Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.1.14, 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 14 of Adi-khanda chapter 1—“Summary of Lord Gaura’s Pastimes”.
Verse 1.1.14
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.1.14:
অতএব আগে বলরামের স্তবন করিলে সে মুখে স্ফুরে চৈতন্য-কীর্তন ॥ ১৪ ॥
अतएव आगे बलरामेर स्तवन करिले से मुखे स्फुरे चैतन्य-कीर्तन ॥ १४ ॥
ataeva āge balarāmera stavana karile se mukhe sphure caitanya-kīrtana || 14 ||
ataeva age balaramera stavana karile se mukhe sphure caitanya-kirtana (14)
English translation:
(14) Therefore in the beginning I offer my prayers to Lord Balarāma, so that the glories of Lord Caitanya will manifest from my mouth.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
For further descriptions of the glories of Lord Balarāma, please see Lord Śiva’s prayers to Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa in the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (5.17.17- 24), Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī’s prayers to Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa in Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (5.25.1-13), Nārada Muni’s glorification of Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa to King Citraketu in the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (6.16.18-25), King Citraketu’s prayers to Saṅkarṣaṇa in the same chapter (verses 34-48), and Lord Kṛṣṇa’s prayers to Baladeva in the Viṣṇu Purāṇa, Part 5 (9.22-31).
By considering these statements from the scriptures, it is understood that by offering prayers or glorifying the names and qualities of Lord Nityānanda Rāma, who is the personification of Vaiṣṇava scriptures, a living entity’s material designations or bondage, which are born out of nescience, are destroyed. The purified living entity then accepts Lord Nityānanda Rāma as his spiritual master, and with a purified tongue he glorifies the worshipable Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya under Nityānanda Prabhu’s guidance.