Is Śrī Candi Dāsa a pure devotee?

Because Śrī Candi Dāsa was a pure devotee, Sri Gaurangadeva used to hear his songs. Candi Dasa considered himself the Lord’s servant. A servant of the Lord thinks himself a follower of a devotee who is dear to Krsna. There were no abominable affairs between Candi Dāsa and Rāmi. Śrī Candi Dāsa was an exalted devotee. He had no desire for personal happiness. Not understanding his position, the materialists will go to hell because they have committed offenses at his lotus feet. The pure devotee Śrī Candi Dāsa is completely different from the Candi Dasa the great materialists have imagined. The materialists are completely unqualified to recognize a transcendental soul like Candi Dāsa.

A servant of the Lord who serves in the mādhura-rati in his transcendental body is not an ordinary human being interested simply in material enjoyment. There is a gulf of difference between a mundane female body and the spiritual body of the transcendental kingdom of devotional service. Candi Dasa taught this philosophy. If those who read Candi Dasa and Vidyapati engage in Krsna’s service, giving up material pride and the desire for proprietorship, then rather than thinking of Krsna as an object of their enjoyment they will understand that He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Then they will realize the actual purport of the songs written by Candi Dasa and Vidyāpati and will no longer be misled by mundane misconceptions, thinking that Vidyapati was Laksmi’s paramour and Candi Dasa the paramour of Rāmi.