who is in full knowledge and is at the same time engaged in devotional service is, the Lord says, the best.

BG 7.28 Translation: Persons who have acted piously in previous lives and in this life and whose sinful actions are completely eradicated are freed from the dualities of delusion, and they engage themselves in My service with determination.

BG 8.2 Translation: Who is the Lord of sacrifice, and how does He live in the body, O Madhusūdana? And how can those engaged in devotional service know You at the time of death?

BG 8.14 Purport: A pure devotee always engages in devotional service to Kṛṣṇa in one of His various personal features. Kṛṣṇa has various plenary expansions and incarnations, such as Rāma and Nṛsiṁha, and a devotee can choose to fix his mind in loving service to any of these transcendental forms of the Supreme Lord.

BG 8.14 Purport: As stated in the Vedas (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 1.2.23), yam evaiṣa vṛṇute tena labhyas/ tasyaiṣa ātmā vivṛṇute tanuṁ svām: one who is fully surrendered and engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Lord can understand the Supreme Lord as He is.

BG 8.14 Purport: Generally, the bhakti-yogīs are engaged in five different ways: (1) śānta-bhakta, engaged in devotional service in neutrality; (2) dāsya-bhakta, engaged in devotional service as servant; (3) sakhya-bhakta, engaged as friend; (4) vātsalya-bhakta, engaged as parent; and (5) mādhurya-bhakta, engaged as conjugal lover of the Supreme Lord.

BG 8.28 Purport: The beauty of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, however, is that by one stroke, by engaging in devotional service, one can surpass all the rituals of the different orders of life.

BG 9.2 Purport: As explained in the twenty-eighth verse of the Seventh Chapter, a person who has completely ended the reactions of all sinful activities and who is fully engaged in pious activities, being freed from the duality of this material world, becomes engaged in devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. In other words, those who are actually engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Lord are already freed from all reactions.

BG 9.2 Purport: For those who are engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, all sinful reactions, whether fructified, in the stock, or in the form of a seed, gradually vanish.

BG 9.3 Purport: Even if they are officially engaged in devotional service, they cannot achieve the highest perfectional stage.

BG 9.3 Purport: Those who have no faith even after hearing about Kṛṣṇa and the excellence of devotional service, who think that it is simply eulogy, find the path very difficult, even if they are supposedly engaged in devotional service.

BG 9.13 Translation: O son of Pṛthā, those who are not deluded, the great souls, are under the protection of the divine nature. They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible.

BG 9.22 Purport: One who is unable to live for a moment without Kṛṣṇa consciousness cannot but think of Kṛṣṇa twenty-four hours a day, being engaged in devotional service by hearing, chanting, remembering, offering prayers, worshiping, serving the lotus feet of the Lord, rendering other services, cultivating friendship and surrendering fully to the Lord.

BG 9.26 Purport: If one wishes to engage in devotional service to the Supreme in order to be purified and to reach the goal of life—the transcendental loving service of God—then one should find out what the Lord desires of him.

BG 9.30 Translation: Even if one commits the most abominable action, if he is engaged in devotional service he is to be considered saintly because he is properly situated in his determination.

BG 9.30 Purport: The only qualification of a devotee is to be unflinchingly and exclusively engaged in devotional service.

BG 9.30 Purport: The meaning is that even if one fully engaged in the devotional service of the Lord is sometimes found engaged in abominable activities, these activities should be considered to be like the spots that resemble the mark of a rabbit on the moon.

BG 10.4-5 Purport: One who engages in the devotional service of the Supreme Lord develops all the good qualities, as arranged by the Supreme Lord.

BG 10.7 Purport: Unless one is firmly convinced of the different opulences of the Supreme Lord, he cannot engage in devotional service.

BG 10.7 Purport: If one knows factually how God is great, then naturally he becomes a surrendered soul and engages himself in the devotional service of the Lord. When one factually knows the opulences of the Supreme, there is no alternative but to surrender to Him.

BG 10.7 Purport: When one is firmly convinced of them, he accepts Kṛṣṇa with great faith and without any doubt, and he engages in devotional service.

BG 10.11 Purport: Due to the contamination of material association, through many, many millions of births, one's heart is always covered with the dust of materialism, but when one engages in devotional service and constantly chants Hare Kṛṣṇa, the dust quickly clears, and one is elevated to the platform of pure knowledge.

BG 11.4 Purport: Kṛṣṇa is not obliged to reveal Himself unless one surrenders fully in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and engages in devotional service.

BG 11.54 Purport: This form may seem wonderful to persons who are involved in elevating themselves by fruitive activities, but to persons who are engaged in devotional service the two-handed form of Kṛṣṇa is the most dear.

BG 11.55 Purport: As indicated by the word mad-bhaktaḥ, he fully engages in devotional service, specifically in the nine processes of devotional engagement: hearing, chanting, remembering, worshiping, serving the lotus feet of the Lord, offering prayers, carrying out the orders of the Lord, making friends with Him, and surrendering everything to Him.

BG 12.5 Purport: The group of transcendentalists who follow the path of the inconceivable, unmanifested, impersonal feature of the Supreme Lord are called jñāna-yogīs, and persons who are in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness, engaged in devotional service to the Lord, are called bhakti-yogīs.

BG 12.5 Purport: A person in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, engaged in devotional service, simply by the guidance of the bona fide spiritual master, simply by offering regulative obeisances unto the Deity, simply by hearing the glories of the Lord, and simply by eating the remnants of foodstuffs offered to the Lord, realizes the Supreme Personality of Godhead very easily.

BG 12.6-7 Translation: But those who worship Me, giving up all their activities unto Me and being devoted to Me without deviation, engaged in devotional service and always meditating upon Me, having fixed their minds upon Me, O son of Pṛthā—for them I am the swift deliverer from the ocean of birth and death.

BG 12.6-7 Purport: One simply has to practice the easy process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness and fully engage himself in devotional service.

BG 12.12 Purport: There are processes which make one understand that one himself is the Supreme, and that sort of meditation is preferred if one is unable to engage in devotional service.

BG 12.13-14 Translation: One who is not envious but is a kind friend to all living entities, who does not think himself a proprietor and is free from false ego, who is equal in both happiness and distress, who is tolerant, always satisfied, self-controlled, and engaged in devotional service with determination, his mind and intelligence fixed on Me—such a devotee of Mine is very dear to Me.

BG 12.15 Purport: Actually because a devotee is always engrossed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and engaged in devotional service, such material circumstances cannot move him.

BG 12.18-19 Translation: One who is equal to friends and enemies, who is equipoised in honor and dishonor, heat and cold, happiness and distress, fame and infamy, who is always free from contaminating association, always silent and satisfied with anything, who doesn't care for any residence, who is fixed in knowledge and who is engaged in devotional service—such a person is very dear to Me.

BG Chapters 13 - 18

BG 14.27 Purport: Therefore, in spite of being raised to the Brahman platform, there is the chance of falling down if one is not engaged in the devotional service of the Lord.

BG 14.27 Purport: Eternal happiness, imperishable happiness, and eternal life accompany devotional service. Therefore, realization of Brahman, or eternity, or imperishability, is included in devotional service. This is already possessed by a person who is engaged in devotional service.

BG 15.1 Purport: Therefore one who is in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, who is engaged in devotional service, already knows the Vedas.

BG 15.19 Purport: In the Vaiṣṇava paramparā it is said that if one is engaged in the devotional service of Kṛṣṇa, then there is no need for any other spiritual process for understanding the Supreme Absolute Truth. He has already come to the point, because he is engaged in the devotional service of the Lord. He has ended all preliminary processes of understanding.

BG 15.20 Purport: Everyone must take to this consciousness of Kṛṣṇa and engage in devotional service to become intelligent and purified. Unless one comes to this position of understanding Kṛṣṇa and engages in devotional service, however intelligent he may be in the estimation of some common man, he is not perfectly intelligent.

BG 15.20 Purport: One has to become free from all contamination, all sinful activities; then he can understand. But devotional service is so pure and potent that once one is engaged in devotional service he automatically comes to the stage of sinlessness.

BG 16.24 Purport: Of course, for the ordinary persons who are not in Kṛṣṇa consciousness or who are not engaged in devotional service, what is to be done and what is not to be done must be decided by the injunctions of the Vedas.

BG 18.46 Purport: Everyone should be engaged in devotional service to the Lord in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is recommended in this verse.

BG 18.67 Purport: This confidential knowledge may never be explained to those who are not austere, or devoted, or engaged in devotional service, nor to one who is envious of Me.

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam

SB Canto 1

SB 1.5.9 Purport: Religiosity, economic development, sense gratification and salvation. These four items are by far inferior to engagement in the devotional service of the Lord.

SB 1.5.9 Purport: From this it is clearly indicated that no one can be pleased substantially without being engaged in the devotional service of the Lord. In the Bhagavad-gītā this fact is clearly mentioned.

SB 1.5.17 Purport: Once engaged in the devotional service of the Lord, one will continue the service in all circumstances.

SB 1.6.28 Purport: A devotee's body becomes at once surcharged with the transcendental qualities as soon as he is engaged in the devotional service of the Lord.

SB 1.9.26 Purport: For learning Vedic knowledge, one must approach a person who is cent percent engaged in devotional service.

SB 1.10.27 Purport: Any person engaged in the devotional service of the Lord is recommended to live in one of the above-mentioned three places, namely Dvārakā, Mathurā or Vṛndāvana.

SB 1.10.30 Purport: Women, merchants and laborers are not very intelligent, and thus it is very difficult for them to understand the science of God or to be engaged in the devotional service of the Lord. They are more materialistic, and less than them are the Kirātas, Hūṇas, Āndhras, Pulindas, Pulkaśas, Ābhīras, Kaṅkas, Yavanas, Khasas, etc., but all of them can be delivered if they are properly engaged in the devotional service of the Lord. By engagement in the service of the Lord, the designative disqualifications are removed, and as pure souls they become eligible to enter into the kingdom of God.

SB 1.11.4-5 Purport: Those who are engaged in the devotional service of the Lord can rise to the position of unalloyed devotional service by His transcendental attraction.

SB 1.12.30 Purport: But the Lord was constantly with him by such examination, and thus Mahārāja Parīkṣit was always engaged in the devotional service of the Lord by remembrance.

SB 1.15.33 Translation: Kuntī, after overhearing Arjuna's telling of the end of the Yadu dynasty and disappearance of Lord Kṛṣṇa, engaged in the devotional service of the transcendental Personality of Godhead with full attention and thus gained release from the course of material existence.

SB 1.16.7 Purport: Yamarāja is a great devotee of the Lord, and he likes to be invited to kīrtanas and sacrifices by the pure devotees, who are constantly engaged in the devotional service of the Lord.

SB 1.16.20 Purport: Those, however, who are consciously engaged in the devotional service of the Lord are transcendental to all varieties of sin and virtue.

SB 1.18.12 Purport: In the Brahma-vaivarta Purāṇa, Viṣṇu tells Śiva that in the age of Kali, men full of anxieties of various kinds can vainly labor in fruitive activity and philosophical speculations, but when they are engaged in devotional service, the result is sure and certain, and there is no loss of energy.

