Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Antya 5.38
An Extraordinary Situation
“The two professional dancing girls are beautiful and youthful, yet Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya personally massages their entire bodies with oil.
What the purport teaches
- The two professional dancing girls are described as beautiful and youthful.
- Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya personally massages their entire bodies with oil.
- The surrounding explanation emphasizes that his mind nevertheless remains unchanged. The Lord presents this as uncommon, not ordinary.
Try this today
Read this verse together with the following description of Rāmānanda Rāya’s unchanged mind.
Ask yourself
Am I keeping the Lord’s description of Rāmānanda Rāya’s uncommon steadiness in view as I read?
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.