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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.20
বায়ু যৈছে সিন্ধু-জলের হরে এক ‘কণ’ ।
কৃষ্ণপ্রেম-কণ তৈছে জীবের স্পর্শন ॥ ২০ ॥
vāyu yaiche sindhu-jalera hare eka ‘kaṇa’
kṛṣṇa-prema-kaṇa taiche jīvera sparśana
As the wind can carry away but a drop of the water in the ocean, a living entity can touch only a particle of the ocean of love of Kṛṣṇa.
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Love of Kṛṣṇa is compared to an ocean.
The wind can carry away only a drop of the ocean’s water.
Similarly, a living entity can touch only a particle of the ocean of love of Kṛṣṇa.
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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In this verse: “love of krsna”
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How does the image of a drop and an ocean shape your understanding of love of Kṛṣṇa?
Write one sentence reflecting on the difference between touching a drop and grasping an entire ocean.
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