Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Madhya 9.289
Ecstatic Love and Genuine Spiritual Mastery
“Your Holiness is certainly related to Śrī Mādhavendra Purī, without whom there is no fragrance of ecstatic love.”
What the purport teaches
- After Śrīla Mādhavendra Purī, worship of both Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa was established. He is accepted as the root of worship in ecstatic love, whose symptoms cannot awaken without connection to his disciplic succession.
- The best of the paramahaṁsas is fully surrendered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead and has no business other than the Lord’s service. He seeks only to satisfy the Lord’s senses, not his own.
- The senses cannot be controlled unless one is engaged in the Lord’s service; the bona fide spiritual master serves the Lord twenty-four hours a day. Such a master may be called gosāñi or gosvāmī, but this title cannot be inherited.
Try this today
Set aside a few minutes today for the Lord’s service, consciously making His satisfaction your purpose.
Ask yourself
In what small way can I seek the Lord’s satisfaction rather than my own sense gratification?
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.