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Yogurt culture

Expressions researched:
"yogurt culture" |"mixed with a culture"

Srimad-Bhagavatam

SB Canto 9

"Milk changes into yogurt when mixed with a yogurt culture, but actually yogurt is constitutionally nothing but milk.
SB 9.9.7, Purport: "Milk changes into yogurt when mixed with a yogurt culture, but actually yogurt is constitutionally nothing but milk. Similarly, Govinda, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, assumes the form of Lord Śiva for the special purpose of material transactions. I offer my obeisances at Lord Govinda's lotus feet." Lord Śiva is the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the same sense that yogurt is also milk although at the same time it is not milk. For the maintenance of the material world there are three incarnations—Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Maheśvara (Lord Śiva). Lord Śiva is Viṣṇu in an incarnation for the mode of ignorance. The material world exists predominantly in the mode of ignorance. Therefore Lord Śiva is compared here to the longitude and latitude of the entire universe, which resembles a cloth woven of threads extending for both its length and breadth.

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta

CC Madhya-lila

As yogurt is prepared when milk is mixed with a culture, the form of Lord Śiva expands when the Supreme Personality of Godhead is in touch with material nature.
CC Madhya 20.273, Purport: Thus Lord Śiva’s position is between that of the living entity and that of the Supreme Lord. In other words, Lord Śiva is neither the Supreme Personality of Godhead nor a living entity. He is the form through which the Supreme Lord works to beget living entities within this material world. As yogurt is prepared when milk is mixed with a culture, the form of Lord Śiva expands when the Supreme Personality of Godhead is in touch with material nature.
“Milk is transformed into yogurt when it associates with a yogurt culture.
CC Madhya 20.309, Translation: “Milk is transformed into yogurt when it associates with a yogurt culture. Thus yogurt is nothing but milk, but still it is not milk.
“‘Milk changes into yogurt when mixed with a yogurt culture, but actually it is constitutionally nothing but milk.
CC Madhya 20.310, Translation: “‘Milk changes into yogurt when mixed with a yogurt culture, but actually it is constitutionally nothing but milk. Similarly, Govinda, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, assumes the form of Lord Śiva [Śambhu] for the special purpose of material transactions. I offer my obeisances at His lotus feet.’
Page Title:Yogurt culture
Compiler:Rati
Created:24 of Nov, 2008
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=1, CC=3, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:4