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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.111
‘ইহাঁ কেনে তোমরা আমারে লঞা আইলা ?’ স্বরূপ-গোসাঞি তবে কহিতে লাগিলা ॥ ১১১ ॥
‘ihāṅ kene tomarā āmāre lañā āilā?’
svarūpa-gosāñi tabe kahite lāgilā
“Why have you brought Me here?” He asked. Then Svarūpa Dāmodara answered Him.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked, “Why have you brought Me here?”
His question followed His full return to external consciousness.
Svarūpa Dāmodara then answered Him, explaining what had happened.
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:
Since the fisherman was afraid of being haunted by a ghost, Svarūpa Dāmodara gave him a slap and chanted Hare Kṛṣṇa, which immediately pacified him. Thereafter, when the devotees chanted the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra loudly, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu came to His external consciousness.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 18
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