An analysis of the struggle of devotional live and some suggestions of how to overcome the three modes of material nature. Sri Krishna tells Uddhava that one must progress from lower modes to goodness and then to pure goodness. �Why Study The Modes Of Nature?,� �Which Comes First, Freedom from the Modes, or Pure Bhakti?,� �Bhakti Mixed with Modes of Nature,� �Symptoms of Pure Bhakti,� and �Exercises in Discriminating According to the Modes of Nature.