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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.65
প্রেমাবেশে পড়িলা তেঁহো সমুদ্রের জলে ।
তাঁরে তুমি উঠাইলা আপনার জালে ॥ ৬৫ ॥
premāveśe paḍilā teṅho samudrera jale
tāṅre tumi uṭhāilā āpanāra jāle
“Because of ecstatic love, the Lord fell into the sea, and you have caught Him in your net and rescued Him.
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Svarūpa Dāmodara explains that the Lord fell into the sea because of ecstatic love.
The fisherman caught the Lord in his net and rescued Him.
What the fisherman had feared as an encounter with a ghost was actually an encounter with Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Desperate longing and relief. Mistaking the sea for Yamunā, the Lord enters it; devotees find and revive Him.
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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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In this verse: “ecstatic love”
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How does learning what actually happened change the meaning of the fisherman’s actions?
Write one sentence describing the fisherman’s rescue of the Lord, using Svarūpa Dāmodara’s explanation.
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