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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.105
দূর হৈতে তাহা দেখি’ লোকের হয় ‘ভ্রম’ ।
‘কালীয়ের শরীরে কৃষ্ণ করিছে নর্তন’ ! ১০৫ ॥
dūra haite tāhā dekhi’ lokera haya ‘bhrama’
‘kālīyera śarīre kṛṣṇa kariche nartana’!
“From a distance, people mistakenly think that they are seeing Kṛṣṇa dancing on the body of the Kālīya serpent.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
From a distance, people think they are seeing Kṛṣṇa.
They believe He is dancing on the body of the Kālīya serpent.
The translation makes clear that their impression is mistaken.
Overwhelmed recognition. Seeing the places of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes evokes extraordinary remembrance and ecstasy.
The mood of Madhya 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:
Seeing a great crowd in Mathurā, He moved His residence near Akrūra-ghāṭa, and from there He went every day to Vṛndāvana to see Kālīya-hrada, Dvādaśāditya-ghāṭa, Keśī-ghāṭa, Rāsa-sthalī, Cīra-ghāṭa and Āmli-talā. At Kālīya Lake, many people mistook a fisherman for Kṛṣṇa.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 18
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
When might I be treating a distant impression as certain knowledge?
Today, pause before repeating one uncertain impression as a fact.
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