Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Antya 4.80
Cultivating and Teaching Love of Kṛṣṇa
“You will also have to explain Kṛṣṇa’s devotional service, establish centers for cultivation of love of Kṛṣṇa, excavate lost places of pilgrimage and teach people how to adopt the renounced order.
What the purport teaches
- The Lord directs Sanātana Gosvāmī to explain Kṛṣṇa’s devotional service.
- Sanātana must establish centers for cultivating love of Kṛṣṇa. These centers have a specifically devotional purpose.
- He must also excavate lost places of pilgrimage and teach people how to adopt the renounced order. These are further tasks the Lord intends him to carry out.
Try this today
Write one sentence explaining that cultivating love of Kṛṣṇa is the purpose of the centers described here.
Ask yourself
How does the purpose of cultivating love of Kṛṣṇa shape your understanding of a devotional center?
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.