Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.5.169, 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 169 of Adi-khanda chapter 5—“Eating the Mendicant Brahmana’s Offerings”.
Verse 1.5.169
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.5.169:
সর্ব-লোক-চূডামণি বৈকুণ্ঠ-ঈশ্বর লক্ষ্মী-কান্ত, সীতা-কান্ত শ্রী-গৌরসুন্দর ॥ ১৬৯ ॥
सर्व-लोक-चूडामणि वैकुण्ठ-ईश्वर लक्ष्मी-कान्त, सीता-कान्त श्री-गौरसुन्दर ॥ १६९ ॥
sarva-loka-cūḍāmaṇi vaikuṇṭha-īśvara lakṣmī-kānta, sītā-kānta śrī-gaurasundara || 169 ||
sarva-loka-cudamani vaikuntha-isvara laksmi-kanta, sita-kanta sri-gaurasundara (169)
English translation:
(169) Śrī Gaurasundara is the Lord of Vaikuṇṭha and the crown jewel of the predominating deities of all planetary systems. He is the beloved Lord of Lakṣmī and Sītā.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
The term sarva-loka-cūḍāmaṇi refers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is manifest to the fourteen worlds and who is the topmost worshipable personality for both demigods and ordinary living entities. The word vaikuṇṭha-īśvara refers to the eternally full in six opulences Lord of Vaikuṇṭha, which is situated beyond the fourteen planetary systems of the material world, beyond the Virajā River and Brahmaloka, and which is devoid of all material qualities and unaffected by material time, place, and circumstances.
The word lakṣmī-kānta refers to the Lord of Vaikuṇṭha, the Absolute
Truth, Lord Nārāyaṇa, who is endowed with six opulences, who is the worshipable Lord of Lakṣmī, and who is the predominating Deity of the original Vaikuṇṭha. The word sītā-kānta refers to the naimittika, or occasional, incarnation of Viṣṇu, Lord Rāmacandra, the son of Daśaratha.