Chaitanya Bhagavata

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

The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.9.11, 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 11 of Adi-khanda chapter 9—“Nityananda’s Childhood Pastimes and Travels to Holy Places”.

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.9.11:

কথো লোক বলিলেক,—“জানিলুঙ্ কারণ গৌডেশ্বর-গোসাঞির হৈল গর্জন” ॥ ১১ ॥

कथो लोक बलिलेक,—“जानिलुङ् कारण गौडेश्वर-गोसाञिर हैल गर्जन” ॥ ११ ॥

katho loka balileka,—“jāniluṅ kāraṇa gauḍeśvara-gosāñira haila garjana” || 11 ||

katho loka balileka,—“janilun karana gaudesvara-gosanira haila garjana” (11)

English translation:

(11) Other people said, “We know the cause. It was the loud roaring of Nityānanda Gosvāmī, the Lord of the Gauḍīyas.”

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

The word gauḍeśvara-gosāñi is explained as follows: Dāmodara Svarūpa, Mahāprabhu’s dvitīya-svarūpa, or second form, along with his two friends, Rūpa and Sanātana, were the proprietors of service to Kṛṣṇa in the conjugal rasa. They are also Gauḍeśvara, or Gauḍīyeśvara; that is why Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu has been properly addressed as Gauḍeśvara Gosvāmī.

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