Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.7.178, 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 178 of Adi-khanda chapter 7—“Shri Vishvarupa Takes Sannyasa”.
Verse 1.7.178
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.7.178:
বিষ্ণুর-রন্ধন-স্থালী কভু দুষ্ট নয সে হাঙ্ডী পরশে আর স্থান শুদ্ধ হয ॥ ১৭৮ ॥
विष्णुर-रन्धन-स्थाली कभु दुष्ट नय से हाङ्डी परशे आर स्थान शुद्ध हय ॥ १७८ ॥
viṣṇura-randhana-sthālī kabhu duṣṭa naya se hāṅḍī paraśe āra sthāna śuddha haya || 178 ||
visnura-randhana-sthali kabhu dusta naya se handi parase ara sthana suddha haya (178)
English translation:
(178) “The pots used in cooking for Lord Viṣṇu are never contaminated. Indeed, simply by the touch of His cooking pots other places become purified.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
The word sthālī refers to the cooking pots. The smārtas are greatly concerned with purity and contamination in relation to their eating. According to the Vaiṣṇava smṛtis any item becomes pure and acceptable by the touch of the Lord, the Lord’s devotee, Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, the Lord’s remnants, or the Lord’s caraṇāmṛta. This consideration is beyond the conceptions of purity and impurity born from the mundane vision of the smārtas.