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to be composed by Ramananda Roy himself. The purport of the verse is: “So long as there is hunger within the belly and one has a feeling for eating and drinking—so long, by taking anything eatable, one becomes happy. Similarly, there may be much paraphernalia for worshipping the Supreme Lord, but when that is mixed with pure love of Godhead, it becomes an actual source of transcendental happiness.” There is another verse in that connection composed by Ramananda Roy, in which it is stated that even after millions and millions of births one cannot achieve a sense of devotional service. But if, somehow or other, one becomes desirous of achieving the stage of devotional service, the association of a pure devotee will help such a strong desire for serving the Lord to become prominent. One should try to have such a strong desire to become engaged in devotional service, if it is available from any source. In these two verses, Ramananda Roy has described first the regulative principles, and, second, the developed love of Godhead. Lord Chaitanya wanted to bring him up to this stage of developed love of Godhead, and to speak from that basis. Therefore, the discussion between Ramananda Roy and Lord Chaitanya will now proceed on the basis of love of Godhead:
If love of Godhead becomes elevated to personal affinity, that is called  Prema Bhakti . In the beginning of  Prema Bhakti  there is no establishment of a particular relationship between the Supreme Lord and the devotee, but when this stage of  Prema Bhakti  develops further, there is manifested, in different transcendental flavors, a relationship with the Supreme Lord. The first stage is called servitude—to accept the Supreme Lord as the Master, and the devotee as the eternal servitor. When Lord Chaitanya accepted this process, Ramananda Roy described the relationship of the servitor and the Master. As cited in the  Srimad Bhagwatam , Ninth Canto, Fifth Chapter, Durbasamuni was a great mystic Yogi and considered himself to be very elevated. Yet he envied Maharaj Amburish, who was known as the greatest devotee of the time. Durbasamani wanted to harass Maharaj Amburish, and as a result he met with great catastrophe, and Durbasamani was defeated by the Sudarsan Chakra of the Lord. The Yogi admitted his fault and said, “For pure devotees who are always engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, nothing is considered impossible to obtain, because they’re engaged in the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, hearing Whose very Name is sufficient for liberation.”
Yamunacharya has composed various verses in his book,  Strotraratna . In this  Strotraratna , Yamunacharya writes a nice verse, the purport of which is as follows: “My Lord, persons who are keeping themselves independent of Your service are helpless. They’re working on their own account, and they have no