Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Antya 16.61
Service Leads to Ecstatic Love for Kṛṣṇa
“By rendering service to these three, one attains the supreme goal of ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa. In all the revealed scriptures this is loudly declared again and again.”
What the purport teaches
- Rendering service to these three substances leads to the supreme goal: ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa.
- These three are a devotee’s foot dust, the water that has washed a devotee’s feet, and a devotee’s food remnants.
- The verse says that all revealed scriptures loudly declare this teaching again and again.
Try this today
Before an opportunity to honor a devotee’s food remnants today, pause to remember the goal of love for Kṛṣṇa.
Ask yourself
How would keeping ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa as your goal shape your attitude toward this service?
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.