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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 20.134
অষ্টাদশ পরিচ্ছেদে — সমুদ্রে পতন ।
কৃষ্ণ-গোপী-জলকেলি তাহাঁ দরশন ॥ ১৩৪ ॥
aṣṭādaśa paricchede — samudre patana
kṛṣṇa-gopī-jala-keli tāhāṅ daraśana
In the eighteenth chapter is an account of how the Lord fell into the ocean and in ecstasy saw in a dream the pastimes of a water fight between Kṛṣṇa and the gopīs.
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The eighteenth chapter recounts how the Lord fell into the ocean.
In ecstasy, He saw Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes in a dream.
He saw a water fight between Kṛṣṇa and the gopīs.
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From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Altogether the Lord was present in this mortal world for forty-eight years. After hinting about the Lord’s disappearance, the author of the Caitanya-caritāmṛta gives a short description of the entire Antya-līlā and then ends his book.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 20
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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In this verse: “gopīs”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does this account show me about the focus of the Lord’s ecstatic dream?
Read the translation slowly, then recall which pastime the Lord saw.
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