751115mw.bom Conversations
Prabhupada: Yes. (break) …fast, these birds. Airplane cannot do
that.
Lokanatha: How do they decide the direction and they turn all
together?
Prabhupada: Huh?
Lokanatha: How they turn all together and how do they communicate each
other that "Yes, let’s move out away"?
Prabhupada: Yes, they have got intelligence. You are thinking that
they have no intelligence. They have got complete intelligence.
Lokanatha: They have, but how do they all together decide to either
turn right or left or…
Prabhupada: That is intelligence. You do not know that. If you are
given airplane, so many, you’ll, immediately at least half a dozen
will be finished. (laughter) That means you are less intelligent than
the birds, at least in the matter of flying.

Various Grades of Bhakti Nāradīya Purāṇa 1.15.38-51

viṣṇau samarpitaṁ sarvaṁ sāttvikaṁ saphalaṁ bhavet
hari-bhakti parā nṝṇāṁ sarva-pāpa-praṇāśinī

[Lord Vishnu, incarnated as Dharma, religiosity
personified, said to the
sagacious king Bhagirath:]
Everything dedicated to Lord Vishnu attains success
and goodness. It is transcendental devotion to Lord
Hari that is the destroyer of all sins of human beings.

sā bhaktir daśadhā jñeyā pāpāraṇya-davopamā
tāmasai rājasaiś caiva sāttvikaiś ca nṛpottama

O best among kings! That devotional service which
is like a great fire for a forest of sins is understood
to be divided into ten types according to [the broad
categories of] tāmasī-bhakti, devotion in the mode of
ignorance, rājasī-bhakti, devotion in the mode of passion,
and sāttvikī-bhakti, devotion in the mode of goodness.

[Translator’s Note: These ten categories are as follows: