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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Antya-līlā · Chapter 16: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Tastes Nectar from the Lips of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa
Antya 16.107Antya 16.110

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Texts Antya 16.108-109

প্রভু কহে, — “এই সব হয় ‘প্রাকৃত’ দ্রব্য ।

ঐক্ষব, কর্পূর, মরিচ, এলাইচ, লবঙ্গ, গব্য ॥ ১০৮ ॥

prabhu kahe, — “ei saba haya ‘prākṛta’ dravya

aikṣava, karpūra, marica, elāica, lavaṅga, gavya

Translation

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “These ingredients, such as sugar, camphor, black pepper, cardamom, cloves, butter, spices and licorice, are all material. Everyone has tasted these material substances before.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Ordinary Ingredients and Material Enjoyment

  1. 1

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu described ingredients such as sugar, camphor, black pepper and cardamom as material substances already familiar to everyone.

  2. 2

    The word prākṛta refers to things tasted for the sense gratification of the conditioned soul. Such things are limited by material laws.

  3. 3

    The Lord’s point was that materially absorbed persons interested only in sense gratification had already experienced these material things.

Key points from the purport
  • The word prākṛta refers to things tasted for the sense gratification of the conditioned soul.
  • Such things are limited by the material laws.
  • Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted to make the point that material things have already been experienced by materially absorbed persons who are interested only in sense gratification.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Antya 16: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Tastes Nectar from the Lips of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa

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
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. prabhu kaheŚrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said
  2. eithese
  3. sabaall
  4. hayaare
  5. prākṛtamaterial
  6. dravyaingredients
  7. aikṣavasugar
  8. karpūracamphor
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Audārya · Love that moves outward

    The freely offered gift of bhakti and prema, especially through nāma-saṅkīrtana and Mahāprabhu’s compassionate dealings. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “to everyone”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

When tasting food, am I concerned only with satisfying my senses?

Practice

Take a moment today to reflect on what it means to taste something only for sense gratification.

Live this todayOrdinary Ingredients and Material EnjoymentThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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