This flute is utterly unfit because it is merely a dead bamboo stick. Moreover, it belongs to the male sex

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"This flute is utterly unfit because it is merely a dead bamboo stick. Moreover, it belongs to the male sex"

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta

CC Antya-lila

This flute is utterly unfit because it is merely a dead bamboo stick. Moreover, it belongs to the male sex. Yet this flute is always drinking the nectar of Kṛṣṇa’s lips, which surpasses nectarean sweetness of every description. Only by hoping for that nectar do the gopīs continue to live.

CC Antya 16.144, Translation and Purport

This flute is utterly unfit because it is merely a dead bamboo stick. Moreover, it belongs to the male sex. Yet this flute is always drinking the nectar of Kṛṣṇa’s lips, which surpasses nectarean sweetness of every description. Only by hoping for that nectar do the gopīs continue to live.

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