Verse 1.1.2

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.1.2:

নমস্ ত্রিকাল সত্যায জগন্নাথ সুতায চ স-ভৃত্যায স-পুত্রায স-কলত্রায তে নমঃ ॥ ২ ॥

नमस् त्रिकाल सत्याय जगन्नाथ सुताय च स-भृत्याय स-पुत्राय स-कलत्राय ते नमः ॥ २ ॥

namas trikāla satyāya jagannātha sutāya ca sa-bhṛtyāya sa-putrāya sa-kalatrāya te namaḥ || 2 ||

namas trikala satyaya jagannatha sutaya ca sa-bhrtyaya sa-putraya sa-kalatraya te namah (2)

English translation:

(2) O my Lord! You are eternally existing—in the past, present, and future—yet You are the son of Śrī Jagannātha Miśra. I offer my repeated obeisances unto You along with Your associates (Your devotee servants), Your sons (Your Gosvāmī disciples or the processes of devotional service, such as the congregational chanting of the holy name), and Your consorts (who, according to regulative principles, refer to Viṣṇupriyā, who is Bhū-śakti, Lakṣmīpriyā, who is Śrī-śakti, and Navadvīpa, which is Nīlā, Līlā, or Durgā, and, according to devotional principles, refer to the two Gadādharas, Narahari, Rāmānanda, Jagadānanda, and others).

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

In the second verse of the auspicious invocation, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is addressed as follows: He is the Absolute Truth, existing in the past, present, and future, and therefore He is eternal. I offer my obeisances to Śrī Gaurasundara, the son of Jagannātha, along with His servants, sons, consorts, and associates.

The word jagannātha-suta is singular and so refers only to Śrī Gaurasundara; Jagannātha Miśra’s other son, Śrī Viśvarūpa, or Śaṅkarāraṇya Svāmī, is not referred to herein, as Śrī Viśvarūpa took sannyāsa in His childhood and had no disciples in the renounced order. Therefore the later two adjectives of this verse—sa-kalatrāya and sa- putrāya—are not applicable to Him.

One may question how the word sa-putrāya can be applied to Śrī Gaurasundara. In answer to this it is to be understood that the Lord’s renunciate Gosvāmī disciples are accepted as His sons and His householder disciples are accepted as His servants. The renunciate sannyāsīs who belong to the Acyuta-gotra are considered the Lord’s sons. In the beginning of his Upadeśāmṛta, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has established his followers as tridaṇḍi-sannyāsīs. They are actually the Lord’s own family members. Śrī Acyuta Prabhu, the son of Advaita Ācārya, is the

founding forefather of the Acyuta-gotra, and he is therefore addressed as Acyutānanda. The followers of the two Prabhus, Śrī Nityānanda and Śrī Advaita, are the servants of Their Lord, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

According to regulative principles, the consorts of Śrī Gaura-Nārāyaṇa are Viṣṇupriyā, who is Bhū-śakti, Lakṣmīpriyā, who is Śrī-śakti, and Śrī Navadvīpa-dhāma, which is Nīlā, Līlā, or Durgā. According to devotional principles, the consorts of Śrī Gaura-Govinda are Śrī Gadādhara Paṇḍita, Śrī Gadādhara dāsa, Śrī Narahari, Śrī Jagadānanda, Śrī Vakreśvara, Śrī Rāmānanda, Śrī Rūpa-Sanātana, and other Gosvāmīs.

Śrīla Kavirāja Gosvāmī has written in his Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Ādi 7.14): “One of Them is Mahāprabhu, and the other two are prabhus. These two prabhus serve the lotus feet of Mahāprabhu.”