Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Antya 5.26
Spiritual Service Requires Spiritual Understanding
“Every day he trained the two deva-dāsīs how to dance. Who among the small living entities, their minds always absorbed in material sense gratification, could understand the mentality of Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya?”
What the purport teaches
- Rāmānanda Rāya trained the two deva-dāsīs to dance every day.
- His service to the gopīs for Kṛṣṇa's satisfaction is purely an affair of the spiritual world.
- For minds absorbed in material sense gratification, his mentality is difficult to understand. Unless one is fully situated in the spiritual atmosphere, his activities remain most difficult to understand.
Try this today
Reread the purport today and pause before judging Rāmānanda Rāya's service by ordinary material standards.
Ask yourself
How does this verse invite me to be humble about the limits of my understanding?
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.