Being a Most Loved Devotee

Appraising Your Spiritual/Devotional Progress:

(a) On a sheet of paper rate yourself 1-9 (see scale) at each of the

34 items below, based on the extent you are that in your everyday life.

1--------2--------3--------4--------5--------6--------7--------8--------9

Never Seldom Sometimes Frequently Always

(b) Mark the 5 items most vital to you now, and rank order their

importance.

(c) Mark ** any “Impossibles” (seemingly unattainable) for

revisiting.

(d) Consider this list to be your spiritual life assignment. Make

continual progress. Date this sheet and return to it often.

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In the Bhagavad Gita Krishna teaches:

“Here are the marks of the people that I, the Godhead, most dearly love. I love the ones who…

___ 1) Harbor no ill will

___ 2) Return Love for hate

___ 3) Are friendly and compassionate

___ 4) Are beyond ‘I’ and ‘mine’

___ 5) Are unperturbed by pain or pleasure

___ 6) Possess firm faith (Sraddha)

___ 7) Are forgiving

___ 8) Are ever contented

___ 9) Are ever meditating on me

___10) Are always peaceful

___11) Are neither an agitator in, nor agitated by the world

___12) Are free of fear

___13) Accept the knocks of life as blessings in disguise

___14) Do their worldly duties unconcerned, untroubled by life

___15) Expect absolutely nothing

___16) Are pure internally and externally

___17) Are ready to be My instruments

___18) Are ready to meet any demands I make on them

___19) Ask nothing of Me

___20) Do not rejoice or feel revulsion

___21) Do not grieve

___22) Do not yearn for possessions

___23) Are unaffected by bad or good

___24) Are full of devotion to Me

___25) Live in the Self, not in worldly commotion

___26) Hold the same attitudes toward friend or foe

___27) Are indifferent to honor or ignominy

___28) Are the same toward heat or cold

___29) Are the same toward praise or criticism

___30) Control their talking and are silent within

___31) Are generally content with life

___32) Are unattached to worldly things

___33) Are unattached even to home

___34) Have as their sole concern in life: to love Me.

Surrender your mind and heart completely to Me and I will love you most dearly—and you will go beyond death to immortality.”

– Krishna

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