Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Madhya 23.16
Hearing Among Devotees Opens Spiritual Experience
“ ‘The spiritually powerful message of Godhead can be properly discussed only in a society of devotees, and it is greatly pleasing to hear in that association. If one hears from devotees, the way of transcendental experience quickly opens, and gradually one attains firm faith that in due course develops into attraction and devotion.’
What the purport teaches
- The spiritually powerful message of Godhead can be properly discussed only in a society of devotees.
- Hearing this message in the association of devotees is greatly pleasing. Hearing from devotees quickly opens the way of transcendental experience.
- Through such hearing, firm faith gradually develops into attraction and devotion.
Try this today
Listen today to a devotee discussing the message of Godhead.
Ask yourself
How does hearing from devotees affect your faith and attraction to devotional life?
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.