Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Madhya 6.267
Service Determines What a Devotee Accepts
“If there is a chance to serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead, a pure devotee sometimes accepts the sālokya, sārūpya, sāmīpya or sārṣṭi forms of liberation, but never sāyujya.
What the purport teaches
- A pure devotee sometimes accepts sālokya, sārūpya, sāmīpya or sārṣṭi liberation.
- Acceptance depends on having a chance to serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- A pure devotee never accepts sāyujya.
Try this today
Offer a brief prayer today asking for an opportunity to serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Ask yourself
How can the opportunity to serve become more important to you than what you might gain?
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.