Chaitanya Bhagavata

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

The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.2.19, 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 19 of Adi-khanda chapter 2—“The Lord’s Appearance”.

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.2.19-20:

ধর্ম-পরাভব হয যখনে যখনে অধর্মের প্রবলতা বাডে দিনে-দিনে সাধু-জন-রক্ষ, দুষ্ট-বিনাশ-কারণে ব্রহ্মাদি প্রভুর পা’য করে বিজ্ঞাপনে ॥ ১৯-২০ ॥

धर्म-पराभव हय यखने यखने अधर्मेर प्रबलता बाडे दिने-दिने साधु-जन-रक्ष, दुष्ट-विनाश-कारणे ब्रह्मादि प्रभुर पा’य करे विज्ञापने ॥ १९-२० ॥

dharma-parābhava haya yakhane yakhane adharmera prabalatā bāḍe dine-dine sādhu-jana-rakṣa, duṣṭa-vināśa-kāraṇe brahmādi prabhura pā’ya kare vijñāpane || 19-20 ||

dharma-parabhava haya yakhane yakhane adharmera prabalata bade dine-dine sadhu-jana-raksa, dusta-vinasa-karane brahmadi prabhura pa’ya kare vijnapane (19-20)

English translation:

(19-20) Whenever there is a decline in religious principles and irreligion becomes more prominent day by day, at that time the demigods headed by Brahmā pray at the feet of the Lord to protect the sadhus and destroy the miscreants.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

When the living entities who are averse to the Lord remain in the midst of temporary sense enjoyment, their material conceptions gradually increase. From Satya to Tretā to Dvāpara-yuga, religious principles

gradually diminish and the propensity for material enjoyment gradually increases. At the same time, due to a lack of religious activities, irreligious activities become more prominent. The ascending process is a form of irreligion, because in this process there is no service attitude towards Śrī Adhokṣaja. The pure devotees of the Lord who are engaged in the service of Adhokṣaja are always disturbed by the conditioned living entities’ irreligious endeavors. The mental speculators consider themselves rich and powerful by five opulences: (1) gambling, (2) drinking, (3) illicit sex, (4) animal slaughter, and (5) gold. They thus attempt to attack the Absolute Truth, who descends for the eternal benefit of the living entities. In order to check such endeavors of the mental speculators and make them slip from their path, the unlimitedly powerful destroyer of nescience and bewilderer of the demons, the Supreme Absolute Truth, Lord Viṣṇu, incarnates. In this way Lord Brahmā offers prayers at the lotus feet of the Lord in every millenium.

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