Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.9.23, 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 23 of Adi-khanda chapter 9—“Nityananda’s Childhood Pastimes and Travels to Holy Places”.
Verse 1.9.23
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.9.23:
নিকটে বসযে যত গোযালার ঘরে অলক্ষিতে শিশু-সঙ্গে গিযা চুরি করে ॥ ২৩ ॥
निकटे वसये यत गोयालार घरे अलक्षिते शिशु-सङ्गे गिया चुरि करे ॥ २३ ॥
nikaṭe vasaye yata goyālāra ghare alakṣite śiśu-saṅge giyā curi kare || 23 ||
nikate vasaye yata goyalara ghare alaksite sisu-sange giya curi kare (23)
English translation:
(23) Another day the Lord and His friends stole from the houses of the neighboring cowherd men.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
The word goyālā comes from the word goala, which is a corruption of the Sanskrit word gopāla.
Regarding Kṛṣṇa’s stealing butter from the houses of the cowherd men, in the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (10.8.29) the gopīs complain to Mother Yaśodā about Kṛṣṇa in the following words: steyaṃ svādv atty atha dadhi-payaḥ kalpitaiḥ steya-yogaiḥ—“Sometimes He devises some process by which He steals palatable curd, butter and milk, which He then eats and drinks.”