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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 16.138
তাতে জানি, — কোন তপস্যার আছে বল ।
অযোগ্যেরে দেওয়ায় কৃষ্ণাধরামৃত-ফল ॥ ১৩৮ ॥
tāte jāni, — kona tapasyāra āche bala
ayogyere deoyāya kṛṣṇādharāmṛta-phala
“It is therefore to be understood that such an unfit person must have obtained the nectar of Kṛṣṇa’s lips on the strength of some austerity.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The speaker considers how someone described as unfit could obtain the nectar of Kṛṣṇa’s lips.
The conclusion is that this person must have performed some austerity.
The nectar is understood to have been obtained on the strength of that austerity.
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
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