Pure devotional service, though rarely achieved, alone brings transcendental relief and returns the soul to Godhead.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
The Nectar of Devotion — November 3, 1972, Vṛndāvana 721103ND-VRNDAVAN [35:40 Minutes] NOD_721103ND-VRNDAVAN Pradyumna: [reading] "4) Pure devotional service is rarely achieved. 5) Those in pure devotional service..." Prabhupāda: Page number? Page number? Pradyumna: Page 2. "Those in pure devotional service deride even the conception of liberation.
[microphone feedback] 6) Pure devotional service is the only means to attract Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is all-attractive, but pure devotional service attracts even Him. This means that pure devotional service is even transcendentally stronger than Kṛṣṇa Himself, because it is Kṛṣṇa's internal potency." Prabhupāda: Hmm. So six advantages.
These are the immediate result of taking to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Pure devotional service brings immediate relief from all kinds of material distress. There is a song of Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura: mānasa deha geha yo kichu mora, arpilūn tuyā pade nanda-kiśora [Śaraṇāgati]. The purport of this song is when we surrender to Kṛṣṇa, prāṇair arthair dhiyā vācā [SB 10.22.35], then we get relief from all kinds of anxieties.
This is very simple to understand. Everyone is, in the material world, here, everyone is full of anxiety. That is the nature of material existence. One after another, problems.
So if somebody says, assures, that "You just depend on me. I take charge of all your problems," how much relief you will feel, just imagine. So a ordinary man, if some ordinary human being says a friend that "Don't worry. I shall take charge of your all affairs.
Don't worry," so we may doubt an ordinary man, because we know the capacity of an ordinary man. But when Kṛṣṇa says that "I take charge of you," then how much relief you should feel. Kṛṣṇa is not ordinary man. Kṛṣṇa is all-powerful, the Supreme Personalty of Godhead. He's Yogeśvara.
He's the Absolute Truth. So when He assures that "I take charge of you...," ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi [Bg. 18.66], gives assurance that "I shall get you liberated, delivered, from the reaction of all sinful activities..." We suffer due to our sinful activities. That is the general meaning of suffering. For pious activities we enjoy.