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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.23
জীব হঞা করে যেই তাহার বর্ণন ।
আপনা শোধিতে তার ছোঁয়ে এক ‘কণ’ ॥ ২৩ ॥
jīva hañā kare yei tāhāra varṇana
āpanā śodhite tāra choṅye eka ‘kaṇa’
When an ordinary living entity describes the pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, he purifies himself by touching one drop of that great ocean.
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An ordinary living entity can describe the pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
By doing so, that person touches one drop of the great ocean of love.
Even this contact with one drop purifies the person describing His pastimes.
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:
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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