Verse 1.10.1

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.10.1:

জয জয গৌরচন্দ্র মহা-মহেশ্বর জয নিত্যানন্দ-প্রিয নিত্য-কলেবর ॥ ১ ॥

जय जय गौरचन्द्र महा-महेश्वर जय नित्यानन्द-प्रिय नित्य-कलेवर ॥ १ ॥

jaya jaya gauracandra mahā-maheśvara jaya nityānanda-priya nitya-kalevara || 1 ||

jaya jaya gauracandra maha-mahesvara jaya nityananda-priya nitya-kalevara (1)

English translation:

(1) All glories to Śrī Gauracandra, the Lord of all lords! All glories to Śrī Nityānanda’s beloved Lord, who possesses an eternal form.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

The word nitya-kalevara refers to the sac-cid-ānanda form of the Supreme Lord, Śrī Gaurasundara. Although His form is eternal, in order that it may not be perceived as temporary and perishable, it has been described here as eternal in accordance with the readers’ highly intellectual understanding that there is no difference between the holy name and the Lord. Within the gross body of the conditioned soul is his subtle body, and within the gross and subtle body is the liberated spirit soul, of whom Śrī Nityānanda is the source, and His object of ten varieties of service, Śrī Govinda-mohinī along with Her worshipable Lord, Śrī Govinda, are the objects of five types of pure devotional service. Therefore the philosophy of distinguishing between the body and

owner of the body of the living entities, who are controlled by māyā, to be applicable to the Supreme Lord, who controls māyā, is completely prohibited. In the subtle heavenly planets, the bodies of the demigods consist of gross knowledge, and Lord Viṣṇu is present within the bodies of the subordinate demigods as the controller. The supreme worshipable Lord of such controllers is Śrī Gaurasundara, who is the combined form of Śrī Rādhā-Govinda.