1.What are the characteristics of a devotee who has transcended the material modes of nature? Ans: The characteristics of a devotee who has transcended the material modes of nature are described in BG 18.54; brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati na kāṅkṣati samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām He sees one very learned scholar, brāhmaṇa, and sees a cow, sees one elephant, sees one dog, sees one dog eater, the lowest of the human kind, but hes sama-darśinaḥ. He sees everyone of them as spirit soul, the body as Kṛṣṇas energy. Therefore he has no different vision for different persons. We can see as Srila Prabhupada states in one of his lecture; The Nectar of Devotion -- Bombay, January 1, 1973: These cowherd boys who are playing with Kṛṣṇa, they are not ordinary human being. They are very, very advanced in spiritual assets. Kṛta-puṇya-puñjāḥ. When they are... Just like you accumulate money. When you have got too much accumulation, ten crores of rupees, like that... When ones pious activities becomes accumulated in voluminous attitude, at that time, one is... That means when one is completely free from the material contamination, brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati na kāṅkṣati samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu (BG 18.54). When one has, one is actually learned, paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ. A devotee has no distinction between this living entity or that living entity.
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