CC Madhya 8.259 (1975)

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta (1975) - Madhya-līlā - Chapter 8: Talks Between Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Rāmānanda Rāya

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His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Below is the 1996 edition text, ready to be substituted with the 1975 one using the compile form.

TEXT 259

abhāgiyā jñānī āsvādaye śuṣka jñāna

kṛṣṇa-premāmṛta pāna kare bhāgyavān

SYNONYMS

abhāgiyā—unfortunate; jñānī—the philosophical speculators; āsvādaye—taste; śuṣka—dry; jñāna—empiric knowledge; kṛṣṇa-prema-amṛta—the nectar of love of Kṛṣṇa; pāna—drinking; kare—do; bhāgyavān—the fortunate.

TRANSLATION

Rāmānanda Rāya concluded, “The unfortunate empiric philosophers taste the dry process of philosophical knowledge, whereas the devotees regularly drink the nectar of love of Kṛṣṇa. Therefore they are the most fortunate of all.”

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