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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.68
জালিয়া কহে, — “প্রভুরে দেখ্যাছোঁ বারবার ।
তেঁহো নহেন, এই অতিবিকৃত আকার ।।” ৬৮ ।। ॥ ৬৮ ॥
jāliyā kahe, — “prabhure dekhyāchoṅ bāra-bāra
teṅho nahena, ei ati-vikṛta ākāra”
The fisherman replied, “I have seen the Lord many times, but this is not He. This body is very much deformed.”
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The fisherman had seen the Lord many times before.
The body looked so deformed that he did not believe it was the Lord.
His earlier familiarity did not enable him to recognize the Lord in this transformed condition.
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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