Advanced in devotional service? That’s a tricky question. The pat and often heard answer is something like this, “I’m lower than a worm in stool and if someone hears my name he will go to hell...” and so on and so forth - that is a very popular line promoted by kanisthas for kanisthas. That answer is a cheap imitation of great souls like Krsnadas Kaviraj Gosvami who wrote it in Caitanya Caritamrita. So, let's consider the circumstances under which it was written.

Krsnadas Kaviraj is an eternal associate of the Lord and he expressed those feelings, writing under the personal auspices and request of the Gosvamis in Vrndavana, having been sent there by the direct order of Lord Nityananda in a dream who told him, “O My dear Krsnadas, do not be afraid, go to Vrndavana for there you will attain all things.”

And off he went the very next morning, an old man on foot all the way from Bengal to Vrindavana -- but his heart brimming over with love of Krsna. Because that love is so overwhelming, so unimaginable, and because Krsna’s sweet beauty moves like huge waves in an ocean knocking one repeatedly head over heels, experiencing such great fortune one perforce feels totally undeserving and small.

Thus, speaking of humility, that’s the real deal. It is unthinkable and offensive to pretend to be on that level. And anyone who does so is a cheater, a rascal. Avoid his association like a plague.