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How to study this verse, in six steps
  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 4: Śrī Mādhavendra Purī’s Devotional Service
Madhya 4.69Madhya 4.71

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 4.70

বন্য শাক-ফল-মূলে বিবিধ ব্যঞ্জন ।

কেহ বড়া-বড়ি-কড়ি করে বিপ্ৰগণ ॥ ৭০ ॥

vanya śāka-phala-mūle vividha vyañjana

keha baḍā-baḍi-kaḍi kare vipra-gaṇa

Translation

The vegetable preparations were made from various kinds of spinach, roots and fruits collected from the forest, and someone made baḍā and baḍi by mashing dhal. In this way the brāhmaṇas prepared all kinds of food.

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

1

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Prepare Varied Foods With Available Ingredients

  1. 1

    Various kinds of spinach, roots and fruits were collected from the forest for the vegetable preparations.

  2. 2

    Someone mashed dhal to make baḍā and baḍi.

  3. 3

    In this way, the brāhmaṇas prepared all kinds of food.

How it feels

Selfless service and longing. Gopāla’s requests, Gopīnātha’s mercy, and Mādhavendra Purī’s devotion deepen the theme of longing.

The mood of Madhya 4 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 4: Śrī Mādhavendra Purī’s Devotional Service

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

One night while in Govardhana, Mādhavendra Purī dreamed that the Gopāla Deity was within the forest. The next morning he invited his neighborhood friends to accompany him to excavate the Deity from the jungle.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. vanya śākaspinach of the forest
  2. phalafruits
  3. mūlewith roots
  4. vividhavarieties
  5. vyañjanavegetables
  6. kehasomeone
  7. baḍā-baḍibaḍā and baḍi
  8. kaḍifrom the pulp of dhal
  9. karemade
  10. vipra-gaṇaall the brāhmaṇas.
3

Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How could I use the ingredients available to me to prepare a varied meal?

Practice

Include one kind of spinach, root or fruit in a food preparation today.

Live this todayPrepare Varied Foods With Available IngredientsThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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