Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.12.104, 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 104 of Adi-khanda chapter 12—“The Lord’s Wandering Throughout Navadvipa”.
Verse 1.12.104
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.12.104:
কত-ক্ষণ যোগ-নিদ্রা-প্রতি দৃষ্টি দিযা পুনঃ প্রভু চলিলেন পুস্তক লৈযা ॥ ১০৪ ॥
कत-क्षण योग-निद्रा-प्रति दृष्टि दिया पुनः प्रभु चलिलेन पुस्तक लैया ॥ १०४ ॥
kata-kṣaṇa yoga-nidrā-prati dṛṣṭi diyā punaḥ prabhu calilena pustaka laiyā || 104 ||
kata-ksana yoga-nidra-prati drsti diya punah prabhu calilena pustaka laiya (104)
English translation:
(104) After taking some rest, the Lord again went out with His books.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
The word yoga-nidrā is explained as follows: The science of self- realization is called yoga. As through self-realization (for the devotees) external feelings are vanquished (or, for the Lord, His manifested pastimes in this world remain unmanifested), this has been compared with sleep. (This is the explanation of Śrīdhara Svāmī in his Svaprakāśa commentary on the Viṣṇu Purāṇa.) Yogamāyā is yoga-nidrā, because she steals the symptoms of consciousness from everyone just as sleep does. (This is the explanation from Toṣaṇī.) Yoga-nidrā is the predominating deity of the Lord’s energy. (This is the explanation of Vīrarāghava.)