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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 23.43
বীজ, ইক্ষু, রস, গুড় তবে খণ্ডসার ।
শর্করা, সিতা-মিছরি, শুদ্ধমিছরি আর ॥ ৪৩ ॥
bīja, ikṣu, rasa, guḍa tabe khaṇḍa-sāra
śarkarā, sitā-michari, śuddha-michari āra
“This development is compared to sugarcane seeds, sugarcane plants, sugarcane juice, molasses, crude sugar, refined sugar, sugar candy and rock candy.
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This development is compared to a sequence beginning with sugarcane seeds and sugarcane plants.
The comparison continues through sugarcane juice, molasses and crude sugar.
The final stages named are refined sugar, sugar candy and rock candy.
Theological emotional crescendo. Bhāva, prema, the devotional rasas, and mahābhāva are systematically expounded.
The mood of Madhya 23 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:
Svakīya refers to loving affairs between husband and wife, and parakīya refers to loving affairs between two lovers. There are a number of descriptions in this connection.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 23
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does this sequence help you notice about gradual development?
Write the stages from sugarcane seeds to rock candy in order, and reflect briefly on the gradual development they illustrate.
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