Giriraj Swami and Vaisesika Dasa continued reading and discussing Sri Caitanya-caritamrta.
“One thought about rapturous hearing. I have had the experience that when someone is talking to me in a room where many conversations are going on and somebody nearby is having a conversation that I really want or need to hear, and the person talking to me is saying something that is not so important and is going on and on, there is a way that my ear and brain can filter out not only what the person is saying directly to me, but also the kids running around the room and screaming and all the other conversations. My ear can pick up that one conversation. Why? Because I really want to hear it. It is a state of heart, a state of consciousness. Rapturousness means there is a hunger. When you are hungry, anything seems good. Even a simple meal. Like, ‘I am sorry it it so simple,’ and you are thinking, ‘Are you kidding? This is fantastic!’ So, in that verse Srila Prabhupada is talking about living in such a way that you have that hunger. And once you have that hunger, the circumstances don’t matter that much, you will be able to absorb it wherever you are—’rapturous.’ “—Vaisesika Dasa