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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.57
একা রাত্র্যে বুলি’ মৎস্য মারিয়ে নির্জনে ।
ভূত-প্রেত আমার না লাগে ‘নৃসিংহ’-স্মরণে ॥ ৫৭ ॥
ekā rātrye buli’ matsya māriye nirjane
bhūta-preta āmāra nā lāge ‘nṛsiṁha’-smaraṇe
“I wander alone at night killing fish in solitary places, but because I remember the hymn to Lord Nṛsiṁha, ghosts do not touch me.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The speaker wanders alone at night, killing fish in solitary places.
He remembers the hymn to Lord Nṛsiṁha during these solitary activities.
He says that because he remembers this hymn, ghosts do not touch 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 He floated in the sea, however, He was washed away to the Koṇārka temple, where a fisherman, thinking that the Lord’s body was a big fish, caught Him in his net and brought Him ashore. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was unconscious, and His body had become unusually transformed.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.
What contrast do you notice between his usual confidence and his present fear?
Pause today to recall the speaker's reliance on remembering the hymn to Lord Nṛsiṁha.
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