Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Ādi 10.51
Care for Both Body and Spirit
“As Murāri Gupta treated his patients, by his mercy both their bodily and spiritual diseases subsided.”
What the purport teaches
- Murāri Gupta treated bodily disease as a physician and spiritual disease as a great devotee. The purport presents this as an example of service to humanity.
- The living entity is eternal, but contact with material energy subjects him to repeated birth, death, old age and disease. The purport identifies this spiritual condition as the main disease.
- The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement offers chanting the holy name, or the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, as medicine and prasādam as the proper diet. Its centers serve as hospitals for this spiritual disease.
Try this today
Set aside a few minutes today to chant the holy name as spiritual medicine.
Ask yourself
Am I giving attention to my spiritual condition as well as my bodily needs?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
The study points are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport; the practice and question are plain words for trying the verse today.