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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.110
এতেক কহিতে প্রভুর কেবল ‘বাহ্য’ হৈল ।
স্বরূপ-গোসাঞিরে দেখি’ তাঁহারে পুছিল ॥ ১১০ ॥
eteka kahite prabhura kevala ‘bāhya’ haila
svarūpa-gosāñire dekhi’ tāṅhāre puchila
Speaking in this way, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu fully returned to external consciousness. Seeing Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, the Lord questioned him.
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While speaking in this way, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu fully returned to external consciousness.
He saw Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī before Him.
The Lord then questioned him, turning from His account of the happy dream to His present surroundings.
Desperate longing and relief. Mistaking the sea for Yamunā, the Lord enters it; devotees find and revive Him.
The mood of Antya 18 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Thereafter, when the devotees chanted the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra loudly, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu came to His external consciousness. Then they brought Him back to His own residence.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 18
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