All good qualities are present in one who has one-pointed devotion to the Supreme Lord Sri Krsna. A person who is averse to Sri Krsna, who has no devotion, has no good qualities. He is running after worldly things so how can he have any good qualities? From where can he get these good qualities? Qualities come from God. If you have one-pointed devotion to Sri Krsna, all the good qualities will come to you. We think that we have become civilised in this world. How is this civilised? The so-called civilisation of this world is a mere hypocrisy. If one acts in a hypocritical manner, exhibiting grand external behaviour, then, in the Kali-yuga, that is considered to be civilised. What is this civilisation of Kali-yuga? We have something inside. Our behaviour shows one thing but in the heart dwells something else. Outwardly, we shake a person's hand, but inwardly we want to kill that person. You will find this sort of "civilisation" in Kali-yuga. You will get actual civilisation only from a suddha bhakta--a Vaisnava--who is consistent in his words and heart. Those who are "avaisnava" (not Vaisnava) behave hypocritically, with deceitfulness, displaying mere etiquette. They have no sincerity.

Take, for example, a small boy. He is very beautiful. As he plays here and there, he smears his body with dust and mud. But still, that boy is giving happiness to his parents. If he is decorated with beautiful clothes, then he becomes even more beautiful to them. But if the life leaves that body, and that dead body is decorated with all the most beautiful garments and ornaments, will that dead body give any happiness to the parents or any other person? All will be afraid at the sight of the dead body. When we do not have one-pointed devotion to Sri Krsna, there is no life in our existence. It is like a lifeless, dead body. You cannot get satisfaction for yourself by decorating your dead body, and you cannot give satisfaction to others. You are lifeless.

When you have one-pointed devotion to Sri Krsna, then actual qualities with intrinsic value will appear. Now, without devotion to the Supreme Lord, whatever qualities you may exhibit have no actual intrinsic value. It is an outward show only. It is not coming from within.