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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 16.94
‘এই দ্রব্যে এত স্বাদ কাঁহা হৈতে আইল ? কৃষ্ণের অধরামৃত ইথে সঞ্চারিল ।।’ ৯৪ ।। ॥ ৯৪ ॥
‘ei dravye eta svāda kāhāṅ haite āila?
kṛṣṇera adharāmṛta ithe sañcārila’
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu considered, “Where has such a taste in this prasādam come from? Certainly it is due to its having been touched by the nectar of Kṛṣṇa’s lips.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu considered where the extraordinary taste of the prasādam had come from.
He concluded that it had certainly been touched by the nectar of Kṛṣṇa’s lips.
He understood its wonderful taste through its connection with Kṛṣṇa.
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 might remembering its connection with Kṛṣṇa change the way you receive prasādam?
Before tasting prasādam today, recall Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s words about the nectar of Kṛṣṇa’s lips.
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