Characteristics of Pure Devotional Service
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Krṣṇa Consciousness is All-Auspicious
Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has given a definition of auspiciousness. He says that actual auspiciousness means welfare activities for all the people of the world. At the present moment groups of people are engaged in welfare activities in terms of society, community or nation. There is even an attempt in the form of the United Nations for world-help activity. But due to the shortcomings of limited national activities, such a general mass welfare program for the whole world is not practically possible. The Krṣṇa consciousness movement, however, is so nice that it can render the highest benefit to the entire human race. Everyone can be attracted by this movement, and everyone can feel the result. Therefore, Rūpa Gosvāmī and other learned scholars agree that a broad propaganda program for the Krṣṇa consciousness movement of devotional service all over the world is the highest humanitarian welfare activity.
How the Krṣṇa consciousness movement can attract the attention of the whole world and how each and every man can feel pleasure in this Krṣṇa consciousness is stated in the  Padma Purāṇa  as follows: “A person who is engaged in devotional service in full Krṣṇa consciousness is to be understood to be doing the best service to the whole world and to be pleasing everyone in the world. In addition to human society, he is pleasing even the trees and animals because they also become attracted by such a movement.” A practical example of this was shown by Lord Caitanya when He was traveling through the forests of Jharikhanda in central India for spreading His  saṅkūrtana  movement. The tigers, the elephants, the deer and all other wild animals joined Him and were participating, in their own ways, by dancing and chanting Hare Krṣṇa.
Furthermore, a person engaged in Krṣṇa consciousness, acting in devotional service, can develop all the good qualities that are generally found in the demigods. It is said by Śukadeva Gosvāmī in the Fifth Canto of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , 18th Chapter, 12th verse, “My dear King, persons who have unflinching faith in Krṣṇa and are without any duplicity can develop all the good qualities of the demigods. On account of a devotee’s high grade of Krṣṇa conscious-