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The Process of Devotional Service
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items, another four are added—namely marking  tilaka  on different parts of the body, writing the names of the Lord all over the body, accepting the Deity's garland and accepting  caraṇāmṛta . These four items are understood to be included by Kavirāja Gosvāmī within  arcana , worship of the Deity. Although these items are not mentioned here, they are to be added to the previous thirty-five items. Thus the total number becomes thirty-nine. To these thirty-nine should be added five others: association with devotees, chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa  mahā-mantra , reading  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  regularly, residing in Mathurā, the birthplace of Kṛṣṇa, and worshiping the Deity with great respect and veneration. The thirty-nine items plus these five come to a total of forty-four. If we add the previous twenty items to these forty-four, the total number becomes sixty-four. The five items mentioned above repeat previously mentioned items. In the  Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu , Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī states:
aṅgānāṁ pañcakasyāsya pūrva-vilikhitasya ca nikhila-śraiṣṭhya-bodhāya punar apy atra śaṁsanam
“The glorification of these five items [association with devotees, chanting the holy name and so on] is to make known the complete superiority of these five practices of devotional service.”
The sixty-four items of devotional service include all the activities of the body, mind and senses. Thus the sixty-four items engage one in devotional service in all respects.
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শ্ৰদ্ধা  বিশেষত:  প্ৰীতি: শ্ৰীমৃতেঁৱজ্যি সেবনে  ॥ ১৩০ ॥  ॥
s'raddhā viśeṣatāḥ pritiḥ śri-mūrter aṅghri-sevane
SYNONYMS
śraddhā —faith;  viśeṣataḥ —particularly;  prītiḥ —love;  śrī-mūrteḥ —of the Deity form of the Lord;  aṅghri-sevane —in service of the lotus feet.
TRANSLATION
“‘One should have full faith and love in worshiping the lotus feet of the Deity.