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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.39
প্রভুর বিচ্ছেদে কার দেহে নাহি প্রাণ ।
অনিষ্টাশঙ্কা বিনা কার মনে নাহি আর ॥ ৩৯ ॥
prabhura vicchede kāra dehe nāhi prāṇa
aniṣṭā-śaṅkā vinā kāra mane nāhi āna
In separation from the Lord, everyone felt as though he had lost his very life. The devotees concluded that there must have been some mishap. They could not think of anything else.
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In separation from the Lord, everyone felt as though he had lost his very life.
The devotees concluded that some mishap must have occurred.
Their concern filled their thoughts so completely that they could not think of anything else.
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 soon as the fisherman touched the Lord’s body, he became mad in ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa. His own madness frightened him, however, because he thought that he was being haunted by a ghost.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: “separation”
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What does this verse reveal about how dear the Lord was to the devotees?
Write one sentence describing the devotees’ feelings, keeping separate what they feared from what was known.
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