Chaitanya Bhagavata

by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words

The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.1.21, 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 21 of Adi-khanda chapter 1—“Summary of Lord Gaura’s Pastimes”.

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.1.21:

পঞ্চ-স্কন্দের এই ভাগবত-কথা সর্ব বৈষ্ণবের বন্দ্য বলরাম-গাথা ॥ ২১ ॥

पञ्च-स्कन्देर एइ भागवत-कथा सर्व वैष्णवेर वन्द्य बलराम-गाथा ॥ २१ ॥

pañca-skandera ei bhāgavata-kathā sarva vaiṣṇavera vandya balarāma-gāthā || 21 ||

panca-skandera ei bhagavata-katha sarva vaisnavera vandya balarama-gatha (21)

English translation:

(21) The topics in the Fifth Canto of the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam concerning Lord Balarāma, the original Saṅkarṣaṇa, are glorified by all Vaiṣṇavas.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Please see Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (5.17.16-24) in this regard. Those who accept Viṣṇu as the Supreme Lord are called Vaiṣṇavas, and Mūla-

Saṅkarṣaṇa, or Balarāma, is the source of all viṣṇu-tattvas. Therefore it is the duty of all Vaiṣṇavas to glorify Mūla-Saṅkarṣaṇa, who is nondifferent from Lord Balarāma. As Śukadeva Gosvāmī explains to Mahārāja Parīkṣit in the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (5.25.4, 7-8): “When the unalloyed devotees and the leaders of the snakes offer their obeisances to Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa with great devotion, they become very joyful. The demigods, the demons, the Uragas [serpentine demigods], the Siddhas, the Gandharvas, the Vidyādharas and many highly elevated sages constantly offer prayers to the Lord. He pleases His personal associates, the heads of the demigods, by the sweet vibrations emanating from His mouth. Nārada Muni, the son of Lord Brahmā, always glorifies Anantadeva in his father’s assembly. There he sings blissful verses of his own composition, accompanied by his stringed instrument [or a celestial singer] known as Tumburu.” In this regard one may also see verses 53-57 of this chapter.

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