Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.14.28, 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 28 of Adi-khanda chapter 14—“The Lord’s Travel to East Bengal and the Disappearance of Lakshmipriya”.
Verse 1.14.28
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.14.28:
সেই সব অতিথি—পরম-ভাগ্যবান্ লক্ষ্মী-নারাযণ যা’রে করে অন্ন দান ॥ ২৮ ॥
सेइ सब अतिथि—परम-भाग्यवान् लक्ष्मी-नारायण या’रे करे अन्न दान ॥ २८ ॥
sei saba atithi—parama-bhāgyavān lakṣmī-nārāyaṇa yā’re kare anna dāna || 28 ||
sei saba atithi—parama-bhagyavan laksmi-narayana ya’re kare anna dana (28)
English translation:
(28) All those guest were most fortunate, for they received foodstuffs directly from Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Those guests who received rice prasāda from the house of Śrī Lakṣmī-
Nārāyaṇa at Yogapīṭha in Śrī Navadvīpa-dhāma are millions of times more fortunate than those mundane guests who receive rice from mundane householders.