Chaitanya Bhagavata

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

The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.9.234, 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 234 of Adi-khanda chapter 9—“Nityananda’s Childhood Pastimes and Travels to Holy Places”.

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.9.234:

তথাপিহ এই কৃপা কর, মহাশয তোমাতে তাঙ্হাতে যেন চিত্ত-বৃত্তি রয ॥ ২৩৪ ॥

तथापिह एइ कृपा कर, महाशय तोमाते ताङ्हाते येन चित्त-वृत्ति रय ॥ २३४ ॥

tathāpiha ei kṛpā kara, mahāśaya tomāte tāṅhāte yena citta-vṛtti raya || 234 ||

tathapiha ei krpa kara, mahasaya tomate tanhate yena citta-vrtti raya (234)

English translation:

(234) Still, I beg for Your mercy, so that my mind may remain absorbed in His and Your lotus feet.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

“By sending Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu as my spiritual master, Śrīman Mahāprabhu has bestowed causeless mercy on such a fallen soul as me, and when the pastimes of Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu were completed, He has taken Him away from me. O my Lord, bless me so that my mind may not deviate in Your absence after You have both enacted Your disappearance pastimes. May I ever fix my restless uncontrolled mind at the lotus feet of You both.” By this statement the author has taught the constitutional duty and principle of humility to every servant of the spiritual master.”

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