Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.12.66, 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 66 of Adi-khanda chapter 12—“The Lord’s Wandering Throughout Navadvipa”.
Verse 1.12.66
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.12.66:
বিদ্যা জয করিযা ঠাকুর যায ঘরে বিদ্যা-রসে বৈকুণ্ঠের নাযক বিহরে ॥ ৬৬ ॥
विद्या जय करिया ठाकुर याय घरे विद्या-रसे वैकुण्ठेर नायक विहरे ॥ ६६ ॥
vidyā jaya kariyā ṭhākura yāya ghare vidyā-rase vaikuṇṭhera nāyaka vihare || 66 ||
vidya jaya kariya thakura yaya ghare vidya-rase vaikunthera nayaka vihare (66)
English translation:
(66) After completing His teaching at school, the Lord of Vaikuṇṭha returned home still absorbed in His scholastic pastimes.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
In order to vanquish the conceit of those who were proud of their knowledge, Viśvambhara, the Lord of Vaikuṇṭha and master of Sarasvatī, drove away all materialism and anxieties by the waves of His scholastic pastimes and captured their hearts.