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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.51
কিবা ব্রহ্মদৈত্য, কিবা ভূত, কহনে না যায় ।
দর্শনমাত্রে মনুষ্যের পৈশে সেই কায় ॥ ৫১ ॥
kibā brahma-daitya, kibā bhūta, kahane nā yāya
darśana-mātre manuṣyera paiśe sei kāya
“I do not know whether the corpse I found was the ghost of a dead brāhmaṇa or an ordinary man, but as soon as one looks upon it, the ghost enters his body.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The speaker does not know whether the corpse was the ghost of a dead brāhmaṇa or an ordinary man.
He believes that simply looking upon it allows the ghost to enter one's body.
This is the speaker's fearful explanation of his experience, rather than a settled identification.
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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Where does the speaker express uncertainty, and where does he sound certain?
Identify one statement of uncertainty and one fearful conclusion in this verse.
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