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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.50
ভয়ে কম্প হৈল, মোর নেত্রে বহে জল ।
গদ্গদ বাণী, রোম উঠিল সকল ॥ ৫০ ॥
bhaye kampa haila, mora netre vahe jala
gadgada vāṇī, roma uṭhila sakala
“I shivered in fear and shed tears. My voice faltered, and all the hairs on my body stood up.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The speaker describes shivering in fear and shedding tears.
His voice faltered, and all the hairs on his body stood up.
In the surrounding verses, he connects these reactions with his fear of what he calls a ghost.
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 might intense fear affect the way you describe an experience?
Reread the verse and name the four bodily reactions the speaker describes.
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