Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 3.3.48, 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 48 of Antya-khanda chapter 3—“Mahaprabhu’s Deliverance of Sarvabhauma, Exhibition of His Six-armed Form, and Journey to Bengal”.
Verse 3.3.48
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.3.48:
শ্রী শঙ্করাচার্য হস্ স্ততেদ্ অস্ fওল্লোwস্: সত্য্ অপি ভেদাপগমে নাথ! তবাহং ন মামকীযস্ ত্বম্ সামুদ্রো হি তরঙ্গঃ ক্ব চ ন সমুদ্রো ন তারঙ্গঃ ॥ ৪৮ ॥
श्री शङ्कराचार्य हस् स्ततेद् अस् fओल्लोwस्: सत्य् अपि भेदापगमे नाथ! तवाहं न मामकीयस् त्वम् सामुद्रो हि तरङ्गः क्व च न समुद्रो न तारङ्गः ॥ ४८ ॥
Śrī Śaṅkarācārya has stated as follows: saty api bhedāpagame nātha! tavāhaṃ na māmakīyas tvam sāmudro hi taraṅgaḥ kva ca na samudro na tāraṅgaḥ || 48 ||
Sri Sankaracarya has stated as follows: saty api bhedapagame natha! tavaham na mamakiyas tvam samudro hi tarangah kva ca na samudro na tarangah (48)
English translation:
(48) “O Lord, although the living entities and the Supreme Brahman are nondifferent, the living entities are subordinate to You. In other words, their existence is dependent on You. You, however, are never dependent on anyone. Although there is no difference between the
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
ocean and its waves, the existence of the waves is dependent on the ocean. The ocean is never dependent on the waves.”
In the Māyāvāda-śata-dūṣaṇī (48 and 10) it is stated:
avatārāvatāri tvad īśo’pi dvividhaḥ smṛtaḥ bhaktābhakta vibhedena jīvo’pi bhavati dvidhā
“The Supreme Personality of Godhead manifests Himself in two features:
(1) in His original form as the source of all incarnations, and (2) in His many viṣṇu-tattva incarnations. The many living entities may also be divided into two groups: (1) the devotees, who are free from the influence of the illusory energy, and (2) the nondevotees, who are bound by the illusion of māyā.”
yathā samudre vahavas taraṅgās tathā vayaṃ brahmaṇi bhūri-jīvāḥ
bhavet taraṅgo na kadācid abdhis tvaṃ brahma kasmād bhavitāsi jīva?
“Innumerable waves splash within the great ocean and, in the same way, countless spirit souls exist within the Supreme Brahman. O individual spirit soul, a single wave can never become the ocean, so how do you think you will become the Supreme Brahman?”