Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.13.22, 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 22 of Adi-khanda chapter 13—“Defeating Digvijayi”.
Verse 1.13.22
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.13.22:
ভাগ্য-বশে ব্রাহ্মণের প্রত্যক্ষ হৈলা ‘ত্রিভুবন দিগ্বিজযী’ করি’ বর দিলা ॥ ২২ ॥
भाग्य-वशे ब्राह्मणेर प्रत्यक्ष हैला ‘त्रिभुवन दिग्विजयी’ करि’ वर दिला ॥ २२ ॥
bhāgya-vaśe brāhmaṇera pratyakṣa hailā ‘tribhuvana digvijayī’ kari’ vara dilā || 22 ||
bhagya-vase brahmanera pratyaksa haila ‘tribhuvana digvijayi’ kari’ vara dila (22)
English translation:
(22) Due to the brāhmaṇa’s great fortune, she appeared before him and blessed him to conquer the three worlds.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Spiritual knowledge, or Sarasvatī, hides her real identity from those who are proud, foolish, attached to material enjoyment, and absorbed in the false ego of thinking themselves the doers; and in her shadow form of Duṣṭā Sarasvatī, she deceives them by awarding them benedictions.
Though such puffed-up people who receive her benedictions are able to conquer the three worlds, they are eligible for being totally defeated by the Supreme Lord, who is the ultimate giver of all benedictions.
Sarasvatī-devī never desires that her worshipable Lord may be defeated, so she deceives the conditioned souls who are bewildered by māyā from chanting the glories of the Lord’s holy names. When Śuddhā Sarasvatī- devī sees that her worshiper is not inclined towards the service of the Supreme Lord, she bewilders him with material knowledge, which is her shadow form.