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Chapter 14 – Devotional Qualifications

It is similar in some respects to Chapter Five, which is called the "Purity of Devotional
Service," because it explains how bhakti is independent of other processes.

Actually at the end of Chapter 13, in the second to last paragraph, Srila Prabhupada
begins covering the discussion by Rupa Gosvami. Rupa Gosvami has just completed a
description of 64 items, or angas of devotional service and now he's going to raise
some items which some people might consider to be angas of bhakti and then he
explains why they cannot be accepted as angas of bhakti.

The first one is varnasrama, and this is discussed in the last 2 paragraphs of Chapter
13. They are not really angas of bhakti, like the 64 items, but it is a valuable auxiliary
thing.
The next two are found at the beginning of Chapter 14 – knowledge and renunciation.
But they are also not exactly angas of bhakti, although they are helpful in the
beginning.

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