SB Canto 2

SB 2.3.1 Purport: A manīṣiṇām person, like Mahārāja Parīkṣit, must therefore take to the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa and fully engage himself in devotional service, hearing, chanting, etc., of the holy name and pastimes of the Lord, which are all hari-kathāmṛta. This action is especially recommended when one is preparing for death.

SB 2.3.20 Purport: One can engage in devotional service when the senses of the body are purified in relation with the Lord, and one can render service to the Lord with the help of all the senses.

SB 2.4.10 Purport: He is easily understandable for the pure devotee because the Lord declares in the Bhagavad-gītā (18.54) that after surpassing the stage of knowledge, when one is able to be engaged in the devotional service of the Lord, then only can one know the true nature of the Lord.

SB 2.7.3 Purport: Devotional service to the Lord is the ultimate issue, and therefore those who are directly engaged in the devotional service of the Lord not only acquire the necessary knowledge in spiritual science, but also attain detachment from material connection and are thus promoted to the kingdom of God by complete liberation, as stated in the Bhagavad-gītā (14.26)

SB 2.7.15 Purport: But one who is supported by his past good deeds engages himself in the devotional service of the Lord, as confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā (7.16). Those who are supported by impious acts cannot be engaged in the devotional service of the Lord, even though they are distressed.

SB 2.8.18 Purport: As we have already discussed, even the aborigines and cannibals can also be engaged in the devotional service of the Lord if they happen to be under the guidance of a genuine devotee of the Lord.

SB 2.9.23 Purport: But by engagement in the devotional service of the Lord one becomes detached from this enjoying spirit.

SB Canto 3

SB 3.2.24 Purport: The fact is that the devotees who are always engaged in the devotional service of the Lord in transcendental love are rewarded many hundreds and thousands of times more than the demons by being elevated to the spiritual planets, where they remain with the Lord in eternal, blissful existence.

SB 3.4.30 Purport: "Only persons engaged in devotional service can factually know the transcendental position of the Lord."

SB 3.8.21 Purport: Each and every living entity needs to engage in devotional service to the Lord if he wishes to understand the ultimate cause of his existence.

SB 3.9.31 Purport: But all these manifestations of the Lord, appearing everywhere in His eternal, transcendental forms, cannot be understood by anyone but the pure devotees, who are always engaged in devotional service to the Lord and are fully absorbed in the Lord. The high qualifications of Brahmā are also indicated herein.

SB 3.11.33 Purport: Animals, of course, have no sense of responsibility, but even humans, who have developed a sense of responsibility, while away their valuable time without engaging in devotional service to the Lord; they live merrily, unafraid of impending death.

SB 3.12.5 Purport: The reply is that one who is vāsudeva-parāyaṇa, or seriously engaged in the devotional service of the Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva, need not care for any other obligation.

SB 3.12.11 Purport: When the Rudra principle is exhibited by persons who are not engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the angry person falls down from the peak of his improved position.

SB 3.13.11 Purport: The other sons of Brahmā, the Kumāras, directly engaged in devotional service, and thus they had no need to execute the principles of varṇāśrama-dharma.

SB 3.13.12 Purport: Everyone must be educated in Viṣṇu worship and engaged in the devotional service of Hṛṣīkeśa, the owner of the senses.

SB 3.13.39 Purport: One who engages in devotional service to the Lord according to regulative principles is automatically freed from material desires, and in that pure state of mind one can realize the Personality of Godhead.

SB 3.13.39 Purport: "To one who constantly engages in the devotional service of the Lord with faith and love, the Lord certainly gives the intelligence to achieve Him at the ultimate end."

SB 3.13.49 Translation: One who engages in transcendental loving service is elevated to the highest perfectional stage by the Lord Himself, who is seated in everyone's heart.

SB 3.15.14 Tanslation: In the Vaikuṇṭha planets all the residents are similar in form to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. They all engage in devotional service to the Lord without desires for sense gratification.

SB 3.15.38 Purport: For ordinary persons the Lord is not visible; however, when one can understand the significance of His holy name and one engages himself in the devotional service of the Lord, beginning with the tongue, by chanting and tasting prasāda, then gradually the Lord reveals Himself.

SB 3.15.46 Purport: If one engages in devotional service with faith and devotion, then God reveals Himself.

SB 3.19.38 Purport: That is the supreme, sublime result of engaging in devotional service.

SB 3.20.25 Purport: It is the devotee's inclination to worship a particular form, and he engages in devotional service to that form.

SB 3.21.7 Purport: Kardama Muni not only meditated but also engaged in devotional service; to attain perfection in yoga practice or meditation, one must act in devotional service by hearing, chanting, remembering, etc.

SB 3.21.18 Purport: In another verse it is stated that when the sun rises and sets it takes away the life of all living entities, but it cannot take away the life of those who are engaged in devotional service.

SB 3.21.31 Purport: It is the duty of a sannyāsī, therefore, to go and awaken the forgetful souls with enlightenment of their eternal relationship with the Lord and to engage them in devotional service.

SB 3.22.31 Purport: Those who are in a better position in the world, having sufficient wealth, should especially take lessons from Manu, who acknowledged his kingdom and opulence to be gifts from the Supreme Personality of Godhead and thus always engaged in devotional service.

SB 3.22.31 Purport: Everyone, therefore, should engage in devotional service through Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

SB 3.22.36 Purport: It is stated in Bhagavad-gītā that anyone who engages in devotional service to the Lord automatically becomes transcendental to the three destinations of material nature and is situated in the brahma-bhūta [SB 4.30.20], or self-realized, stage.

SB 3.22.36 Purport: Therefore, one who fully engages in devotional service is always liberated.

SB 3.24.3 Purport: Kardama Muni advised his wife: "You have to factually engage in devotional service with austerity and penance, following the religious principles and giving charity.

SB 3.24.29 Purport: Devotees are so affectionate toward the Personality of Godhead that although He does not appear before those who practice yoga in a secluded place even for many, many births, He agrees to appear in a householder's home where devotees engage in devotional service without material yoga practice.

SB 3.24.30 Purport: Real knowledge and real liberation is to surrender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead and engage in devotional service.

SB 3.24.38 Purport: The purpose of Sāṅkhya philosophy is stated herein. If anyone wants real, eternal life, he has to engage himself in devotional service, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

SB 3.25.16 Purport: One's senses must be engaged in devotional service to the Lord.

SB 3.25.18 Purport: Similarly, it is confirmed in the Nārada-pañcarātra that when the senses are purified they can then be engaged in the devotional service of the Lord.

SB 3.25.19 Translation: Perfection in self-realization cannot be attained by any kind of yogī unless he engages in devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for that is the only auspicious path.

SB 3.25.19 Purport: It is clearly stated here that unless one is fully engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead one cannot have easy approach to the path of brahma-siddhi.

SB 3.25.19 Purport: In the beginning of the Second Chapter of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is stated that when one engages himself in the devotional service of Vāsudeva, spiritual knowledge and renunciation of the material world automatically become manifest.

SB 3.25.20 Purport: A sādhu is described in Bhagavad-gītā as one who unflinchingly engages in devotional service.

SB 3.25.25 Purport: The first point is that one must seek the association of persons who are Kṛṣṇa conscious and who engage in devotional service.

SB 3.25.26 Translation: Thus consciously engaged in devotional service in the association of devotees, a person gains distaste for sense gratification, both in this world and in the next, by constantly thinking about the activities of the Lord.

SB 3.25.27 Purport: When one engages in devotional service to the Lord in the nine different kinds of bhakti-yoga, as enunciated in authoritative scriptures, such as hearing (śravaṇam), chanting (kīrtanam), remembering, offering worship, praying and offering personal service—either in one of them, or two or three or all of them—he naturally has no opportunity to engage in the service of the three modes of material nature.

SB 3.25.28 Purport: Whether one is a woman or a laborer or a merchant, if he engages himself in the devotional service of the Lord he is promoted to the highest perfectional state and goes back home, back to Godhead.

SB 3.25.32 Translation: The mind's natural duty is to serve. When that service spirit is engaged in devotional service to the Personality of Godhead, without any motive, that is far better even than salvation.

SB 3.25.43 Translation: The yogīs, equipped with transcendental knowledge and renunciation and engaged in devotional service for their eternal benefit, take shelter of My lotus feet, and since I am the Lord, they are thus eligible to enter into the kingdom of Godhead without fear.

SB 3.25.43 Purport: Those yogīs, or mystics, who engage in devotional service are the first-class yogīs.

SB 3.25.43 Purport: In the Bhāgavatam, First Canto, Second Chapter, it is also confirmed that one who engages in the devotional service of Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa, has complete transcendental knowledge and renunciation, and there is no explanation for these attainments.

SB 3.25.43 Purport: He does not have to seek separately; the yogīs who engage in devotional service are full in knowledge and renunciation.

SB 3.27.5 Purport: Since the senses are always active, their activities should be engaged in devotional service—one cannot stop their activities.

SB 3.27.5 Purport: Unless one's mind and consciousness are fully engaged in devotional service, there is always the opportunity for the mind to become occupied with desires for sense gratification.

SB 3.27.7 Purport: A devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who seriously engages in devotional service is equal to all living entities.

SB 3.27.7 Purport: A devotee is concerned with his execution of devotional service, and he should therefore mix with devotees only, in order to advance his objective. He has no business mixing with others, for although he does not see anyone as his enemy, his dealings are only with persons who engage in devotional service.

SB 3.27.21 Purport: One can be liberated from all adverse circumstances simply by seriously engaging in devotional service.

SB 3.27.21 Purport: Here it is also prescribed by Kapila Muni that one can transcend material entanglement by acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, which means seriously engaging in devotional service.

SB 3.27.27 Translation: When a person thus engages in devotional service and self-realization for many, many years and births, he becomes completely reluctant to enjoy any one of the material planets, even up to the highest planet, which is known as Brahmaloka; he becomes fully developed in consciousness.

SB 3.27.27 Purport: Anyone engaged in devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead is known as a devotee, but there is a distinction between pure devotees and mixed devotees. A mixed devotee engages in devotional service for the spiritual benefit of being eternally engaged in the transcendental abode of the Lord in full bliss and knowledge.

SB 3.27.28-29 Purport: Only those who engage in devotional service with love and faith receive the necessary intelligence from the Supreme Personality of Godhead so that gradually and progressively they can advance to the abode of the Personality of Godhead.

SB 3.28.17 Purport: As stated in Bhagavad-gītā, although He acts equally to everyone because He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and because all living entities are His sons, He is especially inclined to those engaged in devotional service.

SB 3.28.44 Purport: For those who engage in devotional service there is no spell of māyā, and their situation is all-perfect.

SB 3.29.8 Purport: In the conditioned stage, when one engages in devotional service, he should follow the instruction of the bona fide spiritual master in full surrender.

SB 3.29.14 Purport: "I am not this body." This is applicable only to the person who constantly engages in the devotional service of Kṛṣṇa and is thus in the transcendental stage; he is above the influence of the three modes of material nature.

SB 3.29.16 Purport: Patience is necessary for developing the confidence that "Kṛṣṇa will certainly accept me because I am engaging in devotional service." One has only to execute service according to the rules and regulations to insure success.

