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border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">==== Chapter 1: The Value of Devotion ====</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">:''(Translations and purports: '''SŪTRA 1 to 8 and 11 to 15''', by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.)''</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">('''Translations and purports # 1 - 8''', by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda)</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''[[NBS 1|SŪTRA 1]]''' Now, therefore, I will try to explain the process of devotional service. </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''[[NBS 2|SŪTRA 2]]''' Devotional service manifests as the most elevated, pure love for God.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''[[NBS <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1</del>|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sūtra 1</del>]]''' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Now, therefore, I will try to explain the process of devotional service</del>.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''[[NBS <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">3</ins>|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">SŪTRA 3</ins>]]''' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This pure love for God is eternal</ins>.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''[[NBS <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2</del>|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sūtra 2</del>]]''' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Devotional </del>service <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">manifests as the most elevated, </del>pure love <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for </del>God.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''[[NBS <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">4</ins>|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">SŪTRA 4</ins>]]''' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Upon achieving that stage of transcendental devotional </ins>service <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in </ins>pure love <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of </ins>God<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, a person becomes perfect, immortal, and peaceful</ins>.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''[[NBS <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">3</del>|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sūtra 3</del>]]''' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This </del>pure <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">love </del>for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">God is eternal</del>.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''[[NBS <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">5</ins>|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">SŪTRA 5</ins>]]''' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A person engaged in such </ins>pure <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">devotional service neither desires anything </ins>for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sense gratification, nor laments for any loss, nor hates anything, nor enjoys anything on his personal account, nor becomes very enthusiastic in material activity</ins>.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''[[NBS <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">4</del>|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sūtra 4</del>]]''' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Upon achieving that stage </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">transcendental </del>devotional service in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">pure </del>love of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">God, a person </del>becomes <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">perfect</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">immortal, and peaceful</del>.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''[[NBS <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">6</ins>|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">SŪTRA 6</ins>]]''' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">One who understands perfectly the process </ins>of devotional service in love of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Godhead becomes intoxicated in its discharge. Sometimes he </ins>becomes <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">stunned in ecstasy and thus enjoys his whole self</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">being engaged in the service of the Supreme Self</ins>.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''[[NBS <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">5</del>|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sūtra 5</del>]]''' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A person engaged </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">such </del>pure devotional service <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">neither desires anything for sense gratification</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nor laments for any loss, nor hates anything, nor enjoys anything on his personal account, nor becomes very enthusiastic </del>in material <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">activity</del>.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''[[NBS <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">7</ins>|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">SŪTRA 7</ins>]]''' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">There is no question of lust </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the execution of </ins>pure devotional service, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">because </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it all </ins>material <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">activities are renounced</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''[[NBS <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">6</del>|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sūtra 6</del>]]''' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">One who understands perfectly the process of </del>devotional service <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in love </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Godhead becomes intoxicated in its discharge. Sometimes he becomes stunned in ecstasy </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">thus enjoys his whole self, being engaged in the service of the Supreme Self</del>.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''[[NBS <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">8</ins>|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">SŪTRA 8</ins>]]''' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Such renunciation in </ins>devotional service <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">means to give up all kinds </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">social customs </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">religious rituals governed by Vedic injunction</ins>.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''[[NBS <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">7</del>|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sūtra 7</del>]]''' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">There is no question of lust in the execution of pure devotional service, because in it all material activities are renounced.</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''[[NBS <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">9</ins>|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">SŪTRA 9</ins>]]''' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(coming soon)</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''[[NBS <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">8</del>|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sūtra 8</del>]]''' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Such renunciation in devotional service means to give up all kinds of social customs and religious rituals governed by Vedic injunction. </del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''[[NBS <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">10</ins>|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">SŪTRA 10</ins>]]''' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(coming soon)</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">=====(continued)=====</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''[[NBS 11|SŪTRA 11]]''' Indifference toward what stands in the way of devotional service means to accept only those activities of social custom and Vedic injunction that are favorable to devotional service.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(</del>'''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Translations and purports # 9 - 84</del>'''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, completed by </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">disciples </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">His Divine Grace</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">)</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[NBS 12|SŪTRA 12]]</ins>''' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">One must continue to follow scriptural injunctions even after one is fixed up in determined certainty that devotional service is </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">only means for reaching the perfection </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">life</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">- COMING SOON - </del>'''</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[NBS 13|SŪTRA 13]]</ins>''' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Otherwise there is every possibility of falling down.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''[[NBS 9|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sūtra 9</del>]]'''</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''[[NBS <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">14|SŪTRA 14]]''' For as long as the body lasts, one should engage minimally in social and political activities and in such matters as eating.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; 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<p>Created page with &quot;&lt;div style=&quot;float:left&quot;&gt;<a href="/wiki/File:Go-previous.png" title="File:Go-previous.png">link=Narada Bhakti Sutra|Nārada Bhakti Sūtra</a> &#039;&#039;&#039;<a href="/wiki/Narada_Bhakti_Sutra" title="Narada Bhakti Sutra">Nārada Bhakti Sūtra</a>&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style=&quot;float:rig...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&lt;div style=&quot;float:left&quot;&gt;[[File:Go-previous.png|link=Narada Bhakti Sutra|Nārada Bhakti Sūtra]] '''[[Narada Bhakti Sutra|Nārada Bhakti Sūtra]]'''&lt;/div&gt;<br /> &lt;div style=&quot;float:right&quot;&gt;'''Chapter 2 Defining Bhakti''' [[File:Go-next.png|link=]]&lt;/div&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ('''Translations and purports # 1 - 8''', by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda)<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''[[NBS 1|Sūtra 1]]''' Now, therefore, I will try to explain the process of devotional service. <br /> <br /> '''[[NBS 2|Sūtra 2]]''' Devotional service manifests as the most elevated, pure love for God.<br /> <br /> '''[[NBS 3|Sūtra 3]]''' This pure love for God is eternal. <br /> <br /> '''[[NBS 4|Sūtra 4]]''' Upon achieving that stage of transcendental devotional service in pure love of God, a person becomes perfect, immortal, and peaceful. <br /> <br /> '''[[NBS 5|Sūtra 5]]''' A person engaged in such pure devotional service neither desires anything for sense gratification, nor laments for any loss, nor hates anything, nor enjoys anything on his personal account, nor becomes very enthusiastic in material activity. <br /> <br /> '''[[NBS 6|Sūtra 6]]''' One who understands perfectly the process of devotional service in love of Godhead becomes intoxicated in its discharge. Sometimes he becomes stunned in ecstasy and thus enjoys his whole self, being engaged in the service of the Supreme Self. <br /> <br /> '''[[NBS 7|Sūtra 7]]''' There is no question of lust in the execution of pure devotional service, because in it all material activities are renounced.<br /> <br /> '''[[NBS 8|Sūtra 8]]''' Such renunciation in devotional service means to give up all kinds of social customs and religious rituals governed by Vedic injunction. <br /> <br /> =====(continued)=====<br /> <br /> ('''Translations and purports # 9 - 84''', completed by the disciples of His Divine Grace.)<br /> <br /> ''' - COMING SOON - '''<br /> <br /> '''[[NBS 9|Sūtra 9]]'''</div>

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