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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.56
সেই ত’ ভূতের কথা কহন না যায় ।
ওঝা-ঠাঞি যাইছোঁ, — যদি সে ভূত ছাড়ায় ॥ ৫৬ ॥
sei ta’ bhūtera kathā kahana nā yāya
ojhā-ṭhāñi yāichoṅ, — yadi se bhūta chāḍāya
“The ghost is certainly very difficult to talk about, but I am going to find an exorcist and ask him if he can release me from it.
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The speaker says the ghost is very difficult to talk about.
He plans to find an exorcist.
He intends to ask whether the exorcist can release him from what he believes is haunting 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:
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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What does his plan reveal about his desire for relief?
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