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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.113
এই জালিয়া জালে করি’ তোমা উঠাইল ।
তোমার পরশে এই প্রেমে মত্ত হইল ॥ ১১৩ ॥
ei jāliyā jāle kari’ tomā uṭhāila
tomāra paraśe ei preme matta ha-ila
“This fisherman caught You in his net and rescued You from the water. Because of Your touch, he is now mad with ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa.
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A fisherman caught Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu in his net.
The fisherman rescued the Lord from the water.
Because of the Lord’s touch, the fisherman was now mad with ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa.
Desperate longing and relief. Mistaking the sea for Yamunā, the Lord enters it; devotees find and revive Him.
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From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
As soon as the fisherman touched the Lord’s body, he became mad in ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa. His own madness frightened him, however, because he thought that he was being haunted by a ghost.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 18
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love for krsna”, “ecstatic love”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does the fisherman’s transformation help you appreciate about the Lord’s touch?
Pause for a minute to reflect on the ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa awakened in the fisherman by the Lord’s touch.
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