Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.12.285, 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 285 of Adi-khanda chapter 12—“The Lord’s Wandering Throughout Navadvipa”.
Verse 1.12.285
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.12.285:
তথাপিহ এই কৃপা কর গৌরচন্দ্র! সে-লীলা-স্মৃতি মোর হৌক জন্ম জন্ম ॥ ২৮৫ ॥
तथापिह एइ कृपा कर गौरचन्द्र! से-लीला-स्मृति मोर हौक जन्म जन्म ॥ २८५ ॥
tathāpiha ei kṛpā kara gauracandra! se-līlā-smṛti mora hauka janma janma || 285 ||
tathapiha ei krpa kara gauracandra! se-lila-smrti mora hauka janma janma (285)
English translation:
(285) Still, O Gauracandra, please be merciful to me so that I may remember those pastimes birth after birth.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
“Since I could not take birth during the manifest pastimes of Gaura, my only prayer at the feet of the Lord is that in all of my future births His pastimes may ever remain present in my mind and thus awaken my good fortune.”