SB 3.29.20 Translation: As the chariot of air carries an aroma from its source and immediately catches the sense of smell, similarly, one who constantly engages in devotional service, in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, can catch the Supreme Soul, who is equally present everywhere.

SB 3.29.25 Purport: It is not that one who has become a devotee of the Lord or who engages in devotional service should give up his prescribed duties.

SB 3.31.43 Purport: In his designated condition, a living entity is called materialistic, and upon being freed from all designations, when he is fully Kṛṣṇa conscious, engaged in devotional service, he is called liberated.

SB 3.31.48 Purport: It is sometimes misunderstood that if one has to associate with persons engaged in devotional service, he will not be able to solve the economic problem.

SB 3.32.6 Purport: Engaged in devotional service in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one has no proprietorship claim, nor is one situated in the false egoism of thinking that he is God or the master.

SB 3.32.22 Purport: Those who engage in devotional service are accepted to be situated in the spiritual kingdom.

SB 3.32.23 Purport: But the fact is that if one engages in the devotional service of the Lord in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he does not have to attempt separately to practice detachment or to wait for an awakening of transcendental knowledge.

SB 3.32.30 Translation: This perfect knowledge can be achieved by a person who is already engaged in devotional service with faith, steadiness and full detachment, and who is always absorbed in thought of the Supreme. He is aloof from material association.

SB 3.33.6 Purport: Rūpa Gosvāmī has discussed the sequence of sinful activities of the conditioned soul, and he has established, in Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, that those who engage in devotional service become freed from the reactions of all sinful activities.

SB 3.33.8 Purport: When one is engaged in devotional service, there is no scope for his senses to be engaged otherwise. In such full Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one can understand the Supreme Lord as He is.

SB 3.33.26 Purport: One who is engaged in devotional service to Kṛṣṇa is understood to be already realized in the Brahman concept of life because transcendental knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead includes knowledge of Brahman.

SB 3.33.26 Purport: When one engages in devotional service in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he still has to eat, sleep, defend and mate because these are necessities of the body.

SB Canto 4

SB 4.6.35 Purport: Lord Śiva is a Vaiṣṇava. Lord Śiva, by his actions within this material world, teaches all conditioned souls how to engage in devotional service twenty-four hours a day.

SB 4.6.45 Purport: One who lives in such a disposition of mind, engaged in devotional service, is the most eligible candidate for promotion to the spiritual world.

SB 4.7.38 Translation: You are very favorable toward those who engage in devotional service, accepting You as the Lord and themselves as the servants.

SB 4.8.59-60 Translation: Anyone who thus engages in the devotional service of the Lord, seriously and sincerely, with his mind, words and body, and who is fixed in the activities of the prescribed devotional methods, is blessed by the Lord according to his desire.

SB 4.8.61 Purport: For this specific vimukti liberation, Nārada Muni recommends that one directly engage himself in devotional service.

SB 4.8.68 Purport: Anyone who engages in devotional service, anywhere within this universe, is never unprotected.

SB 4.9.8 Purport: The more a devotee engages himself in the devotional service of the Lord, the more encouragement is supplied by the energy of the Lord. In the Bhagavad-gītā the Lord says that to those who are constantly engaged in devotional service with love and affection, the Supreme Personality of Godhead gives intelligence from within, and thus they may make further progress.

SB 4.9.13 Purport: He states that before seeing the transcendental form of the Lord, he had experienced only the varieties of material forms, which are counted at one engages in the devotional service of the Lord, it is impossible to understand the ultimate form of the Lord.

SB 4.9.29 Purport: Out of these five muktis, which can be achieved by any person engaged in devotional service to the Lord, the one which is known as sāyujya is generally demanded by Māyāvādī philosophers

SB 4.9.31 Purport: In other words, every one of us who is engaged in devotional service in Kṛṣṇa consciousness should be completely free from all material aspirations.

SB 4.11.21 Purport: But persons who engage in devotional service reach the abode of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, where there is neither birth nor death nor different varieties of life under the influence of the law of karma. The best interest of the living entity is to engage himself in devotional service and go back home, back to Godhead.

SB 4.12.6 Translation: Engage yourself fully, therefore, in the devotional service of the Lord, for only He can deliver us from this entanglement of materialistic existence.

SB 4.12.6 Purport: In continuation of the previous verse, it is specifically mentioned here that Dhruva Mahārāja should engage himself in devotional service.

SB 4.12.6 Purport: The Lord is aloof from this, but when the same living entity engages himself in the devotional service of the Lord, then he becomes attached to this service.

SB 4.12.8 Purport: When a devotee comes to the platform of pañcama-puruṣārtha, simply engaging in devotional service to the Lord, the fourth puruṣārtha, liberation, becomes very insignificant in his eyes.

SB 4.12.11 Purport: Not only did Dhruva Mahārāja perform many sacrifices, but he carried on his transcendental occupation of engagement in the devotional service of the Lord.

SB 4.12.11 Purport: Dhruva Mahārāja performed many sacrifices in order to be an exemplary king, he was constantly engaged in devotional service.

SB 4.12.13 Purport: Thus he becomes purified from the reactions of his past impious life, and because he engages in devotional service, which is the most pious activity, he enjoys life without separate endeavor.

SB 4.12.22 Purport: Anyone who very seriously engages in devotional service can obtain, in due course of time, the same perfection of the human form of life.

SB 4.12.22 Purport: Anyone who very seriously engages in devotional service can obtain, in due course of time, the same perfection of the human form of life.

SB 4.14.18 Purport: The activities of the government head, or king, as well as the activities of the citizens, should be so directed that ultimately everyone engages in devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

SB 4.14.19 Purport: The conclusion is that without engaging in devotional service, neither the citizens nor the government can be happy in any way. At the present moment neither the king nor the governing body is interested in seeing that the people are engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

SB 4.17.29 Purport: Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī says that the devotee who is always engaged in the devotional service of the Lord is always liberated, regardless of his material situation.

SB 4.20.8 Purport: "One who is unflinchingly engaged in the devotional service of the Lord surpasses the material qualities and attains Brahman realization." In this connection Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī says that if a person is always engaged in the service of the Lord with his body, words and mind, he is to be considered liberated, although living in the material world.

SB 4.20.11 Purport: Only one who constantly engages in devotional service twenty-four hours a day can be indifferent to the action and reaction of the external body.

SB 4.20.25 Purport: The Lord asks every sleeping living entity to get up and engage in devotional service so that his mission in this human form of life may be fulfilled.

SB 4.20.27 Translation: Now I wish to engage in the service of the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and to serve just like the goddess of fortune, who carries a lotus flower in her hand, because His Lordship, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the reservoir of all transcendental qualities.

SB 4.20.30 Purport: Because the living entity is an eternal part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, his immediate business is to engage himself in devotional service.

SB 4.21.36 Purport: The Supreme Godhead in His Paramātmā feature is present in everyone's heart, and He is always trying to induce the individual soul to surrender unto Him and to engage in devotional service; therefore He is the original spiritual master.

SB 4.21.36 Purport: It appears, however, that in the time of Mahārāja Pṛthu all the people on the surface of the globe were his subjects. Most of them—in fact, almost all of them—were engaged in devotional service. Therefore he thanked them in a humble way for engaging in devotional service and thus bestowing their mercy upon him. In other words, in a state where the citizens and the head of state are engaged in devotional service unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they help one another and are mutually benefited.

SB 4.21.37 Purport: In addition to all these qualifications, when one fully engages in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, he becomes a Vaiṣṇava. Pṛthu Mahārāja warns his citizens who are actually engaged in the devotional service of the Lord to take care against offenses to the brāhmaṇas and Vaiṣṇavas.

SB 4.21.52 Purport: "When one engages in devotional service in the first stages of hearing and chanting, the Lord, who is in everyone's heart, helps the devotee in cleansing his heart."

SB 4.22.7 Purport: One who is completely freed from all the resultant actions of sinful activities and who is absorbed only in pious activities can engage in devotional service.

SB 4.22.7 Purport: One who is completely freed from all the resultant actions of sinful activities and who is absorbed only in pious activities can engage in devotional service.

SB 4.22.14 Purport: The conclusion is that for those who are always engaged in the devotional service of the Personality of Godhead, the duality of the auspicious and inauspicious does not arise.

SB 4.22.21 Purport: To increase attachment for Brahman means to engage in devotional service.

SB 4.22.22 Purport: One should take shelter of a pure devotee, who has nothing to do with this material world but is simply engaged in devotional service.

SB 4.22.22 Purport: In Bhagavad-gītā (7.28) it is also said that without being pious one cannot engage in devotional service.

SB 4.22.23 Purport: The impersonalists or the voidists can simply avoid the positive material association; they cannot remain fixed in transcendence without being engaged in devotional service.

SB 4.22.39 Translation: The devotees, who are always engaged in the service of the toes of the lotus feet of the Lord, can very easily overcome hard-knotted desires for fruitive activities.

SB 4.22.49 Purport: "O son of Pṛthā, those who are not deluded, the great souls, are under the protection of the divine nature. They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible."

SB 4.22.49 Purport: The mahātmās are not under the clutches of the illusory energy but are under the protection of the spiritual energy. Because of this, the real mahātmā is always engaged in the devotional service of the Lord.

SB 4.23.8 Purport: Here the word prāṇāyāma does not refer to any ulterior motive. The actual aim is to strengthen the mind and senses in order to engage them in devotional service.

SB 4.23.10 Purport: Bhagavati brahmaṇi refers to one who is engaged in devotional service to the Personality of Godhead.

SB 4.23.27 Translation: In this material world, every human being has a short span of life, but those who are engaged in devotional service go back home, back to Godhead, for they are actually on the path of liberation. For such persons, there is nothing which is not available.

SB 4.23.27 Purport: Therefore one's only duty is to engage himself in devotional service.

SB 4.24.19 Purport: A perfect sādhu is one who is always engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

SB 4.24.34 Purport: Consequently any conditioned soul within this material universe can remain completely perfect when he is under the protection of Vāsudeva, or when he is engaged in devotional service.

SB 4.24.36 Purport: Thus Lord Śiva prays to Aniruddha to be kind upon him so that his mind will always be in the perfect state of cleanliness and will be engaged in the devotional service of the Lord.

SB 4.24.37 Purport: The best mukti is engagement in the devotional service of the Supreme Lord. Not only does Lord Aniruddha help fruitive actors by elevating them to the higher planetary systems, but He also helps the devotee engage in devotional service by dint of His inexhaustible energy.

SB 4.24.38 Purport: One becomes free from all obligations to the demigods, saintly persons, pitās, ancient forefathers, etc., if one is completely engaged in the devotional service of the Lord. Lord Śiva therefore prays to Lord Aniruddha to give him strength so that he can be free from such obligations and entirely engage in the Lord's service.

SB 4.24.39 Purport: Lord Śiva is offering his obeisances to the universal body, which includes all other bodies, so that everyone's body may fully engage in devotional service. Since this individual body is composed of senses, all the senses should be engaged in devotional service.

