Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Antya 4.222
Devotional Books Teach Loving Service
“Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī also compiled many other books. Who can enumerate them? The basic principle of all these books is to show us how to love Madana-mohana and Govindajī.”
What the purport teaches
- Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī compiled many books. Their basic principle is to show us how to love Madana-mohana and Govindajī.
- The Bhakti-ratnākara lists Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta, Hari-bhakti-vilāsa with Dig-darśinī, Līlā-stava, and Vaiṣṇava-toṣaṇī among his works.
- All his books aim to describe how to serve the principal Deities of Vṛndāvana, Govinda and Madana-gopāla. As other Deities were gradually established, Vṛndāvana’s importance increased.
Try this today
Before studying today, write this intention: “May this study help me learn how to love and serve.”
Ask yourself
How can I keep loving service, rather than simply collecting information, at the center of my 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.