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Lord and His devotees. 19. One should avoid ordinary topics of novels and fiction, but there is no injunction that one should avoid hearing ordinary news. 20. One should not give any trouble to any living creature, including a small bug.
The first ten items are affirmative, and the second ten are prohibitive. In the  Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu  complied by Sri Rupa Goswami, it is said that one should be very liberal in behavior and should avoid any undesirable behavior. Out of the twenty regulations mentioned above, the most important are to accept the shelter of a bona fide Spiritual Master, to be initiated by him, and to serve him.
The process of devotional service can be analyzed as follows: 1. Hearing, 2. Chanting, 3. Remembering, 4. Worshipping, 5. Praying, 6. Serving, 7. Engaging as a servitor, 8. Being friendly, 9. Offering everything, 10. Dancing before the deity, 11. Singing, 12. Informing, 13. Offering obeisances, 14. Standing up to show respect to the devotees, 15. When a devotee goes, following him up to the door, 16. Entering into the temple of the Lord, 17. Circumambulating the temple, 18. Reading prayers, 19. Vibrating hymns, 20. Performing  Samkirtan , or congregational chanting, 21. Smelling the incense and the flowers offered to the deity, 22. Accepting the  Prasadam  (food offered to Krishna), 23. Seeing  Aritrik  or ceremonial performance of receiving the Lord, 24. Seeing the deity, 25. Offering to the Lord His own palatable food-stuff, 26. Meditating, 27. Offering water to the tulsi tree, 28. Offering respect to the  Vaishnavas , or advanced devotees, 29. Living in Mathura or Vrindaban, 30. Understanding  Srimad Bhagwatam , 31. Trying for Krishna to one's utmost, 32. Expecting the mercy of Krishna, 33. Performing the ceremonial functions of Krishna with devotees, 34. Surrendering in all respects, 35. Observing different ceremonial functions.
To these thirty-five items another four are to be added: 1. Marking the body with sandalwood pulp to show that he is a  Vaishnava , 2. Painting the body with the Holy Names of the Lord, 3. Covering the body with the remnants of the cover of the deity, 4. Accepting  Charanamrita , or the water washed of the Lord. Adding these four items to the above thirty-five, we have thirty-nine items for devotional service. Out of them, 1. To associate with devotees, 2. To chant the Holy Name of the Lord, 3. To hear  Srimad Bhagwatam , 4. To live in a holy place such as Mathura or Vrindaban, 5. With great devotion, to serve the deity—these five items are very important. They are especially mentioned by Rupa Goswami in his book  Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu .
The thirty-nine items above, added with these five items, become forty-