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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 6: The Liberation of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya
Madhya 6.224Madhya 6.226

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.225

শুষ্কং পর্যুষিতং বাপি নীতং বা দূরদেশতঃ ।

প্রাপ্তিমাত্রেণ ভোক্তব্যং নাত্র কালবিচারণা ॥ ২২৫ ॥

śuṣkaṁ paryuṣitaṁ vāpi

nītaṁ vā dūra-deśataḥ

prāpti-mātreṇa bhoktavyaṁ

nātra kāla-vicāraṇā

Translation

The Bhaṭṭācārya said, “ ‘One should eat the mahā-prasādam of the Lord immediately upon receiving it, even though it is dried up, stale or brought from a distant country. One should consider neither time nor place.

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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.

Receive Mahā-prasādam Without Delay

  1. 1

    One should eat the mahā-prasādam of the Lord immediately upon receiving it.

  2. 2

    This applies even when it is dried up, stale or brought from a distant country.

  3. 3

    One should consider neither time nor place.

How it feels

Doubt transformed to devotion. Intellectual resistance gives way to a profound change of heart.

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

Further reading

Madhya 6: The Liberation of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya

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

Without caring for formality, the Bhaṭṭācārya immediately partook of the mahā-prasādam. On another day, when the Bhaṭṭācārya asked Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu the best way to worship and meditate, the Lord advised him to chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. śuṣkamdry
  2. paryuṣitamstale
  3. vāor
  4. apialthough
  5. nītambrought
  6. vāor
  7. dūra-deśataḥfrom a distant country
  8. prāpti-mātreṇaonly with the receiving
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What does this teaching ask you to reconsider about receiving mahā-prasādam?

Practice

Read this teaching aloud once today, noting its instruction not to delay because of time or place.

Live this todayReceive Mahā-prasādam Without DelayThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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