Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Madhya 6.261
Pure Devotion and Faithfulness to Scripture
“The Bhaṭṭācārya recited, “ ‘One who seeks Your compassion and thus tolerates all kinds of adverse conditions due to the karma of his past deeds, who engages always in Your devotional service with his mind, words and body, and who always offers obeisances unto You is certainly a bona fide candidate for becoming Your unalloyed devotee.’””
What the purport teaches
- One who seeks the Lord’s compassion tolerates adverse conditions due to past karma. Serving with mind, words and body, and always offering obeisances, makes one a bona fide candidate for becoming an unalloyed devotee.
- Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya changed mukti-pade to bhakti-pade because he had developed pure devotional service. He disliked the reference to the impersonal Brahman feature and preferred the word for transcendental service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- Even though he changed the word in devotional ecstasy, he was not authorized to change Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu did not approve.
Try this today
When one difficulty arises today, pause to offer obeisances and seek the Lord’s compassion.
Ask yourself
How can you seek the Lord’s compassion while continuing to serve during difficulty?
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.