242 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Madhya-lila, Ch. 14

ei-mata jagannatha karena bhojana
ei sukhe mahaprabhura judaya nayana

SYNONYMS

ei-mata—in this way; jagannatha—Lord Jagannatha; karena bhojana—accepts
His food; ei sukhe—in this happiness; mahdprabhura—of Lord Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu; judaya—become fully satisfied; nayana—the eyes.

TRANSLATION

Indeed, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was fully satisfied just to see how Lord
Jagannatha accepted all the food.

PURPORT

Following in the footsteps of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, a Vaisnava should be
fully satisfied simply to see a variety of food offered to the Deity of Jagannatha or
Radha-Krsna. A Vaisnava should not hunger for a variety of food for his own sake;
rather, his satisfaction is in seeing various foods being offered to the Deity. In his
Gurv-astaka, Srila Vigvanatha Cakravarti Thakura writes:

catur-vidha-sri-bhagavat-prasadda-
svadv-anna-trptan hari-bhakta-sanghan
krtvaiva trptirh bhajatah sadaiva
vande guroh sri-carandravindam

“The spiritual master is always offering Krsna four kinds of delicious food
[analyzed as that which is licked, chewed, drunk and sucked]. When the spiritual
master sees that the devotees are satisfied by eating bhagavat-prasdda, he is
satisfied. | offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual
master.”

The spiritual master’s duty is to engage his disciples in preparing varieties of
nice food to offer the Deity. After being offered, this food is distributed as prasdda
to the devotees. These activities satisfy the spiritual master, although he himself
does not eat or require such a variety of prasdda. By seeing to the offering and dis-
tribution of prasdda, he himself is encouraged in devotional service.

TEXT 37

CRAB SHV cata TiS |
HF OB IA Hat CNN AH, —AS ANS 09

keyd-patra-droni dila bojha panca-sata
eka eka jane dasa dona dila, —eta pata
