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for satisfying Krsna. When householder devotees perform some Vedic
ritualistic duties, they do so to satisfy Krsna. As we have previously
discussed, any activity aiming at satisfying the Supreme Personality
of Godhead is considered devotional service.

Srila Ripa Gosvami describes one who is fit for becoming engaged
in devotional service. He says that persons who are neophytes and
who have developed a little love of Godhead are not interested in the
activities of sense gratification, in proportion to their devotion. But
if there is still some attraction for sense gratifying activities, then the
result of such activities should be offered to Krsna. This is also called
engagement in the service of the Lord, with the Lord as the master
and the worker as the servant.

In the Naradiya Purana there is a statement of how this servitor-
ship is transcendental. It is said there that a person who is constantly
engaged in devotional service by his body, mind and words, or even a
person who is not practically engaged but is simply desiring to be so,
is considered to be liberated.

Devotional Service in Friendship

Devotional service in friendship can be divided into two categories:
one is to act as the confidential servant of the Lord, and the other is
to act as the well-wisher of the Lord. The devotee who has confi-
dence in devotional service to the Lord systematically follows the
rules and regulations, with the faith that he will achieve the platform
of transcendental life. The second type of devotional friendship is to
become a well-wisher of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In the
Bhagavad-gitd it is said that the Lord accepts a preacher as the most
dear servant. Anyone who is preaching the confidential message of
the Gita to the people in general is so dear to Krsna that no one can
be equal with him in human society.

In the Mahabharata, Draupadi says, ““My dear Govinda, Your prom-
ise is that Your devotee can never be vanquished. | believe in that
statement, and therefore in all kinds of tribulations I simply remem-
ber Your promise, and thus I live.” The purport is that Draupadi and
