Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.1.86, 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 86 of Adi-khanda chapter 1—“Summary of Lord Gaura’s Pastimes”.
Verse 1.1.86
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.1.86:
কাষ্টের পুতলী যেন কুহকে নাচায এই-মত গৌরচন্দ্র মোরে যে বোলায ॥ ৮৬ ॥
काष्टेर पुतली येन कुहके नाचाय एइ-मत गौरचन्द्र मोरे ये बोलाय ॥ ८६ ॥
kāṣṭera putalī yena kuhake nācāya ei-mata gauracandra more ye bolāya || 86 ||
kastera putali yena kuhake nacaya ei-mata gauracandra more ye bolaya (86)
English translation:
(86) Whatever I describe is only by the direction of Śrī Gauracandra, just as a puppet dances only by the direction of the puppeteer.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
As a puppet cannot dance independently but dances in various ways according to the unseen direction of the puppeteer, the most merciful Supreme Lord, Śrī Gauracandra, has directed me to dance and chant His names and qualities. I am unable to independently dance, in the form of chanting His names and qualities. Śrīla Kavirāja Gosvāmī has stated in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Ādi 8.39): “Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has personally spoken through the writings of Śrī Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura.”