Contents
Preface  ix  Introduction  xvii
PART ONE
1  Characteristics of Pure Devotional Service  1  2  The First Stages of Devotion  18  3  Eligibility of the Candidate for Accepting Devotional Service  28  4  Devotional Service Surpasses All Liberation  35  5  Purity of Devotional Service  46  6  How to Discharge Devotional Service  53  7  Evidence Regarding Devotional Principles  58  8  Offenses to be Avoided  68  9  Further Consideration of Devotional Principles  73  10  Techniques of Hearing and Memorizing  89  11  Aspects of Transcendental Service  96  12  Revealed Scriptures  102  13  The Mahā-mantra  108  14  Devotional Qualifications  114  15  Spontaneous Devotional Service  121  16  Varieties of Love for Kṛṣṇa  127  17  Ecstatic Love  133  18  Character of One in Ecstatic Love  138  19  Devotional Service in Love of God  147
PART TWO
20  Transcendental Mellow  152  21  Qualities of Śrī Kṛṣṇa  156  22  Qualities of Kṛṣṇa Further Explained  178  23  Kṛṣṇa's Personality  200