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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.38
চাহিয়ে বেড়াইতে ঐছে রাত্রি-শেষ হৈল ।
‘অন্তর্ধান হইলা প্রভু’, — নিশ্চয় করিল ॥ ৩৮ ॥
cāhiye beḍāite aiche rātri-śeṣa haila
‘antardhāna ha-ilā prabhu’, — niścaya karila
While they were searching for the Lord, the night ended, and thus they all decided, “Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has now disappeared.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The devotees were still searching for the Lord when the night ended.
They had not found Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu despite their search.
They all concluded that the Lord had now disappeared. This expresses their understanding at that moment.
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.
What does the passing of the night help you understand about their search?
Pause over the words “the night ended” and consider the length of the devotees’ anxious search.
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