CC Antya 20.154 (1975)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 154
- caritam amṛtam etac chrīla-caitanya-viṣṇoḥ
- śubhadam aśubhanāśi śraddhayāsvādayed yaḥ
- tad-amala-pada-padme bhṛṅgatām etya so 'yaṁ
- rasayati rasam uccaiḥ prema-mādhvīka-pūram
SYNONYMS
caritam—the character; amṛtam—nectarean; etat—this; śrīla—most opulent; caitanya—Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu; viṣṇoḥ—of He who is Lord Viṣṇu Himself, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; śubhadam—giving auspiciousness; aśubha-nāśi—destroying all inauspiciousness; śraddhayā—with faith and love; āsvādayet—should taste; yaḥ—anyone who; tat-amala-pada-padme—at the spotless lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; bhṛṅgatām etya—becoming like a bumblebee; saḥ—that person; ayam—this; rasayati—tastes; rasam—transcendental mellow; uccaiḥ—a large quantity; prema-mādhvīka—of the wine of ecstatic love; pūram—full.
TRANSLATION
Caitanya-caritāmṛta is filled with the activities of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself. It invokes all good fortune and destroys everything inauspicious. If one tastes the nectar of Caitanya-caritāmṛta with faith and love, I become like a bumblebee tasting the honey of transcendental love from his lotus feet.