Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.2.152, 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 152 of Adi-khanda chapter 2—“The Lord’s Appearance”.
Verse 1.2.152
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.2.152:
জয জয বেদ-ধর্ম-সাধু-বিপ্র-পাল জয জয অভক্ত-দমন-মহাকাল ॥ ১৫২ ॥
जय जय वेद-धर्म-साधु-विप्र-पाल जय जय अभक्त-दमन-महाकाल ॥ १५२ ॥
jaya jaya veda-dharma-sādhu-vipra-pāla jaya jaya abhakta-damana-mahākāla || 152 ||
jaya jaya veda-dharma-sadhu-vipra-pala jaya jaya abhakta-damana-mahakala (152)
English translation:
(152) “All glories to the protector of Vedic principles, saintly persons, and brāhmaṇas. All glories to the personification of time, which destroys the nondevotees.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
In his commentary on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (1.3.16), Śrī Madhvācārya quotes the following verse from the śrutis: “He is the Lord, the maintainer, controller, and protector of all universes. He is Lord Viṣṇu.” After Kṛṣṇa completed His pastimes in this world, the Vedic religious principles, saintly persons, and brāhmaṇas were bereft of shelter and fell down. Śrī Gaurasundara destroyed the non-Vedic philosophies of Buddhism, Jainism, and the logicians’ path of argument and thus protected the prestige of Vedic religious principles, saintly persons, and
brāhmaṇas. Śrī Gaurasundara is like the personification of death, Yamarāja, for the nondevotees, such as persons with material desires, fruitive workers, and speculators.