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as they are described in the Shastras. Practically, also, we have experience that there are many devotees in the discipline succession of the  Gaudiya Vishnu Sampradaya , such as the two great acharyas Thakur Narottam and Shyamananda Goswami, who were not born in Brahmin families, but were accepted as Spiritual Masters by many Brahmins of fame, such as Ganganarayana Ramakrishna.
In this way, there are symptoms of the prospective devotee; and both the disciple and the Spiritual Master must each see whether the other is eligible to become a bona fide Spiritual Master or a bona fide student of the Spiritual Master. Then one should know that the worshippable object is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and all kinds of different Mantras, sacred songs, should be understood.
The Lord also instructed that Sanatan should describe the symptoms of persons who are eligible to accept the Mantra, and how the Mantras should be understood and perfected by ritualistic performances. Then He described initiation, morning duties, and duties of cleanliness—washing the face, washing the teeth—working, and prayers both in the morning and in the evening; how to worship the Spiritual Master, how to mark the body with  Gopichandan , how to collect the tulsi leaves, how to wash the room and the temple of the Lord, and how to awaken Krishna from His sleeping. He described different methods for worshipping the Lord, which is called the method of five-fold paraphernalia and fifty-fold paraphernalia. How to worship the Lord by five times offering worship and  Aruti ; how to offer foodstuff to Krishna, how to lay Him down on the bed. There are different symptoms of the Form of the Lord and  Salagram Seela , such as the effect of going to holy places where there are different temples of the Lord, and seeing the Form of God in the temples. There is the glorifying of the transcendental Name of the Lord, and the different offences in the matter of worshipping. When worshipping the Lord there are other things: paraphernalia such as the conch shell, water, and fragrant flowers; prayers and hymns, circumambulation, offering obeisances, regulative principles of  Puroscharam , and accepting Krishna  Prasadam , rejecting foodstuff which is not offered to Krishna, and not indulging in defaming a devotee who has the actual symptoms of a devotee.
There are also symptoms of a holy man, the process of satisfying the sage, and rejecting the society of undesirable persons; and hearing  Srimad Bhagwatam  constantly. Also to be followed are duties of the day, duties of the fortnight, and observing fasting on  Ekadasee  day; the duties of the month, observing ceremonies like the birthday of the Lord, the three specific dates of fasting,