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sri-rupa-raghunatha-pade yara asa
caitanya-caritamrta kahe krsnadasa
SYNONYMS
sri-rupa—Srila Rupa Gosvami; raghunatha—Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami; pade—at the lotus feet; yara—whose; asa—expectation; caitanya-caritamrta—the book named Caitanya-caritamrta; kahe—describes; krsnadasa—Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami.
Praying at the lotus feet of Sri Rupa and Sri Raghunatha, always desiring their mercy, I, Krsnadasa, narrate Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, following in their footsteps.
Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports to Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Antya-lila, Seventeenth Chapter, describing Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s pastime of retracting His limbs like a tortoise.
Rescuing the Lord from the Sea A summary of the Eighteenth Chapter is given by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura in his Amrta-pravaha-bhasya.
On an autumn evening when the moon was full, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu walked along the seashore near the Aitota temple.
Mistaking the sea for the Yamuna River, He jumped into it, hoping to see the water pastimes of Krsna and Srimati Radharani and the other gopis.
As He floated in the sea, however, He was washed away to the Konarka temple, where a fisherman, thinking that the Lord’s body was a big fish, caught Him in his net and brought Him ashore.
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was unconscious, and His body had become unusually transformed.
As soon as the fisherman touched the Lord’s body, he became mad in ecstatic love of Krsna.
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 Svarupa Damodara Gosvami and the other devotees on the beach, who had been looking everywhere for the Lord.
After some inquiries, Svarupa Damodara could understand that the fisherman had caught Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in his net.
Since the fisherman was afraid of being haunted by a ghost, Svarupa Damodara gave him a slap and chanted Hare Krsna, which immediately pacified him.
Thereafter, when the devotees chanted the Hare Krsna maha-mantra loudly, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu came to His external consciousness.
Then they brought Him back to His own residence.