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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.9
এইমত রাসলীলায় হয় যত শ্লোক ।
সবার অর্থ করে, পায় কভু হর্ষ-শোক ॥ ৯ ॥
ei-mata rāsa-līlāya haya yata śloka
sabāra artha kare, pāya kabhu harṣa-śoka
In this way, He explained the meaning of all the verses concerning the rāsa-līlā. Sometimes He would be very sad and sometimes very happy.
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The Lord explained the meaning of all the verses concerning the rāsa-līlā.
As He explained them, He was sometimes very sad.
At other times He was very happy. Both sadness and happiness accompanied His explanations.
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:
Mistaking the sea for the Yamunā River, He jumped into it, hoping to see the water pastimes Kṛṣṇa enjoyed with Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and the other gopīs. 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.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 18
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In this verse: “rāsa-līlā”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What do you notice about the range of emotions accompanying the Lord’s explanations?
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