SB 4.24.53 Purport: It is said that the transcendental name, form, pastimes and entourage of the Lord cannot be appreciated by the blunt material senses; therefore one has to engage himself in devotional service so that the senses may be purified and one can see the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

SB 4.24.67 Purport: Although Lord Brahmā has a long life-span (4,320,000,000 years constitute twelve hours in a day of Brahmā), Brahmā is afraid of death and consequently engages in the devotional service of the Lord.

SB 4.24.67 Purport: When one is engaged in devotional service, he is often surrounded by envious people, and often many enemies come to try to defeat him or stop him. This is not new in this present age, for even in the days of yore Prahlāda Mahārāja, who was engaged in the devotional service of the Lord, was harassed by his demoniac father, Hiraṇyakaśipu.

SB 4.24.79 Purport: If we persistently engage in devotional service, certainly all our desires will be fulfilled in due course of time.

SB 4.26.14 Purport: One can make his home perfectly auspicious when he engages in devotional service to Lord Viṣṇu.

SB 4.26.14 Purport: One can cease from material activities only when one actually engages in devotional service.

SB 4.26.16 Purport: With such a good wife, the family's engagement in the devotional service of the Lord actually makes a home a gṛhastha-āśrama, or household dedicated to spiritual cultivation.

SB 4.27.1 Purport: The husband should engage in devotional service, and the wife should be faithful and religious according to the Vedic injunctions.

SB 4.27.13 Purport: As each day passes, each one of us loses some of life's duration. It is therefore said that the duration of one's life cannot be saved. But if one is engaged in devotional service, his time cannot be taken away by the sun.

SB 4.28.32 Purport: The mind is the center of all the senses, and thus the senses cannot work independent of the mind. When the mind takes to the cult of bhakti, it engages in devotional service.

SB 4.28.32 Purport: Therefore bhakti-latā is dṛḍha-vrata, the great vow, for when the mind is completely engaged in devotional service, the mind does not fall down.

SB 4.28.33 Purport: Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura never advised a neophyte devotee to go to a solitary place to engage in devotional service. Indeed, he has written a song in this connection

SB 4.28.51 Purport: "If I am engaged in devotional service unto You, my dear Lord, then very easily can I perceive Your presence everywhere.

SB 4.29.3 Purport: Bhaktyā mām abhijānāti yāvān yaś cāsmi tattvataḥ: one can understand in truth the Supreme Personality of Godhead only when one is engaged in devotional service.

SB 4.29.22 Purport: Those who are in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and are engaged in devotional service under the instructions of Nārada Muni are not subjected to the influence of Yamarāja and his sister Jarā.

SB 4.29.29 Purport: "In the Kṛṣṇa conscious state, the living entity engages in devotional service under the direction of the spiritual master. In this way he gets out of the clutches of māyā and takes shelter under the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa." (Cc. Madhya 22.25)

SB 4.29.46 Translation: When a person is fully engaged in devotional service, he is favored by the Lord, who bestows His causeless mercy.

SB 4.29.46 Purport: When one is engaged in devotional service, he is no longer attracted to material activities. When a man is covered by different designations, he cannot engage in devotional service.

SB 4.29.51 Translation: One who is engaged in devotional service has not the least fear in material existence.

SB 4.29.52 Purport: They accept a bona fide spiritual master and listen to him, but when the spiritual master indicates that they should leave home and fully engage in devotional service, they hesitate.

SB 4.29.65 Purport: If a person is engaged in the devotional service of the Lord, he is to be considered a liberated soul even in this life. This is confirmed by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī

SB 4.29.79 Translation: To be enlightened by this perfect knowledge, one should always engage himself in the devotional service of the Lord.

SB 4.29.82 Translation: Having undergone austerities and penances at Kapilāśrama, King Prācīnabarhi attained full liberation from all material designations. He constantly engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord and attained a spiritual position qualitatively equal to that of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

SB 4.30.18 Purport: If one is engaged in devotional service, however, he becomes unattached to all kinds of material enjoyment and suffering.

SB 4.30.21 Purport: In other words, as soon as devotees are engaged in devotional service, they become transcendental to all material contamination immediately, as confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā (sa guṇān samatītyaitān brahma-bhūyāya kalpate [Bg. 14.26]).

SB 4.30.37 Purport: The word bhajanānandī refers to the devotee who does not move, but remains in one place. Such a devotee is always engaged in the devotional service of the Lord.

SB 4.31.9 Purport: Those who are advanced in spiritual consciousness, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, are called Āryans. Among Āryans, one who engages in the devotional service of the Lord is most successful in life.

SB 4.31.10 Purport: "Even if one is born in the family of a caṇḍāla, if one engages in the devotional service of the Lord, he becomes the best of brāhmaṇas.

SB 4.31.14 Purport: As confirmed in Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Madhya 22.62), kṛṣṇe bhakti kaile sarva-karma kṛta haya: if one is engaged in the devotional service of the Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, everything is automatically accomplished.

SB 4.31.18 Translation: You should therefore engage in His devotional service, thinking yourself qualitatively one with Him.

SB 4.31.18 Purport: According to the advice of Nārada Muni, one should directly engage in devotional service.

SB Canto 5

SB 5.1.15 Purport: People in the material modes of passion and ignorance generally cannot understand the plan of the Supreme Personality of Godhead with its 8,400,000 forms of life, but the human form affords one the special privilege to understand this plan, engage in devotional service and elevate oneself to the highest position of perfection by following the Lord's instructions.

SB 5.1.17 Purport: Śrīla Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura has sung, gṛhe vā vanete thāke, 'hā gaurāṅga' bale ḍāke: whether one is situated in the forest or at home, if he is engaged in the devotional service of Lord Caitanya, he is a liberated person.

SB 5.1.17 Purport: Our first concern, therefore, should be to control the senses, and since the senses cannot be controlled unless engaged in the devotional service of the Lord, our most important duty is to engage the senses in devotional service.

SB 5.1.21 Purport: Although Brahmā had forced Priyavrata to accept the management of worldly affairs, thus breaking his vow to remain brahmacārī and completely engage in devotional service, Nārada and Priyavrata did not look upon Brahmā with resentment.

SB 5.2.5 Purport: When one engages in devotional service, however, completely employing all the activities of the senses in the service of the Lord, the venomous quality of the senses is completely nullified.

SB 5.2.6 Purport: Lord Caitanya said in this connection, niṣkiñcanasya bhagavad-bhajanonmukhasya: those who are engaged in the devotional service of the Lord because they are very serious about going back home, back to Godhead, should be very careful to avoid seeing the beautiful gestures of women and should also avoid seeing persons who are very rich.

SB 5.5.2 Translation: The mahātmās are equipoised. They do not see any difference between one living entity and another. They are very peaceful and are fully engaged in devotional service. They are devoid of anger, and they work for the benefit of everyone. They do not behave in any abominable way. Such people are known as mahātmās.

SB 5.5.5 Purport: Karmīs do not know this, but a devotee who is one hundred percent engaged in the devotional service of the Lord knows fully what is karma and jñāna; therefore a pure devotee is no longer interested in karma or jñāna.

SB 5.5.9 Purport: When, by associating with sādhus and engaging in devotional service, one is gradually freed from the material conception due to knowledge, practice and detachment, the knot of attachment in the heart is slackened. Thus one can get freed from conditional life and become eligible to return home, back to Godhead.

SB 5.5.10-13 Purport: When one engages in devotional service, naturally the attraction for personal comfort—for eating, sleeping and dressing—is reduced. By associating with the devotee, a spiritual standard is maintained.

SB 5.5.14 Purport: To attain this, one must analyze ones existence, but when one is actually engaged in devotional service, he should not bother seeking out knowledge. By simply engaging in devotional service undeviatingly, one will always remain in the liberated condition.

SB 5.5.14 Purport: Mystic power should be achieved to enable one to give up the material conception, but when one actually engages in devotional service, one does not need to practice the mystic yoga system.

SB 5.5.14 Purport: Even those who are liberated (ātmārāma) must always engage in devotional service.

SB 5.5.15 Translation: Ignorant people who engage in pious and impious activities should be engaged in devotional service by all means.

SB 5.5.25 Purport: The brāhmaṇas are always engaged in the devotional service of the Lord: consequently they have no material wants, nor do they possess material things.

SB 5.6.1 Synonyms: ātmārāmāṇām—of pure devotees simply engaged in devotional service

SB 5.7.11 Purport: Everyone is searching after peace of mind. This is obtainable only when one is completely freed from the desire for material sense gratification and is engaged in the devotional service of the Lord.

SB 5.7.11 Purport: As soon as one engages in the devotional service of the Lord, his mind is purified of all material desires. Then one becomes fully satisfied.

SB 5.7.12 Purport: Since Mahārāja Bharata was constantly, engaged in devotional service, all the symptoms of ecstatic love were manifest in his body.

SB 5.8.26 Purport: "For those engaged in devotional service, bhakti-bhajana, the results of past deeds are indemnified."

SB 5.8.29 Purport: If we misuse our position and think that we are fully engaged in devotional service and can do whatever we like, we have to suffer like Bharata Mahārāja and be condemned to accept the type of body that impairs our devotional service.

SB 5.8.29 Purport: If we want to keep our minds completely fixed without deviation, we must engage them in devotional service full time.

SB 5.9.1-2 Translation: He was self-realized and engaged in the devotional service of the Lord.

SB 5.9.3 Purport: To get out of this karma-bandha, one must engage himself in devotional service. Then one will not be affected by the modes of material nature.

SB 5.9.3 Purport: To remain immune from the material qualities, one must engage himself in devotional service—śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ [SB 7.5.23].

SB 5.9.4 Purport: "O regulative principles of karma-kāṇḍa, please excuse me. I cannot follow all these regulative principles, for I am fully engaged in devotional service."

SB 5.9.4 Purport: As Jaḍa Bharata, Bharata Mahārāja was always engaged in devotional service within his mind.

SB 5.11.6 Purport: When the mind and senses are engaged in devotional service, the living entity naturally becomes Kṛṣṇa conscious.

SB 5.14.31 Purport: Those in the mode of goodness can engage in devotional service, and after that they can return home, back to Godhead (yānti mad-yājino 'pi mām).

SB 5.14.40 Purport: The real mission of life for the conditioned soul is to reestablish the forgotten relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead and engage in devotional service so that he may revive Kṛṣṇa consciousness after giving up the body.

SB 5.14.43 Purport: This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is giving everyone a chance to engage in devotional service for at least some time. A little service will give one an impetus to advance and thus make one's life successful.

SB 5.17.11 Purport: Those who fully engage in devotional service to Kṛṣṇa just to please Him are not interested in the three divisions of heavenly places, namely, divya-svarga, bhauma-svarga and bila-svarga.

SB 5.18.11 Purport: While the devotee engages in devotional service, the passionate and ignorant modes of material nature are gradually vanquished, and then he acts only in the mode of goodness.

SB 5.19 Summary: Sārvaṇi Manu and the inhabitants of Bhārata-varṣa engage in devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the origin of creation, maintenance and annihilation and who is always worshiped by self-realized souls.

