Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Madhya 25.194
An Opportunity to Leave Material Life
“Taking the Nawab’s sprinkling water upon him as an opportunity, Subuddhi Rāya left his family and business affairs and went to Vārāṇasī.”
What the purport teaches
- Subuddhi Rāya was a respectable landholder who was already planning to give up material life. He took the incident of the sprinkled water as an opportunity to leave for Vārāṇasī.
- The purport calls the belief that this sprinkling made him a Muslim a social misconception. It describes his opportunity to renounce as the grace of Kṛṣṇa.
- The four divisions of life are brahmacarya, gṛhastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa. The purport presents varṇāśrama-dharma as a system that guides one toward retirement from family life and prescribes sannyāsa at fifty.
Try this today
Set aside five minutes today to reflect on how your spiritual priorities can guide your use of time.
Ask yourself
How might I make more room for spiritual life rather than remain absorbed in material affairs?
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.