Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Antya 1.202
Empowered Scholarship Serves Pure Devotion
“I empowered both of these brothers to go to Vṛndāvana to expand the literature of bhakti.”
What the purport teaches
- Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu empowered both brothers to go to Vṛndāvana and expand the literature of bhakti, or devotional service.
- An unalloyed devotee serves without material contamination, with tolerance like a tree and humility greater than the grass. Free from material bondage, such a devotee remains engaged in Kṛṣṇa conscious activities without hypocrisy.
- Sanātana Gosvāmī combined humility, renunciation, and learned scholarship as an ideal pure devotee. Like Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya, he understood the conclusions of devotional service and could describe that transcendental knowledge.
Try this today
Set aside one small sense-gratifying activity today and use that time to study devotional literature with humility.
Ask yourself
How can you use what you learn for devotional service without seeking personal gratification?
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.