SB 5.19.13 Purport: "Even if one commits the most abominable actions, if he is engaged in devotional service he is to be considered saintly because he is properly situated." (Bg. 9.30)

SB 5.19.15 Purport: The perfect yoga system consists of always thinking of Kṛṣṇa, always engaging in devotional service, always worshiping Kṛṣṇa and always offering obeisances unto Him.

SB 5.19.21 Translation: Since the human form of life is the sublime position for spiritual realization, all the demigods in heaven speak in this way: How wonderful it is for these human beings to have been born in the land of Bhārata-varṣa. They must have executed pious acts of austerity in the past, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself must have been pleased with them. Otherwise, how could they engage in devotional service in so many ways? We demigods can only aspire to achieve human births in Bhārata-varṣa to execute devotional service, but these human beings are already engaged there.

SB 5.19.26 Purport: "O son of Pṛthā, those who are not deluded, the great souls, are under the protection of the divine nature. They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible."

SB 5.19.27 Purport: "Whether one is freed from all material desires, is full of material desires, or desires to become one with the Supreme, he should engage in devotional service."

SB 5.24.18 Translation: Being very pleased with Bali Mahārāja for giving all his possessions, the Lord returned his kingdom and made him richer than the opulent King Indra. Even now, Bali Mahārāja engages in devotional service by worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the planet of Sutala.

SB 5.24.20 Purport: It is not a fact that one has to offer his material possessions to the Supreme Personality of Godhead and be liberated before he can engage in devotional service.

SB Canto 6

SB 6.1.16 Purport: "O son of Pṛthā, those who are not deluded, the great souls, are under the protection of the divine nature. They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible."

SB 6.1.19 Purport: "Even if one commits the most abominable actions, if he is engaged in devotional service he is to be considered saintly because he is properly situated."

SB 6.1.33 Purport: When one understands that the soul is part and parcel of the supreme soul and one thus engages in the devotional service of the supreme soul, one becomes siddha-sat-tama.

SB 6.1.46 Purport: Therefore the best policy is to disassociate oneself from the three modes of material nature and be always transcendental to their contamination. This is possible only when one fully engages in the devotional service of the Lord.

SB 6.1.49 Purport: "Try to go to the light." The light or illumination is Vedic knowledge, which one can understand when he is elevated to the mode of goodness or when he transcends the mode of goodness by engaging in devotional service to the spiritual master and the Supreme Lord. This is described in the Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad (6.23)

SB 6.2 Summary: Finally, because of his association with the Viṣṇudūtas, Ajāmila, his original consciousness aroused, gave up everything and went to Hardwar, where he engaged in devotional service without deviation, always thinking of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

SB 6.2.35 Translation: I am such a sinful person, but since I have now gotten this opportunity, I must completely control my mind, life and senses and always engage in devotional service so that I may not fall again into the deep darkness and ignorance of material life.

SB 6.2.41 Translation: Ajāmila fully engaged in devotional service. Thus he detached his mind from the process of sense gratification and became fully absorbed in thinking of the form of the Lord.

SB 6.3.18 Purport: The pure devotees of Lord Viṣṇu may rest assured of the Lord's protection, and as long as they are in this material world they should fully engage in devotional service by preaching the cult of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Lord Kṛṣṇa, namely the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

SB 6.3.26 Purport: Even though one is a very learned scholar of the Vedic śāstras, he may be completely unaware of the existence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His name, fame, qualities and so forth, whereas one who is not a great scholar can understand the position of the Supreme Personality of Godhead if he somehow or other becomes a pure devotee of the Lord by engaging in devotional service.

SB 6.3.28 Purport: In conclusion, one should try to associate with persons who engage in devotional service twenty-four hours a day.

SB 6.5.35 Translation: When he heard that the Savalāśvas had also left this world to engage in devotional service, Dakṣa was angry at Nārada, and he almost fainted due to lamentation.

SB 6.5.40 Purport: If one seriously engages in devotional service to Lord Vāsudeva, jñāna and vairāgya are automatically manifest in one's person.

SB 6.9.48 Purport: O best of the intelligent demigods, although it is true that nothing is difficult for one to obtain when I am pleased with him, a pure devotee, whose mind is exclusively fixed upon Me, does not ask Me for anything but the opportunity to engage in devotional service.

SB 6.9.55 Purport: For a devotee there is no difference between living and dying because in this life a devotee engages in devotional service, and after giving up his body, he engages in the same service in the spiritual world. His devotional service is never hindered.

SB 6.14.5 Purport: Even if they apparently engage in devotional service, they are described as moghāśāḥ because they ultimately desire to merge into the Brahman effulgence.

SB 6.14.5 Purport: Those who aspire to be elevated to the heavenly planets by devotional service will also be frustrated, because this is not the result of devotional service. However, they are also given a chance to engage in devotional service and be purified. As stated in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.2.17)

SB 6.16.29 Purport: When a devotee is actually engaged in the devotional service of the Lord, his apparently material opulences are not material; they are all spiritual.

SB 6.16.43 Purport: "For one who worships Me, giving up all his activities unto Me and being devoted to Me without deviation, engaged in devotional service and always meditating upon Me, who has fixed his mind upon Me, O son of Pṛthā, for him I am the swift deliverer from the ocean of birth and death."

SB 6.16.51 Purport: As stated in Bhagavad-gītā, when one engages in devotional service twenty-four hours a day (teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ bhajatāṁ prīti-pūrvakam [Bg. 10.10]) in accordance with the instructions of the spiritual master, his devotional service becomes more and more pleasing.

SB 6.17.17 Purport: Sa guṇān samatītyaitān brahma-bhūyāya kalpate: one who is engaged in devotional service has already been freed from the reactions of his material karma, and thus he immediately becomes brahma-bhūta [SB 4.30.20], or transcendental.

SB 6.17.28 Translation: Devotees solely engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, never fear any condition of life.

SB 6.17.31 Translation: Persons engaged in devotional service to Lord Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa, have naturally perfect knowledge and detachment from this material world. Therefore such devotees are not interested in the so-called happiness or so-called distress of this world.

SB 6.18 Summary: When Diti, following the instructions of Kaśyapa, engaged in devotional service, Indra could understand her purpose, and he began observing all her activities.

SB Canto 7

SB 7.1.28-29 Purport: "Even if one commits the most abominable actions, if he engages in devotional service he is to be considered saintly because he is properly situated."

SB 7.5.23-24 Purport: The Gopāla-tāpanī Upaniṣad says that the word bhakti means engagement in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, not of anyone else.

SB 7.5.30 Purport: "O son of Pṛthā, those who are not deluded, the great souls, are under the protection of the divine nature. They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible."(Bg. 9.13)

SB 7.5.30 Purport: A mahātmā is one who is constantly engaged in devotional service, twenty-four hours a day.

SB 7.5.32 Purport: "O son of Pṛthā, those who are not deluded, the great souls, are under the protection of the divine nature. They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible." Therefore, to end the unwanted miseries of life, one must become a devotee.

SB 7.5.32 Purport: One must take shelter of a niṣkiñcana, a person engaged in devotional service and free from material contamination.

SB 7.5.35 Purport: Hiraṇyakaśipu considered his son Prahlāda Mahārāja to be the killer of his brother because Prahlāda Mahārāja was engaged in the devotional service of Lord Viṣṇu.

SB 7.5.52 Purport: When one is above the stages of dharma, artha, kāma and mokṣa, one becomes a devotee.As advised in Bhagavad-gītā if one transcends these four processes and is actually liberated, one engages in devotional service. Then he is guaranteed not to fall to material existence again.

SB 7.6.2 Translation: Therefore every living entity, especially in the human form of life, must engage in devotional service to the lotus feet of Lord Viṣṇu.

SB 7.6.5 Purport: Human society should be divided into a social system of brāhmaṇas, kṣatriyas, vaiśyas and śūdras, but everyone can engage in devotional service.

SB 7.6.8 Translation: One whose mind and senses are uncontrolled becomes increasingly attached to family life because of insatiable lusty desires and very strong illusion. In such a madman's life, the remaining years are also wasted because even during those years he cannot engage himself in devotional service.

SB 7.6.9 Purport: If one engages in devotional service from the beginning of life, he easily attains vairāgya-vidyā, or asakti, detachment, and becomes jitendriya, the controller of his senses.

SB 7.6.9 Purport: One who perfectly engages in devotional service is therefore called gosvāmī or svāmī, master of the senses.

SB 7.6.26 Purport: One who fully engages in the devotional service of the Lord is immediately raised to the transcendental position, which is the brahma-bhūta stage [SB 4.30.20].

SB 7.6.28 Translation: Prahlāda Mahārāja continued: I received this knowledge from the great saint Nārada Muni, who is always engaged in devotional service. This knowledge, which is called bhāgavata-dharma, is fully scientific. It is based on logic and philosophy and is free from all material contamination.

SB 7.7.36 Purport: Similarly, when a devotee constantly engages in devotional service and thinks of the Lord in his original Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he no longer has any material activities, for his body is spiritualized.

SB 7.7.37 Translation: In other words, by the transcendental bliss realized from constant engagement in devotional service, one is completely liberated from material existence.

SB 7.7.50 Purport: Prahlāda Mahārāja, by his living example, requested his friends to engage in devotional service.

SB 7.7.51-52 Purport: "Even if one commits the most abominable actions, if he is engaged in devotional service he is to be considered saintly because he is properly situated."

SB 7.9 Summary: One should therefore always engage in devotional service by offering respectful obeisances to the Lord, offering prayers, working for the Lord, worshiping the Lord in the temple, always remembering the Lord and always hearing about His transcendental activities.

SB 7.9.41 Purport: A Vaiṣṇava is always afraid of such an abominable life, and to free himself from such horrible conditions, he engages himself in the devotional service of the Lord.

SB 7.9.44 Purport: "Devotees solely engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, never fear any condition of life.

SB 7.9.46 Purport: Kevalayā bhaktyā: if one simply engages in devotional service to the Lord, all ten methods of liberation are automatically observed.

SB 7.9.47 Translation: O my Lord, just as a wise man, by considering cause and effect, can see how fire pervades wood, those engaged in devotional service understand how You are both the cause and effect.

SB 7.10 Summary: "If anyone engaged in the devotional service of the Lord prays for personal sense gratification, he cannot be called a pure devotee or even a devotee.

SB 7.10.4 Purport: When one engages in devotional service, one is automatically pious.

SB 7.10.14 Purport: Because of constantly engaging in devotional service, in any condition of life, a devotee is free from all material bondage.

SB 7.10.14 Purport: "Even one born in a family of meat-eaters is purified if he engages in devotional service."

SB 7.14 Summary: This devotional service will depend on the instructions of authorities and the association of devotees who are actually engaged in devotional service.

SB 7.14.3-4 Puport: One who is engaged in devotional service can very easily be liberated from the dream of materialistic life.

SB 7.15 Summary: One who refrains from such endeavors but who engages in devotional service is most auspicious.

SB 7.15.2 Purport: "Even if one commits the most abominable actions, if he is engaged in devotional service he is to be considered saintly because he is properly situated."

SB 7.15.35 Purport: But if one does not engage in devotional service, there is a chance of his returning to the material platform.

