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  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 23: Life’s Ultimate Goal — Love of Godhead
Madhya 23.48Madhya 23.50

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 23.49

দধি যেন খণ্ড-মরিচ-কর্পূর-মিলনে ।

‘রসালাখ্য’ রস হয় অপূর্বাস্বাদনে ॥ ৪৯ ॥

dadhi yena khaṇḍa-marica-karpūra-milane

‘rasālākhya’ rasa haya apūrvāsvādane

Translation

“Yogurt mixed with sugar candy, black pepper and camphor is very palatable and tasty. Similarly, when permanent ecstasy mixes with other ecstatic symptoms, it becomes unprecedentedly tasty.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

A Tasty Mixture Illustrates Ecstatic Sweetness

  1. 1

    Yogurt mixed with sugar candy, black pepper and camphor is described as very palatable and tasty.

  2. 2

    Similarly, permanent ecstasy mixes with other ecstatic symptoms.

  3. 3

    Through this mixture, permanent ecstasy becomes unprecedentedly tasty.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Madhya 23: Life’s Ultimate Goal — Love of Godhead

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

There are a number of descriptions in this connection. There is also a description of the sixty-four transcendental qualities of Kṛṣṇa and the twenty-five transcendental qualities of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. dadhiyogurt
  2. yenaas if
  3. khaṇḍasugar candy
  4. maricablack pepper
  5. karpūracamphor
  6. milanebeing mixed
  7. rasāla-ākhyaknown as delicious
  8. rasamellow
  9. hayabecomes
  10. apūrva-āsvādaneby an unprecedented taste
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does the yogurt comparison make the teaching about permanent ecstasy easier to understand?

Practice

Write the two sides of the comparison: yogurt mixed with its ingredients, and permanent ecstasy mixed with other ecstatic symptoms.

Live this todayA Tasty Mixture Illustrates Ecstatic SweetnessThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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