Prabhupāda was answering about the position of an advanced devotee. He said, "A pure devotee doesn't mean omniscient like Kṛṣṇa," because one of the interlocutors had asked Prabhupāda, "What if we see that an advanced devotee or the spiritual master has to wear glasses or forgets a verse?" And Prabhupāda said, "Oh no, then they've not understood." And then he said, "Advanced means bhakti-saṁsanāt—that the person is fully absorbed in thinking about how to spread the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement all over the world, impactfully engaging in it." And he said, "That is the meaning."

We find the same context in the Śrī Upadeśāmṛta, when Prabhupāda is talking about different levels of devotees: 'kṛṣṇeti yasya giri taṁ manasādriyeta, dīkṣāsti cet praṇatibhiś ca bhajantam īśam, śuśrūṣayā bhajana-vijñam ananyam anya-nindādi-śūnya-hṛdam īpsita-saṅga-labdhyā' (NOI, verse 5). And in the purport, he describes kaniṣṭha, madhyama, and uttama devotees. And Śrīla Prabhupāda describes how the uttama-adhikārī is one who's always thinking of Kṛṣṇa, especially in the context of devising means to spread the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement all over the world—that is the absorption of the devotee. This is a unique, although perfectly śāstric explanation of an advanced devotee, and it is the flavor of our Śrī Guru paramparā, coming down through Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, and His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, who made this a focal point for the movement.

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