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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.46
“কহ, জালিয়া, এই দিকে দেখিলা একজন ? তোমার এই দশা কেনে, — কহত’ কারণ?” ॥ ৪৬ ॥
“kaha, jāliyā, ei dike dekhilā eka-jana?
tomāra ei daśā kene, — kahata’ kāraṇa?”
“My dear fisherman,” he said, “why are you behaving like this? Have you seen someone hereabouts? What is the cause of your behavior? Please tell us.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Svarūpa Dāmodara addressed him warmly as “My dear fisherman.”
He asked why the fisherman was behaving this way and what had caused his behavior.
He also asked whether the fisherman had seen anyone nearby, keeping the search for the Lord in view.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can you combine kindness with clear questions when seeking information?
In one conversation today, ask a clear question kindly and give the other person time to answer.
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