SB 7.15.35 Purport: One may rise to the platform of brahma-sukha, transcendental bliss, but even from that platform one may fall down to the material platform if he does not engage himself in devotional service.

SB 7.15.45 Purport: Thus one engages in devotional service and attains the ultimate goal of life, the lotus feet of Viṣṇu.

SB 7.15.77 Purport: No one within this universe can understand Kṛṣṇa in truth, but if one engages in devotional service one can understand Him perfectly well.

SB Canto 8

SB 8.3.1 Purport: In these verses it is assured that even if a person engaged in devotional service falls down, he is not degraded, but is placed in a position in which he will in due course of time remember the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

SB 8.4.13 Purport: A devotee must simply engage in devotional service, not caring about material situations.

SB 8.6.15 Purport: Similarly, we have to remain in the association of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and always engage in devotional service, for then we shall always be brilliant and illuminating.

SB 8.8.38 Purport: While the demons fight to satisfy their own senses, devotees engage in devotional service to satisfy the senses of the Lord.

SB 8.16.20 Translation: My dear Aditi, engage in devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the master of everything, who can subdue everyone's enemies, and who sits within everyone's heart.

SB 8.16.37 Translation: All the demigods, as well as the goddess of fortune, engage in the service of His lotus feet. Indeed, they respect the fragrance of those lotus feet. May the Supreme Personality of Godhead be pleased with me.

SB 8.19.24 Purport: When the senses are engaged in devotional service to Hṛṣīkeśa, then the senses are completely satisfied.

SB 8.20.14 Purport: Devotees who actually engage in devotional service with faith and love are inspired by the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

SB 8.20.14 Purport: Although the Supreme Lord is situated in the core of everyone's heart, unless one is a Vaiṣṇava, unless one is engaged in devotional service, one does not get sound advice by which to return home, back to Godhead.

SB 8.21.32 Purport: "Devotees solely engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, never fear any condition of life.

SB 8.24.52 Purport: By mental speculation one can understand that one is not the body but a spirit soul, but unless one engages in devotional service, the real purpose of life is never fulfilled.

SB 8.24.52 Purport: One can fulfill the ultimate goal of life only by engaging in devotional service to the Lord.

SB Canto 9

SB 9.2.14 Purport: Those who engage in devotional service are unaffected by the results of their material activities.

SB 9.4.22 Purport: Ambarīṣa Mahārāja, was engaged in devotional service, as mentioned before (sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayoḥ [SB 9.4.18]).

SB 9.4.24 Purport: "Devotees solely engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, never fear any condition of life.

SB 9.4.28 Purport: Therefore although Mahārāja Ambarīṣa was fully engaged in devotional service, his kingdom was free of all fear of adversity.

SB 9.5.27 Purport: Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, in his family life, was certainly a pure devotee, complete in every respect, because his mind and all his senses were engaged in devotional service (sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayor vacāṁsi vaikuṇṭha-guṇānuvarṇane [SB 9.4.18]).

SB 9.5.27 Purport: Mahārāja Ambarīṣa was self-satisfied because all of his senses were engaged in devotional service (sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁ tat-paratvena nirmalam/ hṛṣīkeṇa hṛṣīkeśa-sevanaṁ bhaktir ucyate [Cc. Madhya 19.170]).

SB 9.5.27 Purport: This mentality of getting more and more engaged in devotional service puts one in the most exalted position.

SB 9.18.40 Purport: Brahmaṇy upaśamāśrayam: unless one is fully renounced, one cannot engage in devotional service or stay in Brahman.

SB 9.18.40 Purport: Unless one attains the Brahman platform, or spiritual platform, one cannot engage in devotional service; or, in other words, a person engaged in devotional service is already on the Brahman platform.

SB 9.18.40 Purport: "One who engages in full devotional service, who does not fall down in any circumstance, at once transcends the modes of material nature and thus comes to the level of Brahman."(Bg. 14.26)

SB Canto 10

SB 10.1.41 Purport: Those who constantly engage in devotional service are situated in a transcendental state, above the material modes of nature. As Kṛṣṇa says in Bhagavad-gītā (14.26)

SB 10.2.35 Purport: One must engage himself in devotional service; then one can understand Your absolute nature and Your transcendental form, name and quality.

SB 10.2.36 Purport: The pure devotees, who are always absorbed in the thought of the transcendental lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa and who are always engaged in devotional service in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness, are never to be considered to be in the material world.

SB 10.2.36 Purport: This is also confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā: those who are engaged in the devotional service of the Lord have already transcended the material position.

SB 10.8.51 Purport: Sometimes we may superficially see that a devotee is in difficulty because of being engaged in devotional service, but the fact is different.

SB 10.10.18 Purport: A sādhu is one who is engaged in devotional service to the Lord without deviation (bhajate mām ananya-bhāk).

SB 10.10.32 Purport: sevonmukhe hi jihvādau svayam eva sphuraty adaḥ: Kṛṣṇa reveals Himself to those engaged in devotional service.

SB 10.13.49 Purport: These forms of Viṣṇu were worshiped by those who had performed pious activities (sukṛtibhiḥ) for many births and who were constantly engaged in devotional service (śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ [SB 7.5.23]).

SB 10.13.49 Purport: "Those who are engaged in self-realization, appreciating the Brahman effulgence of the Lord, and those engaged in devotional service, accepting the Supreme Personality of Godhead as master, as well as those who are under the clutches of māyā, thinking the Lord an ordinary person, cannot understand that certain exalted personalities—after accumulating volumes of pious activities—are now playing with the Lord in friendship as cowherd boys."

SB 10.13.53 Purport: As for kāma and karma—desires and activities—if one engages in devotional service, one develops a different nature than if one engages in activities of sense gratification, and of course the result is also different.

SB Cantos 10.14 - 12 Translations Only

SB 10.14.30 Translation: I pray that wherever I may be, even among the animal species, I can engage in devotional service to Your lotus feet.

SB 11.2.31 Translation: Please speak about how one engages in the devotional service of the Supreme Lord, if you consider me capable of properly hearing these topics.

SB 11.3.40 Translation: When one seriously engages in the devotional service of the Personality of Godhead, fixing the Lord's lotus feet within one's heart as the only goal of life, one can destroy the innumerable impure desires lodged within the heart as a result of one's previous fruitive work within the three modes of material nature.

SB 11.25.35 Translation: Synonyms -yuktaḥ—engaged in devotional service- Then, being fixed in devotional service, the sage should also conquer the material mode of goodness by indifference toward the modes. Thus pacified within his mind, the spirit soul, freed from the modes of nature, gives up the very cause of his conditioned life and attains Me.

SB 11.27.53 Translation: But one who simply engages in devotional service with no consideration of fruitive results attains Me.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta

CC Ādi-līlā

CC Adi 1.58 Purport: If one becomes a sincere devotee and seriously engages in devotional service, Lord Kṛṣṇa sends an instructing spiritual master to show him favor and invoke his dormant propensity for serving the Supreme.

CC Adi 3.18 Purport: Those engaged in devotional service according to the ritualistic principles mentioned in the scriptures attain these different kinds of liberation.

CC Adi 5.66 Purport: A person who is engaged in devotional service in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness and who is therefore already situated in the spiritual energy can understand that the material energy has no independent powers

CC Adi 6.92 Translation: Advaita Ācārya is a separate expansion of Him. He always engages in devotional service with His thoughts, words and actions.

CC Adi 7.92 Purport: One who is not very expert in preaching may chant in a secluded place, avoiding bad association, but for one who is actually advanced, preaching and meeting people who are not engaged in devotional service are not disadvantages.

CC Adi 12.17 Purport: From a book named Śākhā-nirṇayāmṛta it is understood that Acyutānanda was a disciple of Gadādhara Paṇḍita and that he took shelter of Lord Caitanya in Jagannātha Purī and engaged in devotional service.

CC Adi 13.39 Purport: Such feelings of separation or meeting with Kṛṣṇa are different stages of love of Godhead. These feelings develop in time when a person seriously engages in devotional service.

CC Adi 13.86 Purport: One can understand the pregnancy of Śacīmātā when one is actually advanced in spiritual consciousness and fully engaged in the devotional service of the Lord.

CC Madhya-līlā

CC Madhya 2.93 Purport: According to Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, there are three kinds of devotees, known as bhajana-vijña (experts in devotional service), bhajana-śīla (devotees engaged in devotional service), and kṛṣṇa-nāme dīkṣita kṛṣṇa-nāma-kārī (initiated devotees engaged in chanting).

CC Madhya 4.77 Purport: When our senses are purified by constantly being engaged in the devotional service of the Lord, we can understand Kṛṣṇa’s activities, names, forms, qualities, pastimes and entourage.

CC Madhya 6.92 Purport: A sinful person, a miscreant (duṣkṛtī), cannot engage in devotional service.

CC Madhya 6.92 Purport: Nor can one engage in devotional service simply on the basis of scholarly speculation.

CC Madhya 6.160 Purport: When freed, the living entity awakens to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and engages in devotional service with love and affection.

CC Madhya 6.174 Purport: If one takes shelter of the sound representation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead (oṁkāra), he can realize his constitutional identity and engage in devotional service even though in conditioned life.

CC Madhya 6.197 Purport: Spiritual activities other than bhakti-yoga are divided into three categories—speculative activity conducted by the jñāna-sampradāya (learned scholars), fruitive activity conducted by the general populace according to Vedic regulations, and the activities of transcendentalists not engaged in devotional service.

CC Madhya 6.198 Purport: “Even liberated persons are attracted by the pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa and thus engage in devotional service.” (Cc. Madhya 24.112)

CC Madhya 6.264–265 Translation: Punished by being merged into the Brahman effulgence. But that does not happen to the person engaged in the devotional service of the Lord.

CC Madhya 6.269 Purport: Brahma-bhūta living entities are allowed to stay in Brahmaloka or Siddhaloka, but unfortunately they sometimes again fall into the material world because they are not engaged in devotional service.

CC Madhya 6.269 Purport: These semiliberated souls falsely claim to be liberated, but unless one engages in devotional service to the Lord, he is still materially contaminated.

CC Madhya 7.69 Translation: Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked the Bhaṭṭācārya to bless Him while he engaged in the devotional service of Lord Kṛṣṇa at home, so that by Sārvabhauma’s mercy the Lord could return to Jagannātha Purī.

CC Madhya 8.44 Purport: When one engages in preaching work, he must distinguish between people and understand that some people are not engaged in the devotional service of the Lord.

CC Madhya 8.75 Translation: "Neither those engaged in the self-realization of appreciating the Brahman effulgence of the Lord, nor those engaged in devotional service while accepting the Supreme Personality of Godhead as master, nor those under the clutches of Māyā, thinking the Lord an ordinary person, can understand that certain exalted personalities, after accumulating volumes of pious activities, are now playing with the Lord in friendship as cowherd boys."

CC Madhya 8.230 Translation: If one is overcome by knowledge of the Lord’s opulence, he cannot attain the Lord’s lotus feet, even though he is engaged in devotional service.

CC Madhya 9.79 Purport: While engaged in devotional service he fell victim to a prostitute, and Śrī Raṅganātha, seeing His devotee so degraded, sent one of His servants with a golden plate to that prostitute.

