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Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Antya 20.134

Seeing Kṛṣṇa’s Pastimes in Ecstasy

“In the eighteenth chapter is an account of how the Lord fell into the ocean and in ecstasy saw in a dream the pastimes of a water fight between Kṛṣṇa and the gopīs.”

Śrīla Prabhupāda · Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta Antya 20.134, translation

What the purport teaches

  • The eighteenth chapter recounts how the Lord fell into the ocean.
  • In ecstasy, He saw Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes in a dream.
  • He saw a water fight between Kṛṣṇa and the gopīs.

Try this today

Read the translation slowly, then recall which pastime the Lord saw.

Ask yourself

What does this account show me about the focus of the Lord’s ecstatic dream?

Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.

The study points are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport; the practice and question are plain words for trying the verse today.

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