Chaitanya Bhagavata

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

The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.2.6, 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 6 of Adi-khanda chapter 2—“The Lord’s Appearance”.

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.2.6:

অবিজ্ঞাত-তত্ত্ব দুই ভাই আর ভক্ত তথাপি কৃপায তত্ত্ব করেন সুব্যক্ত ॥ ৬ ॥

अविज्ञात-तत्त्व दुइ भाइ आर भक्त तथापि कृपाय तत्त्व करेन सुव्यक्त ॥ ६ ॥

avijñāta-tattva dui bhāi āra bhakta tathāpi kṛpāya tattva karena suvyakta || 6 ||

avijnata-tattva dui bhai ara bhakta tathapi krpaya tattva karena suvyakta (6)

English translation:

(6) Although the truths of the two brothers and Their devotees are incomprehensible, they can be realized by the mercy of Their Lordships.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Both Lords, Gaura and Nitāi, as well as Their pure devotees are beyond the reach of material senses and eternally full of knowledge and bliss.

Therefore proud mundane speculators who are simply interested in sense gratification cannot understand Their real forms. They mercifully manifest Their incomprehensible forms only to Their fully surrendered servants who have taken shelter of Them. Śrīla Kavirāja Gosvāmī has prayed to Gaura-Nitāi in the Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Ādi 1.2) as follows: “I offer my respectful obeisances unto Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya and Lord Nityānanda, who are like the sun and moon. They have arisen simultaneously on the horizon of Gauḍa to dissipate the darkness of ignorance and thus wonderfully bestow benediction upon all.” Also in Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Ādi 1.98) he writes: “But these two brothers [Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityānanda] dissipate the darkness of the inner core of the heart, and thus They help one meet the two kinds of bhāgavatas [persons or things in relationship with the Personality of Godhead].”

The word avijñāta-tattva indicates that the truth of these two brothers is unknown to one with a materialistic enjoying mentality. In other words, They are beyond the jurisdiction of material knowledge or sense perception.

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