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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 8.306
যে ইহা একবার পিয়ে কর্ণদ্বারে ।
তার কর্ণ লোভে ইহা ছাড়িতে না পারে ॥ ৩০৬ ॥
ye ihā eka-bāra piye karṇa-dvāre
tāra karṇa lobhe ihā chāḍite nā pāre
This wonderful preparation has to be taken aurally. If one takes it, he becomes greedy to relish it even further.
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This wonderful preparation is to be received through the ears.
Hearing is the way to taste it.
One who takes it becomes eager to relish it even further.
Deepening intimacy and revelation. Their exchange ascends from duty to pure love and the confidential moods of Vraja.
The mood of Madhya 8 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:
After some days, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked Rāmānanda Rāya to retire from government service and come to Jagannātha Purī. These descriptions of the meetings between Rāmānanda Rāya and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are taken from the notebook of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 8
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