Daily Reading: Caitanya Caritamrita page-28

CC Ādi 1.58

jīve sākṣāt nāhi tāte guru caittya-rūpe
śikṣā-guru haya kṛṣṇa-mahānta-svarūpe

Synonyms: 

jīve — by the living entity; sākṣāt — direct experience; nāhi — there is not; tāte — therefore; guru — the spiritual master; caittya-rūpe — in the form of the Supersoul; śikṣā-guru — the spiritual master who instructs; haya — appears; kṛṣṇa — Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; mahānta — the topmost devotee; sva-rūpe — in the form of.

Translation: 

Since one cannot visually experience the presence of the Supersoul, He appears before us as a liberated devotee. Such a spiritual master is none other than Kṛṣṇa Himself.

Purport: 

It is not possible for a conditioned soul to directly meet Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but if one becomes a sincere devotee and seriously engages in devotional service, Lord Kṛṣṇa sends an instructing spiritual master to show him favor and invoke his dormant propensity for serving the Supreme. The preceptor appears before the external senses of the fortunate conditioned soul, and at the same time the devotee is guided from within by the caittya-guru, Kṛṣṇa, who is seated as the spiritual master within the heart of the living entity.

CC Ādi 1.59

tato duḥsaṅgam utsṛjya
satsu sajjeta buddhi-mān
santa evāsya chindanti
mano-vyāsaṅgam uktibhiḥ

Synonyms: 

tataḥ — therefore; duḥsaṅgam — bad association; utsṛjya — giving up; satsu — with the devotees; sajjeta — one should associate; buddhi-mān — an intelligent person; santaḥ — devotees; eva — certainly; asya — one’s; chindanti — cut off; manaḥ-vyāsaṅgam — opposing attachments; uktibhiḥ — by their instructions.

Translation: 

“One should therefore avoid bad company and associate only with devotees. With their realized instructions, such saints can cut the knot connecting one with activities unfavorable to devotional service.”

Purport: 

This verse, which appears in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (11.26.26), was spoken by Lord Kṛṣṇa to Uddhava in the text known as the Uddhava-gīta. The discussion relates to the story of Purūravā and the heavenly courtesan Urvaśī. When Urvaśī left Purūravā, he was deeply affected by the separation and had to learn to overcome his grief.

It is indicated that to learn the transcendental science, it is imperative that one avoid the company of undesirable persons and always seek the company of saints and sages who are able to impart lessons of transcendental knowledge. The potent words of such realized souls penetrate the heart, thereby eradicating all misgivings accumulated through years of undesirable association. For a neophyte devotee there are two kinds of persons whose association is undesirable: (1) gross materialists who constantly engage in sense gratification and (2) unbelievers who do not serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead but serve their senses and their mental whims in terms of their speculative habits. Intelligent persons seeking transcendental realization should very scrupulously avoid their company.