Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.1.128, 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 128 of Adi-khanda chapter 1—“Summary of Lord Gaura’s Pastimes”.
Verse 1.1.128
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.1.128:
সেই দিন অ-মাযায কহিলেন কথা যে-যে-সেবকের জন্ম হৈল যথা যথা ॥ ১২৮ ॥
सेइ दिन अ-मायाय कहिलेन कथा ये-ये-सेवकेर जन्म हैल यथा यथा ॥ १२८ ॥
sei dina a-māyāya kahilena kathā ye-ye-sevakera janma haila yathā yathā || 128 ||
sei dina a-mayaya kahilena katha ye-ye-sevakera janma haila yatha yatha (128)
English translation:
(128) On that day the Lord spontaneously revealed the past identities of His servants.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
The word a-māyāya indicates that the Lord manifested the Absolute Truth by dissipating illusion, removing the material conceptions of the living entities who are prone to be controlled by māyā, cheating the demons through His illusory energy, and manifesting His supreme abode of Vaikuṇṭha, which is beyond the realm of the nondevotees’ senses.