Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Madhya 25.38
The Lord Manifests His Form for Worship
“ ‘O most auspicious one! For our benefit, You enable our worship of You by manifesting Your transcendental form, which You show to us in our meditation. We offer our respectful obeisances unto You, the Supreme Person, and we worship You, whom impersonalists do not accept due to their poor fund of knowledge. Thus they are liable to descend into a hellish condition.’
What the purport teaches
- For our benefit, the Lord manifests His transcendental form and shows it in meditation. In this way, He enables us to worship Him.
- The prayer offers respectful obeisances and worship to the Lord as the Supreme Person.
- Impersonalists do not accept Him because of their poor fund of knowledge. The verse warns that they are therefore liable to descend into a hellish condition.
Try this today
Offer one respectful prayer of gratitude to the Supreme Person for enabling worship of Him.
Ask yourself
How does the Lord’s willingness to reveal His form inspire gratitude in me?
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.