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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.30
তরঙ্গে বহিয়া ফিরে, — যেন শুষ্ক কাষ্ঠ ।
কে বুঝিতে পারে এই চৈতন্যের নাট ? ৩০ ।। ॥ ৩০ ॥
taraṅge vahiyā phire, — yena śuṣka kāṣṭha
ke bujhite pāre ei caitanyera nāṭa?
The waves carried Him here and there like a piece of dry wood. Who can understand this dramatic performance by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu?
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The waves carried Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu here and there.
His movement in the waves is compared to that of a piece of dry wood.
The account asks who can understand this dramatic performance by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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:
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was unconscious, and His body had become unusually transformed. As soon as the fisherman touched the Lord’s body, he became mad in ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa.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 can you approach this account without assuming that you fully understand the Lord's performance?
Read the closing question twice and leave room for what you do not yet understand.
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