Is it possible to recognize a devotee simply by examining his external activities, education, or degree of wealth?
Prabhupada Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati ThakurGranth upadeshamrit
Materialists are fond of sense gratification, dry renunciants are detached from material enjoyment, recognizing it as the source of misery. Both materialists and dry renunciants are full of material desires and therefore nondevotees. That is why they cannot understand the service attitude and spontaneous renunciation of _bhaktas_. If one tries to recognize a devotee by his external appearance his high birth, opulence, education, beauty, or other material prosperity, or by...
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