Chaitanya Bhagavata

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

The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.7.120, 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 120 of Adi-khanda chapter 7—“Shri Vishvarupa Takes Sannyasa”.

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.7.120:

শুনিলেই সর্ব অর্থ আপনে বাখানে তা’ন ফাঙ্কি বাখানিতে নারে কোন জনে” ॥ ১২০ ॥

शुनिलेइ सर्व अर्थ आपने वाखाने ता’न फाङ्कि वाखानिते नारे कोन जने” ॥ १२० ॥

śunilei sarva artha āpane vākhāne tā’na phāṅki vākhānite nāre kona jane” || 120 ||

sunilei sarva artha apane vakhane ta’na phanki vakhanite nare kona jane” (120)

English translation:

(120) “He can explain the meaning of anything He hears just once. No one is able to defeat His reasoning.”

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

The word phāṅki is a corruption of the Sanskrit word phakkikā, which means “finding faults in a conclusion, creating doubt, and again reestablishing the original conclusion,” “shrewd argument,” or “cleverly.”

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