CC Madhya 9.131 Purport: A person engaged in devotional service may accept any one of these transcendental relationships, which are known as mellows.

CC Madhya 9.137 Purport: In the nāyaṁ sukhāpo verse, the devotees are referred to as bhaktimat, that is, fully engaged in devotional service and devoid of material contamination.

CC Madhya 9.261 Purport: When a person is actually engaged in devotional service, his eternal relationship with the Lord, the servant-master relationship, is awakened.

CC Madhya 11.52 Purport: When one engages in devotional service, he must maintain this firm determination.

CC Madhya 11.89 Purport: This means that because they are always engaged in the devotional service of the Lord, they do not belong to this material world.

CC Madhya 12.135 Purport: When one takes to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and engages himself in the devotional service of the Lord—beginning with chanting and hearing the glories of the Lord—the cleansing of the heart begins.

CC Madhya 15.106 Purport: When the novice engages in devotional service—especially in Deity worship—and follows the order of a bona fide spiritual master, he is a pure devotee.

CC Madhya 15.108 Purport: But when one actually engages in devotional service, utilizing the tongue, the Lord is revealed.”

CC Madhya 15.169 Purport: In any case, all types of sinful reactions are vanquished one after another if a person engages in the devotional service of Lord Viṣṇu.

CC Madhya 15.170 Translation: That very Personality of Godhead destroys the karmic reactions of one engaged in devotional service.’

CC Madhya 15.270 Purport: They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible.”

CC Madhya 16.72 Purport: If one sometimes engages in devotional service and sometimes strives for sense gratification—his service will be interrupted.

CC Madhya 17.185 Purport: They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible.”

CC Madhya 19.17 Purport: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is Śrīla Vyāsadeva’s last, mature contribution, and one should read and hear it in an assembly of realized souls while engaging in devotional service.

CC Madhya 19.69 Purport: Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is here hinting to Vallabha Bhaṭṭācārya that an exalted brāhmaṇa who makes sacrifices and follows Vedic principles should not neglect a person who is engaged in devotional service by chanting the holy name of the Lord.

CC Madhya 19.126 Translation: The Lord’s associates would also ask, “How is it that Rūpa and Sanātana are engaging in devotional service twenty-four hours daily?”

CC Madhya 20.120 Purport: However, when he is freed from the bodily conception, he can engage in devotional service, which is his actual position of freedom from the clutches of māyā.

CC Madhya 20.125 Purport: Thus one engages in devotional service, called abhidheya.

CC Madhya 22: Summary: If one engages in devotional service, all good qualities follow.

CC Madhya 22.39 Purport: To desire material opulence while engaging in devotional service is foolish.

CC Madhya 22.40 Translation: When one has other desires but engages in the Lord’s service, Kṛṣṇa forcibly gives one shelter at His lotus feet, where one will forget all other desires.’

CC Madhya 22.51 Purport: They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible.”

CC Madhya 22.145 Purport: If one abandons speculative knowledge and simply engages in devotional service, he has attained his perfection.

CC Madhya 22.159 Translation: “Actually the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana are very dear to Kṛṣṇa. If one wants to engage in spontaneous loving service, he must follow the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana and constantly engage in devotional service within his mind.

CC Madhya 23.107 Translation: “‘One who is not envious but is a kind friend to all living entities, who does not think himself a proprietor and is free from false ego, who is equal in both happiness and distress, who is always satisfied, forgiving and self-controlled, and who is engaged in devotional service with determination, his mind and intelligence dedicated to Me—such a devotee of Mine is very dear to Me.

CC Madhya 24.61 Translation: “‘As all fuel is burned to ashes by a full-fledged fire, all sinful activities are totally erased when one engages in devotional service to Me.’

CC Madhya 24.91 Translation: “The meaning of the word ‘udāra-dhī’ is buddhimān—intelligent or considerate. Because of this, even for one’s own sense gratification one engages in the devotional service of Lord Kṛṣṇa.

CC Madhya 24.103 Translation: When one has other desires but engages in the Lord’s service, Kṛṣṇa forcibly gives one shelter at His lotus feet, where one will forget all other desires.’

CC Madhya 24.111 Purport: Anyone who has realized himself as spirit soul can engage in devotional service. This is the verdict of the Bhagavad-gītā (18.54)

CC Madhya 24.124 Translation: “If those who are attached to demigod worship fortunately associate with the devotees, their dormant devotional service and appreciation of the Lord’s qualities gradually awaken. In this way they also engage in Kṛṣṇa’s devotional service and give up the desire for liberation and the desire to merge into the existence of impersonal Brahman.

CC Madhya 24.174 Translation: “Another meaning of ‘ātmā’ is dhṛti, or endurance. A person who endeavors with endurance is ātmārāma. With endurance, such a person engages in devotional service.

CC Madhya 24.175 Translation: “The word ‘muni’ also means ‘bird’ and ‘bumblebee.’ The word ‘nirgrantha’ refers to foolish people. By the mercy of Kṛṣṇa, such creatures contact a sādhu [spiritual master] and thus engage in devotional service.

CC Madhya 24.189 Translation: “‘I [Kṛṣṇa] am the original source of everything. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who perfectly know this engage in My service with love and devotion.’

CC Madhya 24.199 Translation: When one has other desires but engages in the Lord’s service, Kṛṣṇa forcibly gives one shelter at His lotus feet, where one will forget all other desires.’

CC Madhya 24.212 Translation: “One in the bodily conception worships his own body as Brahman, but when he comes in contact with a devotee, he gives up this mistaken idea and engages himself in the devotional service of Lord Kṛṣṇa.

CC Madhya 24.218 Translation: When such an ātmārāma is favored by the mercy of Kṛṣṇa, he gives up his so-called self-satisfaction and engages in the transcendental loving service of the Lord.

CC Madhya 24.224 Translation: “Saintly persons who are always meditating upon Kṛṣṇa are engaged in the devotional service of the Lord. The ātmārāmas are also engaged in the Lord’s service. That is the indirect import.

CC Madhya 24.261 Purport: In any case, a devotee can follow the instructions of his spiritual master and engage in devotional service by watering the tulasī plant and chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra.

CC Madhya 24.279 Purport: Everyone is ready to give something to a Vaiṣṇava, and if a Vaiṣṇava is completely engaged in devotional service, he need not be anxious for his maintenance.

CC Madhya 24.287 Translation: “Both the ātmārāmas engaged in regulative devotional service and those engaged in spontaneous devotional service are further categorized into four groups.

CC Antya-līlā

CC Antya 2.143 Purport: For a person engaged in devotional service in the renounced order, having intimate relationships with women is certainly hypocrisy.

CC Antya 2.144 Purport: Thus not only a person in the renounced order or one engaged in devotional service but everyone should avoid mingling with women.

CC Antya 3.85 Translation: What, then, can be said of those who are already fully engaged in devotional service to the Lord?’ CC Antya 3.136 Purport: Therefore at some time one should retire and distribute whatever one has to the brāhmaṇas and Vaiṣṇavas who engage in devotional service by preaching the glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

CC Antya 7.32 Translation: “‘Neither those who are engaged in self-realization, appreciating the Brahman effulgence of the Lord, nor those engaged in devotional service while accepting the Supreme Personality of Godhead as master, nor those who are under the clutches of Māyā, thinking the Lord an ordinary person, can understand that certain exalted personalities, after accumulating volumes of pious activities, are now playing with the Lord in friendship as cowherd boys.’

CC Antya 8.26 Purport: “Even liberated souls sometimes fall down to material desires, but those who fully engage in devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead are not affected by such desires.”

CC Antya 9.65 Purport: “Even if one commits the most abominable actions, if he is engaged in devotional service he is to be considered saintly because he is properly situated in his determination.

CC Antya 9.69 Translation: Kāśī Miśra continued, “If one engages in devotional service for Your satisfaction, this will result in his increasingly awakening his dormant love for You.

CC Antya 9.76 Translation: “One who engages in Your devotional service twenty-four hours a day, desiring only Your mercy, will very soon attain shelter at Your lotus feet.

Other Books by Śrīla Prabhupāda

Teachings of Lord Caitanya

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 1: When the living entity engaged in devotional service relishes the fruit of love of Godhead, he forgets all religious ritual and improvements in his economic condition.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 2: The Lord proceeded to quote a verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam to the effect that a person who is a devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa and is one hundred percent engaged in devotional service is far better than a brāhmaṇa who is versed in all the Vedic literatures but who does not engage in the devotional service of the Lord.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 10: Only those who are on the transcendental platform of love of God, who out of love engage in devotional service, can appreciate the transcendental beauty of Kṛṣṇa.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 11: If a person is not engaged in the devotional service of the Lord, he falls from his position, regardless of whether he executes his prescribed occupational duty or not.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 11: The Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam also confirms (2.3.10) that even if a person desires material enjoyment or liberation, he should engage in devotional service.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 11: Those who are ambitious to derive material benefit from devotional service are not pure devotees, but because they are engaged in devotional service they are considered fortunate.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 11: When one is actually engaged in devotional service, he forgets his material ambitions and desires. This is also confirmed by Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (5.19.27)

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 11: Dhruva Mahārāja, who wanted something material from Kṛṣṇa and therefore engaged in devotional service.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 11: It is the conclusion of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Bhagavad-gītā that the direct order of the Lord is to give up everything and engage in devotional service.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 11: The third-class devotee engages in devotional service according to the directions of the spiritual master

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 12: Because all his desires and ambitions were thus engaged in the devotional service of the Lord, Mahārāja Ambarīṣa is considered the leader in discharging devotional service in all kinds of ways.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 12: Whoever engages in the devotional service of the Lord in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness becomes freed of all debts to the sages, demigods and forefathers, to whom everyone is generally indebted. This is confirmed in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (11.5.41)

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 12: The Lord Himself says that there is no necessity to cultivate speculative knowledge and renunciation if one is actually engaged in the devotional service of the Lord.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 13: "It is neither practical nor necessary for one who is already engaged in devotional service to Me and whose mind is fixed on Me to endeavor for the cultivation of knowledge and renunciation."

