Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.11.85, 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 85 of Adi-khanda chapter 11—“Meeting with Shri Ishvara Puri”.
Verse 1.11.85-86
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.11.85-86:
দৈবে এক-দিন প্রভু শ্রী-গৌরসুন্দর পডাইযা আইসেন আপনার ঘর পথে দেখা হৈল ঈশ্বর-পুরী-সনে ভৃত্য দেখি’ প্রভু নমস্করিলা আপনে ॥ ৮৫-৮৬ ॥
दैवे एक-दिन प्रभु श्री-गौरसुन्दर पडाइया आइसेन आपनार घर पथे देखा हैल ईश्वर-पुरी-सने भृत्य देखि’ प्रभु नमस्करिला आपने ॥ ८५-८६ ॥
daive eka-dina prabhu śrī-gaurasundara paḍāiyā āisena āpanāra ghara pathe dekhā haila īśvara-purī-sane bhṛtya dekhi’ prabhu namaskarilā āpane || 85-86 ||
daive eka-dina prabhu sri-gaurasundara padaiya aisena apanara ghara pathe dekha haila isvara-puri-sane bhrtya dekhi’ prabhu namaskarila apane (85-86)
English translation:
(85-86) One day, as Śrī Gaurasundara was returning home from school, by providence He met Śrī Īśvara Purī. Seeing His eternal servant, the Lord offered him obeisances.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
The etiquette that householders offer respects to members of the renounced order of life is prescribed in the Dharma-śāstras. As a gṛhastha brāhmaṇa, Śrī Gaurasundara duly offered obeisances to the Vaiṣṇava sannyāsī. Although Śrī Gaurasundara is the Lord of the fourteen worlds and although He later enacted the pastime of accepting initiation from Īśvara Purī, in reality Īśvara Purī was the servant of Śrī Gaurasundara.