Verse 1.8.15

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.8.15:

হৈলা বামন-রূপ প্রভু-গৌরচন্দ্র দেখিতে সবার বাডে পরম আনন্দ ॥ ১৫ ॥

हैला वामन-रूप प्रभु-गौरचन्द्र देखिते सबार बाडे परम आनन्द ॥ १५ ॥

hailā vāmana-rūpa prabhu-gauracandra dekhite sabāra bāḍe parama ānanda || 15 ||

haila vamana-rupa prabhu-gauracandra dekhite sabara bade parama ananda (15)

English translation:

(15) Everyone was most pleased to see how Lord Gauracandra resembled Vāmanadeva.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

The word vāmana-rūpa refers to the dwarf incarnation of Lord Viṣṇu. One may refer to the Eighth Canto of the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, Chapters 18 to 23. Śrī Vāmanadeva, or Śrī Upendra, was born from Kaśyapa in the womb of Aditi. When Śrī Upendra, the form of a dwarf, heard that Bali, the King of the demons, was performing an aśvamedha sacrifice, He went to the sacrifice with a desire to accept three paces of land in charity. The material world consisting of the three modes of nature is only one-fourth of Lord Viṣṇu’s creation, whereas the transcendentally pure spiritual world covers three-fourths of His creation. The word kāya refers to the gross material world, the word manaḥ refers to the subtle material word, and the word vāk refers to the spiritual Vaikuṇṭhas. Therefore Śrī Vāmanadeva begged for the three steps of land that are beyond the realm of the gross and subtle material worlds, or beyond the reach of material sense perception. The gross world is known as Bhurloka, the subtle world is known as Bhuvarloka, and the Vaikuṇṭha world beyond the three modes of nature is known as Svarloka. One should surrender and offer everything in worship at the lotus feet of Lord Viṣṇu. In the material world there is no conception of Viṣṇu. Vāsudeva is situated only in the state of pure goodness. Lord Vāmanadeva accepts only the gifts or foodstuffs that are offered by His devotee. This is the teaching of the Vāmana incarnation. Therefore a person who desires purification is instructed to chant the Ṛg Veda mantra, oṃ tad viṣṇoḥ paramaṃ padaṃ sadā paśyanti sūrayaḥ divīva cakṣur ātatam. Materialistic worshipers of the sun-god compare Lord Viṣṇu to the sun, which rises and sets. This is the materialistic conception of what is called tri-sandhyā. Although Lord Viṣṇu is the Lord of the fourteen planetary systems, He sometimes comes as Vāmanadeva and sometimes He displays a form measuring three and a half cubits. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Gaura-Kṛṣṇa, exhibited the pastimes of Trivikrama by begging alms in the form of a dwarf brāhmaṇa.