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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.59
ওথা না যাইহ, আমি নিষেধি তোমারে ।
তাহাঁ গেলে সেই ভূত লাগিবে সবারে ।।” ৫৯ ।। ॥ ৫৯ ॥
othā nā yāiha, āmi niṣedhi tomāre
tāhāṅ gele sei bhūta lāgibe sabāre”
“Do not go near there. I forbid you. If you go, that ghost will catch you all.”
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The fisherman strongly warns the others not to go near the place.
He believes that the ghost will catch everyone who approaches.
His warning expresses his fear, but Svarūpa Dāmodara will explain that the person is not a ghost.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can you leave room for understanding when you feel certain that something is frightening?
Before repeating a worrying claim today, pause to ask whether you understand what happened.
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