Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.4.121, English translation, including a commentary (Gaudiya-bhasya). This text is similair to the Caitanya-caritamrita and narrates the pastimes of Lord Caitanya, proclaimed to be the direct incarnation of Krishna (as Bhagavan) This is verse 121 of Adi-khanda chapter 4—“Name-giving Ceremony, Childhood Pastimes, and Thieves Kidnap the Lord”.
Verse 1.4.121
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.4.121:
বৈষ্ণবী-মাযায চোর পথ নাহি চিনে জগন্নাথ-ঘরে আইল নিজ-ঘর-জ্ঞানে ॥ ১২১ ॥
वैष्णवी-मायाय चोर पथ नाहि चिने जगन्नाथ-घरे आइल निज-घर-ज्ञाने ॥ १२१ ॥
vaiṣṇavī-māyāya cora patha nāhi cine jagannātha-ghare āila nija-ghara-jñāne || 121 ||
vaisnavi-mayaya cora patha nahi cine jagannatha-ghare aila nija-ghara-jnane (121)
English translation:
(121) Being influenced by the Lord’s illusory energy, the thieves lost their way and returned to the house of Jagannātha Miśra while thinking that they had returned to their own home.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
The word vaiṣṇavī-māyā refers to Viṣṇu’s insurmountable illusory energy, which covers and throws the living entities.