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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.35
‘জগন্নাথ দেখিতে কিবা দেবালয়ে গেলা ? অন্য উদ্যানে কিবা উন্মাদে পড়িলা? ॥ ৩৫ ॥
‘jagannātha dekhite kibā devālaye gelā?
anya udyāne kibā unmāde paḍilā?
“Has the Lord gone to the temple of Jagannātha, or has He fallen down in madness in some garden?
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The devotees wondered whether the Lord had gone to the temple of Jagannātha.
They also feared that He might have fallen down in madness in some garden.
These were anxious questions, not certain reports of where He was.
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
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vipralambha · Love in separation
Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “madness”
Dainya & humility · Making room for grace
The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “fallen”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How do the devotees’ questions reveal their concern for the Lord?
Name the two possibilities in this verse, noting that the devotees did not yet know what had happened.
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