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Old 12-21-2006, 03:30 AM   #1

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The distinction between a pure devotee and a karma-misra devotee is this: a
pure devotee does not desire anything for material enjoyment, whereas
a mixed devotee becomes a devotee to become a first-class enjoyer of this
material world.

(Srimad-Bhagavatam, 10.10.20-22 purport.)

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so does that include desiring world peace? i mean, it would make this material world a very much nicer place if it was peaceful, wouldn't it. i desire that there was no aids in africa... that children are not starving... that.... but they're all material desires, right?

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What you are essentially desiring is that this world should be Vaikuntha (a place of no suffering). That is the overall duty of the devotees, to some how try to get all the living entities to Vaikuntha so that they can be free from all suffering.

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if i was spiritually advanced enough to get to this vaikuntha place, wouldn't my knowledge about all the suffing in this world cause me to suffer? just a little bit?

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