How do the nine forms of devotional service combined with the three modes lead to 81 categories of devotional service?

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How are there 81 categories of devotional service when the nine limbs and three molds answered? The three molds can also combine in multiple combinations. Like, within goodness, there can be goodness goodness, there can be goodness passion, there can be goodness ignorance. Just like in the Bhagavad Gita, the seventeenth chapter, Krishna says, and those in goodness worship the yodas. With us.

He said those in passion worship the, worship the those in English worship. They worship the ghosts and the hobgoblins and the worship by those in passion. Now we also know that there are three broad categories of Puranas, and they recommend the worship of various devotas, and they are for people in various modes. So those in Satva worship Krishna, those in Rajas worship Brahma, and those in Tamas worship Shiva. Rather, now, how can that statement be reconciled with the statement that those in Satva worship the devtas?

The idea is that there is a basic foundation of Satva required for worshiping the devtas, And within that foundation of Sattva, there can be various grades. Very fact that some higher authority is being accepted, and and related to the virtues higher authority, not a dark higher authority as is accepted when somebody was in the ghost or Raksha source. So the fact that, virtue’s higher authority is accepted means there’s goodness. But within that basic principle of our foundation of goodness, there are grades, and those grades are based on what kind of virtues authority is accepted. Is that Vishnu?

Is it Rama? Is it Shiva? So you could say that those who are in goodness, goodness, they worship Vishnu. Those who are in passion, goodness. That means that the foundation of goodness is there, but there’s passion, they worship.

Brahma, those are an ignorance goodness, they worship Shiva. So the same principle applies elsewhere also where it is said that the for example, the cows cows and horses, the verse in 11 canto, which says that those who go to a holy place simply for bathing, and they are as ignorant as donkeys or cows. Now cow is considered noble animal. Why is it compared to an ignorant animal? Because at one level, all animals are in ignorance.

So there’s ignorance as a foundation. But within all the animal that are in ignorance, there are some which are in deep ignorance. There are some generally in goodness. So cows are in goodness. So tigers and lions are in passion.

And say some animals like monkeys or monkeys may be in ignorance, but they are all in ignorance because they they are certain ignorance at a basic level because it’s the nature of the animal body. So we can say that, similar devotional service can also get multiplied at the three modes. But when you consider three modes, they can combine multiple ways. Each of the modes can be combined. Their modes, so you can have.

Bakti in goodness goodness, Bakti in passion goodness, Bakti in ignorance goodness. That means the person basic basic there is a basic level of goodness, but in some of their devotional habits or their devotional conceptions, that person may be in passion or ignorance. Person may be, for example, living a lifestyle of goodness, but they may be very narrow minded. And that narrow mindedness, where they think their path even their not just their path, but their path is the only way, but even their interpretation of how their path is to follow. That is the only way.

There’s ignorance. So there could be ignorance goodness also. So like that, could be practicing goodness goodness, passion goodness, ignorance goodness. And that way, nine into three and to three will be just 81. Thank you.