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Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Madhya 14.30

Sweets With Flowers, Pepper and Sugar

“There were also the sweets known as hari-vallabha and sweets made of seṅoti flowers, karpūra flowers and mālatī flowers. There were pomegranates, sweets made with black pepper, sweets made with fused sugar, and amṛti-jilipi.”

Śrīla Prabhupāda · Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya 14.30, translation

What the purport teaches

  • There were sweets known as hari-vallabha.
  • Other sweets were made of seṅoti flowers, karpūra flowers and mālatī flowers.
  • There were also pomegranates, sweets made with black pepper, sweets made with fused sugar, and amṛti-jilipi.

Try this today

Choose one unfamiliar sweet or ingredient and copy its name exactly as it appears in the verse.

Ask yourself

Which ingredient in this list most draws your attention?

Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.

The study points are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport; the practice and question are plain words for trying the verse today.

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