Text 130] The Process of Devotional Service 403

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 gar-
land and accepting caranamrta. These four items are understood to be included
by Kaviraja Gosvami 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 Krsna mahd-mantra, reading
Srimad-Bhagavatam regularly, residing in Mathura, the birthplace of Krsna, 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-rasamrta-sindhu, Srila
Rupa Gosvami states:

anganam paficakasyasya
purva-vilikhitasya ca

nikhila-sraisthya-bodhaya
punar apy atra sarnsanam

“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.

TEXT 130
wai faaes Aes AgrsaSarmaca soo 4

sraddhd visesatah pritih
sri-murter anghri-sevane

SYNONYMS
sraddha—faith; visesatah—particularly; pritih—love; sri-murteh—of the Deity
form of the Lord; anighri-sevane—in service of the lotus feet.

TRANSLATION

“‘One should have full faith and love in worshiping the lotus feet of the
Deity.
