śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam arcanaṁ vandanaṁ dāsyaṁ sakhyam ātma-nivedanam

These nine are hearing, chanting, remembering Krsna, offering service to Krsna's lotus feet, offering worship in the temple, offering prayers, working as a servant, making friendship with Krsna and unreservedly surrendering to Krsna. These nine processes of devotional service can grant one Krsna and ecstatic love for Him. In the beginning one has to discharge devotional service according to regulative principles, but gradually, as devotional service becomes one's life and soul, one achieves the most exalted position of ecstatic love for Krsna. Ultimately, Krsna is the goal of life. One need not have taken birth in an aristocratic brahmana family to attain the lotus feet of Krsna, nor is a person born in a low family unfit to achieve Krsna's lotus feet. In Srimad-Bhagavatam (3.33.7) Devahuti says to Kapiladeva: