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1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.

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Antya-līlā · Chapter 6: The Meeting of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī

Antya 6.303 Antya 6.305

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 6.304

“অষ্ট-কৌড়ির খাজা-সন্দেশ কর সমর্পণ ।

শ্রদ্ধা করি’ দিলে, সেই অমৃতের সম ।।” ৩০৪ ॥ ৩০৪ ॥

“aṣṭa-kauḍira khājā-sandeśa kara samarpaṇa

śraddhā kari’ dile, sei amṛtera sama”

Translation

“Offer the Govardhana stone eight kauḍis worth of the first-class sweetmeats known as khājā and sandeśa. If you offer them with faith and love, they will be just like nectar.”

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Offer with Faith and Love

1
Svarūpa Dāmodara instructed Raghunātha dāsa to offer the Govardhana stone eight kauḍis worth of sweetmeats.
2
He specified first-class khājā and sandeśa.
3
He said that when offered with faith and love, these sweetmeats would be just like nectar.

How it feels

Longing fulfilled. Raghunātha’s sustained desire for the Lord culminates in arrival, shelter, and renunciation.

The mood of Antya 6 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Antya 6: The Meeting of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Understanding that Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī was living by begging from the chatras, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu presented him with His own guñjā-mālā and a stone from Govardhana Hill. Thereafter, Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī used to eat rejected food that he had collected and washed.

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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

aṣṭa-kauḍiracosting eight kauḍis
khājā-sandeśakhājā and sandeśa sweetmeats
kara samarpaṇaoffer
śraddhā kari’with love and faith
dileif you offer
seithat
amṛtera samajust like nectar

Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love”
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “govardhana”
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “offered”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How can you give more attention to faith and love in what you offer?

Practice

Before making an offering today, pause briefly to bring your attention to offering it with faith and love.

Live this todayOffer with Faith and LoveThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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