Some say we are devotees, some that we are becoming devotees, others that we are not devotees. We call our friends devotees and they call us devotees. I even heard that according to sastra we are not devotees but pure devotees call us like that to help us.
your own perspective about yourself and your vision of others.
From where you stand it is better not to consider yourself a devotee in the sense of advanced devotee, better to consider yourself always an aspiring servant of the vaishnavas.
View all devotees (that is, anyone who believes Krishna is the summum bonum and the goal of life) as special. . Problem is that our vision is often exactly the opposite or we tend to mix the two perspectives in "one".
Another subject is we should discriminate in choosing our intimate association, but that does not exclude the above said.
