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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.55
সাক্ষাৎ দেখেছোঁ, — মোরে পাইল সেই ভূত ।
মুই মৈলে মোর কৈছে জীবে স্ত্রী-পুত ্ ॥ ৫৫ ॥
sākṣāt dekhechoṅ, — more pāila sei bhūta
mui maile mora kaiche jīve strī-put
“I have seen that ghost directly, and He is haunting me. But if I die, who will take care of my wife and children?
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The speaker says he has directly seen the ghost and believes He is haunting him.
He fears that he may die.
His concern turns to his wife and children: who will care for them if he dies?
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:
His own madness frightened him, however, because he thought that he was being haunted by a ghost. As he was about to seek a ghost charmer, he met Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and the other devotees on the beach, who had been looking everywhere for the Lord.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 18
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