How to Discharge Devotional Service o7

Now, the total regulative principles come to an aggregate of sixty-
four items. As we have mentioned, the first are the primary ten
regulative principles. Then come the secondary ten regulative princi-
ples, and added to these are forty-four other activities. So altogether
there are sixty-four items for discharging the regulative practice of
devotional service. Out of these sixty-four items, five items—namely,
offering water to the tulasi tree, hearing Srimad-Bhagavatam, asso-
ciating amongst the devotees, saikirtana and living in Mathura—are
very important.

The sixty-four items of devotional service should include all of our
activities of body, mind and speech. As it was stated in the beginning,
the regulative principle of devotional service enjoins that all of our
senses must be employed in the service of the Lord. Exactly how they
can be thus employed is described in the above sixty-four items. Now,
Srila Ripa Gosvami will give evidences from different scriptures
supporting the authenticity of many of these points.