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 13: One who is engaged in devotional service to the Supreme Lord cannot be a source of trouble for anyone under any circumstance.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 13: A person engaged in devotional service becomes heartsick when singing the glories of the Supreme Lord.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 14: "One who is not envious but who is a kind friend to all living entities, who does not think himself a proprietor, who is free from false ego and equal both in happiness and distress, who is always satisfied and engaged in devotional service with determination and whose mind and intelligence are in agreement with Me—he is very dear to Me.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 14: One who is fixed in knowledge and engaged in devotional service, is very dear to Me.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 14: The conclusion is that anyone who attentively hears these discourses and instructions of Lord Caitanya to Sanātana Gosvāmī very soon attains to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and engages in devotional service to the Lord.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 15: The most intelligent transcendentalist gives up all other processes and engages himself in the devotional service of the Lord, even though he may have many desires.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 15: Having such a focal point, a devotee or transcendentalist forgets everything and engages himself in the devotional service of the Lord.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 15: When the devotee understands and becomes attracted by Kṛṣṇa's transcendental qualities that he wholeheartedly engages in devotional service.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 15: In the Eleventh Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam there are many instances recorded of devotees who became liberated in this life simply by engaging in devotional service.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 16: There are many persons in this world who desire liberation, and sometimes they engage in devotional service for this purpose.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 16: The conclusion is that no one can attain a revolution in consciousness without engaging in devotional service to the Lord.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 16: When a person becomes ātmārāma, or a great thinker in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he fully engages in devotional service.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 16: All the ātmārāmas are engaged in devotional service to Urukrama. Before engaging in devotional service, such transcendentalists are called śāntas, or pacified devotees.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 16: Sometimes mental speculators present philosophical theories in different ways, but when they come in contact with saintly persons engaged in devotional service, they also become devotees.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 16: Anyone who is engaged in the devotional service of any form or extension of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is also called ātmārāma.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 16: These devotees are also divided into three categories: the associates, those perfected in devotional service, and those newly engaged in devotional service.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 19: "A person who is constantly engaged in devotional service to Kṛṣṇa and who chants His holy name becomes so transcendentally attached to the chanting that his heart becomes softened without extraneous endeavor.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 24: This verse indicates that everyone should engage in devotional service to the Supreme Lord, who is the maintainer of this whole universe.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya Chapter 28: Thus one should have a strong desire to engage in devotional service.

Nectar of Devotion

Nectar of Devotion Preface: When one is thus engaged in devotional service, all varieties of rasas, or mellows, turn into eternity.

Nectar of Devotion Preface: The Nectar of Devotion will give us practical hints how we can live in this material world perfectly engaged in devotional service and thus fulfill all our desires in this life and the next.

Nectar of Devotion Preface: The Nectar of Devotion will give us practical hints how we can live in this material world perfectly engaged in devotional service and thus fulfill all our desires in this life and the next.

Nectar of Devotion Chapter 2: As such, how is it possible that anyone actually engaged in devotional service in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness has not become purified? It is not possible.Ref. VedaBase Relief from Material Distress

Nectar of Devotion Chapter 2: Only by being engaged in devotional service can this be done.Ref. VedaBase Relief from Material Distress

Nectar of Devotion Chapter 2: A person who is engaged in devotional service in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness is to be understood to be doing the best service to the whole world and to be pleasing everyone in the world.Ref. VedaBase Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Is All-auspicious

Nectar of Devotion Chapter 40: For example, a person engaged in devotional service may be ordered to rise early in the morning and offer ārati, which is a form of Deity worship.

Nectar of Devotion Chapter 3: Śrī Bilvamaṅgala Ṭhākura has said, "If I am engaged in devotional service unto You, my dear Lord, then very easily can I perceive Your presence everywhere.

Nectar of Devotion Chapter 4: "My dear mother, persons who have given up all kinds of desire and are simply engaged in devotional service to the Lord know what is actually their self-interest.

Nectar of Devotion Chapter 4: "My pure devotees are always satisfied being engaged in devotional service, and therefore they do not aspire even after the five liberated stages

Nectar of Devotion Chapter 5: Besides that, anyone who is engaged in devotional service is already at the status of being a high-class brāhmaṇa.

Nectar of Devotion Chapter 6: This means that when we are engaged in the devotional service of Kṛṣṇa, we must be prepared to give up something which we may not like to give up, and also we have to accept something which we may not like to accept

Nectar of Devotion Chapter 12::It is said in the Ādi Purāṇa, "A person who is constantly engaged in chanting the holy name and who feels transcendental pleasure, being engaged in devotional service, is certainly awarded the facilities of devotional service and is never given just mukti [liberation]. The normal condition of every living entity is to be engaged in the devotional service of the Lord. From the statement of the Ādi Purāṇa it appears that a devotee is satisfied simply with being engaged in devotional service.In other words, anyone who is engaged in devotional service is not in the material condition of life, although he may appear so.

Nectar of Devotion Chapter 12: After attaining this liberated stage, one has to become engaged in devotional service to the Lord. After attainment of the brahma-bhüta [SB 4.30.20] [liberation] stage, one can further advance to engagement in devotional service. Certainly Mathurā will deliver the desires of the devotees, who simply aspire to be engaged in the devotional service of the Lord.

Nectar of Devotion Chapter 14: Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī describes one who is fit for becoming engaged in devotional service.Ref. VedaBase Servitorship

Nectar of Devotion Chapter 14: In the Nāradīya Purāṇa there is a statement of how this servitorship is transcendental. It is said there that a person who is constantly engaged in devotional service by his body, mind and words, or even a person who is not practically engaged but is simply desiring to be so, is considered to be liberated.Ref. VedaBase Servitorship

Nectar of Devotion Chapter 14: Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī affirms herein that purification of consciousness, purification of bodily activities, austerities, peace of mind, etc., all become automatically manifest in the person who is engaged in devotional service.

Nectar of Devotion Chapter 40: A devotee who is actually advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, who is constantly engaged in devotional service, should not manifest himself, even though he has attained perfection.Ref. VedaBase Eligibility for Spontaneous Devotional Service

Nectar of Devotion Chapter 40: When Lord Rāmacandra was residing in Daṇḍakāraṇya, the sages who were engaged in devotional service there became attracted by His beauty and immediately thought of the gopīs at Vṛndāvana, who enjoyed conjugal loving affection with Kṛṣṇa.Ref. VedaBase Conjugal Love

Nectar of Devotion Chapter 40: There are two kinds of devotees engaged in devotional service with awe and veneration—the Lord's subordinates and His sons.

Nectar of Instruction

Nectar of Instruction 2 Purport: When they are under the control of the internal potency, they display their natural, constitutional activity—namely, constant engagement in the devotional service of the Lord.

Nectar of Instruction 2 Purport: They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible.

Nectar of Instruction 3 Purport: If by fortune one takes advantage of this opportunity to engage in devotional service, the path of liberation immediately opens.

Nectar of Instruction 3 Purport: Engagement in the devotional service of the Lord is the life and soul of the living entity.

Nectar of Instruction 3 Purport: They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible.


Nectar of Instruction 5 Purport: When a neophyte devotee is actually initiated and engaged in devotional service by the orders of the spiritual master, he should be accepted immediately as a bona fide Vaiṣṇava, and obeisances should be offered unto him.

Nectar of Instruction 6 Purport: A person engaged in devotional service must be free from material motives.

Nectar of Instruction 11 Purport: Rādhā-kuṇḍa is very rarely attained, even by great personalities fully engaged in devotional service, not to speak of ordinary devotees who are only engaged in the practice of vaidhī bhakti.

Nectar of Instruction 11 Purport: This is the most exalted method for those engaged in devotional service under the protection of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

Easy Journey to Other Planets

Easy Journey to other Planets Chapter 1: One should therefore engage himself in devotional service with absolute faith, and to make his faith steadfast one should seek the association of the standard devotees of the Lord by personal association (if possible) or by thinking of them.

Kṛṣṇa, The Supreme Personality of Godhead

Krsna Book Chapter 2: One must engage himself in devotional service; then one can understand Your absolute nature and Your transcendental form, name and qualities.

Krsna Book Chapter 2: The pure devotees, who are always absorbed in the thought of the transcendental lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa and who are always engaged in devotional service in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness, are never to be considered to be in the material world.

Krsna Book Chapter 2: This is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā: those who are engaged in the devotional service of the Lord have already transcended the material position.

Krsna Book Chapter 14: Rather, he engages in devotional service and depends on the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Krsna Book Chapter 14: This is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā: Whoever is engaged in the devotional service of Kṛṣṇa is already on the brahma-bhūta, [SB 4.30.20] or spiritual, platform.

Krsna Book Chapter 28: Therefore all the living entities there are engaged in devotional service to the Lord, either in the Vaikuṇṭha planets or in Kṛṣṇaloka.

Krsna Book Chapter 28: Direct knowledge of the spiritual sky can be had only by great sages and saintly persons who have already surpassed the influence of the three material modes of nature by engaging in devotional service, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Krsna Book Chapter 51: The Bhagavad-gītā confirms that only one who is completely freed from all sinful reactions can engage in devotional service, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Krsna Book Chapter 77: Great saintly persons and sages who are engaged in the devotional service of the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa and who have thus achieved the greatest perfection of self-realization have transcended the bewilderments of the bodily concept of life.

Krsna Book Chapter 78: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam also confirms that the topmost perfection of religion is to be engaged in the devotional service of the Lord.

Krsna Book Chapter 87: The devotees, however, are engaged in devotional service with love and affection from the very beginning, and therefore the Lord personally directs them so that they can approach Him without difficulty or deviation.

Krsna Book Chapter 87: But the actual ānanda-maya (blissful) stage is attained when one is engaged in devotional service.

Krsna Book Chapter 87: whereas one who is engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Lord is situated in the pleasurable, or ānanda-maya, status of life.

Krsna Book Chapter 87: When the mind is engaged in the devotional service of the Lord, it becomes the intimate friend of the living entity because the mind can then think of the Supreme Lord always.

Krsna Book Chapter 87: From the Bhagavad-gītā we understand that even a person who is not up to the standard of pious activities but who is absolutely engaged in devotional service is to be considered well situated on the path of spiritual perfection.

Krsna Book Chapter 87: It is also said in the Bhagavad-gītā that a person who is engaged in devotional service with love and faith is guided from within by the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Krsna Book Chapter 87: But it is a fact that unless one is Kṛṣṇa conscious, unless one is engaged in devotional service, and unless one has the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he cannot cross over this material ocean.

Krsna Book Chapter 87: A liberated person engaged in devotional service to the Lord may be seen by others to be engaged in the household duties of the material world.

Krsna Book Chapter 88: But those who engage in devotional service or worship the Supreme Lord—Viṣṇu, or Kṛṣṇa—go to the Vaikuṇṭha planets or Kṛṣṇaloka.

Krsna Book Chapter 89: All of them thereafter engaged in devotional service, and thus they achieved the desired result and went back to Godhead.

Renunciation Through Wisdom

Renunciation Through Wisdom 1.9: Since he is engaged in devotional service to the Supreme Lord, he is not required to execute the ritualistic activities recommended in the scriptures.

Renunciation Through Wisdom 2.9: They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible.

Renunciation Through Wisdom 2.13: But those who worship Me, giving up all their activities unto Me and being devoted to Me without deviation, engaged in devotional service and always meditating upon Me, having fixed their minds upon Me, O son of Pṛthā—for them I am the swift deliverer from the ocean of birth and death.

Renunciation Through Wisdom 3.3: O son of Pṛthā, those who are not deluded, the great souls, are under the protection of the divine nature. They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible.

Renunciation Through Wisdom 3.3: If an impersonalist philosopher, due to some piety, engages in devotional service to the Supreme Lord, then only does he become dear to the Lord.

Renunciation Through Wisdom 5.1: Devotees solely engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, never fear any condition of life.

Śrī Īśopaniṣad

Sri Isopanisad 17 Purport: Even if one commits the most abominable action, if he is engaged in devotional service he is to be considered saintly because he is properly situated in his determination.

Page Title:Engaged in devotional service (Books)
Compiler:Siddha Rupa , Visnu Murti
Created:18 of nov, 2007
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