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A Tasty Mixture Illustrates Ecstatic Sweetness
“Yogurt mixed with sugar candy, black pepper and camphor is very palatable and tasty. Similarly, when permanent ecstasy mixes with other ecstatic symptoms, it becomes unprecedentedly tasty.
What the purport teaches
- Yogurt mixed with sugar candy, black pepper and camphor is described as very palatable and tasty.
- Similarly, permanent ecstasy mixes with other ecstatic symptoms.
- Through this mixture, permanent ecstasy becomes unprecedentedly tasty.
Try this today
Write the two sides of the comparison: yogurt mixed with its ingredients, and permanent ecstasy mixed with other ecstatic symptoms.
Ask yourself
How does the yogurt comparison make the teaching about permanent ecstasy easier to understand?
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.