Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Madhya 19.162
Taste the Ripened Fruit of Devotion
“When the fruit of devotional service becomes ripe and falls down, the gardener tastes the fruit and thus takes advantage of the creeper and reaches the desire tree of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa in Goloka Vṛndāvana.
What the purport teaches
- The fruit of devotional service ripens and falls down.
- The gardener tastes this fruit and thus takes advantage of the devotional creeper.
- The gardener reaches the desire tree of Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet in Goloka Vṛndāvana.
Try this today
Before one act of devotional service today, pause to remember its goal: shelter at Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet.
Ask yourself
Do I see reaching Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet as the goal of my devotional 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.