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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.45
জগন্নাথ কৈছে করিয়াছেন ভোজন ।
আজি সব মহাপ্রসাদ কর আস্বাদন ॥ ৪৫ ॥
jagannātha kaiche kariyāchena bhojana
āji saba mahāprasāda kara āsvādana
“Today, all of you please try to taste the lunch just as Lord Jagannātha accepted it.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Everyone present was invited to taste the lunch.
The invitation was expressed gently: “Please try to taste.”
They were asked to taste the lunch just as Lord Jagannātha had accepted it.
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
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Śrīla Nityānanda Prabhu and other devotees then visited the Jagannātha temple, and when they came back to the house of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu returned to external consciousness. Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya received everyone and distributed mahā-prasādam with great care.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does remembering Lord Jagannātha’s acceptance affect my appreciation of this lunch?
Read the invitation aloud once, paying attention to the words “just as Lord Jagannātha accepted it.”
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