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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 16.111
আস্বাদ দূরে রহু, যার গন্ধে মাতে মন ।
আপনা বিনা অন্য মাধুর্য করায় বিস্মরণ ॥ ১১১ ॥
āsvāda dūre rahu, yāra gandhe māte mana
āpanā vinā anya mādhurya karāya vismaraṇa
“Apart from the taste, even the fragrance pleases the mind and makes one forget any other sweetness besides its own.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu drew attention to the fragrance of prasādam, apart from its taste.
Even this fragrance pleases the mind.
Its sweetness is so absorbing that it makes one forget any other sweetness.
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:
He later became the greatest poet among the Vaiṣṇava ācāryas. 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.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.
What stands out to me about the Lord’s description of prasādam’s fragrance?
Before tasting prasādam today, pause briefly to appreciate its fragrance.
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