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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 16.102
মধ্যাহ্ন করিয়া কৈলা ভিক্ষা নির্বাহণ ।
কৃষ্ণাধরামৃত সদা অন্তরে স্মরণ ॥ ১০২ ॥
madhyāhna kariyā kailā bhikṣā nirvāhaṇa
kṛṣṇādharāmṛta sadā antare smaraṇa
After finishing His noon duties, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu ate His lunch, but He constantly remembered the remnants of Kṛṣṇa’s food.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu completed His noon duties before eating lunch.
He constantly remembered the remnants of Kṛṣṇa’s food.
His remembrance continued while He attended to His duties and meal.
Sweetness amidst longing. Jagannātha’s prasādam awakens intense awareness of Kṛṣṇa’s sweetness.
The mood of Antya 16 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu ate the remnants of food known as vallabha-bhoga, He described the glories of such remnants of the Lord’s food and then fed all the devotees the prasādam. Thus they all tasted adharāmṛta, the nectar from the lips of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 16
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How could a daily meal become a moment to remember Kṛṣṇa’s food remnants?
Before one meal today, pause briefly to recall Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s constant remembrance of Kṛṣṇa’s remnants.
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