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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 16.135
পরম দুর্লভ এই কৃষ্ণাধরামৃত ।
তাহা যেই পায়, তার সফল জীবিত ॥ ১৩৫ ॥
parama durlabha ei kṛṣṇādharāmṛta
tāhā yei pāya, tāra saphala jīvita
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued, “This nectar from Kṛṣṇa’s lips is supremely difficult to obtain, but if one gets some, his life becomes successful.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued speaking about the nectar from Kṛṣṇa’s lips.
He described this nectar as supremely difficult to obtain.
Yet if someone obtains even some of it, that person’s life becomes successful.
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 does this verse invite you to reconsider what makes life successful?
Take a quiet moment today to reflect on the success Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu describes.
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