By Dulal Chandra Dasa
This seventh verse from the 2nd cloudbank of Sri Visvanatha Cakravarti's Madhurya Kadambini delineates two kinds of devotional service, the unsteady practice [anistha] of one just beginning and the steady practice [nistha] of one who has attained eligibility to easily tread the path of sadhana bhakti by prolonged and steadfast practice.