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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.53
অস্থি-সন্ধি ছুটিলে চর্ম করে নড়-বড়ে ।
তাহা দেখি’ প্রাণ কা’র নাহি রহে ধড়ে ॥ ৫৩ ॥
asthi-sandhi chuṭile carma kare naḍa-baḍe
tāhā dekhi’ prāṇa kā’ra nāhi rahe dhaḍe
“Its joints are all separated beneath the skin, which is completely slack. No one could see it and remain alive in his body.
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The joints are described as separated beneath the skin.
The skin is completely slack.
The speaker says that no one could see this body and remain alive, expressing how terrifying the sight seems to him.
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: “separated”
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What does the speaker's final statement reveal about the depth of his fear?
Write down the two physical details in the verse separately from the speaker's statement about surviving the sight.
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