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The Lord Determines Fitness for Vedānta Study
“You are a sannyāsī. Why then do You indulge in chanting and dancing, engaging in Your saṅkīrtana movement in the company of fanatics?
What the purport teaches
- Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī challenged the Lord’s chanting and dancing. He questioned why a sannyāsī would participate in the saṅkīrtana movement.
- The purport identifies Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as the object of Vedānta philosophical research.
- Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu kindly determined who is qualified to study Vedānta philosophy. The supplied passage points to His Śikṣāṣṭaka for the first qualification, but does not yet state it.
Try this today
Spend a brief moment chanting today, remembering the Lord’s own participation in saṅkīrtana.
Ask yourself
Am I willing to learn from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu what qualifies a person for spiritual study?
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.