Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Madhya 22.62
Firm Faith in Service Fulfilling All Responsibilities
“Śraddhā is confident, firm faith that by rendering transcendental loving service to Kṛṣṇa one automatically performs all subsidiary activities. Such faith is favorable to the discharge of devotional service.
What the purport teaches
- Śraddhā means firm faith and confidence that loving service to Kṛṣṇa automatically fulfills all subsidiary activities. Such faith favors devotional service.
- One engaged in the Lord’s devotional service has satisfied the forefathers, ordinary living entities, and demigods. These responsibilities do not need to be met separately.
- Fruitive activity is meant to satisfy the conditioned soul’s senses, and its best achievement is detachment from material life. A devotee firmly engaged in the Lord’s service enjoys this detachment spontaneously.
Try this today
Before one act of devotional service today, recall the meaning of śraddhā: firm faith and confidence in loving service to Kṛṣṇa.
Ask yourself
How firmly do I trust that loving service to Kṛṣṇa fulfills subsidiary responsibilities?
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.