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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.112
“যমুনার ভ্রমে তুমি সমুদ্রে পড়িলা ।
সমুদ্রের তরঙ্গে আসি, এত দূর আইলা ! ১১২ ॥ ১১২ ॥
“yamunāra bhrame tumi samudre paḍilā
samudrera taraṅge āsi, eta dūra āilā!
“You mistook the sea for the Yamunā River,” he said, “and You jumped into it. You have been carried this far by the waves of the sea.
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Svarūpa Dāmodara explained that the Lord had mistaken the sea for the Yamunā River.
The Lord had jumped into the sea.
The waves had carried Him far, explaining how He had reached that place.
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:
Mistaking the sea for the Yamunā River, He jumped into it, hoping to see the water pastimes Kṛṣṇa enjoyed with Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and the other gopīs. As He floated in the sea, however, He was washed away to the Koṇārka temple, where a fisherman, thinking that the Lord’s body was a big fish, caught Him in his net and brought Him ashore.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 18
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Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “yamunā”
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How does this explanation connect with the Lord’s earlier question about the Yamunā?
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