Chaitanya Bhagavata

by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words

The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.13.135, 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 135 of Adi-khanda chapter 13—“Defeating Digvijayi”.

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.13.135:

পরব্রহ্ম, নিত্য, শুদ্ধ, অখণ্ড, অব্যয পরিপূর্ণ হৈ’ বৈসে সবার হৃদয ॥ ১৩৫ ॥

परब्रह्म, नित्य, शुद्ध, अखण्ड, अव्यय परिपूर्ण है’ वैसे सबार हृदय ॥ १३५ ॥

parabrahma, nitya, śuddha, akhaṇḍa, avyaya paripūrṇa hai’ vaise sabāra hṛdaya || 135 ||

parabrahma, nitya, suddha, akhanda, avyaya paripurna hai’ vaise sabara hrdaya (135)

English translation:

(135) “He is the Supreme Brahman, the eternal, pure, complete, and inexhaustible Lord, who is situated in everyone’s heart.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Śrī Gaurasundara lies in the ocean of milk in the form of Aniruddha, the localized Supersoul in the hearts of all living entities, and lies in the Garbhodaka Ocean in the form of Pradyumna, the aggregate Supersoul and source of all universes. He is complete, undivided, infallible, and eternally pure. Since He is Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, considering Him separate from Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu is an obstacle for achieving full knowledge. Since He is Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, considering Him separate from Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu is an obstacle in self-realization. Since He is Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, considering Him separate from Saṅkarṣaṇa is an obstacle in complete realization of the Absolute Truth. Actually the one Absolute Truth, original Personality of Godhead, Gaura-Kṛṣṇa, is Baladeva, the first catur-vyūha, the second catur-vyūha, and the three Viṣṇus who lie on the Kāraṇa, Garbhodaka, and Kṣīra Oceans.

Considering the localized, aggregate, Kāraṇa, Garbha, and virāṭ forms of Viṣṇu as separate from the Absolute Truth enhances the conditioned souls’ material conceptions and illusions. In order to remove these conceptions, Sarasvatī-devī disclosed that Śrī Gaurasundara is the source of all Viṣṇu incarnations and nondifferent from Vrajendra-nandana, the son of the King of Vraja.

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