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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.66
তাঁর স্পর্শে হইল তোমার কৃষ্ণপ্রেমোদয় ।
ভূত-প্রেত-জ্ঞানে তোমার হৈল মহাভয় ॥ ৬৬ ॥
tāṅra sparśe ha-ila tomāra kṛṣṇa-premodaya
bhūta-preta-jñāne tomāra haila mahā-bhaya
“Simply touching Him has awakened your dormant love of Kṛṣṇa, but because you thought Him a ghost, you were very much afraid of Him.
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Simply touching the Lord awakened the fisherman’s dormant love of Kṛṣṇa.
The fisherman thought the Lord was a ghost, so he became very much afraid.
The explanation distinguished the awakening of love from the fear caused by his misunderstanding.
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:
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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In this verse: “love of krsna”
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