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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.29
পড়িতেই হৈল মূর্চ্ছা, কিছুই না জানে ।
কভু ডুবায়, কভু ভাসায় তরঙ্গের গণে ॥ ২৯ ॥
paḍitei haila mūrcchā, kichui nā jāne
kabhu ḍubāya, kabhu bhāsāya taraṅgera gaṇe
Falling into the sea, He lost consciousness and could not understand where He was. Sometimes He sank beneath the waves, and sometimes He floated above them.
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After falling into the sea, the Lord lost consciousness.
He could not understand where He was.
Sometimes He sank beneath the waves, and sometimes He floated above them.
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:
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. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was unconscious, and His body had become unusually transformed.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 18
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this description deepen your sense of the devotees' concern when they could not find Him?
Pause over the description of the Lord sinking and floating, and read it with care rather than rushing ahead.
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